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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Organization Size: Medium. Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s where I met Zawadi Nyong’o , a young Kenyan woman and social change activist. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. We did a little coaching.

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New Email Tests Improve Clicks, Slow Exiting

The NonProfit Times

Leaders at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta went into last year’s GivingTuesday with a plan. Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago.

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How to Enhance Your Nonprofit’s Written Content with Artificial Intelligence

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. And then everything changed. While we might call our phonesphones,’ there are Apple, Android, and Google devices. Our marketing team could fit in a MINI Cooper. Until I tried it.

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14LCS Idea Accelerator: Transforming Technology into Social Change

NTEN

On September 6 in San Francisco, over 200 attendees at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit (14LCS) convened for its finale event: the Idea Accelerator. The goal was to surface ideas to create real, world-changing impact that make people’s lives better. “We 14lcs idea accelerator Leadership leading change summit'

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How to Apply Service Design to the Social Sector

Forum One

Service design principles can be applied to the social sector to craft audience experiences that create positive change in the world. They are using service design to better serve their community’s changing needs. One specific goal was to reduce the waiting time for patients to receive an examination and diagnosis for breast cancer.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Hotdog Conundrum

sgEngage

The idea is that the app can interpret an image taken from a mobile phone and tell you, in text, what the food is. Of course, technology alone doesn’t magically change your outcomes (in some cases, it can slow you down). But what if it wasn’t a hot dog that Jian Yang’s app identified—but breast cancer indicators on an MRI reading?