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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

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Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. This post was cross-posted from the Knight Foundation Blog and written by Jessica Hodder who is the digital communications associate for Knight Foundation. Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2

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Performance Based Funding Institute to Improve Higher Education

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Douglas Zimmerman and Lois Ann Porter traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to organize the Performance-Based Funding Institute VisionLink produced for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ann Duffy, Facilitator, Education First. Shaun Yoder of Education First, facilitating the North Carolina state team at the PBF Institute.

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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. The post was also published on the Knight Foundation blog here. The campaigns were treated as works in progress.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Social Media, Nonprofits, and Romania - Night Before the Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my blog, I arrived in Romania last night after 32 hours in transit from Miami, including a 8 hour layover in Heathrow. I am here for a conference sponsored by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program.

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

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We now offer complimentary access to Candid services and tools, including GuideStar and Foundation Directory , at 1,250 Candid community locations. Cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Miami now offer access to Candid’s suite of tools at every municipal library.

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Knight Foundation Launches The Giving Day Play Book

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s something we have heard more and more over the last year, as foundations and nonprofits look for ways to tap into the growing online giving market with these daylong campaigns raising funds for local causes. You can learn more about the Giving Day Play Book from this press release or upcoming Webinar. So you want to start a Giving Day.