Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

Early progress is encouraging: We have established an Equity Advisory Group to help lead this work in all it is forms, as well as a Black Leadership Coalition; we are also exploring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion collaboration among community partners. We have made the transition in this new virtual environment with few pain points.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Globally-minded giving – it’s a small world after all .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our guide will help you sort through your options and choose the tools that will help you raise more money and change more lives. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. What if you’re not tech savvy?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

Funders encourage and applaud their grantees for such resourcefulness and creativity, but at a certain point this model becomes unsustainable. They also tend to have more flexible business models and the ability to adjust to a changing environment more rapidly. Sometimes, wearing all those hats even comes with advantages.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Also, in the long run, cloud-based software tends to save organizations money. Cloud-based applications are more secure from cyberthreats than a typical nonprofit server environment is. Box — a robust online document and file-sharing service with good content management and collaboration tools for your entire organization.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. and licensing models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

For the Environment: An Inconvenient Truth. As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Collective launched in 2015 to offer solutions to a basic need: informal groups, like collectives, have few places to put their shared money. We accepted venture capital money, yes. Few tech platforms have both a successful business model and investor agreements that allow them to shift power directly to their community.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hybrid: A hybrid auction takes the tools used in the virtual environment and brings them to the physical world. Pet Adoption Events Collaborate with local animal shelters for pet adoption events where a portion of adoption fees goes to your cause. Either can be accomplished in a fully digital environment. Get creative!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world. Go read it. and discovery.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. COSI had a desperate need to raise money. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. And so I think it’s really important for executive leadership, and development directors and board chairs to understand that being an effective board member is not just asking for money. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2022

Rockefeller’s and Carnegie’s philanthropy continues to remain the main model for funding nonprofits, yet with increasing diversity (over the next two decades minorities will comprise more than half the population) these models based on white dominant norms will become increasingly irrelevant. Commit to equity work: do the learning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Trust is essential, especially in a changing environment.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. That year we had to raise a ridiculous amount of money and also we had to do a rebrand of the organization.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I’m spending money on this product. You invest money and budget, data stored in there. But I just don’t know if I’m getting my money’s worth. So make that map and keep it updated so when a new product comes into your environment, somebody. We are out of here. I’m looking around.”

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

WomensNet, which founded the Amber Grant Foundation, gives away at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money, as well as a year-end grant of $25,000. Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

WomensNet, which founded the Amber Grant Foundation, gives away at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money, as well as a year-end grant of $25,000. Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

She’s raised a lot of money through grants. We’re sort of in this kind of hybrid environment related to COVID. And of course, diversity, equity and inclusion, there’s been a lot of money, especially in the corporate space. So logic model, this is my tried and true. I love this logic model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is a collaborative way of working. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going. There’s a big paradigm shift in everything from our relationship to material goods to organizational models.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both times it was brought up that it was no longer about recouping money to PP (as that was already achieved in the first 48 hours) but was about redirecting people’s emotional responses, keeping people connected to causes and organizations even if they weren’t Komen, and demonstrating the importance of knowing what the orgs do that you support.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

Our conversation began with Jessica describing what a community supported kitchen is: Jessica Prentice: The idea behind the community supported kitchen is that we are modeling a new way of preparing and processing food on a community scale. How do they stay in touch and maintain collaborations?" It's been fairly informal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. You can even save your money.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. Grant proposals.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

because, even in very large organizations, there are never enough people, there’s never enough money, there’s never enough time, you’ve got to spend those resources really, really, really strategically. And all of these things are done cohesively and strategically so that the limited time that communications people have.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Everything you’re hearing tells you that SaaS is better than the old licensing model. That means that we spend money on equipment that may sit idle and we may purchase additional functionality that is bundled in with traditional licenses. Here are 5 reasons the cloud is right for your organization: 1. You Only Pay For What You Need.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So clearly, there is a lot of money out there for all the organizations there. Well, because not only is there money out there, not only are they a great source of revenue for your organization, but thirdly, third reason, they will pay for just about anything. There are also 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. The key is how to get it.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In our vacation analogy, you wouldn’t waste your time or your money buying a flight or researching activities for a destination that isn’t a good fit. You may even need to discuss your partnership or collaborations. . I call this developing core narrative materials. You certainly can. So that is fantastic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. Around three years ago, my fellow collaborator, Josh MacPhee, reached out to me, and he had this awesome idea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I raised a lot of money. I just thought, "I wonder what would happen if I made this shirt, sold the shirt and put the money towards YouthAIDS?" I thought, "What would happen if we began the process of aligning our heartfelt intentions, our energy, our time, and also our money to be able to benefit some particular causes?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one.

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