Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

We were lucky to have extraordinary documentation of the event – Rob Cottingham’s sketch notes, Jeremy Bivin’s Storify, Jenna Saubers notes, Ed Schipul’s photos – and more all curated and archived here. They are also doing a sector wide survey on failure and innovation ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. What are foundations willing to STOP doing in order to make time for learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Privacy , security , and liability came up more frequently than in other sessions I’ve done which is not surprising that this group represented board members and CEOs of nonprofits and foundations. And, they’re issues not to be taken lightly. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance.

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MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. Our curator writes labels about licking the art. I host dating games. We dance out our bad times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. What can the networked nonprofit do to counteract the impact of secret money in elections?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” What is the Luce Foundation Center doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. Fundraising advisors encourage this support too. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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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. 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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JUNE 7, 2021

Also, you should create a branded donation page that reflects the same message featured in your appeal. Every donor should get something, even if just a brief email with a photo of someone they helped and a quick “ You’re our hero! ” Identify potential foundation and business funders. . Don’t worry about appearing pushy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

ChangeON [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 2 - Opening together, the main characters, nonprofit Ignites (Translated from [2015 ??? ?? ????(NTC) Please let us know in the comments! Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? Translated from [2015 ??? ?? ????(NTC)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

That's a photograph of the donation box at the Watt in Roteang Village where the Sharing Foundation has most of its programs. " I think about that photo when I think about a culture of giving. Dr. Mani not only donated to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge, but we've having a conversation about social fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. I’ve looked to meditation and reflection practices before – in fact – last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker ’s “Power of Social Technology&# class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved eating a Hershy kiss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality. Through his twitter account, he is able to easily first-hand reports and photos of the organization's work. There are a couple of corporate Foundations where we have good examples of CEO's using social media effectively - in this case Twitter.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Ultimately, you want your fundraiser to reflect the spirit of Hanukkah, so provide plenty of educational and spiritual opportunities for your supporters to connect on a deeper level with the holiday. Charge a few dollars for pictures with good ol’ Saint Nick to add to the family photo album that will go toward your organization’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. What a photo find!! The group had opened the bag before leaving the US and had noticed that some of the books inside were religious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Photo by Nelson Layag. They shared how they worked through this internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. local time). It isn't entertainment.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This makes an employee giving program, or employee relief fund, a big brick in the foundation of any company. Locate the right person in HR and conduct an open exploratory to discover how CSR can support and collaborate with HR. Analyze all the previous year’s performance data, developing goals that truly reflect what is possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Flickr Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography. During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. I've seen this used frequently with "unconference" or "open space" technology-oriented conferences and workshops.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Create categories that reflect what users are looking for. If you're a foundation: 25. Community foundations can pin things they want to celebrate in the community. That might mean the new school opening, the elder-care center, the new hospital wing, or the playground you funded to help revitalize the neighborhood.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Think of the chart of accounts as the foundation for a building you are about to construct. The stronger the foundation, the stronger the building - and the same holds true of the chart of accounts. Photo: GenBug. See [link] for a similar definition.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.

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