Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO research released at the opening plenary suggests some candidates – stop processing so many papers and stop the annual grant treadmill in favor of longer term grants. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant. How many hours could be freed up across the foundation?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Social Innovation Camp: the story so far. But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? From grants to venturing. Fundraise, grant, spend – it’s not efficient. Finally, a lot of new ideas, the newness is the business model. What might that look like?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. How and why did Object Stories come to be? The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. The proposal to Metlife was all video.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Each organization is so unique in its own way that if it simply told a better story, the minute details of how it spends its money would be overshadowed. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Be upfront about the funds it will take to implement or run a program.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them. Then, open the floor for your creative workers to submit proposals for a great prize, such as extra paid time off or a gift card. Mentorship programs. Fitness and mindfulness challenges.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. " Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. " Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2019

Instead, she believes that social good organizations should emphasize lean principles and model their development after tech companies, and shares success stories of this from USAID and Harambee Youth Accelerator. I think that social good organizations face a lot of pressure to do exactly the opposite of this.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . ” What drives your commitment to philanthropy?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll use Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to outline a nonprofit change management plan that your organization can implement with minimal hassle and fuss. Kotter developed his 8-Step Change Model based on extensive research and real-world observations. That’s something you’ll have to create yourself.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” So everything’s a guesstimate.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I want to start, first, with a story…. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 19, 2021

And you will not ask them to do research, write grant proposals, coordinate events or write annual appeals; otherwise, they’ll have even less time. . Generally you’ll do this through your own research, by asking your board and closest donors what they know, and/or by purchasing donor analytics or predictive modeling.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

As a development associate with previous experience working within a functional CRM, I knew how much more effective our entire organization would be if employees could access -- from anywhere -- a single system managing all our contacts with donors, vendors, volunteers, and grant makers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. We should be able to tell the story and communicate the mission." So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. With that in mind, World of Good has really launched a kind of retail strategy, looking a lot like Hallmark.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network / New Orleans, LA / Less than $800. Grants / #GMN2016 / @grantsmanagers.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

If you get, you know, covered on some CNN story about your mission, you can reach people in profound ways with earned media. it looks like we got a few questions, but, if you haven’t chatted in your questions, or even your comments and stories, your successes, we want to hear them. So, if you haven’t chat. So resources.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

By far the most educational stories in the book concern the Phoenix Group, a housing/economic development non-profit that imploded over the course of Light's research. Part of me wonders whether the organization was actually built to "sustain" anything (it may have been a deliberately unsustainable business model).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

Nancy used the analogy of operating like car company that puts out different vehicle models and each year will have a different version with different features. Nancy shared the story of the how and why Text Crisis Line launched. “It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. R u there?”.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Advancing students would be granted a paid summer internship at the Department of State ensuring that the reward is linked to both their educational and professional development. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea]. All Agencies.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

They generally have several core functions that work well: collecting, reviewing, and revising ideas and proposals; voting on proposals; and reporting outcomes. At FundAction , a European community of activists has used one such platform to make decisions about funding priorities and grants.

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