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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also donated to Save the Children and if you are an Orbitz customer they are matching donations. ” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

We are starting a movement that has love at the very foundation. She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan. Join me in sharing the love.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While some folks may be out shopping the day after Thanksgiving, the Case Foundation would like to invite you to go #GoodSpotting. Through our recent roadtrip & our children’s music program LaLaLove , over $35,000 has been contributed so far this November to build this school out of love, gratitude and music.

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How Compassionate Branding Can Work for Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

For example, the Make-A-Wish Foundation is currently working with several airlines, including Delta and United, for its Give Wishes Wings campaign. This campaign allows people to donate their air miles to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, allowing children to be taken around the globe in order to fulfill their wishes.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. and more.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.