Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice how to create an effective year-end fundraising appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m planning ahead to prepare this year’s annual fundraising appeal, and could use a little help getting started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

“ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. For its part, Kimbia’s technology team tried to fix the problem. In advance of the event, leaders had outlined what it would do in case of unexpected problems like blackouts, inclement weather, and technology failures.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

The real problem comes when you don’t tell the donor what you did with their gift, particularly before you ask for another donation, or you fail to even thank them for their donation. One of my clients recently questioned if they have a case of donor fatigue or if they simple have lackluster results from their Spring appeal.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

And there are all sorts of things you can do with those services, including helping out in disaster recovery. When people call in, your customer service rep has to answer the phone and deal with the person's question. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. Microsoft's Windows Azure and Disaster Response.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2021

As an industry, we have typically thought of disasters in the natural sense, however after 2020, we have had to take a completely new stance on what disasters can look like. It is not ideal to wait for disaster to strike to establish your employee relief fund (but it can be done). Looking to start your own Employee Relief Fund?

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

Having comprehensive data is what allows us to answer these types of questions with confidence. COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data. This is the data set we, and others, use to derive information about trends in grantmaking, such as on racial justice in education or funding for disasters.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

And ignoring it can lead to innumerable headaches, stress and even disaster down the road. Indeed, far too many people choose an inadequate or downright shady host in order save a few dollars, and doing so can create a plethora of ongoing problems. Have they had problems with any of their plugins in the past?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Talk to your team to see what questions people are asking. . A story that compels includes a protagonist your audience cares about, important problems that must be overcome, a solution that overcomes the problem (something to root for), and (4) an ending—hopefully a happy one. . How to Protect Your Pets in a Natural Disaster.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Even though inflation made dollars not stretch as far, world events and climate disasters increased need across many communities. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. If you are not prepared for the requirements, a government grant can create more problems than they solve.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

So no, opens are no longer a good way to answer the question “did my email succeed?”. But here’s the big exception: open rates are better than ever at helping identify deliverability problems if you are looking at Apple opens or combined open rates. So the question is, do you change your list definition to exclude opens?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. Question: Do you believe someone is more likely to be a successful entrepreneur if they previously worked in a non-entrepreneur business? Question: What is your advice for entrepreneurs for a post-pandemic time?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

Some of the questions we received made us realize we need to be clearer about why this is important. Misunderstanding relationships in data is a problem because it can lead to choosing less effective, more expensive data instead of choosing obvious, more accurate starting points. Why did we bother analyzing this claim?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems. They discussed more pragmatic than philosophical questions , particularly the ethical implications of AI.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These partnerships have the ability to minimize duplication of efforts and competition for limited resources while increasing their ability to problem solve. is a question asked often in the sector. Many believe there are too many nonprofit organizations competing for the same donor dollars, resources, and stakeholders.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. " 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. ." New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

With that in mind, we’d like to kick off 2022 by actively questioning the use of certain words—and what is meant—so that we can continue to improve by phasing out terms that might be overused, harmful, or inaccurate. Some things certainly are devastating, including, but not limited to, natural disasters. Reprinted from Big Duck.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Nonprofits will see a rise in need stemming from people on the margins of the disaster recovery response. In looking at the problem from the perspective of smaller nonprofits serving high needs communities with growing multifaceted issues, sustainability becomes even more daunting.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . They will not only take questions from the people in the room but check for questions from digital attendees as well. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Disaster work. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Long Live Strategy.”

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

An assessment can uncover hidden problems and opportunities. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities. Disaster recovery and business continuity are other areas to explore. We ask questions to determine what you’re looking for, what challenges you are experiencing, and where there are opportunities for growth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Still, understand that the content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Based on the data we were able to collect from news sources, funder websites, and from funders directly , we issued two reports with our partners at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to help the sector make sense of its collective response. At Candid, we’ve been tracking philanthropy’s response. The state of the data .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The first days following a disaster or other emergency can be crucial for organizations as they reach out to supporters and request help. With general forms, savvy donors will question where the money is going and other donors will assume it is going to relief efforts for the emergency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. We need leverage points."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem? In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem. Ask them some hard questions like: What kind of technology they use? What servers and software it runs and what its arrangements are for disaster recovery.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. Mobile Beacon’s third and final post in the series , Preparing for Disaster talks about how to integrate your technology plan into a disaster preparation strategy. How do you currently use technology?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. This new environment is an opportunity to rethink solutions to strategic problems and create innovative virtual events that inspire supporters to do more. Urgent issues.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

Luckily, we’ve researched those questions so you don’t have to. But the problem arises with public actions. Another problem that has been argued is that slacktivism may actually hurt a person’s propensity to protest for change or volunteer for an organization because slacktivism is easy and used as a substitute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

When we gather in Silicon Valley this week, the question will not be how do we get technology knowledge and resources in to the field? Our topics will range from cloud computing to disaster relief, from assistive technologies to translation. But, what now? Rebecca Masisak, Six Years Later; Building a Connected Civil Society.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Interview Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

With nonprofits, the Trough of Disillusionment comes when we start to understand the real challenges in implementing a new technology and stop looking at as a panacea that will solve all our problems. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. Trepidatious.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And, while we can certainly see the outpouring of support during moments of heightened awareness, such as after natural disasters, there may be more at play to the sector’s current state of affairs. And this means we have strategic problems.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

We have the answer, not just a problem. We shouldn’t just go to our donors with a problem and expect them to fix it with money. We are the organization that has the answer to the problem, and we need their help to make that solution a reality. We don’t know that this will have the same sorts of impacts on donor dollars.

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