Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. A first-person voice is best. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides. That said, mix it up! Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters.

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 263

Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. All participants receive a virtual Earth Day kit with a face mask, trash bags, information to clean up litter in the local community, and some fun stickers. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020. The six largest banks in the U.S.

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San Diego San Francisco California Conservancy 126

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I thought it might be fun to recount a perfectly random cross-section of folks who came by chat at the TechSoup booth on a Tuesday at the SOCAP event. I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A View of the SOCAP Conference from TechSoup's Booth. If you can find the common ground in all this, please tell me.

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San Francisco Money Los Angeles Marketing 55

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. A first-person voice is best. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides. That said, mix it up! Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters.

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

We get so overloaded by meaningless data collection, that we’re exhausted before we get to do the fun part: making sense out of it. In the content line, I put a link to the actual post noting the type, voice, or if it was a fan posting. And, of course, making the time to actually look and think about what the data means.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog.

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Green San Francisco Tennessee Nonprofit 42

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us Below is a list of blogs that I read written by nonprofits and NGOs.

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Darfur Netsquared Nonprofit NTEN 40

NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

We''re excited to announce our Green Sponsors for the 14NTC! This year''s Green Sponsors are: Confluence. Confluence''s Commitment to Going Green. We opted to be green tote bag sponsors this year because we responded to the eco-friendly nature of this type of advertising. How and Why We-Care is Green.

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Green Sponsor NTC Los Angeles 61

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2007

Getcha Grub On Give and Take *A Roundup of nonprofit blogs by the Chronicle of Philanthropy (check out the blogroll in the right column).

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Blogger Typepad Blogher Technorati 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 27, 2010

blogs Ploughshares Fund blog myMADRE: a MADRE Blog International Rescue Committee's Voices from the Field Global Fund for Women's blog Care2's Healthy and Green Living blogs Cross-posted from BlogHer.com. Related Blogs Women for Women International's Notes from the Field Sierra Club's 12 (!)

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Sierra Leone Gift Ideas Donation 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Harry: A Green Geek. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Give voice to new and alternative actors.

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National Challenge Work Social 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

Voices on Genocide Prevention by the U.S. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant who produces the Big Vision Podcast and Arts and Healing Podcast , and who hosts Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast. They often interview children as sources for their stories. Listen/subscribe on iTunes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser are in it as some of the key thinkers and voices. As you know, I have a blog called Have Fun, Do Good. I'm always interested in asking the folks who I interview, "How are you having fun and doing good?" I guess, I don't know why, I really underestimated just how much fun it is to be a mother.

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Authoring System Fun Interview 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

That's the voice inside your head, or the many voices that say, "I can't," or "You don't have enough degrees," or "How are you going to earn a living with that?" I often say that if you have these really loud voices in your head, and even in your life sometimes, like real people, it means that you are actually on your path.

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Brain Life Artist Advice 41

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming.

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Interview Green California San Francisco 40

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I mean, San Francisco is now a green city, and that's right from the heart of Mayor Newsom. And being green is also part of saving the planet, saving the earth. Britt: How are you making the event green? We're giving away free green bags from Mollie Stone's - totally recyclable and totally free and totally green.

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San Francisco Conference Interview Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Steve also highlighted the work of Appalacian Voices' End Mountaintop Removal layer. You can watch it on the KML file above, or on YouTube: Declan Butler's Avian Flu Outbreaks in Google Earth You can also watch polar bears on the move with the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Tracker. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Google San Francisco Case Study Files 40

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Plus, tax forms aren’t fun, no matter where you are.) Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Our committee gets the chance to assert the community’s rights, and see that it has an effective voice.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Are green, recycled, or eco-chic clothes a part of your wardrobe? Clothes can express a part of who we are or the culture we represent. A lot of young women today are also becoming increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability.

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Museum International Story Music 40

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! Cornhole tournament – Host a fun cornhole tournament for your peer-to-peer participants and have them fundraise among their friends and family beforehand.

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I'm going to be green. Too often we give the resources to the communities that have the loudest voice. It's really creating that voice, and I think we can facilitate that. We are pretty selective on the companies that we work with, and because we offer it for free is we are pretty limited on our capacity. It's a big challenge.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

Use a platform such as Little Green Light or Bloomerang to store and manage your donor information. Share your script, your email, and your letter and encourage them to adapt your messages for their own voice. Keeping personal and nonprofit communication separate will help you stay organized in the long run.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Frankly, I think if you look at the companies that we work with--companies like Costco, Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks, Procter and Gamble, Green Mountain, another great company we work with, those companies tend to be very careful about the PR that they put out around Fair Trade and tend to have their own interest in there being a link there.

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Nicaragua Interview Companies Brazil 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. Photo by David Parmet (In the green room waiting to go on the stage, in between Pete Cashmore and Geoff Livingston) See more of David's conference photos here. This custom landing page was created by the good folks at Sprout.).

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Conference Reflection Social Kiva 91

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m wearing my Bloomerang green today. So this is all the fun that we’re going to be having today. Because I work really hard at it, and I have a lot of fun with my subject lines. Big green contrasting lime green color, donate today. We may feel like, “That’s not my voice.”

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Video Fundraising Guide Test 77

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

For us, that means everything from the events that we do at home, where we have completely green events, to how we live our own lives, the things that we buy, the way that we run our office -- all of these things, to us, are important as we move forward and truly model what it means to create a world that we want to live in.

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Director Ghana Africa North America 40

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. I would love to go, but the p.units will be in town visiting me and we'll be going to the Green Festival in San Francisco that weekend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Even stuff around "green." It's amazing to me how much art can give anyone a voice, the ability for them to be able to talk about, and to have an outlet for what they see happening in their community. and who gave me the self-confidence to be able to have that voice. I mean, that's what happened to me.

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Artist Digital Arts San Francisco 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

A blog was really perfect for me, because first of all, it was a very casual voice -- it's not very formal. I want to thank Britt for putting the panel together and just for her work in inspiring women leaders, and getting our voices out there, and recognizing our work - and also to the organizers. That's great.

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Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community. It creates a sense of.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40