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Charitable Giving in a down economy: Performance strategies for any market

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Historical support shows that charitable response is swift in response to natural disasters, financial crises such as the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009 and the pandemic, as seen below: Revenue Trend: Human Services Benchmark. The Return on Investment (ROI) is typically higher for the levers on the right, in a progressive fashion.

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Build, Buy, or Customize?

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Customization simply in order to preserve business processes without a greater outcome is a recipe for disaster (as is implementing software without changes to business practices). Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house? What about development environments and tools? significant cost savings).

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. I shall investigate - I muttered - to know what ROI could account for.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Carie Lewis.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Carie Lewis.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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Such foundations do not exist to give emergency aid during crises arising from war or natural disaster; instead, their purpose is to attack social and scientific problems at the root, a process that sometimes requires substantial allocations of grant money over 5, 10 or even 20 years. [.] Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Carie Lewis.