Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2016

When people donate to or shop at Goodwill’s more than 3,200 stores, they help provide job placement and training programs that support people facing challenges to employment, including veterans and military families, people with disabilities, youth, older workers and many others. What are the highlights of your digital strategy?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? In fact, that fundamental training allows me still today to be independent and not to rely on office assistants, and it helps make grant writing a snap. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

We’ve supported groups with small microgrants at key times to help them mobilize people in their communities, and we’ve run a communications training program with some of the world’s most renowned environmental journalists to help parents build their media capacity. We’ve mentored, advised, and convened people from across the world.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Advocacy campaigns are known for approaching potential supporters through multiple methods, including door-to-door knocking campaigns, street canvassing efforts, and digital advocacy. While digital marketing is cheaper and allows you to get in touch with supporters faster, direct mail can help supplement your online campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Approximately 70% of large corporations already have an EAF in place and those that do not are turning to third party nonprofits like e4e Relief and/or local community foundations to distribute charitable funds directly to employees. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." Paul, Minnesota: Print and Digital Newsletters | MCN Communications Round Table. Abuja, Nigeria: Office 365: Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Abuja.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. Digital Divide Microsoft libraries youth education'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. Well, there are! Europe and the UK.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. The Power of a Year. Year Up's Partnership with TechHire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. The people with skills are out there.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In order to do this, we knew that we had to increase civic engagement both on and offline, so we recruited local street artists to help. By creating and distributing signage made by these local artists across the city to show voters where polling places were located, we infused Philly’s voting process with excitement, joy and energy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

She’s written a lot about managing teams and being a mentor. So they don’t put the procedures in place, they don’t get the necessary training, and they don’t gain the experience to effectively implement a major donor program. But everybody could benefit from having major donors. Secondly, do your homework.

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Everyaction

MARCH 14, 2018

We have 83 affiliates across the country and in Canada, and the mentoring relationships our staff and volunteers provide for each of our girls at our affiliates is instrumental to our mission. Specifically, we're really excited about how our affiliates at the local level are engaging in advocacy. For instance, Girls Inc.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We love to bring together communications, marketing, digital strategy, and fundraising all together in a strategic integrated way. Some of them are just incredible experts and I had mentors and I had community and I wasn’t in it alone. You need a mentor, you need, you know, education. That’s kind of what we do.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And there are a lot of different reasons that you should focus on this, not the least of which is because you work really hard to recruit people to fundraise for you in these events, and you probably spend a lot of time training and onboarding these groups of people. Some of these incentives can be digital.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I cannot tell you having had so many fundraisers, training so many fundraisers, how little follow-through donors tell me over and over and over and over how little follow-through. What about maybe kind of the inverse situation to that, Tom, where maybe people are local or at least, you know, somewhat close. People underestimate that.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Corinne: Mentor and leadership. ” So they’re looking for mentors, and for guidance, and for professional skills and expertise, which Sarah mentioned earlier of millennials as well. Corinne: The folks we’re talking about are going to have young families. Sarah: Leadership. Succession planning. So our gen Z are.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I knew that was going to be me very soon -- and a blog, in many ways, is like a digital version of that envelope. But also, I come from a family that -- I don't know if any of you guys have moms or grandmas who send envelopes full of newspaper clippings of things that might interest you? Because you're just sending links.

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