Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2023

Maybe it was because I liked to talk — a lot — and ask questions. But now, as the Director of Marketing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, I have the privilege of telling stories of empowerment and resilience. She currently serves as the Director of Marketing and Communications for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

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Mississippi Mentoring Tampa Celebrate 59

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If someone has a legitimate question, they call the appropriate person before the Board meeting to ask. Questions about minor issues can be handled in those calls. I’d like to hear from our other members, though, so they can speak without being influenced by your knowledge or experience.” Don’t influence him.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2021

Organization-wide support and commitment to the effort should be established among all leadership, management, and especially the board of directors before creating the agenda. Over time, consider restructuring, hiring for needed skills, and appointing individuals with appropriate experience or connections to the board of directors.

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Policy Public Impact Illinois 52

Achieve

JANUARY 3, 2018

Women in particular appear to be lifting their voice and becoming more engaged than previously reported. Why had their voices quieted? Conversations about men’s abuse of power and status over women were rekindled … and women’s voices not only returned, but they were louder and more unbridled than in the past.

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North Carolina Voice Policy University 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The panelists included, Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality ; Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy Research for the AI Now Institute ; and Di Luong, Research and Policy Organizer at Media Mobilizing Project. You can watch the keynote on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Cancer San Diego Social Calendar 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader? Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Helen Clarke, UNDP, is an example of responder.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Interview questions. You’ll also want to develop your interview questions now, together with the criteria and evaluation matrix. These three need to work together so that your questions actually allow you to determine whether or not the candidate meets your criteria. . And who has influence over its success? Key staffers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

I got this great question from someone and I know that many of you may have struggled with this issue and have some wisdom to offer: Hi Beth, My question is: does the voice/tone of a blog need to match up with the voice/tone of the nonprofit? Perhaps that is why I am protective of my blogging voice. What resources?

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Voice Advice Personal Nonprofit 50

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Stronger Advocacy: There’s strength in numbers, and a strong membership base provides organizations with more voices to amplify their cause, advocate for policy changes, influence the community, and raise awareness for their mission. Offering memberships is this type of organization’s primary means of fundraising.

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Model Florida Nonprofit Benefit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. Humberto Kam , Director, Online Engagement & Marketing, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Abdi Soltani , Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. SMOP14 @TSFF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Similar questions can be asked of pandemic ”crisis donors” and monthly donors. Consider the following questions: What do you do that no one else does? Beyond the staff, pose a question in a newsletter and ask folks to send in a picture and an answer. What are your donors saying to you?

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Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. I definitely recommend them both!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Last spring, I had the pleasure of meeting Ashley Boyd,Campaign Director, for MomsRising.org who told me about Joyful Funerals. Ashley and her colleague Anita – as well as the whole team at Momsrising does a fantastic job of reflecting after each campaign on how it could be improved. Flickr Photo by Vox Photo.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Ideally, every three to five years, your board and staff directors will meet to realign regarding goals and begin the strategic planning process. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. Ask yourself some of the following questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What I am curious is how nonprofit marketing staffers are explaining this to their executive directors. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Let go of the concept of ???driving

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2019

She was recently named one of the top 25 Nonprofit IT Influencers to Follow in 2019 by BizTech Magazine. She served as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit for more than ten years and has provided communications and board leadership for more than six nonprofit agencies. Executive Director, Annie’s List.

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Causes New York City Storytelling Atlanta 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

When influencers and supporters talk about your work online, you’ll respond quickly on the right channel with the right call to action! Both their capacity as a group and the lack of a clear advocacy solution regarding the conflict left them in question as to WHEN to run advocacy campaign, so they listened.

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Yemen Guide Support Social 50

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I suppose there are board members who might appreciate that shelter (and I question whether they should serve in that role). They should leverage not just their money, but also their relationships and influence to further the work of the foundation and its grantees. Not speaking up.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

Before rolling out any new strategy, ask the question: “How will this make a donor feel?” . Donors want to meet with folks they consider VIPs—and this tends to mean your executive director, board president, or a person in charge of implementing the program they support. . You may not currently have much of a voice in these touches.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner. These are reasonable questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I think we might each answer that question differently, but one of my favorite moments was our Give to the Max Day Principals Challenge. We also take the extra step of curating and engaging a group of local influencers with large social networks to help us promote Give to the Max Day. They are enthusiastic and positive voices for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here. You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. It’s not a question.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Influencers are busy. But first, what is social love and why does it matter?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

It was at the VFW Hall in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and other venues like it, that I truly learned how to influence legislators. Talk to them before the meeting; get their business card; tell them your story (as well as asking a public question at the meeting). Leave Paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I realized that from participants reflections and questions that they’re already curating content – especially as policy analysts, but may not be integrating and sharing through social media channels. California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. and storify.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Sixteen arts administrators, journalists, and researchers weighed in on the question over a series of posts. Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. Here are three of my favorites. and a few more thoughts.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2009

Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success. Show your true voice, be personable, create content that people relate to. Asking critical questions like ?What Be authentic.? s mission and objectives.

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Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

Most recently, their CEO went before Congress to answer questions about data collection and the platform’s ties to China. TikTok has pushed us to use the voices of real people and influencers that are part of the communities we work with—something we need to do more of. It was not sustainable for organizations or personal users.

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Digital Marketing Strategy Social Media 94

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This boils down to a fairly basic question: what's the value of our institutions? Last year, the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati (now called ArtsWave ) released a terrific report that examined this question in detail. Would it be appropriate to ask for donations here alongside the food bank and the women's shelter?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. After the workshop, I wondered how @wellstoneaction planned their Twitter usage-- were they really some sort of non-profit advocacy Twitter mastermind, as Id suspected?

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Social Media Twitter Action Advocacy 68

Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. So the question isn’t “should I engage in advocacy?” The answer is a resounding YES.

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Advocacy Measure Policy United States 20

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. So one of the questions that has just come up is, I’m going to pause on that, Kathleen, thank you for that question.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Foundations face unique communications challenges—from amplifying the voices and work of their grantees, to advancing their overall mission and goals. To address the biggest challenges that arise within each component, we’ve provided five questions for foundations to ask themselves when developing and/or optimizing their digital strategy.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

The easiest way to listen to your volunteers’ voices is to conduct a survey. While you may have a lot of questions for your volunteers, try not to make your survey longer than five minutes to complete. Questions to include in your survey . While these questions are open-ended in nature, they will lead to qualitative results.

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