Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Interviews with 9 other foundations that conduct OE grantmaking (April-May 2012).

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

After using other p2p platforms, Melissa Benjamin, Fiver’s Director of Development, recommends CauseVox because it’s “a service that works properly and serves [them] better.” 80K is fairly lofty so set a goal that sounds reasonable to you and your organization. CauseVox’s Reliability Helps You Raise More With Less Stress.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Communications Director and Content Strategist Highway Twenty A Request for Proposal (RFP) is a common way nonprofit organizations invite bids for products and services. Once you begin interviewing, a nonprofit should relax and allow the agency to guide the process. posted by Laura L Bush, Ph.D. After all, they’re the experts.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

The more they tell you about what matters to them, the better job you can do of customizing an Ask for them that is an exact fit between your funding needs and their philanthropic desires. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Be personable and authentic and genuinely interested in them as a person.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. In March we launched a dedicated Boys and Girls Clubs COVID-19 relief fund. That effort was concentrated around raising funds and awareness for the work that our national organization and local clubs are leading.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. How do you loosen up funds? Can you give me an example?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

I think we have all come to realize that just adding a minority seat to your board of directors, or consciously making an attempt to fill that open position with someone from a different cultural background, simply isn’t enough. Encourage the board of directors to articulate an inclusivity statement for your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Shout out to Get Fully Funded ! These need not look like a commercial.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Director for technology and virtual components. Studio microphones that are linked to the remote stream and not the house sound. Potentially a staged studio, depending on how the set up is and if an interview or live broadcast is happening. Virtual emcee (to host the remote broadcast). Social media moderator. House microphones.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Director for technology and virtual components. Studio microphones that are linked to the remote stream and not the house sound. Potentially a staged studio, depending on how the set up is and if an interview or live broadcast is happening. Virtual emcee (to host the remote broadcast). Social media moderator. House microphones.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Note: Mike and the other speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. Woke up one day to the sound of sirens and footsteps pounding up the stairs, went into parents'' room to see father on a ventilator. Mike is still on the Mobilize board of directors.)

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

Whether you’re trying to construct a new building, complete upgrades, or expand your organization, a capital campaign will allow you to raise the funds to do that. While you may be thinking, “That just sounds like fundraising,” what differentiates it is its intensity and specific goal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

Jason is the Media Director and My Colorado Project Manger for Community Shares of Colorado. Check out the interview below to learn more about how My Colorado Project is empowering local change! This is a great first step for an organization which is largely staffed by the board of directors themselves. But it will be!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I just had an interview with one of my guests very recently, and in the outtake I said, you know, “How was this interview for you? She was just on Forbes yesterday, it sounds like, and I just heard about it on LinkedIn and I’ll have to give her a call. ” It might sound a little bit condescending.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

They were small shops staffed in most cases with a single development director. It sounds obvious but if your website looks like it was designed in 2010, it’s time for a new one. The one with just the right number of stories went on to get funded. So, how did they raise multimillion dollar donations?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So the first thing that I want to know, this is a chat question, Steven, you can tell me how people respond, what are your biggest funding needs now versus pre-COVID?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

If we try and experiment, and it doesn’t work, then we’re not going to get funding, or our donors won’t like us anymore, and they’ll go away. And you have limited funding, right? I get too many calls from executive directors in tears. . So that couldn’t be farther from the truth. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Like so many of you, and you can raise your hand if this applies to you, I became an accidental fundraiser as a nonprofit executive director. And before I knew it, I was a managing director and then an executive director. So, like I said before, the very first step is to start bucketing your funding opportunities.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Like so many of you, and you can raise your hand if this applies to you, I became an accidental fundraiser as a nonprofit executive director. And before I knew it, I was a managing director and then an executive director. But they’re emailing donors for listening tours, and they’re doing funding searches based on warm leads.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Fund their work! In the early 1920s, Dorothy Arzner was one of a handful of working female directors as the industry transitioned from silent films. Do you like the sound of powerful political women? After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Sheroes in the Arts.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. Janessa Goldbeck: My name is Janessa Goldbeck and I am the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network. So, these students at Swarthmore decided well, if the U.S.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I know we were on earlier for our sound check, but I hear a little bit of a buzzing sound. But truly, I love to do it because I love that when nonprofits get the grant funding they need, they can do extraordinary things. It sounds so impersonal. But I also was director of a large family foundation. I will do that.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 101

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

Videos come in all shapes and sizes like multi-part webinars, interviews with your constituents, and promotional footage of volunteers in action. Doing so may sound counterintuitive, but it can increase the trust your supporters have in your nonprofit. Graphic design elements. Don’t trap your supporters into a subscription program.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Twenty options for your ice cream sounds great, you sell more ice cream with three options. About if we’re raising money for endowment funding, how do we create a sense of urgency around that? . But I do have a personal thing around endowment funds is I don’t like them. And there’s lots of research.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Ginna, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pura Vida Partners , encourages Pura Vida supporters to create a giving circle where everyone comes together to drink Pura Vida coffee and donate $35 each towards scholarships for children living in coffee growing communities. You can read a transcript of the interview below.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s the board working with the executive director or the staff working with the community, walls get built up. Few things are more critical to your nonprofits health, success and sustainability than an effective board of directors. Finding ways to make marketing impact with limited funds can prove difficult.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. And that means that your organization’s communications are not dependent on your executive director, on your founder, or on that really smart person in the communications team who seems to know how to do all the things.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Please note that there is a graphic description of what one women endured, but the rest of the interview is very uplifting--I promise! As goofy as it may sound, it is love. You know what?

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

For example, you might describe the sights and sounds of your arts organization’s recent performance, or the smells and tastes at your nonprofit’s latest bake sale. Instead, vary the elements you share on different channels — for example, sharing a volunteer interview in a blog post, and sharing images of volunteers in action on social media.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you. And I know that sounds expensive. Where they’re like, “No, I want my funds designated for this very specific thing, and you have to do it?” Steven: Donor is saying I don’t really care where the funds go, you know, you pick.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

NMAI undertook a fairly radical development process in which they tried, via extensive interviews and community outreach, to create a place that represented the interests of people who, for the most part, felt that "museums are irrelevant institutions. have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. After reading the interview, Heddy has asked that I modify some of her answers. It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Consequently, it is a special treat for me to share with you the transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. So we have got a funding source that is secure and we have also got the City Council, they haven't taken a vote yet, but all the members seem to be very supportive. So, it's pretty exciting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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