Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

As Geoff writes in the book, “an understanding of what makes people fall in love with causes, products, services and ideas.&# That takes the discipline of listening to ensure that you understand your community, value them, and build a meaningful experience. Community Management. These include: Conversation Starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

At the workshop they met a group of fantastic young women – girls, really – who are teaching themselves to design mobile apps to address community problems like sexual violence. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. The pandemic caused additional burnout and stress as nonprofits had to pivot with less resources and rising cash flow issues. Your Takeaway: You’re not alone if your nonprofit is experiencing burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Arianna Huffington endorsed our book: “Kanter and Sherman provide an essential guide for nonprofits looking to make a positive social impact on their communities and around the world.”. WAKE works closely with private sector partners to provide tools, products and volunteer advisors. You can order your copy here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. And how will changing technology impact tactile design, production and use? Through intense collaboration, we are advancing open tools and standards so that accessibility is built into mainstream products. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The group provides a loving community where children can heal and grow. Children and Education. Environment. Poverty Relief and Social Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We all recognize how consumer feedback drives competition, innovation, and continual adjustments in the for profit world—who hasn’t read Amazon reviews before buying a product or Tripadvisor to research a hotel? Communities In Schools of Pittsburgh-Allegheny County, heard from one of its students about its school day schedule. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. Walmart ($311 million cash, and $755 million in products). Target ($147 million cash, and $76 million in products).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Marnie gets wonky about things like data, APIs and community organizing, especially when they all come together. She’s been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. We've seen the potential for simple, community empowerment focused solutions to have a tremendous impact on some of the world's most pressing health and sustainability issues. For Best Video.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Focusing in on Local Issues. The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Here's how it works: incoming reports from the community are verified by a dispatcher monitoring the Concrn dashboard.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. Walmart ($311 million cash, and $755 million in products). Target ($147 million cash, and $76 million in products).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Google offers an incredible range of products ( google.com/options ) that you are likely to experiment with in coming years, so a Google account is a must for any nonprofit. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message. Be Consistent When Reserving Vanity URLs. Enjoy yourself!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. Digital Activism?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. Technology can solve information problems, organise communities and publish behaviours, but they can’t deliver food or care for the sick. In a networked world, organisations can no longer control what people think or say about their products and services. People want control. Know your limits.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Succession issues: how do we build an organization that will outlive our involvement, and how to approach recruiting a successor to the founder, was a session that I moderated. The foundation community was also well represented, especially the Skoll Foundation. Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine made some interesting points.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. How can you have a revolution if no one shows up?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Each one is made in a community where it is actually creating a sustainable economic development opportunity in that community. So it really helps connect you, as the person purchasing this product, to the sense of impact that you are making not only through your purchase but also on that community through its sustained work.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Traditionally, the landscape has focused on strategic marketing, specifically on the three Ps: product, pricing and positioning. The three Ps are making room for new strategic drivers, the three Cs: collars, customers, and community. Aligning, Supporting, and Projecting into the Community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

"We want to support anyone who is interested in engagement, but we want to help them do it in a way that is healthy for them, creates community, and creates longevity, so that everyone wins, and no one gets burnt out or sick. I targeted the yoga community. That is not what service should be about. I raised a lot of money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

We’ve decentralized media production and distribution. Eating Locally : Sustainability demands that we source our food as close to its point of production as possible. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization.

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