Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Learning to Improvise Can be Life-Changing , from The Detroit Creativity Project , demonstrates the highest level of technical production and takes the audience on a stirring, heartfelt journey into Detroit's schools. There, we see hearts, bodies, and minds coming to life through improvisation and the creative arts.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

“ UniversalGiving ™ is an award-winning marketplace which allows people to volunteer and donate to top performing projects in more than 70 countries around the world.&#. maybe you want to join forces for a longer-term project for real impact. What is UniversalGiving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Second, they focus on project based learning, where students use the computers to complete projects.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. Owen's vision is to develop standards for aid data so that it can be made broadly available and then pulled together into applications that will help funders and NGOs coordinate their efforts more effectively. Projects like neurocommons.org and openwetware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.” reclaim their spot in the front of users’ minds. What actually changed.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

With this in mind, SAP donates their products and services through TechSoup but also connects their employees with organizations to provide them with volunteer help in devising technology solutions. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world. Seven Billion Actions.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 NGO Online Technology Report. Based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs worldwide, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. The State of Nonprofit Cloud. npEXPERTS: The Future of Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. It was very moving.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Microsoft has placed an Office 365. Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

You want to start, or find a community of like-minded people. * Britt Bravo, MA, write for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good , the NetSquared blog , where she is the Community Builder, and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. New date and location to be announced soon!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. That said, keep in mind that large nonprofits are spending tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars each year on Facebook Ads and they have it down to a science. 9) Experiment with Facebook Live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Deadline is March 2n.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Xperience Design Project. Xperience Design Project. Social Capital Partnerships / Alexandria, VA / By invitation. Fundraising & Grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. People were given two angkuns and asked to vote for the project and to sign up if they wanted to help with the project. t mind about it anyway. why do you give all of us the angkunh??? a great answer from john: ???because

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

I wholeheartedly agree with his thesis and one that we're keeping mind as we design our NTC session on blogging. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit , e-advocacy I believe that most practitioners of nonprofit technology planning are asking the wrong questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is Caroline Ticarro-Parker, the Executive Director of Mind on the Media, the nonprofit that sponsors Turn Beauty Inside Out, a campaign to raise awareness about sexist portrayals of girls and women by the media. You can read some of the girl's blog posts from the retreat here. If so, how?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. 30,000 yearly income, and now we have loads of staff and lots of different projects and a turnover of 1.3

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

Guest blog alert: The following post is by Amy Misakonis, Project Manager for ACF Solutions. I’ve worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on their technology challenges as they fulfill their global missions. They had three key goals in mind: communicating their mission to a broad audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

If you: * Have something you want to say and share with other people * Want to join an online community of like-minded people * Are looking for a new communication tool for your nonprofit or business * Enjoy learning in a supportive, low-key environment This workshop is for you! She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking part in Giving Tuesday can mean many different things—from participating in an organized service project to donating to a nonprofit to smiling at a stranger. Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. When did Giving Tuesday begin?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

The team at this organization knew they were onto something special, but were struggling to engage donors in supporting the organization writ large, not just individual projects. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work. Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

We pick projects that have the potential for large-scale change: can we deliver something for a tenth of the cost of the existing solution? The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. We don’t pick a single area of focus. Fast forward to today.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. The Metro4All project creates web and mobile apps that give people with limited mobility point-to-point directions on using their subway system. Sustainability of the Project. What Is Metro4All?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Arlington, Texas: Bi-Weekly Developers Call For the Joseph Storehouse Project. They're having a huge impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. The Innocence Project , again, very different, not an online organization at all. Kiva's a great example.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2010

As part of their digital footprint, Mercy Corps , a prominent NGO that acts to alleviate poverty and suffering throughout the world, has seven major websites, including their main site, campaign sites, and regional sites in the UK, China, and even Mongolia. By Phillip Djwa, Founder, Agentic. Important Considerations .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? So always keep that in mind. So in one of the projects I was working on, we recorded podcasts with different communities that we were working with. There’s a lot of very complicated concepts. ” Right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

With that in mind, I decided to take a look at some of some interesting fundraising tools, ideas, and approaches for small grassroots organizations that came across my reader or inbox in the past month or so. " Amazingly 350 people signed up and this lead to the Mentoring Worldwide project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% of Internet visits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

The next big project on the horizon is working on AIUSA’s next strategic plan. This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? Describe the work you do with Never Again and maybe a bit about the project.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. We’re trying to change hearts and minds. The Duo Duo Project Red Envelope Fundraiser, doesn’t mean anything to you. I’m losing my mind. They want new people.

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