Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A significant number of nonprofits are using the cloud in innovative ways to increase their impact and raise more money. With our daily communications, the transparency helps our donors know where we spend money,” according to Ahmed Morabeih, emergency reporting officer for SOS in Syria.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the world of philanthropy, the coming year promises innovative corporate giving trends that can benefit both nonprofit fundraisers seeking support and corporations eager to make a meaningful societal impact. With these developments come patterns that impact the philanthropic landscape. Employee Giving Is On The Rise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through multiple examples of how individual initiatives can have impact, Gail reminds us that everyone of us can contribute to achieving these goals. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

These generations, especially Gen Z, center their identities with the impact they are making on the world and are advocates for the causes they support. One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. The next trend we’re seeing is an increased focus on data privacy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Stories like: A candid testimony of an nonprofit’s impact on a real person’s life. Because when potential supporters experience your real stories of impact, they’re more inclined to join your fight. 3 World Vision: “Prayer for Syria” (90 sec). And that’s why nonprofit storytelling matters.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 11, 2015

Amnesty trials virtual reality headsets for street fundraisers : "Amnesty International UK has given street fundraisers virtual reality headsets so they can show the public the impact barrel bombing has had in Syria. " 'via Blog this'

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AFP Blog

MAY 21, 2015

Amnesty trials virtual reality headsets for street fundraisers : "Amnesty International UK has given street fundraisers virtual reality headsets so they can show the public the impact barrel bombing has had in Syria.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

A heart-wrenching story about a refugee from Syria sparks more meaningful conversations between people than click bait from Buzzfeed. Broadcast your impact with Facebook Live. Nonprofits have a clear advantage over consumer brands and businesses. People talk more about the causes they care about more than the clothes they wear.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

They have teamed up with the American Islamic Congress and the FREE Syria Foundaiton to bring their “ Interrupters Program ” to over 130 Syrian volunteers working on the ground there. NASDAQ and several other impact investment organization are also interested in this area of work. The project is active in Iraq and Kenya.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. There is not one single story.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

There were many more, including February’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Is the increase in disaster philanthropy due merely to the outsized impact these disasters had and the amount of media attention each received? (That distinction previously belonged to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, after Hurricane Harvey.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. There is not one single story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Because, if we make software that promises to keep your life or death sensitive information secret to the best of our abilities, we won’t build a back door in for Syria, or China, or the U.S. The costs and impacts far outweigh any (unlikely) benefit Hollywood would receive. government or even (heavens!) Let’s not do this as a country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen set forth the “Innovator’s Dilemma” which states that companies that have accomplished great change are reluctant to adopt the next disruptive innovation because of its impact on the existing successful business.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

And that is the whole point of the Impact Awards : recognizing nonprofits that use technology to make our world a better place. Best Use of Integrated Marketing – ANERA – Due to the influx of new refugees from Syria to Lebanon’s refugee camps, ANERA had to raise funds quickly to respond to the increased need of essential supplies.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Each year, Blackbaud recognizes nonprofits that are using technology to make a positive impact on their mission, constituents, and society through the Nonprofit Impact Awards. bbcon 2013 , Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits concluded last week, and as I remember some of my favorite moments during the conference, one tops them all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Because, if we make software that promises to keep your life or death sensitive information secret to the best of our abilities, we won’t build a back door in for Syria, or China, or the U.S. The costs and impacts far outweigh any (unlikely) benefit Hollywood would receive. government or even (heavens!) Let’s not do this as a country.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The organization of course has done recent high profile work in Syria, but is also being recognized for its long-standing efforts to eliminate chemical weapons in the entire world. It’s a good place to look at the wider world of technologies for the good of humanity from a foundation and policy perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates. UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) January 13, 2014.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

I particularly like his pieces “Impact: The Lovechild of Innovation and Collaboration” and Innovation Obsession Disorder. I know that may sound very ‘soft’ as political analysis goes, and I also know that no amount of niceness "fixes" Syria or Ukraine or human trafficking or global warming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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