Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Foster community engagement at your benefit concert as local musicians, volunteers, and donors all gather in one place for a cause they care about. A good place to start looking for performers is with local musicians. You can also market your concert offline as well. How to Maximize Offline Fundraising Events in an Online World.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. As Amy explains in her post, local NetSquared chapters have been quickly springing up all over the world: there might even be one in your city. Offline, we take things local!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Things change. We have all learned the hard way that things can change in an instant. You should be sharing your nonprofit’s mission online and offline through your social media plan , donor newsletters, events, and other communications. What should you do if a local business approaches you to do a fundraiser?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. It may have been a network of organizers in various towns or locations coordinating with each other and then operating locally.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. Earlier this week, I posted a summary from this month’s #4Change chat that focused on social media in the Climate Change movement. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Take action on Climate Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofits need to cater to these preferred experiences while also considering the payment options, processes, and regulations that exist in their local region. At the same time, recent trends show a changing landscape in the banking and fintech sectors with significant innovation, like digital wallets, payment links, and open banking.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. Tell stories about how lives have been changed and show powerful images of your work. Incentives: Ask local businesses for small incentives, such as gift cards or gift baskets and use these incentives throughout the campaign. Videos produced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. has empowered more than 6,000 communities to build local playgrounds in the past few years (far more than the 1,700 it has built directly in 15 years). We think that KaBOOM!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use Old School Marketing Channels to Stand Out This is the flip side of focusing all your event marketing efforts on digital channels: If you can break through with people in an offline setting, your message will really stand apart. With other local nonprofit groups, a mutual aid relationship might benefit both parties.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

After taking some pictures at the local holiday parade, she finds that many others wanted to post their pictures on Flickr and started a group to pull them all together. Topic: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? or, “what can our relationships do for our members?”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Learn about Net Tuesdays and get local! If so, connect with the local organizers to find out about the next events, how to help, and spread the word!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

But they knew that in order to scale their work globally, they needed to use the web to influence lasting change. It’s the latest in a series of efforts to more tightly connect offline activities—whether they be advocacy actions above the water or trash clean-ups underwater—to the online world. million divers. Data Engagement'

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Byte Technology

JULY 23, 2015

Next, temporarily take your site offline by accessing your hosting control panel and password protect the main directory: this will block any and all visitors from getting onto your site while it’s being fixed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations. Giving days are 24-hour online fundraising competitions that combine gamification and deep social interaction to bring communities together for local causes. million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. What does it mean for community change?" " Check out this terrific interview with Joe – I'd love to hear your ideas, reflections and stories about how you are inspired to make change! ."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives. The Climate Change movement has embraced technology for all the good it can do. . So, let's say you're Focus the Nation user; well, now you'll be able to see 1Sky's local events and news and join their lists as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. The only way, in my view, to bring those you aren’t connected or participating online into the conversations, especially those on digital inclusion, to help shape policies and changes for creating one web that really does serve everyone. Today is OneWebDay !

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Journeys for Change is offering the chance to win a fully-paid nine-day tour of leading Social Entrepreneurs in India. Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Our increasing connectedness should be celebrated as an effective method of achieving change, not as the change itself. And where is the local community in all of this? Years of network building, offline organizing with young people. ” Is that that the story?) Nowhere to be found in this video.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet?

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Kindful

AUGUST 19, 2021

Are they involved in their local community? They can be reached through: Either online socially or offline socially, including the online advocate program, events or speaking engagements (church or other places). And if so, are they affiliated with a certain party? Which nonprofits do they usually support and how much do they give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. Changes, new functionality, and platform iterations will continue indefinitely— for better or worse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! We need to let go of the idea that we are serving our constituents, and recognize the ways we could be working together to change their lives, their neighborhoods, and beyond. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels. A trend throughout all of this is the importance of not only engaging with your supporters through emails, offline and digitally, but the importance of tracking all this data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What is the change that will result? Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday.

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Classy

JULY 9, 2021

Technology advances, changes in communication practices, and other factors have impacted capital campaigns over time. Knowing the trends that have changed and stayed the same can inform your planning process. It helps to have some local champions, but don’t rule out external expertise that might bring a fresh lens to your campaign.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

You can add these into your virtual fundraising campaign site on CauseVox as an offline donation to showcase fundraising progress! Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. Think about what has changed in the last few months and what needs are not being met.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2013

This trend is not expected to change anytime in the near future, said the survey. Gen Y is the least likely to support local social services. It will be interesting to see if this trend changes as Gen X and Gen Y age. Unfortunately the economy has taken its toll on charitable giving as donations have remained flat.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making.

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