Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today’s Q&A is with Barbara Newhouse, CEO of The Children’s Heart Foundation , where she is using her experience and lessons learned to create strengths from organizational challenges and rebuild a brand that staff, board, supporters, and volunteers can trust. Q: What led you to working in the nonprofit sector?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. It’s important that you understand that if anyone donates to your nonprofit on any of these sites, the funds are mailed to the contact information your nonprofit has in GuideStar. before their communities were ready.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

at the Providence Cancer Center for the Alaska Chapter of PRSA. I’m doing various other trainings, book parties, etc. Next I Joe Page from the Jessica Stevens Foundation told the amazing story of how the Talkeetna Bachelor Society has started a donor advised fund to raise money to support women and children in their village.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 24, 2020

Combine children being out of school and people working from home or being out of work with a fervent global curiosity, and we have a recipe for unprecedented levels of screen time and social media usage. One of the JDRF Southern Florida Chapter most watched videos from their virtual walk was bloopers! .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2013

By having more local leaders she would increase not only total funds to her organization, but higher visibility as well. He was also the recipient of that organization’s Greater Arizona Chapter Outstanding Executive Award in 2002. John and his wife Sheila have three children, and live in north Phoenix. Like this article?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I was excited to see that Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , who I interviewed in early 2008 , was included in the Political Activism chapter. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Fast Company's definitions for "innovative" ranges from hyperbole used unironically ("For creating magic with minutiae" — Apple), to relatively reasonable ("For selling good, cheap food to children who need it the most" — Revolution Foods). Why I Disagree with Fast Company's List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. Now Beng Krom???s

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. New Venture Fund. Vermont Women’s Fund. Global Fund for Women. The Moriah Fund. Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Wallace Global Fund.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. New Venture Fund. Vermont Women’s Fund. Global Fund for Women. The Moriah Fund. Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Wallace Global Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Team RMHC runners cook brunch at a local chapter after a quick training run. Leading up to the marathon, their event coordinator hosts a run and brunch at a local chapter house. Additionally, the development staff hosted a help line where fundraisers could call should any questions arise during the campaign. Host a Mini-Event.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Another way they’re helping is through the internal Symantec Women's Action Network ( SWAN ) — which has eleven chapters and 1,350 members — and is designed to attract talented women and support their careers at Symantec.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. Their most recent books include Going Places, a picture book about creativity and engineering, and a STEM-meets-Arts (STEAM) early chapter book series called Sydney & Simon: Full STEAM Ahead!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Visitors to their end-of-year campaign page were asked to either donate or raise funds for Family Care Network. As a result of empowering supporters to raise additional funds over the holidays, the nonprofit provided an additional avenue for people to contribute to their cause. They shared what each gift amount funded.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

We brought our first product to market in July 2000 working with a local children’s museum as our first client. While I am sad to leave this major chapter of my life behind, I am excited to test my entrepreneurial chops for a second time. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Helping the women receiving the funds. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. What is it about? And that’s hard to ignore.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. Find yours here. Organizations to Donate to.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Churches get approached ALL THE TIME by community nonprofits looking for funding. And the truth is that the pastor is usually not the person who can make a decision to give church funds to a nonprofit. Instead, look for foundations that are interested in funding the kinds of programs you already have.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 11, 2022

Special Olympics is the world’s largest program for sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, inspiring greatness in more than 5 million athletes in 172 nations worldwide. Here’s how they use Qgiv’s Fundraising Hub to simplify the process of tracking funds from multiple sources.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. And so really, our focus was on the annual fund. So our purpose here.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And then say, “Here’s what we’ve done with the fund so far,” or, “This is how we’ve had an impact on our mission.” It might be that I need funds, I need my cash flow, I need my job, but I also have a threat to my health, or I might have a X, Y, and Z. We want the best for our community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Ginna, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pura Vida Partners , encourages Pura Vida supporters to create a giving circle where everyone comes together to drink Pura Vida coffee and donate $35 each towards scholarships for children living in coffee growing communities. BB: What is your favorite Dining for Women success story?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. You can find more information about the various chapters and how to volunteer with them at www.826national.org. Be flexible.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

They raised funds to make sure that the people who had already gone through the program could continue to be self-sufficient. . So one scenario might be, we get a lot of government funding. And so even though there are significant needs in our community, we have the funding to run all of our programs.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

People don’t give just because you need funds. For example, if you have a photo of volunteers planting trees or tutoring children or stocking the shelves of a pantry or doing whatever your organization does, figure out how best to showcase that photo on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It’s not an ATM. Make sense?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

Have the programs that have been funded done enough to make a difference on this issue? Where is the research funding being given? After working for more than seven years, she hadn't even been able to save a fraction of that money that was needed to fund her dream. The State Department actually has within its mandate prevention.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Follow and study the World Wildlife Fund , Sex, Etc. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Offer contests that reward fundraisers who raise the most funds during the campaign. ? Email Communications. ? Online Fundraising. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Follow and study the World Wildlife Fund , Sex, Etc. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. . Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. I did only enough of it to continue to fund this new addiction that I had, and also to keep up my frequent flier miles.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. So during Suicide Prevention Month, there was a campaign called Seize the Awkward, and they ran a three-day Twitch event to raise awareness and raise funds, where people on Twitch that were doing live streams. Boston Children’s Hospital, learn more about us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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