Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Magazine , and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame earlier this month. Water conservation is an absolute must. But conservation has to go hand-in-hand with a concerted effort to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change." Photo of Heirloom Tomatoes by me.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

They’ve conserved more than 80,000 acres of prime desert habitat, forever weaving together National Parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife linkage corridors. But with some careful outreach and the resource of a beautiful national park, they nearly doubled their fundraising goal. Keep It On Theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Aaron Schmidt. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Care2

AUGUST 18, 2011

National Aquarium in Baltimore. The National Aquarium in Baltimore uses QR codes directly posted on their exhibits throughout the Aquarium. “I can picture an organization displaying original artwork from a client and/or a series of large-print photo essays. The Big Wild.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. National Congress coming up in Oct 2009 will focus attention on the current position of worldwide research. We have a concept for a national photography competition in conjunction with the Congress ??? Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2011

He then argues that given the fact that improving the energy efficiency of IT equipment is pretty well covered, what isn't even close to being addressed is the truly appalling global practices and conditions in the developing world stemming from discarded IT e-waste being dumped, often harming the poorest of nations and people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Since 1997, the Packard Foundation has awarded 1,392 “organizational effectiveness” grants to an array of groups, most of which have annual operating budgets of $1 to $10 million, and operate in the human services, environmental conservation, population, and arts fields. Paul Connolly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2009

You can also Adopt an Acre in your Dad's name through Nature Conservancy. Photo of my Dad and I going for a walk last weekend taken by my camera's timer (: Father's Day gift present nonprofit green What are some other do-good gifts for Dad? Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. 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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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

We know it and we love it, but few of us knew that the 1978 National Lampoon hit Animal House could give us such serious insight into the world of nonprofit and higher education engagement. Are your students, on the whole, more conservative, or is yours a hippy-dippy student body? “Seven Years of College Down the Drain.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

The Interfaith Power and Light campaign is, "mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation." Flickr Photo Credit: Shining Treetops uploaded by Zest-pk activism religion contemplation spirituality environment

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Created a wall of 5,000 signers' photos. Honorable Mention: NRDC - National Resource Defense Council. Winner: National Relief Charities. Winner: National Philanthropic Trust for the Susan B. Winner: United Nations Foundation. Winner: KQED.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Reach out to the media with a local angle on a national story. If you see a story in the national news that is relevant to your work in the local community, that can be a great time to be a resource to your local media, offering them a local story. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The elevator pitch for Canadian Wildlife is “CWF helps protect wildlife through conservation education, awareness and outreach.” AM: The site that we setup last year for National Wildlife Week comes to mind. ” Say it with me! I know you’ve got ‘em!)

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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. Komen for the Cure race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. They are all on MySpace. took over MySpace.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

We know it and we love it, but few of us knew that the 1978 National Lampoon hit Animal House could give us such serious insight into the world of nonprofit and higher education engagement. Are your students, on the whole, more conservative, or is yours a hippy-dippy student body? “Seven Years of College Down the Drain.”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 14, 2022

The National Aquarium opened on August 8, 1981 as the jewel of Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor redevelopment. With a mission to inspire conservation of the world’s aquatic treasures, the Aquarium is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top three aquariums, and as Maryland’s largest paid tourist attraction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

She is the online campaign coordinator for a national grassroots organization, ANTar , that supports indigenous people. Amazon Conservation Team. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. Her recent blog post, called web2.0 goodness , caught my eye. Here's a list culled from the portal. happy browsing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. * An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. Save the Children's homepage uses mostly photos of healthy, rather than sick, children. *

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This week at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand, a librarian stood up and said, “one of the great challenges of this sector is to make preservation sexy.” Zealandia’s signage opened with an unambiguous image: a black and white photo of the valley pre-nature preserve—barren, clear-cut, devoid of natural life.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

The Nature Conservancy – The ecommerce offerings of the organization highlights a ton of “gifts” including adopting reefs, trees, habitats for hummingbirds and jaguars – things similar to the organizations above.

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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. Check out Joe’s full thoughts on Pinterest – his perspective is worth reading in full.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2013

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare. Large photos – and more of them. The Nature Conservancy :: Magazine. For those eager to experiment with new ideas, below are six examples of nonprofits pioneering new ideas in nonprofit print material design and formatting: 1) Less text and larger font.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Marlow looked at how often people clicked on their friends news or photos, how often they communicated, etc. Less than 50 of the 179,000 groups on Causes have raised $10,000, and just two – The Nature Conservancy and Students for a Free Tibet -- have raised more then $100,000. Guess what the results were?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2013

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare. Large photos – and more of them. The Nature Conservancy :: Magazine. For those eager to experiment with new ideas, below are six examples of nonprofits pioneering new ideas in nonprofit print material design and formatting: 1) Less text and larger font.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Let’s say your nonprofit specializes in wildlife conservation and you want to grow your donor base. Email 4: Give insight into the day-to-day costs of conservation and invite your subscribers to donate or set up a recurring gift. Follow these steps to an effective welcome campaign: . An event follow-up email is just as important.

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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. Amazing job by the conservancy.???

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. We're not doing innovative things with visitor participation or Web 2.0. This may be true.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. If your nonprofit has an environmental focus, nature photos can also be captivating. Create a photo slideshow so those who attended the event can click through to see if they ended up in any pictures.

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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. And everyday until…. Until one day….

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Dollars/Action: Photo, video, advocacy petitions, interactive games -- all of these things are part of a large toolbox of things to get people to take action in support of your cause that do not involve contributing a monetary donation. We all know matching campaigns work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) It provides engagement data about your photos, likes, follower growth, as well as when is the best and worst time to post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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