sgEngage

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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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. True insight and creativity come when we are relaxed and our mind is wandering, not when we are jacked up on Red Bull and a double-shot Venti cappuccino (even in Seattle).

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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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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. AI and Faith: Can a computer become God?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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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. David Greco, Vice President, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Paul Shoemaker, Executive Connector, SVP Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Paul Shoemaker, Executive Connector, SVP Seattle.

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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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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Associated Recreation Council of Seattle wears its heart on its sleeve with a meaningful message to donors. The amount of effort your nonprofit puts into its online donation page has a direct impact on the amount of funds raised. The organization explains how donations will be used and thanks the donor for their contribution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The series includes short, digestible how-to videos for open source Nonprofit Cloud products, including Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) , Program Management Module (PMM), Outbound Funds Module (OFM) , and Volunteers for Salesforce (V4S), making adoption easier for nonprofit customers.

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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. Photo by Sea Turtle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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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. Less restrictive funding. Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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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 wont’t try to summarize the entire talk here, but the most important takeaways for me as a funded were: 1. Flickr Photo by Helokee. Seek outsider knowledge.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Do you have a special initiative you’re hoping to fund? Centre College holds an annual one-day giving campaign– “Fund the Flame”– to support scholarship programs. Look at those amazing results headed to the Treehouse, a nonprofit in Seattle. Purpose gives your donors a reason to give. Give Them A Tour.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 31, 2008

Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter - Philanthropy.com: "Fund Raising at the Speed of TwitterTwitter — mini-blogs updated via text message — can raise money fast from the technologically savvy.Beth Kanter and 250 bloggers, podcasters, and other technology enthusiasts at a Seattle conference raised $2,657 to pay for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia, (..)

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2020, they set a goal of raising $40,000 for their combined #GivingTuesday/year-end fundraiser to raise funds for their virtual summer camp. Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Are you funding programs or operations or both?

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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 Zen. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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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. At the very least we should try to improve the quality of our own work, or the capacity of the organizations we fund.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. For a while, we were actually funding one story a week and trying to cycle through those.

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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 Justin Benttinen. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. But where there is risk, there is great reward.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

Developed in 2019 and envisioned by the Seattle Public Library Foundation, Library Giving Day was created to support libraries nationwide. Update on raised funds for Library Giving Day. Update on raised funds for Library Giving Day. Update on raised funds for Library Giving Day. Explain how funds will be utilized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2009

RT @ maryannehitt [link] - Re-posting great Seattle rally photo by Sierra Club's Dan Ritzman #nocoal #epacaa 2. fredkrupp who is the CEO of the Environmental Defense Fund tweets about his organization's work to save the environment, plus is sharing interesting news articles or resources from his network of Twitter followers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Often, its funding is in the form of an endowment. Kellogg Foundation, and the Li Ka Shing Foundation.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Seattle, Washington: Project Management for Nonprofits. San Francisco, California: Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps. Vancouver, Canada: Small Changes for Big Results: How to Optimize Your Online Donations. Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Friday, October 10, 2014. Tuesday, October 14, 2014.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Printing personalized donor thank-you letters directly from QuickBooks® Tracking funds. From there, he’ll be making stops in: Seattle, WA on September 12. For those of you who want to learn more than just the essentials, Part 2: Advanced ($45) will be held from 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Finding bank reconciliation outages.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

4 A broader look at the sources of funds moving from the U.S. The second largest source of funds moving from the U.S. billion in 2010 over funds sent in 2009. remains the highest net donor of aid in absolute dollar amounts, providing more than twice the amount of the next highest donor, the United Kingdom. in overall U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Here in TechSoup's San Francisco office, we use audio conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely, in the Bay Area, plus staff based in New York or Seattle, and often London or Poland. Audio conferencing solutions are important for staff and volunteers spread across the state, country, and world. Admin fee: $35.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

By developing a creative giving platform, you can intensify donor momentum, increase funding and heighten awareness. Donation cards can be a great way to receive extra funds and contact information, and also an opportunity to educate donors on their fund allocation. Take a look by clicking here.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

St rengthening and preserving relationships with donors is essential to an institution’s success – donors want to know that their funds are going to support the causes they care about. 2020 in Seattle now with?discounted are available for purchase until December 31, 201 9. ??? . Blackbaud Higher Education content hub.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. One man (Gordon from Kirkland) told us that "Vi is kind of a celebrity" in the Seattle Chinatown community, which made the rest of us more excited about taking a tour from her. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were unable to join us last month, we hope that you’ll join us next year at bbcon 2020 in Seattle. This data is helpful, but simply reporting on the activities that grant funds support does not give the full picture. bbcon Takeaway #1: Small investments in data quality will yield big returns.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. The organization has collected donations from 560 people, helped 1,800 people with funding for their solar installations, and spared the planet from 535,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. Shoreline Solar.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. InterConnection is our Seattle based nonprofit refurbisher.

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Museum 2.0

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). Diane Ragsdale responds with some thoughts on how funders could influence these issues, whether they should, and how organizations might respond.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The responsibility for financial resources and the generation of voluntary action, either through time or contributed funds, weighs heavily on many. Many boards of directors struggle to understand the monetary the core economies as they relate to their organizations.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Yvonne Harrison, Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership Center/Seattle University. Balaji Mayreddy, Consultant, Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC. Laura Quinn, Executive Director, Idealware. Jane Meseck, Director, Microsoft. Rob Wu, Founder/CEO, CauseVox. David Neff, Digital Strategy, Consultant, PwC.

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