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Michael Jordan Makes Largest Individual Donation in Make-A-Wish history

NonProfit PRO

Basketball legend Michael Jordan proves that it is better to give than to receive by making a record-setting donation of $10 million to Make-A-Wish America in honor of his 60th birthday on Feb. The gift is the largest from an individual in the organization's 43-year history.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” Beth presents HRH Princess Rym Ali from Jordan the Networked Nonprofit. Then we walked with her into the conference room as they played the National Anthem of Jordan.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

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How Technology Helped Zero to Three + Harold Grinspoon Foundation Through A Crisis

Cloud 4 Good

During the recent 2021 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Cloud for Good Founder and CEO Tal Frankfurt met virtually with two pioneering leaders utilizing Salesforce to innovate in the nonprofit space during COVID-19: Zero to Three Chief Technology Officer Edima Elinewinga and Harold Grinspoon Foundation Chief Information Officer Eric Jordan.

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Creating Jewish Connection with Harold Grinspoon Foundation + Salesforce

Cloud 4 Good

After go-live “it was like turning the light on in a room,” said HGF CIO Eric Jordan. “We We’re all looking at the same story now,” said Jordan. “We This has put HGF in a position to, as Jordan says, “see a clear picture of our consumer experience across multiple programs.” . It’s a significant improvement,” said Jordan.

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Guest Post by Jordan Viator: 5 tools nonprofits can be today to enhance their online presence and efficiency

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Have any personal favorites in the way of online tools for your nonprofit? What tools do you think will be the best and easiest for nonprofits to use in 2009?

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Cloud 4 Good

The implementation began with EFE-US and EFE-Jordan. Following the initial EFE-Jordan implementation, Salesforce was intentionally rolled out to the rest of the EFE Network one country at a time. An initial solution was built on the Salesforce platform to provide a framework for managing relationships and basic process automation.

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Guest Post by Jordan Viator: Submit, Share and Shout Out - Nominate Your Nonprofit Holiday Hero to Win a Free NTEN Membership!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jordan Viator is the Interactive Communications Manager at Convio, and manages the Connection Cafe blog, all things new and social media related and the company's corporate Web sites. So what are you waiting for? Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Indiana University Launches New Giving Platform

Cloud 4 Good

said Jordan Sites, the Senior Director of Advancement supporting both IUF and IUAA . “When we began the project with Cloud for Good, we were driven by one fundamental question: How might we make it easy for donors to discover what they want to support and, once known, complete their gift transaction within 30 seconds?”

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Lame spams of the day: Support Center

Robert Weiner

Jordan Compton [support@opduin.nl]. According to this post , they're selling meds online. Senders: Anna Norman [supportcenter@erichbaumeister.com]. Valentina Byrd [supportcenter@crimlawyer.ca]. Cheyanne Conley [emailconfirm@cabrera.nl]. Carolyn Goodman [support@russin.com]. Subjects: All but one had "Support Center" as the subject.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Great reads from around the web on March 17th

Amy Sample Ward

10 Questions for Camfed — Camfed International – Jordan Ridge and Kristy Green will be traveling to northern Zambia this week to meet students, filmakers, and young entrepreneurs in the communities where Camfed works – and you can go with them! Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well. Submit today!

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Measurement Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had a lot of fun doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called " The Real Housewives of Social Media." Our task was to present practical and tactical information about social media using metaphors that related to housewives. Social Media Measurement Tips View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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How to use innovative technology to attract members to your association

Nimble AMS

Together with your continuing education program, your best practice sessions, and networking opportunities, you’ll become indispensable to the professionals you serve,” says Tristan Jordan, General Manager of YM Careers. Become a career resource for professionals by mapping career paths for various roles in your industry.

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How Cloud for Good is Innovating the Indiana University Advancement Experience with Salesforce

Cloud 4 Good

You had to really love IU in order to give,” said Jordan Sites, the Senior Director of Advancement supporting both IUF and IUAA. Our giving site was functional but wasn’t great. Those that gave to the campaign wouldn’t have put up with the online experience at any other retailer.

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Turning Teammates into Data Heroes

NTEN

Jordan Michelson shares his successes building building effective data management systems, and shows that they're not only important to organizational staff. NTEN: Jordan, give us a snapshot of your work at AoH. It helps other to advocate for your cause! Julia Smith. Education Manager. read more'

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first day of training is this Sunday and we’ll be covering networked approaches for NGOs and social media trainers. The participants include in-country teams from six different countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. In Jordan, we did the Debka, a Lebanese dance. Group Photo with Certificates. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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Which Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software is Best for Your Nonprofit?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Dr. Allison Quintanilla Plattsmier , CFRE, CNP, CNC, Executive Director of the Jordan Thomas Foundation and Owner of AQP Consulting. The constant grind to find new funds is the challenge of every nonprofit. Fundraising comes down to one thing: relationships.

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E-Mediat: Social Media and Digital Activism in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Rami Al-Karmi, Founder and CEO of Shabakat, Al Ordon (JordanNet) E-Mediat Strategic Advisor for Jordan.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Refugees have sought asylum around the globe but primarily in the neighboring countries of Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Since 2011, more than 13 million Syrians have been displaced. Millions are also internally displaced within Syria. It is one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time.

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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Queen Rania of Jordan, Klaus Schwab of the WEF The other session I really liked was the one on education. They were well set-up by Queen Rania of Jordan, who extensively advocated for education in her plenary speech the first day of the conference.

