Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. This was so useful, I added it to my Social Media and Foundations wiki. Tags: Research Studies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

That said, organic reach has been dropping slightly for LinkedIn Pages over the last year and will likely continue to do so, but the recent growth in its popularity, the demographics of its users, and the ability to connect with donors and engage corporate sponsors and foundations have made LinkedIn a must-use social network for nonprofits.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. We reflected. We adapted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Foundations fund and coordinate mission-based work. TechSoup also has a new foundation resource area for software donations. I know that by the numbers, there are far fewer foundations than nonprofits in the US (94 percent charities versus 6 percent foundations), but most foundations are relatively small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

What are Foundations Tweeting? About three weeks ago, the 411 Philanthropy Blog created a mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet (and it is still growing.) Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Talk vision and mission ( Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ). Recruit job candidates ( MacArthur Foundation ) .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Annual Nonprofit Bootcamp practically in my backyard. Tags: Conferences Promotions Bootcamp craigslist. The next one takes place on August 14th – I wouldn’t miss it.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Specifically, they saw the exhibition Giving in America , which includes one of the first copies of Foundation Directory. Can you tell us about the Foundation Directory book ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

As promised, I'm posting the slides from the session that Susan Gordon from Causes and I gave this afternoon at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp Thanks! As promised, I'm posting the slides from the session that Susan Gordon from Causes and I gave this afternoon at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp Thanks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. Nasscom Foundation is a partner of TechSoup Global and has an impressive technology product donation program called " BIGTech " Here's how they describe their mission and impact. Tags: india. David Appasamy. Gaurav Mishra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Tags: Networked Nonprofit. My father (photographed above) was a life guard, swimmer, and one of the first to take up surfing in the early 1960’s on our beach. So, I always had a fondness for surfing. It is a virtual beach clean up game. It’s on itunes here (free).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). Since we started impala, by far the most common feedback we’ve heard across hundreds of interviews with nonprofits and foundations alike is that they’re skeptical. million nonprofit and philanthropic foundation profiles on our platform.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In addition to the tools, a very important piece of successful marketing is Taxonomy & Metadata – the foundation of your marketing. If you don’t tag your data accurately, it will be difficult to actually see what is going on. Are you tagging your content, products and events? Analyze Performance.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Recent data from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) drives this point home. TAG found that 39% of grant applications they reviewed are duplicative across funders. Digging in to the problem . Currently, over 80,000 organizations have earned a Seal, and over 34,000 have provided demographic data. . Seizing the moment .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2010

Last week, several TechSoup Global staffers participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. This post comes from Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation executive director Chris Worman. European Foundation Week session: European Network of Foundation Communications Professionals organized by Robert Bosch Stiftung, 31st May 2010.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Q: Tell us a bit more about The Alford Group TAG: The Alford Group is a national, full-service, equity-forward consultancy serving nonprofits in nearly every state in the country. TAG: Both The Alford Group and Qgiv are members of The Giving Institute, an association of nonprofit consultancies and service providers. TAG: Ah, so many!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

The James Irvine Foundation is one of the largest grantmaking institutions in California. The James Irvine Foundation was founded in 1937 during the great depression, largely in response to the great social needs from that era. This is an interview with Jeff Brandenburg who runs the IT department at the foundation.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Content optimization—Assess keyword density, title tag length (The length of the title that is displayed in search engine results.), If you were to feed Bard all of that data, you would probably have the foundation for a decent analysis. Keyword research—Find relevant keywords and track their performance over time.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.” Using Infrastructure to Drive Change.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2010

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare ) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation. Tags: Influence Collaboration Online Community. Philanthropy and Online Collaboration Webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2009

The folks in the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) , as part of the Council on Foundations , have a lot in common with the NTEN community. In fact, many folks in the NTEN community are also part of TAG, and vice versa. Tags: NPTech AFP TAG conference call for submissions announcement.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

We - 13 people from TechSoup Global - are in Brussels this week to participate in am ambitious project staged by the European Foundation Centre , which is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Council on Foundations. Foundations in Europe and the States have both similarities and differences. Tags: Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

On Tuesday, September 29th, I'm participating in a social media tutorial hosted by the Case Foundation. Tags: social media. It will be a live streamed event where folks can ask questions and get answers. Here's my guest post on their blog and the details. Meanwhile, I gotta go tidy up my office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Today I attended an informative lunchtime presentation by Chad Nelsen who is the Environmental Director at the Surfrider Foundation where he has worked since 1998. If you search for surfrider foundation on Facebook , you will find several hundred groups/pages for the chapters - many using their own variation of the organization's logo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

One thing I always enjoy about Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp is getting to know very small organizations. Tags: Marketing Online Activism Online Fundraising Online Recruitment Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. Tags: Event. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2010

As you may have noticed, Daniel Ben-Horin (one of TechSoup's CEOs) @DBenHorin and thirteen of the TechSoup crew were in Brussles from May 31 until June 4 for Foundation Week and posted a lot of great info from the sessions to this blog as well as other social media. Tags: Event Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Remember America's Giving Challenge , that great test of online fundraising sponsored by the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine a couple of years ago? Tags: case foundation giving challenge NPTech philanthropy social media. With more than 80,000 people contributing $1.7 Let us know if you're interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Nonprofit Tech Blog points to a new report from United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, " Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use." A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here. Change the World!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. European Foundation Week Session: Evaluating Foundation Activities: Lessons from Lavoro and Psiche - Organized by Fondazione Cariplo , 31st May 2010. Tags: Event. This post comes from TechSoup Global Network director Madhu Anand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2009

The 6th annual Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp takes place on June 20th in Berkeley, CA. Tags: promotion. The day includes workshops, one-on-one coaching sessions, and keynotes by Arianna Huffington , Randi Zuckerberg and Craig Newmark. For years, I've been wanting to attend and this year, finally, I am! See you there!

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Craigslist Foundation's 2009 Nonprofit Boot Camp is happening on June 20 in Berkeley, CA, and TechSoup Global is a community partner. You can listen to past Boot Camp talks by subscribing to Craigslist Foundation's podcast. Tags: Running Your Organization Social Networking Using the Web and Internet.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Donna Fischer, director of development for UnityPoint Health – Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation, offers a reminder to time your communications “so those giving from IRAs have time to process their contribution requests, so their check arrives before end of year.” Deadlines are amazing at inspiring action.

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