Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Specifically, 33% donated to a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign while 18% created their own peer-to-peer fundraising campaign to benefit their favorite NPO or NGO. 11) 67% of donors worldwide have volunteered with a NPO or NGO within the last 12 months. 57% of religious giving in Asia is online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

I also learned about this NGO from Pakistan that is using social media efficiently to communicate with its stakeholders. Someone asked what the definition of a KPI was, and since I noticed that Tom Kelly who is an expert in evaluation was following the chat, I asked him for a definition. Best definition I’ve seen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

The reach, impression, and even engagement metrics provided by the top social networks on organic posts are often inflated and not a true reflection of the power (or lack of power) of your pages and profiles. Every action you take in LinkedIn Groups reflects your personal brand and the brand of your nonprofit. Keep that in mind!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

This periodic review pushes us to candidly reflect on what works and what we can do better with our grantmaking. Packard Grantees from Pakistan, with In-Country Team. We at the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program (OE) are in the thick of assessing and refreshing our grantmaking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” Reflection and Takeaways. I used Thiagi’s reflection game, Thirty-Five. Just A Little Content To Get Started . You’ll find those blog posts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Network assessment. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

More importantly, how can you bring them in beyond being passive listeners or re-tweeters but engage in the discussion? Finally, having just returned from the Middle East working with social media/NGO trainers , how can you create a global back channel so that language isn’t a barrier to learning?

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters. $5,879,225. 4,160,200. 2,075,850. Family Foundation. 17,662,000. Limited liability company. 7,000,000. 667,728,963.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Discover these factors, and how one additional model could save your NGO up to 40% vs. the traditional lease model. Beautiful, comfortable, creatively stimulating spaces reflect organizational culture and core values, and can be fundamental in helping both to attract top talent and to reduce talent turnover.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

More than 35 NGO and IT practitioners came together to explore ways of strengthening Romanian civil society through communications and local philanthropy development, lowering barriers to outreach through involvement of the Romanian IT&C community and developing a practical best practices repository with a platform for ongoing discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

After taking a break, I felt a lot like Hank – I just wanted to keep on resting. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year! It was a time to focus on family and health (I had my gallbladder removed).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’m not a happy camper unless I’m learning something and for me learning is about reflection – which includes blogging and establishing rituals like the 18 minute process that Bregman shares in his book (see below.) Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The process of learning begins with you can admit failure, avoid the stigma – either the voice inside your or if working with a team not to play the blame game – but to reflect on why it happened. We did an exercise in small groups where we reflected on a failure and share it with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Marcelo asked the audience to reflect on what inspires them and to write it down on a card that was placed on their seats. He excited the stage while people reflected on their personal inspiration from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’d like to share some of these below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.” What question do they want to answer by the end of the day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

If you're raising money for nonprofit, remember that you are an ambassador the cause and what you say and do reflects the organization. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? So, be sure to thank your donors promptly, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. That situation reflects the concern of the Brazilian government vis-a-vis broadband services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, You’ll also want to set up landing pages that reflect this message and offer a kind of simple test of visitors’ support for your cause–a petition, pledge, or something similar. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.) Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). 9) Prioritize website security. Install an SSL Certificate on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity. That builds relationships or social capital – the glue that holds networks together. What points of connection (common interests) did you hear or see? What opportunities for reciprocity?

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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. Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile. Eight Steps To Succeeding in A Post Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

" Here is her purpose statement: I want to track the materials I found and my reflections on this topic without having the pretention that it will be exhaustive about everything happening in the field of communities of practice for development. Technorati Tags: nonprofit , development , ict , ngo , nptech , nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . NGOS in India. This workshop was for the NGO audience. I'm still recovering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report will be released September 17, 2018 and is a sister report to the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, the Sharing Foundation's sewing school, a vocational training program, made over 1250 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. This article was originally published in 2011 and has been updated to reflect the latest best practices and advice. Below are 44 tips I’ve learned, organized by topic and ordered from easiest to hardest to implement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself. There is a certain humility you experience as a trainer when something doesn't work perfectly. And, while not the most enjoyable process in the world, it is definitely the most valuable.

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