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JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. As my CEP colleague Kevin Bolduc, who served as an advisor to this effort, recently noted on the CEP Blog , foundations are few and far between on the list of those who have publicly addressed the five “deceptively simple questions” that Charting Impact asks of organizations. The questions are: 1.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The Packard Foundation, true to the nature of its brave and innovative Learning in Public experiment, generously shared with us some of the lessons it learned by opening up the measurement and evaluation effort of its Organizational Effectiveness program to…well… the public. Who is your audience?

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MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. It has been on our social media sites and website and we have attached the video to some of the grants we applied for. A five-picture Flickr slideshow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits!

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. The Mobile Giving Foundation is a great way to start your mobile campaign. Image: Donation jar, ( Flickr ). Becoming a GrantStation. Searching for prospects? NOZAsearch.

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MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. We could empty the coffers of all the foundations in the United States but still couldn’t offset the cuts from the federal government alone. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits. If you think about what a foundation has to offer, money for sure, we're also good at convening people. The John D. and Catherine T.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. That aspect of our work transcends individual grants and moves our entire body of work toward Mr. Kiewit’s fundamental goal for his philanthropy: to build and sustain the communities we share, literally and figuratively.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. The Case Foundation crunched some numbers on impact investing, read the full story and see what they found. Register now!

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Members working to support women and girls may want to check out their micro grant opportunities , available on a rolling basis until September 15th! A few years ago, he was a blogging novice; now, he now uses Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, and Google alerts to strengthen his museum's community.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Two weeks ago, Drew announced his Twitter fundraising campaign to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation , a charity that "grants wishes for children with life threatening medical conditions." I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. I’m known to care about charity. Thank you Steve!

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

He is also a trustee of The Farver Foundation, a charitable foundation supporting hunger relief, child nutrition, education and community development, and helps oversee the distribution of over $400,000.00 in grants to more than fifty charitable organizations in Michigan and South Florida each year.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. “Federal appropriations provide the foundation of the Smithsonian’s operating budget and support core functions, such as building operations and maintenance, research, and safeguarding the collections,” the Kickstarter page reads….In Co-Disruptor: Dodge Dart Registry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In May 2008, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six groups (Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Foundation, Jewish Funds for Justice, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Seeds of Justice Foundation) had formed the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Randi Zuckerberg at Facebook invited me and Stephanie McAuliffe from the Packard Foundation to lunch at Facebook today in their new offices in Palo Alto, a former Hewlett-Packard Building. When will they launch a program like Google Grants for nonprofits where theyd onate advertising? More of my photos and videos on Flickr.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Chris Hughes. million.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Nonprofit organizations and foundations are encouraged to submit their videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Flickr Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography. This post is from the OE Team at the Packard Foundation about the next steps in their public learning journey as part of program review. Packard Foundation OE Launches Their Strategy Refresh – Guest Post by the Packard OE Team. The Outcome of Our Outcomes.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. This is a flawed assumption.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

flickr: dnnya17 A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. Granted, most projects that come to you do not result in any type of implosion.

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MARCH 11, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Last week Ethan Zuckerman was the invited speaker at the Ethos Roundtable and also presented this talk " Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration " at the Berkman Center/Sunlight Foundation meeting. Live Blogging Conferences.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

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MAY 7, 2006

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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MAY 7, 2006

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days.

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MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. What they're doing at Networked for Good - trying to move away from reliance on foundation/corporate and moving to earned revenue. People use the comment fields to ask for grants -- try to filter out comments that are not on topic. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

flickr: gonfishin New research, new tools, new ideas, and new opportunities to share your knowledge and ideas are the highlights of this latest Member Round Up. Knight Foundation launched the challenge to uncover new ways of interpreting and visualizing civic health data. NCoC and the John S. and James L.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: All Chihuahuas Did you listen to the This I Believe segments on NPR? I'm frustrated when I finally get a grant, but can't spend a single penny of it on "overhead." Foundations don't want to pay for it. Both had me crying, in completely different ways. Why do we spend so little? Again, we know the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Granted, any initiative must go beyond cool, and must not be done solely for the cool factor. Organization(s) : The Fair & Lovely Foundation and Hindustan Unilever Limited. The Mobile Giving Foundation currently keeps a list of all 36 ongoing mobile giving campaigns. *. Organization(s) : The U.S. Integrated Marketing.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast.

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