Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

These recent high profile voices are the latest to join a chorus of dissatisfaction with Apple’s iPhone donation policy. billion worth of products through TechSoup Global. And in-kind technology donations from Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec are just a few of the 44 companies that have together donated more than $2.1-billion

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

A TechSoup Global project, #NPTechChat is a monthly Twitter-chat series for social change activists that reduces barriers and increases impact by using technology around the globe. We are excited to partner with CIVICUS, ICNL, and FHI 360 on these critical issues that face civil society. Join Our Experts at the Next #NPTechChat.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

No other platform offers the same huge global reach for promoting awareness of important, yet suppressed, issues. This campaign shows the power of social media for spreading awareness of important issues, rather than just for increasing donations. WaterAid’s campaign aimed to make a serious issue more fun.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. Tags: Communication Environment Issues. The results, and in particular the online results, have been interestingly distinct.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. Tags: Communication Environment Issues. The results, and in particular the online results, have been interestingly distinct.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As we celebrate Global Goals Week , a time dedicated to raising awareness and inspiring action in support of the SDGs during the United Nations General Assembly, I can’t help but think of the progress that has been made, the work that still needs to be done and the untapped potential of small and medium enterprises (SME) everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

President, Global Hematology and Oncology, Celgene. The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

With an increasingly mobile and global workforce, leaders need to use mobile tools to a communicate and manage. Leaders need to understand that the rise of networks enables us to work together fluidly across space and time, but it also means that the power of hierarchies has declined and the rise of individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

I eventually stumbled on the acronym DARA: If you can't remember DARA, just think of Dara Westling , vice president of development at TechSoup Global. See TechSoup's Technology Planning page for numerous articles about servers, virtualization, hardware upgrades, and many other tech infrastructure issues. She's great.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

I eventually stumbled on the acronym DARA: If you can't remember DARA, just think of Dara Westling , vice president of development at TechSoup Global. See TechSoup's Technology Planning page for numerous articles about servers, virtualization, hardware upgrades, and many other tech infrastructure issues. She's great.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Forms, Polls : Use forms and polls to collect information and gauge interest in new programs or issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

When citizens write letters and press their agendas in a coordinated way, Congress responds. And when Congress presses the president to act on a foreign policy issue, the president responds. So refreshing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

With that history we recognized that plug-in hybrid vehicles are an immediate and viable solution to the issues that we have been trying to pressure automakers to acknowledge over the course of this campaign here at RAN. They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. 10/18/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I just feel really fortunate to be able to be here at POWER, as one organization that creates a space for working class people of color to come together, to find their voice, and then actually to begin exercising that voice in the public domain. It's now available on AK Press; you can get it at akpress.org, or on Amazon.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

Why are we focusing on cars, and why isn't a lot of press, or news about the food and climate change connection? I think that word really hides a lot of the impact that we have, and the inter-connectivity that we have with farmers, and with food producers here in the US and globally. I think there are a lot of reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This would enable identification of where the most pressing needs were at any given time, as well as the most effective ways of addressing those needs through philanthropy, and thus allow a rational matching of supply and demand. The report explore ethical issues such as: How do we guard against biased or unfair data used in algorithms?

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

There was extensive discourse on the global pandemic and how health crises in one part of the world can disrupt all our lives. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. We prefer our dignity, but we need support; we need global support.” Interconnectedness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. billion people are without clean water.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

” Additional Viewpoints From TechSoup Global Staff. Make your voice heard via the Electronic Frontier Foundation comment form here. Ariel Gilbert-Knight, Senior Content Manager, TechSoup Global and TechSoup for Libraries. Ginny Mies, Senior Content Curator, TechSoup Global and TechSoup for Libraries. In the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

They press X, and they close the box, or they click the donate button, and they’re taken to your donate page. No global navigation means on your donation page. We may feel like, “That’s not my voice.” They may have issues with giving online. Interesting. I’m a big fan of lightbox.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. LGBTQ Rights. Immigration & Refugees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. GPI (formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who produce high-quality local news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Already, some platform cooperatives have a global presence.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? One common challenge both organizations face is the apathy that exists about critical issues of our time. What keeps you motivated and energized to do this work?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

My trusted sources, if you want to do a little bit more research anytime I cite a statistic, it’s always going to be from Pew Internet, M+R Benchmarks, Global Trends In Giving. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. This is not and should not be a partisan issue. You feel close to them and their cause. I believe that U.S.

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