Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Issues-Based Strategic Planning Model An issues-based strategic planning model can be used when your organization’s internal operations are in more turbulent conditions. An issues-based nonprofit strategic planning model is a living plan. When it does become unstable, that means it’s time to switch to a different model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Centre Foundation , also a Pokemon stop, is adding this to its messaging around several summer programs geared for high school students. As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. A Few Concerns.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. ICA Fund Good Jobs. The grassroots climate justice advocates at 350.org

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? This could mean getting aid after a disaster to those that need it by working directly with a local community foundation or addressing a significant need in your community. How did these groups come together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. " He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits. The John D.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At bbcon 2018, Blackbaud announced the cloud solution for each of our main audiences, including the Cloud Solution for Companies and the Cloud Solution for Foundations. Keep in mind the following points from speakers Brooke Hansel of Blackbaud, Merrie Beth Nauman of Ocean Conservancy, and Lisa Tacker of Two Ten Footwear Foundation: .

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

Komen Foundation have in common? It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect? What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Increase awareness on relevant issues. A peer-to-peer fundraiser will not only help you reach your revenue goals, but also raise awareness on the issues that your community faces. Thanking members with an email after a gift is the perfect opportunity to set up that foundation for a great relationship.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

By David Farnes, Executive Director, Mobile Giving Foundation Canada , and Vice President, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Associatio n and Jim Manis, Chairman and CEO, Mobile Giving Foundation. This year, in unprecedented numbers, more charities and corporate foundations have operationalized text?to?give

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference , someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use. In terms of web 2.0 safety resources, I mentioned Larry Magid's site, Connect Safely.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Make it possible for your audience to identify with your issue. With leveling statements, however, the donor can easily identify with someone who is affected by the issue, which is much more impactful in terms of changing interest into action. Campaign messaging can take two approaches: talking down to audiences or leveling audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I noticed that Macarthur Foundation is not limiting themselves to Second Life - but also are exploring There.com. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only 10% of arts foundation funding goes to minority-led organizations, and worse, the higher a foundation's funding in the arts, the less likely their money goes to support organizations serving low-income or underrepresented audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time. More here on the event.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Now, onto the links: If you have a great idea for a participatory learning project that uses digital tools, the MacArthur Foundation wants to give you money. There's a new Pew Research report on teens and gaming showing that 97% of American teens play some kind of video games (console, online, mobile, etc).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. We also have a monthly e-newsletter that we send out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

If you work in nonprofits and track relevant research, you no doubt have come across the Social Citizen Blog from the Case Foundation and the paper, Social Citizen , from Allison Fine. Nonprofits - Management Issues. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Both are essential reading.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. We also have a monthly e-newsletter that we send out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' local time).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. John Breyault and Kevin Reid from Issue Dynamics Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation created a site for young people. Not listening is the root of most problems, personal and professional.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. 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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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. 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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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Foundation for Women, and more recently, acting as the VP of Development at the Rainforest Alliance. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So, we created the organization, sort of, to really use food as a tool for social change that we could really leverage to address multiple issues. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. It is ongoing.”. A Culture of Iteration. Text Crisis Line.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But I also was director of a large family foundation. What it means is there are 100,000 grant-making foundations out there right now in the U.S. These are the private foundations that you can access, 100,000 of those. Secondly, community foundations, which, in the U.S., They have corporate foundation arms.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

With 93 percent of teens online, 80 percent using social media, and 87 percent sleeping with their phones nearby – technology was a key option to helping find a solution. The judges included a member of ISIS’ board, TechSoup staff, and a representative from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hacking Successful Solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. What was most sexy?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. and displayed in the museum. more effective than solar panels* God Chemistry did (does) a lot of damage to our planet. Management was horrified.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). headspace : The National Youth Mental Health Foundation in Australia. www.marketmakeovers.org.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

For instance, there are a few foundational nonprofit web development strategies your team should definitely implement. This site includes plenty of content on current issues around the world as well as pages outlining their work’s impact. Think of these as the essential elements of web design: Clear, prominent donation buttons.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! I think a great way to get people to better understand issues of the day relating to government, is to give then tools to themselves explore and interact with others around government content and data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. and disconcertingly white.

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