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Lives are Changed when #bigkidsgive and how you can rock #GivingTuesday Next Year

Connection Cafe

While these stats show that this national day of giving has struck a chord in people internationally, it’s the stories from #GivingTuesday that truly inspire us. Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: What IS Relevance?

Museum 2.0

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. Here's the second chapter of the book, which answers a basic question: what IS relevance? Note: this chapter is slightly edited to make sense in standalone form. National papers. But the 2015 study was different.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the honor of participating on a keynote panel at Celgene Corporation’s Patient Partners annual meeting ahead of the ASCO Conference (ASCO is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, prevention and delivery of high-quality patient care).

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Nonprofits & Gaming: Playing Your Way to More Funds, More Volunteers, and Solving the World's Problems

NTEN

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. 57,000 gamers have outperformed supercomputers in the task of folding proteins in new ways that could lead scientists to cures for Alzheimer's, cancer and more.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) There are press releases from their reopening last year here.] I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Return by Danielle Brigida, NWF NWF Description of Case Study While strategy plays an important role within the National Wildlife Federation, initially it was very hard to determine one for our social media presences. media: local and national. saw increased press for each disaster based on newsroom. set audience.

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A Mobile and Social Fundraising Success Checklist for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study Partners in Health , Feeding America , American Cancer Society , African Wildlife Foundation , and charity: water. Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ?

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