Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Knight Foundation has launched a particularly interesting Knight News Challenge this year. The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. The Knight Foundation wants to do something about it. The News Challenge is also an online community-building effort.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2012

Just like the state fairs cropping up this month, this week's member news is a variety show. In honor of the annual migration of children returning to school, NTEN member The Case Foundation is hosting a sweepstakes as part of their Be Fearless campaign. Share your links in the comments! Congratulations, Solidarity!

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! The Rockefeller Foundation would like to know if you have an answer to a 21st century problem. If your idea is selected as a finalist, you’ll be invited to submit a grant proposal for up to $100,000 to get your project off the ground.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! The National Conference on Volunteering and Service is currently accepting session proposals for their 2012 conference. The Foundation Center knows that funding for schools is tight. Share your links in the comments! Anything we missed?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2020

The good news is you have more time than you think. Instead, think about target audience, which can be existing or new, and build the concept on what is attractive, relevant, and accessible to them. Let me know in the comments if your organization has run a successful virtual challenge, and what the keys to success were for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

The good news is this is completely avoidable in the Age of Social Media. For example, the MomsRising food blog carnival was part of a larger campaign that included coalition partners Pew, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and PreventObesity.net as well as other child advocates and nutritional experts.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! The Knight Foundation published KaBOOM!: Their new report dives into lessons on how to engage volunteers in community change efforts, telling the unique story of KaBOOM! Share your links in the comments! Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. joewaters @ kanter Re: @ mary_joyce comments. paulcip @ kanter let everyone propose and lead their own fave activity related to group objectives via mail list, bbs, etc. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Have an opinion on any of these topics? Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. What are these new competitions about—are they working?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

To make sure we were heading in the right direction, we also solicited proposals from two other fantastic companies for a more traditional identity/website redo. In short: we had a solid foundation and had done a lot of things right, but we had to make some significant changes to make sure our outside matched who we really were.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. As a digital director obsessed with volunteer engagement, I’m a lover of bad news. Enter Susan.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. What are these new competitions about—are they working? It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. So that’s how you sort of lay that foundation, you start activating it, and then you progress. billion and above. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). What do I need to think about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Maine Health Access Foundation did an experiment on Facebook , including it in its channel to promote a funding opportunity but also posted the initial letters of inquiry on their Facebook page to get feedback. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We then wrote a new set of marketing materials, programming literature, opera­tional handbooks, and appeal letters to donors and foundations. Nothing was untouched; we even scrapped the website and built a new one. Donors commented on our thought­ful appeal letters and inspiring support material. Start simple.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

So to figure that out, you’d start with a market study proving there are people living around and driving by the proposed donut shop who would want to buy donuts. But the good news is you can always ramp up as your donor base grows and you bring in more donations. But a donut shop wouldn’t succeed unless there were people (i.e.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So send in your questions and comments. But I also was director of a large family foundation. So first of all, the very bad news. What it means is there are 100,000 grant-making foundations out there right now in the U.S. These are the private foundations that you can access, 100,000 of those. What does that mean?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any questions or comments along the way. I’ve seen organizations rather take two months to get a donor a proposal to make sure that every T is crossed that every I is dotted rather than turning something around a little more quickly, right? . So no can be really good news too.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any questions or comments along the way. I’ve seen organizations rather take two months to get a donor a proposal to make sure that every T is crossed that every I is dotted rather than turning something around a little more quickly, right? . So no can be really good news too.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

But most importantly, we love these sessions to be interactive, so please do chat in your questions and comments. Director of foundation relations, so you’ll probably know a few things we talk about today. Maybe you read about them on the news or hear about them on NPR whatever you listen to. You can use either of those.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” Grant proposals.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Send in your questions and comments, we love for these sessions to be interactive. I encourage you to leave a comment in the Q&A box and say, “I need help with my story,” or, “I need pointers,” or, “I don’t know where to start.” Foundation Center also has lists that you can use.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2017

Like many people, I was intrigued and delighted at the news of big giving surges that occurred in the wake of Trump's victory. The American Civil Liberties Union received $24 million in online donations in the weekend that followed the news of Trump's proposed Muslim travel ban. Individual giving alone had a 3.9

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