Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

The question on my mind is: Is the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS fundraising and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? But the fundraiser meme went beyond the sports world, when hundreds of celebrities (or their PR agents) picked up on the idea.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. With that in mind, I wanted to share a list of funding and grant resources available for nonprofits serving that community. Areas served: San Francisco Bay Area.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Portland, Oregon: Being Mindful on the Web: Protecting Yourself and Your Organization. San Francisco, California: Let's Go to Living the New Economy. Portland, Oregon: Thanks4Good Celebration. San Francisco, California: Tech for Good Interactive Workshop. Tuesday, October 21, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Her main objection to "vote me contests" is that it pits one amazing cause against another, perpetuating the scarcity mentality that lives in the hope of a pot of gold. She also feels that contests have too much of a myopic focus on channeling dollars or click actions rather than engaging people's hearts and minds and souls. .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2016

That's because purpose brings meaning to why you do what you do — winning over hearts, not only minds. in San Francisco for Building Your Brand, Inside and Out. When you lead communications with purpose, you invite a wider audience into your cause.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. Social Capital 2018 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. YTH / San Francisco, CA / $460.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It's the beginning of Day 2 at Dreamforce , the gigantic Salesforce user conference in San Francisco. My thoughts, keeping in mind that Salesforce is evolving this frequently: It's fun. Imagine if you follow a celebrity on Twitter and your feed contains every @mention sent about him/her. It's awkward to navigate.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When you hear the words “ Habitat for Humanity ,” what comes to mind? Create an extraordinary volunteer journey the Habitat way Several years ago, Habitat for Humanity San Francisco’s Chief Development Officer, Kristine Leja and her team developed an ingenious campaign. It was right after the 2016 election.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

With that in mind, it couldn't hurt to try to re-invent email, to freshen the experience for ourselves and our emails' recipients, right? It sounds like a resource ideal for campaigns with a celebrity spokesperson -- like Mia Hamm -- to provide "face time" via email. The folks at GoldMail recently gave me an overview.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Past conference speakers have included celebrities like comedians Amy Schumer and Aziz Ansari in addition to prominent business leaders such as Sophia Amoruso, founder and owner of Nastygal, and Jonah Peretti, co-founder and CEO of Buzzfeed. Social media strategies. Corporate culture. Like Hubspot on Facebook. Social Good Tech Week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2008

I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I signed up for the Challenge today and decided to celebrate Day 1 by donating to the BlogHers Act' "Donate Now to Save Women's Lives" campaign on Global Giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They're aware of human issues, both here and abroad, and that somehow drove them all into the position that food was a place where they would be advocating for change through their passion, their life work, and through wanting to celebrate not only communities, but also by becoming activists for changing the way we eat.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Hosted in Duluth, MN, this year's gathering is the perfect opportunity for professionals from every corner of Minnesota’s robust nonprofit sector to join together, celebrate the sector, learn from one another and prepare for another year. AFP / San Francisco, CA / Not available. YTH / San Francisco, CA / Not available.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. You’ll hear about it from her, hopefully, at the end, Clarification School. Here we go.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When a terrorist attack on San Francisco leads to radically increased surveillance (and much, much worse), a group of hackers decides to fight back. The San Francisco Public Library also did an amazing One City One Book program around it, with events ranging from how-to sessions on protecting your privacy online to encryption basics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. I was teaching in high schools in Miami and the Bronx and San Francisco for some time, and really wanted to be around young people, especially during their high school years, which I thought was an interesting time of their political development.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

I’ll go over some simple tips to keep in mind for creating high-performing videos for Facebook. Here are some things to keep in mind when creating video content for mobile viewers: Be aware of how large your text appears on a mobile screen. Founded in 2006, Animoto has offices in New York City and San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When a terrorist attack on San Francisco leads to radically increased surveillance (and much, much worse), a group of hackers decides to fight back. The San Francisco Public Library also did an amazing One City One Book program around it, with events ranging from how-to sessions on protecting your privacy online to encryption basics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." A number of the experts were not optimistic about a connected world at all. This 25 th.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2011

The rest of the day is full of more sessions, the annual community celebration, and lots of great content. SEO 201: Advanced SEO: Secret Offsite Strategies That’ll Blow Your SEO Mind Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:30pm to 3:00 pm Want to own that Google results page? Next year the conference is back in San Francisco.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

You no doubt have a lot of useful content hanging around in files, reports, and the minds of your staff. board chair, program director, community leader, celebrity, development director, and so forth). . You may think celebrities would be too busy, but you never know until you ask. Conduct an interview with a trusted expert.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So we went out and celebrated, and then in the subsequent weeks, it became very clear that the developer who wanted to build on the watershed had no intention of abiding by the citizens' rule. They are to varying degrees of important events at different corporations, but CitiGroups is actually quite a celebrated event.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

While content that inspires strong negative emotions—such as anger or anxiety—can go viral, the stories with the greatest virality are those that inspire awe, which behavioral economists define as “ an opening and broadening of the mind.” John Hoffman is director of new markets at ZeroDivide , a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf.

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