Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. Then, I look for local charities on the ground, many times there is a local community foundation that is stepping up. They have a team of volunteers in Puerto Rico. . Proceeds will go to community and civic organizations in Puerto Rico.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

With how many staff, volunteers, and locations. EXAMPLE: If you work at a food bank, you may believe the fact that you distribute food via pantries located in neighborhood schools, churches, and community centers is super important. As noted above, it’s a good chance to thank staff and volunteers who put in the daily work.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Visionlink systems are fully engaged with Hurricane Dorian response. Visionlink offers advanced, expertly-designed solutions including volunteer, gifts-in-kind, situational awareness, client intake, case management, and other modules for disaster response. Each can be deployed separately or as an integrated suite.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Skills-Based Volunteering.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Then, we’ll review how your organization can promote volunteerism in your community and manage volunteers effectively. Volunteer programs take place worldwide, and volunteer help has improved the lives of many. Volunteer programs take place worldwide, and volunteer help has improved the lives of many.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Corporate giving isn’t just about writing checks; it’s a strategic partnership between businesses and nonprofits to transform communities. That’s why 71% of employees say it’s imperative that their employer supports giving and volunteering. So, how are companies getting in on this trend?

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Voluntary relief agencies play a vital role in whole community recovery. This partnership helps connect survivors with local relief agencies in your area,” said Joe Hillis, operations Director with ITDRC who along with Humanity Road is providing volunteers to staff the hotlines. “We All services are free.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

It helps us see what other members of our extended community are going through, and a reminder that each of us could find ourselves in this situation sometime in the future, if it is not already part of our past. Among the scenes of devastation from Hurricane Sandy, he has found a few smiles as well, as captured above.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These nonprofits rely on disaster relief donations to purchase crucial supplies, train volunteers, and mobilize their disaster response teams when crisis strikes. If you’re a natural at hosting events, you can plan a fundraising event for your community to raise funds. Volunteer your time and talent. Final thought.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. The pandemic is ravaging communities of color and laying bare the inequities in our social safety nets. Now should be no different.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 18, 2021

And the need to combat hunger and poverty in our communities became all the more urgent. In short, we were caught in a hurricane of uncertainty. So, for the benefit of the entire industry looking to solve hunger across communities, cities, and nations, I present to you your guide for Foodbank Fundraising in 2021.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2020

The unexpected news of a disaster occurring can disrupt the communities that businesses se rve and where their employees and customers work and live in. All over the world, we see natural catastrophes come unpredictably, from flooding and hurricanes to ice storms and wildfires. There is more successful outreach.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

flickr: hellojenuine Starting the month on the heels of a hurricane ( here's how you can help ), those of us safe and dry at NTEN World headquarters head into November with more than ever to be thankful for. NTEN would not be possible without our community. In fact, our members go beyond just support.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. The organization looks for opportunities to serve disadvantaged communities wherever it can.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. You probably have more than a few talented donors and volunteers who support your organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. Vaccination Volunteering in Phoenix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” This is where that online community you’ve worked so hard to build is going to prove its value. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Close the loop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2006

A study for the nonprofit Womens Way found that women who volunteered improved their leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. Women of Wardrobe is a volunteer branch of Dress for Success , an international nonprofit that provides suits and other work clothes to low-income women. women volunteer

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2018

Each of them is trying to understand how to best serve their companies, their colleagues and their communities while staying at a comfortable lead ahead of others in the field or, at the very least, to keep up with new ideas. And like all good conversations, there was so much more to say than we had time for.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. Hate is not only a word that is being slung around in our everyday vernacular; it is now being expressed as the deeply divisive emotion that the word represents—and many people have felt the effects of this emotion.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

In 2005, that changed: when Hurricane Katrina hit, technology for disaster response made the leap from field workers to those affected. Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together. Satellite phones and GPS were the major tools that helped relief workers work faster and stay connected.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . We're good at listening, responding, engaging, building community, and providing value.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest mobile fundraising apps. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Within faith-based organizations, you have churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship, but you also have ministries that provide useful services to communities in need. Many times, they’ll send out informational mobile emails that include a call-to-action to donate or support their cause through volunteering. #3.

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Candid

MAY 26, 2021

The bad news: your results will not reach the potential to transform your organization, solve a problem in your community, or get you recognition as a change master in the field of fundraising and development. Solicitation fatigue: Staff and volunteers are exhausted (bored) by the endless appeals. Interested in learning more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. Yes, the Frozen Pea Fund was mostly my doing, with the help of some great volunteers I recruited. Tell me about you. I'm a wordaholic. What didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs. Give a copy of Love Letters from the South , a beautiful photography book that pays tribute to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review , and we wanted to write a story about how nonprofits were helping the victims. One guy told him how he had broken his leg and had been living in his car until volunteers from a local nonprofit came and found him and took him to the doctor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 inmate messages." Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Bernard Parish, a community just outside New Orleans. Anne Mahlum "Used to run by homeless men each morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. Fellows make use of blogging, social networking, photo and video sharing tools to build communities of support for their host organizations so donors can follow their work and directly share in the accomplishments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). Freecycle Network is a website, Freecycle.org, but may be better said, it's a web community. So it's bringing together people in their own communities.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." We also saw some. Muslim relations.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

We have a recipe for how to address disaster quickly and effectively: kitchens and volunteers. We used social media in a really innovative way to showcase that campaign and to show all the work that José and our volunteers were doing on the ground. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6 million meals!

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