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Quotes To Help Me Start 2015

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Others make it happen." - Michael Jordan "There are only two options regarding commitment; you''re either in or you''re out. "The first step is you have to say that you can." - Will Smith "Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen.

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How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Told from the perspective of her father, this video is a story of childhood cancer hero Jordan Vincent – named the Cancer Slayer. I get chills watching this simple video. ?. Slaying Childhood Cancer: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. More than a story about what she has endured, it’s a story about how she wants to help others. ?.

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Five Social Media Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Finding refuge just across the border in Hartha, Jordan, the family now lives in a meager one-room shelter. Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago. Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps. 2) Schedule Facebook Updates and tweets for other time zones.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. The participants were intrigued by the concept of Free Agents and the teams from Jordan and Lebanon discussed Free Agents in their countries.

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Turning Visitors into Customers: Maximising Retail Potential for Museums

sgEngage

The museum store should always stock items that are a reflection of the visitor’s experience, “says Julia Jordan, Director of Retail Operations & Associate Director of Visitor Engagement for The College of Physicians of Philadelphia which includes The Mütter Museum. “It’s

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A Sweet Serving of Free Tech Webinars

Tech Soup Blog

Join Tech Impact's Jordan McCarthy on November 15 to learn about this free data visualization tool from Microsoft. Microsoft's Power BI helps your nonprofit monitor key metrics, spot real-time trends, and create personalized dashboards without being a data expert. Learn about Power BI. Fix It at the Library with DIY Repair Programs.

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Coach Initiative Chat: How Coaches and Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Have Fun - Do Good

You can listen to our 16-minute chat on the little player below: Also, here are links to the examples I mentioned of coaches who are using social media well: Martha Beck Nona Jordan Jennifer Lee Jamie Ridler Share

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Turning Waste into Opportunity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lisa Gansky’s presentation on The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing (learn more at [link] ) and the joint presentation from Bill Traynor and Audrey Jordan about Lawrence CommunityWorks, a project in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is rebuilding a profoundly shredded civic infrastructure. Audrey Jordan, a loaned exec of Annie E.

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Fall in Love with Your Data

Tech Soup Blog

Join Tech Impact's Data Analyst & Storyteller, Jordan McCarthy, to learn how to use Tableau to collect data in more meaningful ways and understand the science behind data analysis. Jordan will show you easy tips to maneuver through this data analytics tool to gain a better understanding of your nonprofit or library's data.

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Fall in Love with Your Data

Tech Soup Blog

Join Tech Impact's Data Analyst & Storyteller, Jordan McCarthy, to learn how to use Tableau to collect data in more meaningful ways and understand the science behind data analysis. Jordan will show you easy tips to maneuver through this data analytics tool to gain a better understanding of your nonprofit or library's data.

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Innovations in Online Advertising [Internet Advocacy Roundtable, June 2013]

Care2

Jordan Lieberman , President of CampaignGrid. Tomorrow, on June 20 from noon-2pm ET, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable will feature speakers from three companies using data collected from cookies appended to voter files and other data sources to create highly targeted ad campaigns: Jim Walsh , Founding Partner of DSPolitical.

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Why Shame Marketing Approaches Are Not Effective

Media Cause

In 1921, George Lambert (the son of Listerine’s founder Jordan Lambert) pieced together “halitosis” as a medical sounding term for bad-smelling breath and offered the exclusive solution. Talking about sharing and being friends when everything is fine, but immediately taking sides when a chalk line is drawn on the blacktop.

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Quotes To Help Me Start 2014

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Others make it happen." - Michael Jordan "There are only two options regarding commitment; you''re either in or you''re out. "The first step is you have to say that you can." - Will Smith "Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen.

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4 Free Webinars to Clear Up Cloud Confusion

Tech Soup Blog

Tech Impact's Jordan McCarthy will explain the basic features of PowerBI as a visualization engine and tool, including importing data, tips on creating queries, and getting started building dashboards and visualizations. Power up your nonprofit this fall and transform your organization's data strategy with Microsoft's Power BI.

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Clinton Global Initiative

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was particularly impressed with Queen Rania and King Abdullah of Jordan (who spoke yesterday morning and evening respectively): very well spoken given the incredibly difficult situation in the Middle East. Our commitment is smaller, but really exciting to me: taking Bookshare.org international. All we have to do is to raise $1.4

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5 Content Marketing Success Stories Your Nonprofit Needs to Imitate

NetWits

From granting wishes to meet Beyoncé or Michael Jordan to wishes that make dreams come true like when Emily wanted her music to be professionally recorded , the amazing work Make-a-Wish Foundation does has always been material for creating great content and they’ve effectively figured out how to bring that content online.

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The Accidental Hacker: From the Floor at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup Blog

The leader of this group, Jordan Welty, was not only a former Peace Corps volunteer, but also worked at the World Affairs Council, another nonprofit. I sat in on the mapping group because the Peace Corps presenter said that he thought nonprofits could also take advantage of whatever solution they came up with.

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Doing Good at SxSW Interactive 2013

Allegiance Group

Jordan Hirsch, Beaconfire and Amanda Hirsch, Good Things Consulting. Sharon Carothers, American Legacy Foundation. Techsecret for Nonprofits. Chris Lundberg, Salsa Labs. We <3 Social Data! But What Do We Do With It? Casey Golden, Small Act. Improv for Creative Collaboration. Seeing change: Non Profit results that aren’t BS.