Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. Your nonprofit will be primarily sharing Snaps to your Story and mutual friendship is not required for your Friends to view your Story. Share your first Snap to “My Story.”

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VQ Strategies

JULY 22, 2021

We know of one museum that is part of a larger institution and must abide by the larger organization’s plans, phasing opening by program and building in order to ensure the safety of the public and the staff. A win win for both institutions. How have volunteers continued to drive impact for the communities you serve? Address new needs?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

We will phase out our free service. [ Read the full letter here. ]. I’ve helped local community groups set up Ning communities online as a way to start building resources, connections, and storytelling in a local geographic community. Please share your ideas, your stories and your examples. And I see it working.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. The story of that passion in action brings in the donations that pay for your programs and services, which have an impact and change lives. check with your local, regional, and national government for requirements and procedures for registering as a nonprofit organization.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Example: “Datamaking” as engagement I recently worked with an arts and culture intermediary nonprofit that focused on capacity development, network building, and connecting local nonprofits to state agencies and grants.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Tried and true methods like direct mail and local media spots on radio and TV can be a perfect complement to the rest of your marketing efforts if done right. Local Media. First, you’ll need to reach out to local media companies to acquire ad spots. How to use other media for your Giving Tuesday campaign. Direct mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll I’ve culling through different videos and blog posts from the in-country teams – and it is so exciting to their learning products on online and hear about some of their success stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cara Matteliano, VP of Programs, gave a presentation about three different initiatives designed to create the environment for local news including GrowWNY.org. Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project. I did a mini-workshop on networked leadership and culture change to support these transformations.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We love a good origin story. So we're hoping in the coming year to do more online advocacy, especially since there are so many issues at the local and state level that are rising up this year. It allows us to stay on top of each phase of the proposal we’re working on. How did the Reproductive Health Access Project start?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign. Host a concert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. I haven't been able to sleep.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless. In fact, quite the opposite.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

Check out the interview below to learn more about how My Colorado Project is empowering local change! They are helping us build the next phase of development and we hope that our relationship will extend above and beyond that relationship and into entertaining and valuable content development.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . So feasibility study is an important part. .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Is our board on track for the public phase? Whether you’re already riding the momentum of an exciting campaign or just considering the planning phase, know you have access to the right engagement tools and tips to prepare your board for a successful capital campaign. The Public Phase In launching this final phase, timing is key.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

Use and acquire local entrepreneurial talent. The truth is that data can tell a story. Here are a few ideas to get you started: Ideally, you should consider collection and use of data as part of the planning phase before any big project or campaign. Market your mission. It can better inform your mission's work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building. During the budget crisis, the library was in the media daily; but as we know, the media shapes stories based on talking points and sound bites. We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Each year, we host a Nonprofit Digital Storytelling Challenge where nonprofits and libraries around the world submit short, digital stories about their organizations. However, Restart Romania was our very first regional challenge organized around locally-specific issues and their citizen-powered solutions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For example, Greenpeace Canada and No Kid Hungry : Story Highlight Covers. Third, if your nonprofit regularly shares stories on Instagram, make a strong first impression by creating custom Highlight covers using a graphic design tool or a mobile app. Geotagging on Instagram is especially beneficial to localized nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. PDH and Benetech are getting ready for the next phase of this ground-breaking work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories. Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." Just let us know what stories you're even starting to think of working on."

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals need to tell a moving story about your organization’s mission and vision while adhering to the stringent guidelines set forth by the grant maker. Tell a powerful story. To show your organization can create long-term change, use success stories that can be backed with data to show what your nonprofit can do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

For one of the interviews, when they showed or mentioned something I wanted to incorporate into the screencast, I asked them to show it again while I recorded it locally on my desktop using Camtasia. Two of the other three interviews were more of a free wheeling discussion and I did not do any local screencapture.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the dynamic world of philanthropy, technology acts as a bridge, helping you share stories that resonate, celebrate achievements, and express gratitude for every donor’s role in making a positive impact. Your organization’s success story begins with a clear annual nonprofit development plan – start crafting yours today!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

It enables people to find others in their local community to give things to that they would otherwise end up throwing away or taking to the landfill. I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. And there's tons of stories like that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

For this week’s National Volunteer Week, we’re launching the next phase of our partnership with Salesforce.org. This new phase brings thousands of new volunteer opportunities to Philanthropy Cloud , with more being added in real-time as they are created by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton uses metaphors and stories to talk about evaluation in everyday language. When he approached updating the fourth edition of his book, he thought it would be just about updating the stories. He realized it when started to look at creation stories in different cultures.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With the radical changes this implementation would have introduced to the end users in 14 different countries, there was no single go-live — the goal was a phased approach where the lessons learned in the first roll out would inform improvements for each subsequent go-live. Application for logging user stories and bugs.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you’re starting with multiple databases, move the data from one which employees from various sectors use first and commit to moving the other, more specialized databases in the next phase in the not too distant future. What lessons did you learn from the process? Melissa Barber has called Oregon home for over half her life.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate. not a jet.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

And in the early phases of the pandemic last year, I was first indefinitely furloughed and a few weeks later my position was completely eliminated from my employer. It’s yes and no because I was let go in phases. So yeah, the local church filed for bankruptcy. Lisa: So my answer is different. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. The recruitment phase is just the start of FoodWhat’s relevance challenge. Hanging out. These are teenagers.

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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. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Kirtsy is one of those websites that tells you what's hot on the web that day, or that week, or that month: websites that are cool, stories that are either inspiring, or hilarious, or creepy, or whatever. The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 6, 2018

What makes a great story? With any story that I hope to tell in the future, or am telling now, I want it to be grounded in the truth of the community and be grounded in the community itself. Through that listening phase, we can really have a conversation with the community and earn that buy-in. What makes a great storyteller?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Whether you want to plan an online or in person fundraiser, large or small, local or worldwide, there are steps that you should take every single time to make sure you get the most from your efforts. During the planning phase, you should’ve created a list of tasks that you will need volunteers for. STEP 3: RECRUIT HELP.

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