Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This week, NTEN's Member Appreciation Month is focused on technology that supports programs. – so we decided to call out how NTEN members and organizations are using technology to conserve the world's water. Today we want to send a big #NTENThanks to the Ocean Conservancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Leave a comment with a url! A List of Examples. Community-Powered Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. Fulton’s talk was timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” The Luce Foundation Center occupies 20,400 square feet of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s space.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2012

Frogloop fans in the DC area are encouraged to register for a free morning workshop on Multichannel Fundraising Strategies -- hosted by our friends at Big Duck and the National Wildlife Foundation, and being held at our own Care2 DC office on Thursday, June 14th (9am - 11am). League of Conservation Voters Capital Dinner Washington, DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

This comment struck me as well aligned with some made by Vikki Spruill from the Ocean Conservancy. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. (You can follow on Twitter – @djwesto and @t­_box , and of course @15andcounting) We exchanged resources and opinions at a furious and fun pace. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. Conservation International features all three in their website’s primary navigation bar and footer – both visible on every page of their website. The most recent design of the Nature Conservancy’s website is excellent.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Winner: United Nations Foundation. Winner: Trisomy 18 Foundation. Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Grant Proposal Introduction Introduction to a grant proposal or Letter of Intent to a Foundation or Corporate funder. Inputs: Organization: Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps (YVCC) What would you like to get their input on?: I am the Development Director for Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps. Meeting Invite Draft #4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Amazon Conservation Team. Electronic Frontier Foundation. 1) Center your "Friends" and "Comments" section. 8) Post comment images that are no larger than 600 pixels in width. 8) Post comment images that are no larger than 600 pixels in width. Here's a list culled from the portal. happy browsing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. January: Have a January birthday?

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. If you're a foundation: 25. I’m sure we can expand on this together in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation created a site for young people. An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. One commenter wrote, "I hate these commercials." Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. The all-or-nothing funding approach makes many project creators conservative about their ambitions. Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. How would you fund it?

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Pursue educational keywords related to your cause Let’s say you’re a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental conservation. Actively engage with your audience through comments, forums, or social media to demonstrate responsiveness and build trust. You’ll use these keywords in the content you create.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. This is through the Kellogg Foundation. Even maybe you want to be very conservative and say that for a high ranking, maybe it’s only a 50% chance, and a low ranking is only 10%. I love this logic model.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

If you would like to add a nonprofit, please do so with a “Because…” statement in a comment below. Electronic Frontier Foundation. National Parks Conservation Association. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Happy Thanksgiving! American Diabetes Association. Because 1 of 12 Americans have diabetes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos presented this awesome session which was not recorded. Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Get creative!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The sessions used an hour long talk show format with Case Foundation's Kari Dunn Saratovsky as the host. You'll see those below and the Case Foundation Twitter account is tweeting these tidbits today) I was a little nervous that an hour-long talking head interview might be boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It helps the donor make a decision about to give your organization and it gives you an opportunity to tie to your mini-goals so donors can see the tangible impact of their gift. For example, when I was raised money for a beach/ocean conservation project for Surfrider Foundation in memory of my father. Please leave a comment below.

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JULY 27, 2023

Increase email click through rates by 5% and social media engagement from comments, shares and likes by 10%. She will participate in causes related to animals and environmental conservation but tends to steer clear on matters of policy or legislation. Sarah Patel Sarah is a 36-year-old biologist who is married with two young children.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Surfrider Foundation’s podcast often has interviews out in the field so you hear the ocean or birds and it adds to the recording. Blogging - if you blog about your sessions it helps Google pick it up; also gives people opportunity to comment and talk back. The Nature Conservancy. Sometimes the ambient noise is good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2008

That's Jonathon Coleman from the Nature Conservancy above, I know there must be others. Leave a comment here -- include your name, organization, and web/blog url. I work with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, and my wonderful dog's name is Maggie! I also don't want to offend the cat lovers. My name's Adam.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. Now, if I pause for a minute, moment, I’m sure there will be people from animal causes and nature conservancy asking me, “Jen, I am sure that you’re missing something out here. We’ll get you the recording.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Add social sharing and comment functionality. ? Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study Partners in Health , Feeding America , American Cancer Society , African Wildlife Foundation , and charity: water.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Add social sharing and comment functionality. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study Partners in Health , Feeding America , American Cancer Society , African Wildlife Foundation , and charity: water. . □

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments you have along the way. So wildlife conservation, they’re also interested in arts and culture, humanities and [inaudible 00:27:21]. I mean, foundations care about it, grantees, donors. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

We got to set up some space in a historic house at the fair that the state fair foundation uses for its offices. If we didn’t get thoughtful comments, we were just going to do it ourselves. So we got back written comments and ratings 1-10. The Minnesota state fair is a huge event—it’s the biggest state fair in the country.

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