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The power of social media for Hurricane Sandy

ASU Lodestar Center

We first set up our campaign to geo-target our location which was specifically Tucson, based on the companies’ location. We chose to target users who had liked “Charity”, “Charity Events”, “Non-Profit”, “Hurricane Sandy Relief” and many similar variations. We created a post that specifically gave donation. Facebook allowed us.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

After all, nonprofits are about people, not profits (hence, the term “nonprofits”). Throughout the process of building a diverse board, which will have the inevitable ups and downs of any new initiative, there are two words to keep in mind and stay on track. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, stay away from using general hashtags, such as #beautiful and #happy, and instead narrow your focus to hashtags relevant specific to your nonprofit, such as causes ( #foodinsecurity ), special campaigns ( #endfoodwaste ), your location ( #Tucson ), and relevant emojis ( # – that’s right! Emojis can be hashtags).

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

It's pretty amazing what these folks have created, like Dan Newman, the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org , a non-partisan non-profit that illuminates the connection between money and politics (you can read my interview with him here ). Because I'm sitting out here in Tucson, Arizona where there are more cows than computers.