Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. New venture journalism has been incubated thanks to nonprofit and foundation support.” Sherry questioned. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Albert Ruesga, President and CEO, Greater New Orleans Foundation. Barbara Kibbe, COO, Salesforce.com Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. And we released a report recently that shows foundation funding for advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement has a return on investment of an astonishing $115 to $1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It is funded by Open Society Foundations. On December 8, 2018, Seattle Pacific University, AI and Faith, and TheoTech hosted an unconference to explore the relationship between AI and faith. They discussed more pragmatic than philosophical questions , particularly the ethical implications of AI.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jolkona partnered with the Seattle International Foundation (SIF), which pledged to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. Starting July 26th, Groupon Seattle’s G-Team allowed subscribers to join Jolkona and SIF in making an investment in women’s leadership by pledging support in increments of $10.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

She references my recent post about the Irvine Foundation's new approach to arts funding (which includes, but does not solely focus on diversifying audience engagement). Barry Hessenius follows up with more thoughts on "coercive philanthropy" and how and whether funders make change possible in the field.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Participants?observe?a

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Participants?observe?a

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The first question was easy: “I like chocolate.” Gale Berkowitz, Director, Evaluation and Learning, The MasterCard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. That was the question in the “The Intertwining Services Funding with Policy Initiatives to Achieve Systems Change” session at GEO. Photo by Sea Turtle. When does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Imagine how a well-meaning member of the nonprofit or foundation world might have rewritten Shelley’s tale. Photo By Kalexanderson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Yesterday, I participated on a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. What have you learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we had a paradigm shift. Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. One of the takeaways from the breakout session was the need for foundations to have a growth and learning culture internally before they tackle learning in public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. What do you hope to learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. “Stand up if you use all the data your foundation collects,” said Jarod Raynor of the TCC Group at a GEO2012 session on “Learning in Public.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. For example, I sat in on the excellent breakout on Beneficiary Feedback with CEP’s Youth Truth and the Hogg Foundation (Hook ‘em Horns, my MBA alma mater). Thanks, GEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Myth Busting around Scale - Guest Post by Adene Sacks of the Jim Joseph Foundation. Adene Sacks is a Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region. Flickr Photo by Helokee.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

After answering this question at eight of nine sold-out conferences and earning a 92% approval rating from more than 2,500 nonprofit leaders in our first conference series, Social Media for Nonprofits realized that there are a lot more community leaders out there still wrestling with this question, and we’re here to help.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were one of the foundation professionals who joined us this year in Nashville, you are hopefully well into your planning for how to put some of what you learned to use; I’m also hoping you enjoy this little refresher on what I consider to be some of the finer takeaways from our foundations track. Moral of the story?

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MARCH 8, 2023

5 Million Reasons to Embrace Library Giving Day Created in 2019 by the Seattle Public Library Foundation, Library Giving Day was designed not only to increase financial support to local public libraries but also to raise awareness for the many programs local libraries provide to their communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Aaron Hurst , founder of the Taproot Foundation, notes that skilled volunteers are essential to helping nonprofits become self-sustaining and they help the nonprofit put forth the biggest impact in the communities they serve. For this reason, skilled volunteers are highly valuable - and as such managing them effectively is essential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Barbara Kibbe is the Chief Operating Officer for the Salesforce.com Foundation , where she leads the Foudation’s initiatives to scale and evolve to meet growing demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

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. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. 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.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

During the Social Good Brasil Conference, I was present during a VIP discussion session with NGOs and Sponsors that Peter facilitated about the themes in his book, “ Little Bets ” where he asked a simple, but powerful question: ”What is failure?” The team looks at some questions: What was the goal of our project?

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

NPower Seattle welcomed a new Executive Director : Alison Carl White. aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management. help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first. Members are in bold. Full details and RSVP here. available March 4th. .

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