Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do. Stevie recorded a short video that was shown twice at plenary sessions of the diplomats in Marrakesh.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Giving Tuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. What is Giving Tuesday?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

In terms of issue area, giving to: Public-society benefit organizations grew 15.7% (14.3% Human services organizations grew 9.7% (8.4% Health organizations fell 3% (-4.2% Total giving in the United States increased by 10.6%. Research shows these calls definitely improve retention and can upgrade nonprofit donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Note from Beth: I was thrilled to be interviewed by Steve along with many other nonprofit data nerds, for his new book, Data Driven Nonprofits. He was kind enough to send me an advanced copy and it is definitely a must read. Why do some organizations struggle to manage their data? SECRETS TO SUCCESS. Machine Learning.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Brian: Let’s go. .

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The Humane Society of the United States found that members who received a text message reminding them to donate were more likely to give online by 77 percent. The key to a successful multi-channel fundraising campaign is creating a cohesive story across your different marketing messages.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Definitely, my favorite thing because I’m the host. And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

Social enterprise is definitely not business as usual. Most definitely not business as usual. We have political leaders with an active interest in changing the status quo— for finding innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing our cities, states, nation and the world. We’re going to hear from those people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization. We are seeing this in the food industry, with things like the growth of the organic movement. We have seen it in energy, and increasingly now with energy technologies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Because I don't see the danger, I don't allow my mind to imagine what might happen to me, which is my definition of fear. What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed. She has been in jail four times and beaten on the head twice.

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Neon CRM

JULY 19, 2023

Here are 10 year-end giving statistics that show just how important the final month of the year can be—and how your nonprofit can leverage these trends to make your end-of-year campaign a success. That’s why it’s critical that your nonprofit find success with its end-of-year campaign. billion in the United States alone!

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This is definitely what happened for our story: we started with a simple idea and then were incredibly surprised at how helpful an extra bag of groceries could be to a lot of households. We also started to notice just how many elders and families are affected by food insecurity: more than 34 million people in the United States alone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'" The goals of the organization are three-fold.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. At the end of the training, which was an enormous success, she then had created a best practice that could be shared with other women in the network.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Governance / @usdsoles.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Because the topic of strategic planning is the topic of how to run your organization well. I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? Steven’s welcome to interrupt me as well. So in general, what is it that we’re told to think?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And it’s been a pleasure to get to know you a little bit, Francis, in planning for this webinar, and what an extensive body of work in helping people plan for and use technology effectively inside organizations. Our organization is a nonprofit, and we are on a mission to use technology to better serve the world. Next slide, please.)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So in format for today, part of this is going to be educational, going to hopefully learn some things you haven’t learned before, and part of it’s definitely going to be strategic. in the United States rather receive 20% of all giving. So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. Britt Bravo: What is one of your favorite Nest success stories? When I was in India about six months ago, we were having a meeting with the group we were just about to give loans to, and one of the women stood up to tell us her story.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not very often that we take a very scientific view of the philanthropy world, but Jen is definitely leading the charge on that. ” so it’s not like they don’t talk about the impact of it, but they talk about it in the context of the person, “ like Emiliana, whose story always brings me to tears.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

And yeah, just happy that you two are sharing your knowledge today because like I said, this is definitely a hot topic and one I don’t know anything about. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

And yeah, just happy that you two are sharing your knowledge today because like I said, this is definitely a hot topic and one I don’t know anything about. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It’s always helpful to get inspiration and learn from other organizations in your industry. Felicity: We definitely achieved our initial goal. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness. Free eBook: Seven Tips to Increase Online Fundraising Success.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This is especially true now, but a strong web presence has been an increasingly central part of nonprofit success for the past decade as more and more engagement moves online. For instance, there are a few foundational nonprofit web development strategies your team should definitely implement. Mobile-responsive design. SEEP Network.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So this is just to find out a little bit more about you and who you are so I know like how you do things in your organization. Do most organizations do both GivingTuesday and end-of-year? nonprofits in the United States? These are from two organizations that studied this and tested this, and thank goodness they did.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. This training was tremendous.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

We do a lot of education here in the Washington, DC area, actually all over the United States. A lot more airtime has been given to sex slavery, especially here in the United States, and researchers have found that a lot of this talk is unsubstantiated by research.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

And we’ve emerged from the most divisive election year in the history of the United States. And organizations that stepped up to the challenge and saw tremendous rewards. Surprisingly, many virtual events saw great success. What systems do you have in place to collect the stories that move your donors?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

For several years now, January 1st not only means the beginning of the New Year, but also an opportunity to look at trends in year-end fundraising emails from nonprofit organizations. In 2015, I received 456 email messages sent to me from 90 different nonprofit organizations between December 1st and 31st, 2015. Emails By Date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine , titled " The Networked Nonprofit " and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Instacart allows customers to use a digital app to choose a shopper, who picks up requested groceries and delivers them to the customer’s location.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All great questions!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

"These skills, which one sees in action around the country with certain key individuals who seem to be able to bridge gaps between organizations and issue areas, we can teach them. The training was so well received that we launched an organization in 2000, and since then have recruited and trained more than 1700 people.

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