Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind. Effective sites and campaigns provide space for people to express themselves. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. You supported a cause because of how it made you feel."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. The nonprofit, Fahumu: Networks for Social Justice, produced Writing for Change: An Interactive Guide to Effective Writing, Writing for Science and Writing for Advocacy in 2000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning. Save Darfur. Her recent blog post, called web2.0 goodness , caught my eye. She writes about a nonprofit portal in Myspace called Nonprofit Organizations MySpace. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Social Media Metrics: Distributed Influence.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Mobilizing your current assets is the most effective way to cash in on end-of-year donations, particularly if you dont have any big plans, yet. Well, the ones that have worked in the past and the ones that require the least infrastructure. For most, this would be emails, direct mail, and hitting up your major donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. So, for example, while a rational reason for breastfeeding might be that it provides beneficial nutrients and antibodies, a campaign to promote the practice might be more effective if it builds on a woman???s

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. If we really want to do work that makes a difference, work that has some effect, then we have to know whether it is working,” she told me recently.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Often, an effective title (e.g. What are some of the most important ways to make a YouTube video compelling and effective? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Often, an effective title (e.g. What are some of the most important ways to make a YouTube video compelling and effective? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

It seemed too early to tell, but then, when we checked back about a year later, we found this interesting and profound story about the nonprofit group "Save Darfur." But it took Save Darfur over a year to raise about $28,000 from those Facebook Cause "friends," -- and almost two years to raise their current total of $78,000.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Colin Holtz helps M+R clients integrate powerful messaging, grassroots activism and online organizing into creative and effective campaigns. Steve has also been a consultant and strategist for the Save Darfur Coalition, American Cancer Society, U.S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. This amazing project , initiated by Eli Winkelman, came to life with the help of PresenTense.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Example of this being used effectively and in meaningful way: the White House opened Twitter during swine flu outbreak to take questions from the general public and the next day had expert answer questions on the White House blog. Often integrated with other forms of social media. Estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts registered each day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run. For example, resolving interpersonal conflict peacefully, examining discriminatory attitudes, and addressing genocide’s effects on society can all contribute to a world where “Never Again” is a reality.

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