Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. The point is to know WHY you’re meeting and what you want to walk away with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. Ali made her homegrown video work. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to "meals for homeless children," just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post to address some frequently asked questions about Windows 7 that opened with a plea for patience and understanding as our customer service reps work to dig out for the overwhelming demand for the new operating system. I'm gonna take a minute to expand on that request a bit. And I'll explain why.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

For example, software developed for nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting homelessness may come with features to help users report to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nonprofit operations are often complex, but technology can streamline routine tasks, allowing your team to focus on work that requires a human touch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

@Clamo88 (Claire Murray) is a technologist who works for human service agencies. The clients at the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square were people who were “transitional homeless&# – looking for work, getting job skills, finding a place to live, etc. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

That means thanking them well, giving them updates, and telling them stories about the work your nonprofit is doing in changing lives. Although there are some things that tend to work for most donors. Something about the work you do moved them to take out their credit card or their checkbook and give your nonprofit money!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Check out the slideshow of their sand creations and learn more about Mercy Corps'' work with the Syrian refugees. Did you know that play can help you, too? In fact, it can even generate your next great idea.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Check out the slideshow of their sand creations and learn more about Mercy Corps'' work with the Syrian refugees. Did you know that play can help you, too? In fact, it can even generate your next great idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

As Noland Hoshino pointed out, it works in a similar way to this app. The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Even Cute Fictional Animal Characters Work. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Leave a comment sharing how you're using social media to support your organization's work in a local community or regional effort and using a shoe string budget to do it. Tags: twitter. What do you have to lose?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns. org before?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

Pedro "Joe" Greer and his wife, Janus, about how Dr. Greer started working with Miami’s homeless. with roots in FDR's Works Progress Administration. Tags: Spotlight. The startling intimacy of these stories makes it easy to spend an afternoon listening to a handful of them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Page Titles – Each page should have a unique, relevant title within the <title></title> HTML tag. 4) Don’t Buy Snake Oil. Beware of SEO scams.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Citrix Online : Do you work within a distributed work team? Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. Still not sure you have what it takes to tell your story with Adobe?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. Because every day you work on some of toughest issues facing the world or your community. Tags: Online Fundraising. Short, Catchy Subject Lines. Hook your supporters right off the bat with a short and catchy subject line. What’s Wrong with it?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? It’s almost as ridiculous as saying that every geek “works in computers.”. Tags: Nonprofit. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Non-Profits approaches this October 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC, I’m working with colleagues to put the finishing touches on my sessions, and one in particular — one of my favorite topics — is simply too much fun to not share here: Targeted Content*. What is Targeted Content? Think about it this way.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. Your allies in working. on homeless issues, access to healthcare, or wetland preservation are. difference between personal and work. nonprofit professionals not to take their work home, or to access. and work on work files from a home computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! Tags: 09ntc. So, what are you waiting for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In an attempt to create a demo to explain tagging and social tagging to some folks who run a ctc that works with homeless for Friday, I came up with the metaphor of a potluck dinner. All you have to do is upload a photo of the food to flickr and tag it beth_potluck. Here's on one of the desserts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys. Tags: fundraising2.0 I have always believed in the power of ‘the ripple effect’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

For some campaigns, the theme can be as short as a tag line, like “serving hope.” Your best spokesperson won’t always be your CEO; sometimes it might be the program director or someone who has been impacted by your organization’s work. Add a spokesperson. Who can tell your story best? 100 fills a family’s fridge this holiday season.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2009

The good news is that the thoughtful, well-researched way you put technology strategies and tools to work is going to help your organization get beyond "weathering the storm", ensuring it thrives during this crisis. Tags: NPTech NTEN npecon. And, as one member recently told me: . You can find me at: . email: holly@nten.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

The Day Before the Day of Service is always a crazy blur for me because I'm generally in the office our local partner, along with Cheryl Hanback , generating the last version of the check-in list, name tags, and materials. I'm even more of zoombie after the event because managing events takes a lot of adrelin. Deborah Finn's thoughts here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

While your organization accounts work to build an authentic community, share your story, and advance your brand strategy, playing the game as it was intended (person-to-person) can drive even more meaningful engagement with your cause. . Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Of course, the projector didn't work (did I mentioned that I had lugged the 50 pound projector up four flights of stairs.) But it worked out, I think. That only works with small groups on the phone, fewer than 12 or 15 people, not 100.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. Samantha Horoschak from the Gathering Place (an agency that servces homeless women) shared their experience dealing with a troll on Facebook, illustrating best practices when the troll is not some random stranger.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Information such as who is working late alone, where to find employees in their personal time, and when large checks are in the office often shows up on social network sites. It is caught during an internal audit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. MUST WORK ON PRESENTATION SLIDES. ICT tools to support collaborative working ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. What was the role of the nonprofit, charity:water, in working with Twestival? They all work in PR, but Ben is the founder of Brightone , a company that works with charities.

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