Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Today marks 2017’s Digital Learning Day, a day where we celebrate technology’s role in how we learn. As a technology company that powers the world of social good, Blackbaud’s solutions help nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate giving programs advance their missions and make a positive impact on the world each and every day.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual open mic night. Let them share and show off for a night with a virtual open mic night fundraiser. Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (NSPAM) is celebrated every September. You can check out programs like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Talk Away the Dark or attend a training by the American Association of Suicidology. Donate to support their mission here.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

To that point, leadership positions must prioritize ethics, establish committees designed to check and balance the ethical nature of a company’s technology and utilize governance across the company to ensure staff is educated on the foundation of ethical digital transformation. It is not enough to simply be technologically savvy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bookshare—both online and with in real life—with gatherings of users, volunteers, partners, employees, and friends throughout the year. As we get older, some of us like to increase the length and number of celebrations for our own birthdays, so why not apply this to Bookshare too?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 14, 2022

The V Foundation. As a nonprofit funding groundbreaking cancer research, the V Foundation hosts an annual symposium for medical researchers to share and discuss recent advances in the fight against cancer. It also opens doors for new donors in the community to learn about their life-saving work!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

The Blue Whale Campaign is an effort by the Sierra Club Canada Foundation to help whales in the Gulf of St. A video at the top of the campaign opens with idyllic scenes of the gulf and a guy enjoying a summer day. The page opens with a video of a previous KaBoom! The Blue Whale Campaign (CauseVox). Indiegogo).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It’s that time of year when we are ready to open our hearts in gratitude and do good things for others. I’d like to highlight two wonderful campaigns that could be wonderful ways to show your gratitude. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. The call to action? How are you giving thanks this season?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Un Foundation. The three-day conference was amazing (you can view the schedule here ). Teens As Free Agents.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. Since its opening in 1962, SLAC has been helping create the future, including the launch of the first website in North America in 1991.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

This strategy helps educate them that you have a lot on tap already and that you won’t be dropping everything to sell poinsettias, publish a cookbook, enter a national contest, or write a letter to a celebrity asking for money (or whatever else they’ve come up with). That’s your fundraising goal. That’s $500 a month for 12 months or $6,000.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. Since its opening in 1962, SLAC has been helping create the future, including the launch of the first website in North America in 1991.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

As a rule of thumb, nonprofits should start preparing and building their year-end giving teams when students return to school for the fall semester, usually three to four months ahead of the campaign period. For the next round, suppress the names of those who opened the previous last-chance email and resend the email again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. With DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation matching grants, $4.6 Co-Disruptor: Pear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. NpTech Community. Freecharity.org.uk

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Hold a Santa-Con celebration to get in the Christmas spirit, get pictures of people's paint-smeared faces at Holi, take advantage of when neighborhood kids show up to trick-or-treat at your door. Pin your students science fair projects. If you're a foundation: 25. Pin animated and cartooon bible stories. If you're a school: 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. And, it did.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Just make sure the bidding is also open to virtual attendees! This would involve setting up one-on-one virtual conversations with your arts organization’s local celebrities. These sessions can be of great value to high school theater students or artists who are always eager for new opportunities to learn and demonstrate their skills.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. ” So over the past several months, we’ve been working with, you know, indigenous architects, the local doctor that’s going to oversee, you know, the opening and the management of the project.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

While a gala may reference just about any type of festive celebration, it’s most often used to refer to more extravagant events that feature entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, meals, open bars, and auctions. With the US Golf Foundation reporting that 37.5

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The work that the center does is crucial in rural communities, where it improves the health of rural populations and helps to keep many rural hospitals open. Since its opening in 1962, SLAC has been helping create the future, including the launch of the first website in North America in 1991. Department of Energy.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To support your community, you first need a strong financial foundation. This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) Small churches do big things. Hold a work-a-thon.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Most midsize and large organizations reach their current capacity with the support of one or more significant gifts from a generous individual, foundation, or corporate partner. One-on-one meetings build the foundation for a meaningful relationship of trust and involvement with your organization. And what makes the group feel good?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. And for a good reason.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So I want to share an example I love sharing with my students. . And we can open things up for questions. I did a post recently about celebrating your accomplishments, right, because this is something people have a hard time doing. These can really add up over time. You think about just finding 10 minutes a day. Here see you.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So I want to share an example I love sharing with my students. . And we can open things up for questions. I did a post recently about celebrating your accomplishments, right, because this is something people have a hard time doing. These can really add up over time. You think about just finding 10 minutes a day. Here see you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

He said that Facebook is on a mission to make the world more open and connected. “A fully connected world gives people access to life long learning and economic opportunity. One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has named February 11-17, 2008 Random Acts of Kindness Week. Abigail Beal of Step by Step Fundraising posted a few ideas for how to participate: Hold a door open for someone. Volunteer to read to students or at a nursing home. How will you celebrate? Compliment someone.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Lung Cancer Foundation of America does this with their #LivingWithLungCancer series, highlighting the human face of a disease they’re working to cure. Fox Foundation. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

I open my heart to Syrians: Will you? Students Need Your Help to Help Others. Let’s Celebrate. Video: Dogs Cut Open and Left to Die. Coastal Community Foundation’s Giving News: December 2015. RTPI Holiday Open House Tomorrow! Just hours left — please hurry! This is your last chance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

After advising the students of trying as much as possible to remain in school, he explained his reasoning: “Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use in order to prepare our youth for their role as leaders of tomorrow.”. They have so much potential and are strong, wise, and resilient.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Flickr Photo: clevercupcakes I recently got an email from an NYU graduate student in Public Relations, Paola Christina Lamarca. Lots of research -- check out the Case Foundation report on the America's Giving Challenge -- points to the fact that the donors and activists we're engaging in social media are new to our organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. He became a global celebrity a few days later when a another article appeared in Wired. on Beth's Blog in August, 2004.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. Celebrating Women was book number two.

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