Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

There was so much great content being shared this week across the blogosphere for nonprofit campaigners. Ed Norton Talks Social Fundraising, Crowdrise, and Hope for Haiti. They offered a trip to Haiti to people who hit a certain fundraising benchmark. Check out our blog picks of the week.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content. Convincing your executive team to use crowdsourcing shouldn’t take bribery.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. A massive earthquake caused chaos in Haiti and killed over 100,000 people. Although McDonald had never been to Haiti, she had recurring dreams about the country. Let’s backtrack to when it all started.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

So we used Facebook and Twitter to syndicate the stories and other content we published on our website -- particularly the Mercy Corps Blog, a new feature we launched last May. We used YouTube to publish videos that supported and extended that content. For Mercy Corps, that meant storytelling. Picked up 1,300 new followers on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. They had social content. Over 1,000 mentions a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

So, now you read a great collection of nonprofit, social change, and social media content your iPhone (download now ). Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. But there is a whole more possible than simple content delivery. It provides a complication of nonprofit tech and social change blog feeds.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. In her talk, Jacobi noted: "Traditionally marginalized groups like indigenous populations or the grassroots women in Haiti, when they are just telling their own stories, often they are not listened to.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

The speaker—who came from a nonprofit advertising firm—canceled a few days before the event after an earthquake hit Haiti. Eventually, Nonprofit Hub began curating the content of Cause Camp in 2015, in partnership with Lincoln AMA as the founding sponsor. For the first time, a national speaker was scheduled to give a keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. By re-editing footage they already had to include new material from Haiti, AJWS saved tens of thousands of dollars while still getting a relevant and powerful video asset. If you see conversions increase along with play-through rates, great.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

John Haydon has a great post on “How to get our nonprofit’s supporters to retweet content&# [link]. In other words, how do you keep telling your story when the world is focused on Haiti? Katya Andreson has a great post showing a website makeover. Check it out at [link]. Read it at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing [.].

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Let's face it, this content doesn't come out of thin air. Too many groups set up a perfect web site platform for storytelling, only to find that they can't populate it because they haven't gotten senior leadership buy-in, or they haven't identified regular contributors to develop content. Concern Worldwide.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, be sure to follow through in the email content on the urgency. Want to know the biggest danger in Haiti right now? . These strategies are overused and don’t work as well anymore. Creating a sense of urgency helps your donor’s brain prioritize your email as something that needs to be opened. Pose a question. Here’s to 1,067!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content as well as do good in the world. This was particularly true in Maria Bello’s story about her work in Haiti with creating a women’s network called We Advance.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

The speaker—who came from a nonprofit advertising firm—canceled a few days before the event after an earthquake hit Haiti. Eventually, Nonprofit Hub began curating the content of Cause Camp in 2015, in partnership with Lincoln AMA as the founding sponsor. For the first time, a national speaker was scheduled to give a keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. If your web site is due for a redesign, it is a good idea to think through a mobile version or content in the process.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

We can take spontaneous action wherever and whenever we want to do so." • The 2010 Haiti earthquake brought mobile giving into public consciousness, citing strong percentages of people who have given via mobile who say they now prefer giving that way…but there are few mobile channels that allow and inspire us to give. •

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

An example of this might be data entry, bookkeeping, transcription, and translating content from English to another language or even specific dialects like Haitian French. Over the past two years, Samasource has employed over 900 people in Asia, Africa, and post-earthquake Haiti.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Making your existing content accessible to mobile users is the simplest thing you can do. We’ve all heard about ‘Text-to-Give’: an example of a mobile offering, run by the American Red Cross during the Haiti crisis, and how they raised a whopping $30 million through this in less than a month.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Prior to Haiti's record online giving, December 31, 2009 saw more than $19 million dollars given online in one day. Many nonprofits not only accepted unprecedented mobile gifts from text messages for Haitian relief efforts, but integration with their online CRM system allowed them to respond and begin to build lasting donor relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A viable Twitter alternative will need to attract a wide variety of individuals and brands that can co-exist online with minimal content moderation. Prioritize SEO by publishing content on a regular basis to your website, such as a “News” section or blog. Siloed social media is problematic and frankly, boring.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Using e-mail, texting and basic Web connectivity on a mobile phone or other mobile device, aid workers in remote or heavily damaged areas were able to view content, create alerts, file reports, participate in discussion forums and update information on the portal.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Using e-mail, texting and basic Web connectivity on a mobile phone or other mobile device, aid workers in remote or heavily damaged areas were able to view content, create alerts, file reports, participate in discussion forums and update information on the portal.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? The earthquake occurred at 4:53pm EST and the epicenter was 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Do you have established contacts with the media and online content sites?

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

World Central Kitchen was founded by chef and activist José Andres in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, our founder José felt compelled by the news and flew down. This means tailoring our content to both the head and the heart. We're currently active in 10 different countries.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. I can completely understand how that would increase donor confidence.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

She advises organizations to make blogging a part of a their content strategy only if it aligns with their communication plan. Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Sources of Content. Vision and Execution.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online. The makeup of this year’s list reinforces some of the findings in Blackbaud’s 2010 Online Giving Report. International organizations raised a tremendous amount online in 2010.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

We also studied the Facebook page's performance for both clickthrus to the website and donations in the wake of a high profile disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti. It would be better to repost the content or embed the CNN video on a unicefusa.org web page, and then post that link to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti. What Surprised Me: On top of a concern that some of the ideas/content might not be relevant, I was worried that a lot of my verbal and visual humor might not translate either.

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