DipJar

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As with so many organizations, Pathfinders felt the need to shift its focus in the face of the pandemic to find new ways to reach and support the community. Pathfinders for Autism started in 2000 when a group of parents of children with autism sought information and support following their child’s diagnosis. The tour was a smash hit.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2018

These valuable lessons have been, in most cases, more personal than professional. Professionally, I have become a representative of my organization in my community. My ability to listen to the concerns of others and consider the needs of everyone helps me to be a great leader in my position at Tempe Community Action Agency (TCAA.).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many times, communication is something people don’t feel is their strong suit. So, what do we do when our time is limited and we need to communicate with the community and our donors? We tell stories. Our neural activity increases 5X when listening to a story. 6 steps to telling your nonprofit’s stories.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) empowers youth in our community to find their way through social-emotional support and by building safe, accepting communities. How To Share Vulnerable Nonprofit Stories Tastefully And Respectfully – Bloomerang. The Speedy Foundation. Youth Homes. Impacting: Mental health.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Many organizations are now finding that a crisis management plan is not the whole story. The nonprofits that have been able to pull through the last year and the troubles that the pandemic caused to the community can provide invaluable lessons and future roadmaps for the sector, should we face another similar crisis.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. . They shared tips and lessons for how to support your organization on its journey of change and digital maturity. From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

Whether we’ve convened in-person or virtually during a global pandemic, our Salesforce.org nonprofit community never misses an opportunity to celebrate, learn, and imagine a better, more equal world — together. Reason #1: Connect with the Nonprofit Community. Still not convinced to join us? and Cure Cancer.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

To kick off our new success stories. section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. The challenge was that organizations had to tell their story with very few words – under 1,000 characters to be exact.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2020

As Blackbaud employees we work with our customers around the world to provide technology to mitigate the challenges of fighting COVID-19 in their communities, inspiring stories of determination, courage, and delivering organizational missions in the face of crisis have emerged by the dozens.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2022

Take a look at what we have in store for the mainstage sessions: Feeding Community and Fueling Hope. World Central Kitchen (WCK) is often first to the frontlines to provide meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. A meal is so much more than a plate of food. During a crisis it can be medicine, comfort, or hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Because research reveals that many Americans continue to know little about reform but their opinion about it improves dramatically after learning more, we decided a blog carnival highlighting facts and personal story would be an ideal tool in our campaign. To increase positive messaging about health reform from diverse voices. Key Strategies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships. What is your organization''s mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

To rescue other would-be brilliant posts from virtual oblivion, we thought we would share with you some of the lessons we have learned along the way. million readers, hundreds of thousands of others have viewed the stories as well. Lesson #2: Identify and use high-trafficked #hashtags on Twitter that resonate with your target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. ” Is that that the story?) The victims are Ugandan children.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

The funds collected went toward the many worthy programs they offer the city’s children throughout the year. While the sudden changes forced on event planners last year may have been anxiety-inducing, the lessons learned throughout 2020 can be applied to hybrid fundraising and bring in even more donors!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Besty Woods from the The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio were the lucky winners. Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies. What we do is tell the story about how and why it’s working.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

Julie Lyles Carr was asked a life-changing question five years ago: "What is the one thing you would like to do to impact your community?" The 2dance2dream program is designed for children with special needs to creatively express themselves through movement and music. Birth of Dreams: Creative Expression for Kids.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

But even the most wearied donor is roused by an authenticate story of an organization’s tangible results. Stories like: A candid testimony of an nonprofit’s impact on a real person’s life. A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. Mature humor. #5

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2011

These are community-honoring, and community-building essays every time. So sit down beside me and tell me your story, If you think you''ll like yesterday''s wine. Six and a half billion stories-the stories of our species'' march towards freedom-intersect in Philadelphia on that July day in 1776. July 4, 1776.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! We will also discuss best practices for building a thriving healthy community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Listen to all of your stakeholders, nonprofit partners and the community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2014

The relationship can start with someone attending your school or sending their children there, but you need to work on the relationship and build on that foundation. The final two keys are a pseudo-psychology lesson on donors and prospects. . The first lesson is this : people (all people!) like to feel like part of a team.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I have many examples from my own children and those of Sharing Foundation stakeholders - many who are adoptive parents and have encouraged their children to give back to Cambodia. And, my own children have participated in many Cambodian fundraising projects and more recently Harry has taken to environmental activism and fundraising.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community."

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Lessons learned from our work with agencies in the field. When combined, the quantitative (financial) and qualitative (lessons learned in practice) data tell a powerful story, and the report’s findings come as DV providers brace for additional government funding cuts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Last week, we had the final session of the “ Social Media Lab ,&# a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program , that was launched a few months ago. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I’m guilty of calling our community on the social web selfish because what it means is that anything we put out, it needs to be useful for them. And that’s an important lesson to learn. Suzy : You can only sell so much, community has to sell it for you. It has to be with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. He has used the money to purchase and distribute bottled water, fruit and other healthy snacks to those in need in his community. Tell your story across multiple screens.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It really reiterates the community’s perspective about your project and reinforces the need for it. Or there’s a second bucket that I’m really sort of anecdotally seeing a strong movement or a strong trend in the community. They’re meeting a need in the community. One of the examples I can think of here.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. Some might give for personal reasons while others might be inspired to make a difference in their community. Email campaigns allow for direct and personal communication with your supporters.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. He has used the money to purchase and distribute bottled water, fruit and other healthy snacks to those in need in his community. Tell your story across multiple screens.

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