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One-on-One with Elana Frank: Founding and Scaling a Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

The first two were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Israel, where she and her husband lived at the time. The process was free through Israel’s socialized medicine program, although it was a lonely and isolating time for Frank. She knew how to unite people around a specific cause, thanks to her nonprofit background.

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This session will present an overview of how machine learning can be trained to evaluate causality of social programs, including sharing case studies where machine-guided causal modeling has been applied to program data from child welfare, workforce development, mental health and juvenile justice agencies.

Learning 101
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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Objective : Increase donations for the soup kitchens, while also communicating an individual’s impact on the cause.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TwitCause, a service not unlike the popular fundraising application Causes on Facebook, only built on top of Twitter has been implementing some new interesting twists on click fundraising on Twitter. As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it.

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). A Hybrid of Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. We think it is a hybrid between cause marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility Programs. See Cause Marketing Forum for more). I literally gasped!

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause. Keyes is not controversy averse, though.

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