Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You should be sharing your nonprofit’s mission online and offline through your social media plan , donor newsletters, events, and other communications. They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

It is still far more common for a nonprofit to close its doors because of financial pressure, which is increasing as governments continue to pare their budgets and donors maintain tight grips on their giving. There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Funders, programmers, developers, educators, nonprofit staff and government agencies are all involved. I’m so excited about these new groups!

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Also, regular updates ensure that any bugs in operating tools are fixed, such as those that allow you to do quick and easy updates and those that govern the plugins and themes upon which you rely. And if you took your site offline for a major update, do a test of your pages before going live again.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

All 79 IDA countries, the lowest income nations, are included with the geographic locations of projects, financing, and sector identification such as water, transportation, governance, etc. Change the way we associated with others on and offline? But here's the thing: the trends aren't actually that good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Global trust in government, media, business and NGOs has fallen to its lowest levels ever. The campaign provides advice on how to self-examine and help detect signs and symptoms. Engagement with a purpose and knowing your audience. Technology is creating new mechanisms that are enabling us to trust unknown people, companies and ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Danaher and Kroll spoke next about their work bridging the nonprofit sector and government to create useful policy changes for the public. Organizations that want to partner with their local governments to promote sustainable practices need not wait for government to contact them, Kroll advises. Making Sustainability Profitable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Users can also download stories for offline reading. The App allows users to listen live to public radio stations coast to coast and create a playlist of stories to hear in any order or to save for later. Humane Society of the United States :: Download. App Name: Humane TV. Released: February 12, 2010. VolunteerMatch :: Download.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

Creating a huge umbrella organization is just not going to happen realistically for any sector, at least one with the governing and implementing power suggested above. Let’s consider this example in comparison to a generic sector, focusing on a global issue, like the environmental & climate sector working on climate change.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

NetSquared works online and offline to connect the global community at the intersection of technology and social change. Offline, we take things local! Members of local groups represent nonprofit organizations and foundations, government agencies and service providers, designers and developers, innovators and social entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. Grassroots organizing. Poverty Reduction. Bots could help protect the privacy and safety of activists.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

For 20 years, Social Signal president Rob Cottingham has worked with senior strategic levels of government, business and advocacy organizations to help them engage with audiences – in both the digital and offline worlds. And I’m also going to be pricing Androids while I wait. He is a talented writer and cartoonist.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Here are two areas that many fundraising platforms can’t deliver on: Offline donations: Most crowdfunding platforms—like GoFundMe and Kickstarter —attract smaller, one-time online gifts. Forward-thinking fundraisers who are utilizing LinkedIn’s features for advancement are breaking through the walls to meet new donors where they are.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The NetSquared community consists of Local groups in 80+ cities worldwide that hold offline events for those interested in technology and social impact. NetSquared also sponsors a variety of other offline events like camps and challenges that enable participants to share ideas, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. It also will change the types of skill sets that nonprofits will need now and into the future, for example “Data Analysts.”

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The difference with using social media for fundraising is that your organization may not even be involved anymore, the way it was offline. NCVO is a highly effective lobbying organisation and represents the views of its members, and the wider voluntary sector to government, the European Union and other bodies.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. Well, they loved the chance to get together offline and build things together, learn from each other and so on.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising. Eric has an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University, an MA in Government and International Studies from the University of South Carolina and a BS in Political Science from the University of Wyoming.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Livingston - HHS, wanted evaluation of pandemic flu conversation online, point was to understand what they were saying about the government and so on to really know what to address as an organization to that community. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? Any resources to move from national to local?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

Note from Beth: Hosting events for your network – where they can meet offline – can be a terrific away to build your network. My group of about ten people included a web producer, math teacher, technician, zookeeper, student, and a government official. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. But listening to the community, to the news, to the larger conversation on and offline and identifying where the opportunities are.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. The example Jacobi cited was Digital Democracy's work in Chiapas , where villagers used cameras to document their community, in order to fight evictions by their local government.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.” Tags: Uncategorized issues otherblogs administration book goals governance mission planning strategy vision. Why I’m excited about The Pollyanna Principles. We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Can we take that topic offline and talk about that outside of the Board meeting?” Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. Interrupt if you have to. David, we’re going to go ahead and move on because time is short, and we have a lot to cover.” Focus on Board-level issues.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Martus is used around the world by human rights workers, attorneys, journalists, government officials and others who need to protect their data and the people they work with. If a human rights group has a computer stolen or seized, the information it contains can put victims and witnesses in danger of retribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In this role, and through opportunities to spur innovation and collaboration in local communities, with government groups, and with other nonprofits, I’ve learned a lot – and am excited to share 5 tips I’ve found to be valuable in creating successful competitions. Has your organization run a competition online or offline?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. We have a limited amount of teleconference lines, so please take a moment to sign up now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you had not helped me, I would not have completed my education at the university and maybe end up farming with my sister or working for a government factory. In 2006, the annual donation was a stretch for us … so we asked family, friends, and colleagues to donate to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of holiday or birthday gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

What if the government created a third-party widget that asked people a range of personal questions that they then data-mined and used to find criminals or criminal behavior? Lawyers’ associations, such as state bars, attempt to address such behavior through Codes of Ethics, however government officials are not bound by these rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. As a result, the last chapter of the book – on networked governance – is speculative, based on the best thinking of people in the field. I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.).

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