Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

With this in mind, here are a few steps nonprofits can take to stand out among nonprofits and for-profit brands. Further, when a nonprofit adopts this collaborative mindset, it invariably creates content that does a better job of celebrating its community and impact (rather than itself), and this type of content is always shared more widely.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The American Cancer Society touts itself as “The Official Sponsor of Birthdays,” which is a bit of a head-scratcher until you realize that curing cancer adds birthdays to every patient’s life. Your organization may simply offer job-training skills to people, but by doing so you’re changing their lives and opening up new possibilities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Keep in mind that you can always raise or lower the fundraiser goal at any time. The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” Farm-to-Table Job Training: Grow Local Leaders. We recommend determining exactly how much funding your nonprofit needs, and then setting a realistic goal that will be attainable. Help Me Feed Hungry Kids!

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But, as a fundraiser, your job is just ramping up. Yeah, there’s a lot to keep in mind as we round the corner to the last quarter of 2021. The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Education: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste® — UNCF -The United Negro College Fund. © — PA Breast Cancer Coalition. The PA Breast Cancer Coalition’s tagline is both emphatic and poignant. Jobs & Workforce Development: Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job — Homeboy Industries. Open minds. Open doors. —

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Keep in mind that the IRS requires a minimum of three board members, but you may select more based on your organization’s needs. Write job descriptions.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. As storytellers, it is not our job to re-doctor a story to fit our needs. Dewey raised them the best he knew how and hoped he did a good job – as most parents do.

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Qgiv

MAY 21, 2021

Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness! Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness know exactly how they’ll receive their merchandise before they even look through the items! That said, there are a few tips you should keep in mind as you set up this store. If you’re shipping items, how much should you charge for shipping fees? Watch your wording.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. Check us out.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. Check us out.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. Inputs: Organization : Los Angeles Cancer Center (LACC) Mission : Our mission is to serve as a regional destination for oncology services that ranks with the best major treatment centers to ensure we deliver superior care to our patients.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 24, 2014

For your board members consequences probably won’t be that extreme, but whether your nonprofit protects the environment or funds cancer research, the cause and the road towards achieving that cause is everything, and your board should keep that in mind at all times. It’s not always fun, but it’s the job.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

She knew the job aligned her life experience, education, and passion to learn more about trauma, grit, grief, and resilience. Lisa is a leader on the MiHIA Thrive ACE’s initiative steering team and has worked with nonprofit organizations such as the American Cancer Society. Don’t Miss the Chance to Hear From Them live.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

The more they tell you about what matters to them, the better job you can do of customizing an Ask for them that is an exact fit between your funding needs and their philanthropic desires. Having 5-10 good questions in mind can help you make sure you get the answers you’re looking for from the meeting. Understanding them. .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. A volunteer recruitment letter is a more formal way of soliciting volunteers, but you can have your current volunteers personalize them for the prospects they have in mind.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Dozens of crowdfunding platforms make it increasingly easier for people to raise money for any cause, from cancer research to disaster relief, often quite independent of direction from any charity. In the fall of 2015, Humans of New York ’s Brandon Stanton launch a very brief, very powerful fundraising campaign to support Syrian refugees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2016

You may not mind helping their socially responsible branding, but not if they need you in order to recover from a scandal. Does he have a personal connection to cancer or diabetes that would help him write compelling fundraising appeals? But it’s important to have a frank conversation about expectations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

Meeting of the Minds: An Engineer with a Desire to Help. Two years ago, Cisco Systems engineering manager Roland Holloway nearly reached the point of needing hospice care due to complications from cancer. Carr said, "If a piece of technology makes a volunteer's job easier and keeps them engaged — Awesome!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As an email marketer, it’s your job to know the words that service providers are flagging as spam. When analyzing your email data, be sure to keep the ask in mind. . That means a volunteer who wants to increase funding for breast cancer research isn’t necessarily interested in improving access to colon cancer screenings.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2015

For example, Grundner said one of his board members didn’t have a personal tie to brain cancer, but would run through a wall for Grundner as his executive director and was great with numbers. Setting up best practices, job descriptions and term limits are key components to stable leadership. Second Rung — Standards.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue. Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

What is the first nonprofit to come to mind? Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways. Which group’s fundraising boxes come to mind? Claiming the Day. If you’re like most people, you probably answered the Red Cross.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Your job is to ask, and it is his job to decide. It’s very easy for those factors to creep into how you approach your donors for money because those are the issues weighing heavy on your mind, but they have no place in your close. For the record: An ask is not about wrenching a check out of some guy’s hand.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

To help us conquer our fundraising fears, we need to leave the fundraising universe and broaden our minds. In his interview Harbs laid out his plan, his vision for the Ravens, and I guess it wowed the brass; he landed the job. This topic of fear came up the other day in a team meeting and it reminded me of an old post I wrote.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. Examples: An article about breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Cancer facts; historical pieces to commemorate a certain day, etc. Write something that tells us why they need your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. She also blogs at The Buzz Bin (her day job). Very refreshing. Also, Maddie Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

I've been living with fourth-stage breast cancer (all through my bones, they say) since 2001, but these have been the best years of my life, as living so much on the edge of life does tend to invite one to be mindful and purposeful. Though I don't earn a penny for all of this work, it is the most gratifying job I've ever held.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people? In the house. Absolutely.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I think governments are starting to think about how they can creatively manage our land with food in mind, and that's because awareness has been raised about the demand for local and regional food, and also just about people's need for doing it from a health perspective. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. It's not at all.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . We’re going to do a little intro. . no, no, no.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

It’s imperative that this page, and your other pages, are designed with mobile users in mind. For example, despite being pivoted to virtual in 2020, Big Love Cancer Care’s annual Santa Dash was driven further with text giving and even reached its goal of $150,000. Embedding the form right into your donation page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

So, we'll start by saying that Back to Earth is an organization, is a group of people, working together with a particular goal and focus in mind. We did a program called "We Can Surmount" which is like the AIDS ride, which was taking people who had been cancer survivors or affected by cancer, on to wilderness journeys.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Be mindful of how your audience likes to receive information, and how they like to interact with you. They do a phenomenal job of connecting with their audience with short-term, achievable goals.”. .” The Colon Cancer Alliance created a compelling end-of-year appeal,” says Lead Client Success Manager Kate Seale. “It

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

To get the most out of your email newsletters, invitations, and updates, you need to have some best practices top of mind. That’s right— social media does an excellent job of bringing people together over causes they care about (especially when we can’t physically be together, like during a pandemic). Use social media.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Breast Cancer has impacted my family, like many others, and I grew up participating in Komen’s Race for the Cure in Portland every year with my mom. We could have done a better job of looking for other hashtags in real-time and piggy-backed on them in order to weave together different conversations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

Not just why did I do it in a fun, interesting way, but what mechanism is going on inside of my heart, and my body, and my mind such that I would choose to engage in something so disciplined, and stick to it so impeccably for an entire year? Does that make sense? So, why did you do it?

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