AFP Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Cleveland software firm holding 'tech camp' to help nonprofits with websites | cleveland.com: "We're inviting a bunch of geeks and people passionate about software development to help do good things for charity,' is how Stahl describes GiveCamp, set for July 16-18.Keyboards will click continuously during the round-the-clock event, as software developers, designers and database administrators.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Those are some of the results of a survey released by the Content Marketing Institute of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charleston, S.C. Content Marketing Can be King For Donors | The NonProfit Times : More than nine out of 10 nonprofit marketers, or 92 percent, use content marketing, but only 26 percent consider themselves effective at it. One-quarter has a documented content strategy.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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EveryAction

MAY 16, 2018

Positive Education Program Cleveland’s. Approximately 1 in 5 American adults experiences some sort of mental illness in any given year. Since 1949, May has been observed as Mental Health Awareness month to bring attention the ongoing need for proper support and health care services for those affected. Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Cleveland Museum created a society with annual events to illustrate the impact of their work. For years, fundraising professionals have heard that we’re on the precipice of a demographic trend called “the great wealth transfer.” As Baby Boomers age over the next two decades, they will pass on more than $30 trillion to the next generation. This is the biggest wealth transfer in human history and may be one of the largest moments for philanthropy ever.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Cleveland Clinic : To provide better care of the sick, investigation into their problems, and further education of those who serve. How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]. Do you want to learn how to Write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement?

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EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

Indique (Cleveland Park). We're just a few weeks away from one of the most highly-anticipated nonprofit conferences of the year and, seeing as it will be hosted in Washington, DC, our team wanted to share some favorite local spots to eat, drink, and enjoy the sights while visiting for 17NTC. Check out the list below and make sure to read the travel tips at the end! The Dabney. With locally-sourced dishes that change daily, the Dabney recently received a Michelin star and is worth the wait.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment. As of now, only the Association of African American Museums has issued a formal statement about the larger issues related to Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. It's finally here! You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online. I hope you'll enjoy this resource and share it widely (with attribution). You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Example: The Race , benefitting Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer. The Race (benefitting Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute) is a 1-mile run in Cleveland whose main purpose is to get kids involved in philanthropy at an early age – and show them how fun it can be! Author: Noel Beebe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For example, we saw the Cleveland Clinic livestream the kickoff parties for their big annual endurance event, VeloSano, to build momentum through launch. By Scot Chisholm , CEO and Co-founder of Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2015

Thanks to Heather Pressman from Chabot Space & Science Center , Cody Lee from Segerstrom Center for the Arts , Sonja Lunde from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Elizabeth Bolander from Cleveland Museum of Art for all of the great tips. Picture this: You’re at a donor event, making small talk with an attendee you have never met before and you’re struggling to come up with something to talk to them about.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 7, 2019

And from my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Bernie Moreno even walked away with the Enterprise Blockchain Awards’ Community & Ecosystem Leadership award for the groundbreaking Blockland project (which brought together over 1000 Cleveland community members to help leverage the possibilities of blockchain for community development, digital inclusion, philanthropy, and more). Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up – Guest Post . By Amy Neumann.

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SocialFish

JANUARY 14, 2014

She can be found typing away on her laptop in cold Cleveland, OH. Guest post by Stacey Waxman for SocialFish. ——-. Social media has revolutionized the way people communicate and has become a central player in the nonprofit field. With the help of social media, nonprofits can easily organize events, raise money and find new supporters, all with just a few clicks. Unfortunately, like anything else that carries power, social media also carries inherent risk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I chose a college that was in rural Vermont, and I did live in the suburbs of Cleveland, OH for six years, but followed that up with two years in northern, rural-ish Colorado, and almost eighteen years in Western Massachusetts. I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. Some were very clear to me, others didn''t become clear until years later.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2020

Spring has arrived in Cleveland. Bright sun, chirping robins, terrible thunderstorms are regular occurrences all of a sudden. I was sitting in a rare quiet moment, noticing the season (thanks to a colleague mentioning the arrival of Spring), when I realized it had been years since I’d noted Spring. Great Lakes denizens know spring is a capricious season, often masquerading as winter, fall, spring, and summer in the same day.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 26, 2017

The Community Webs project is working with partners from Queens Public Library , Cleveland Public Library , and San Francisco Public Library. Websites, blog posts, social media, online news — all of these are part of your community's history, but all are ephemeral in nature. Now, the Internet Archive, an expert in preserving online content, is beginning a program to train librarians in web archiving.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The Cleveland Foundation. That’s exactly what The Cleveland Foundation pulls off here. Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

You take a myer-briggs like chimp personality test to find out how much you have in common with the three chimpanzees of Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, an animal sanctuary operated by The Fund for Animals in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States. HSUS MySpace Page | Take the Quiz! I wrote the word " social graph " in a post, so I guess according to Dave Winer, I sound like a monkey.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. Baseball and your Learning Organization. I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I chose a college that was in rural Vermont, and I did live in the suburbs of Cleveland, OH for six years, but followed that up with two years in northern, rural-ish Colorado, and almost eighteen years in Western Massachusetts. I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. Some were very clear to me, others didn't become clear until years later.

