Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2007

My Flickr Stream. I posted this to my flickr stream and had a blog post in draft when I had intended to hit publish. Anyway, I was reminded about this when Michael Gilbert pointed it out earlier this week: Marc Osten and Beth Kanter have recently completed a step by step guide on How to Cost and Fund ICT (76 page PDF ).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Or sign off on a proof for a print newsletter or funding appeal where your logo was cropped or shrunk so small it was made completely unreadable? Your nonprofit needs a square avatar for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, your blog, Foursquare, Gowalla, TwitPic, etc. Of course not! Either way, that takes less than 10 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Read my Flickr Story About Leng Sopharath, an orphan being sponsored for college by the Sharing Foundation I've been a board member of the Sharing Foundation for the last three years and volunteer several years before that. You see in order to receive the funding, 30 people in the community have to vote yes by Saturday, July 1 at 19:35 PDT.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Bini Memorial Fund, in his November 12th episode. • The Wall Street Journal reported on November 2nd that a Relief Fund was created for Staten Island and New Jersey through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Flickr photo credit: Staten Island Ferry by Robert Paul Young Tweet.

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DECEMBER 24, 2012

and enjoy hearing when someone writes back to tell me which project they funded and why. Photo: Flickr gazeronly. I have given DonorsChoose.org gift cards as “thank you” gifts in the past (especially for speakers or presenters!)

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APRIL 23, 2013

Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. A big cheers to our friends at Creative Commons, Free Range Studios, Wakingstar story consulting, See3 Communications, Escondido Public Library, Global Fund for Women, Lights.Camera.Help., Cisco Flip video camera. Plantronics headset.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state. And, as a displaced Oregonian myself (I will make it home one day!) What do you think? Do you have examples to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations. More than 53,000 individuals contributed to that giving day, and as a result, 4,300 nonprofits and schools received critical funding. I’m so glad you asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Less restrictive funding. If you believe nonprofits are largely inefficient, lack key technical skills and abilities, don’t understand their business model, you create a funding system high on accountability, compliance, and funder-driven. Less onerous reporting requirements.

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MAY 10, 2009

Steve and 3 self-funded volunteers (found for free via Google Grants!) Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. LearnAsOne is a charity that works with local partners and communities in Africa to fund schools and support their running costs. Follow along and connect with the community! Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Beth Kanter. I’ve been experimenting with posting different types of content and engagement techniques on my Facebook Page this past month based on what the research says about increasing engagement. Kathryn Ananda. The personal, fun touches make it worthwhile and valuable for supporters.” Jack Fundly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Most nonprofits implore: “Just fund a development director position for us, and it will pay for itself in a year, enabling us not just to survive but to thrive.” Although fund development assistance can be beneficial in certain circumstances, it is not a panacea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2006

That's an excerpt from a speech given by Muadi Mukenge the Global Fund for Women's Program Officer for Africa, at the Darfur Day of Conscience. It was turned into a post for the Global Fund for Women's blog. The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation that supports women's human right's organizations all over the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Two organizations that have been early adopters and pioneers in their use of social media are the National Wildlife Federation and the World Wildlife Fund. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube. Have you considered how your current Website looks on a mobile phone? See www.nwf.mobi and www.wwf.mobi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. I wont’t try to summarize the entire talk here, but the most important takeaways for me as a funded were: 1. Funders can encourage leaders to take time off, to think, to explore creative solutions to problems by funding sabbaticals, fellowships and other forms of leadership development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

DonorsChoose has launched a new program called BloggersChoose which allows bloggers to search through mini-grant proposals that school teachers have submitted to DonorsChoose, and ask their readers to fund them. blogger fundraising education bloggerschoose philanthropy Photo of Children's Garden from spacecadet's Flickr stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, a group of friends shared stories of their beard-growing journey to raise funds for breast cancer research. On average, we see about 50% of crowdfunding campaign funds come in this way. They raised $28,000. Tragedy - In Breaking Bad, Walter White dives into the world of making meth.

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MAY 31, 2007

I think they could use more funding, too. I took lots of pictures, and they are posted on Flickr as the NetSquared collection. Freecycle and Miro were the runners up. I love Freecycle! Four million items traded for free each month around the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Instead, create a specific fund or give donors a tangible item or event to donate towards. The fee is just $10 to register–100% of which will be donated to the Brooklyn Recovery Fund. Be specific. Meghan Teich is a strategist at Big Duck ( www.bigducknyc.com ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Flickr: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology We're still catching our breath from the NTC earlier this month, but the nonprofit technology community is as active as ever this week! Check out the campaign’s use of Flickr and Tumblr ! Learn more about these stories and all the ways NTEN Members are amping up the awesome. Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. This kind of mico-funding approach remains alive and well today. It’s taken on more techie monikers like crowdfunding or micro-funding as advances in social media and tools like PayPal have made collecting small donations from a wider base of supporters more accessible than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Stephanie Corleto is the Digital Communications Manager at National Institute for Reproductive Health and NIRH Action Fund , and has previously worked at WNET New York Public Media, French Institute Alliance Française, and Girl Scouts of the USA. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Flickr photo credit: Ray of Light. Jeffrey Bryan, a veterinary oncologist Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy Jenny Ramo, New Mexico Appleseed Kavita Ramdas, formerly of Global Fund for Women ( I interviewed Kavita in April 2008 ) Kenya Masala, Source Consulting Group, (he's the musician behind the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro music).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Retina Australia is an organization which supports people with blinding retinal eye diseases, as well as raising funds for research into this debilitating condition. At this point funding becomes urgent. Clearly defined goals in what we need to achieve in terms of fund raising. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Exactly two years ago , the idea of changing the visual of your Twitter avatar to support a cause spontaneously happened as part of the Pea Fund Fridays , a Twitter fundraising campaign created by Connie Reece to support breast cancer research to honor Susan Reynolds. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. That’s the kind of ‘new’ funders like to fund. Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way? Haven’t you ever thought of this?” The Network Funders meeting this week crackled with excitement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

Camfed has over 13,000 images on Flickr. In many communities, Camfed students are supported by Mother Support Groups comprised of women who raise funds to support and empower their villages’ neediest girls. As Pinterest is a sharing platform, using the most attractive images in our arsenal was essential to my strategy.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

flickr: blogtrepreneur. As the scale of nonprofit losses from hacking becomes clear, #cybersecurity finally gets the attention & funding it needs. Providing digital services in a networked way, working in collaboration to do together what cannot be done alone, is the natural evolution of technology use in nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

250 million pound fund for this. 10 million risk fund for that. Another noteworthy speaker was Nigel Kershaw of the Big Issue Invest's Social Enterprise Venture Fund. I placed a more extensive upload of photos from the Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 on my Flickr pages. Step in when the market fails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2011

Flickr Photo by Soyignatus. Millennials (those young, tech savvy, and passionate younger donors) will – as I learned at last month’s Millennial Donor Summit. Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches? The Parkinson’s Association is doing just that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

million words of online and printed fund-raising texts to determine how effectively fund raisers communicate with their audiences." Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Flickr photo credit: Money, Money, Money uploaded by borman818 philanthropy fundraising nonprofit appeal letter advice Tip 9: Answer readers' questions (i.e.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

nonprofits to raise funds for technology projects. There are some nonprofit-oriented crowdfunding websites which include: Causevox is a charity crowdfunding platform for nonprofits and individuals to raise funds for their causes and projects. They successfully found funding for more than 40 technology projects via this program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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