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 19, 2012

David is the regional training coordinator for the Foundation Center – Cleveland. As you may recall, last month we held a webinar with the Foundation Center titled Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good. If you did not get a chance to attend, you can still watch the recording of the event. On Thursday, April 26 at 11 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

Ask questions about the future ( Cleveland Foundation ). Example: Cleveland Foundation says in the profile "Tweets by Tara" who is in the communications a department. What are Foundations Tweeting? About three weeks ago, the 411 Philanthropy Blog created a mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet (and it is still growing.) I threw the urls into a google spreadsheet and started to browse the Twitter streams to get a better understanding of the content shared. (It

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Mobile Commons

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

At the Cleveland Clinic, for example, a patient with a smartphone can “visit” their doctor virtually through a HIPAA-compliant video feed. A revolution is underway in the healthcare industry, and it hinges on a technology that fits in your pocket.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

Like you, the contributors are from a vast array of places in the world from Stockholm, Brussels, and London to Thailand, Australia, and Uganda, and include Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, NYC, Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston. I’m so excited to announce the launch of Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch – a new book curated by Jean Russell with a collection of over 60 essays crafting a topography for thriving.

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Tech Soup Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I recently spoke with Jason Schroeder of the Appalachian Center for Collaborative and Engaged Learning (ACCEL) , the organization managing the Connect Your Community project in Appalachian Ohio (the project has separate hubs in Cleveland and Akron). Originally published at TechSoup for Libraries.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

Cleveland. Online fundraising continued its double-digit growth in 2013, retaining the mantle as the fastest growing fundraising channel, growing at 13.5% according to Blackbaud’s most recent Charitable Giving Report. For many years now Blackbaud has published data on the most generous online giving cities in the United States. For the 2013 edition, we made the decision to significantly expand the amount of data in the analysis.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop. Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. With 50 groups in 20 countries, there's probably a NetSquared group near you (but if there isn't, we'd love to help you start a new meetup ). :-). Ever wanted to use open data in support of your advocacy campaigns? Or learn how to use Excel better?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Kris Putnam-Walkerly: @Philanthropy411 from Cleveland, OH. Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out&#. Some on the list are very known in the nonprofit sector, and others are completely under the radar and providing some very valuable resources to the nonprofit sector.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 1, 2016

Cleveland, Ohio: Sharing Your Story — How to Run an Effective Multi-channel Campaign. Cleveland, Ohio: Social Media Workshop. You're reading the TechSoup blog, so you're probably already comfortable with using technology in your work. But there are millions of nonprofit staffers who don't have the skills to use technology to do more good. In fact, you probably know a few of these beginners.

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 7, 2014

The Cleveland Public Library put together this fantastic activity/handout on tracing your digital footprint on the Internet. Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. This was one of the best webinars I've attended (not just because I helped co-produce it) because there was so much resource sharing happening in the comments.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop. NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in physical space. Online learning is awesome (and TechSoup has got you covered ), but a special magic is created when we get together in the same room and start building relationships. That's why we're thrilled that NetSquared is joining TechSoup in having a strong presence at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, Texas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Take for example the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland or Yerba Buena Center. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Introduction. One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Carly Rowe works in the social media marketing industry in sunny Dallas, Texas. posted by Carly Rowe , Social Media Specialist. In January of this year, nonprofit organization Invisible Children released “Kony 2012,” a video about Joseph Kony. In less than 2 months, the YouTube video has gained over 100 million views and educated millions about the crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

The winner chosen at random is: Tara Pringle Jefferson Public Affairs Associate The Cleveland Foundation Her comment: I read the brief preview of the book and can't wait to read the rest. I try to send out at least one per day, usually an update of our latest blog posts, podcasts, or news about Cleveland/the nonprofit field. Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I always admire the NTEN Award Winners each year, but I have to say that the choice of Leon Wilson of the Cleveland Foundation for the Lifetime Achievement Award is inspired. Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. Mobile. This was the year that Slack became a thing in our offices — it certainly did at TechSoup.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

A little over a year later, President Grover Cleveland presided over the dedication ceremony. Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. Guest post by Jesse Noyes. The outlook for the Statue of Liberty was bleak in 1885. Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Cleveland, OH: Inaugural Meeting. Storymakers is live! TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. We have $13,000 in prizes available! Looking for inspiration for your digital story? Join your local NetSquared group. They are holding digital storytelling events all month! No local group?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

Think of the Subjects to Change teen program, or the free lunches at the Cleveland Public Library. This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. Here's one of my favorite stories about the London Science Museum and their work to make their science shows relevant to families with deaf or hearing-impaired family members.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 23, 2014

They have joined forces and along with John Cleveland, have written “ Connecting to Change the World.” Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Cleveland Foundation and Columbus Foundation Here are two community foundations that have a growing Twitter presence. Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Presentation by Laura Lee Dooley a metrics and social media geek for a nonprofit. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S. Cohen titled " 26 Charities That Tweet."

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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