Join us in St. Louis for the National VOAD Conference!
VisionLink
MAY 8, 2023
We look forward to another engaging conference with the National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD) , in St. Louis, Missouri , from May 8-11, 2023.
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We need to talk about the relentless machine that is higher-education fundraising
Nonprofit AF
MARCH 13, 2023
Every month or so, I get an appeal letter from my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis (Go Bears!),
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On a Blog Break Until August 1!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 18, 2018
My family and I are in the process of moving from St. Louis, Missouri to Tucson, AZ. Hi everyone! I need to take a break from blogging until August 1. To write the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. There’s not much new to write about social media and fundraising these days. Hope you are enjoying your summer!
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Gateway Pet Guardians Create a Unique Points-Based Reward Program Using VolunteerHub’s Gamification Module
Volunteer Hub
MARCH 3, 2021
Gateway Pet Guardians , a nonprofit organization located in East St. Louis, IL, is working hard to create a thriving pet welfare community in the east side pet district. The pet resource center provides many offerings to the East St. To better understand Gateway Pet Guardians impact , you must understand the East St.
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‘Tweet Me in St. Louis’ Is This Web Site’s Goal - NYTimes.com
AFP Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
‘Tweet Me in St. Louis’ Is This Web Site’s Goal - NYTimes.com : The effort is being made through a new nonprofit organization, Rally St. Louis, that was introduced this month by Aaron Perlut and Brian Cross, two managing partners at a public relations agency in St. Louis named Elasticity.
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5 Lessons Learned from Donating to 25 Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 28, 2017
Louis, Public Radio , Stray Rescue of St. Louis , Tenth Life Rescue , Tower Grove Park , UNICEF , Wilderness Society , Wildlife Conservation Society , Wildlife SOS. Which emotion motivates you most often to donate to nonprofits?
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1-On-1 With Greg Damron – Part 1: “If You Build It, They May Not Come”
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
This is the first in a 3-part blog series offering highlights of our 1-On-1 interview with Greg Damron, President, of ATD St. Small-Membership-Advisory-Community'
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1-On-1 With Greg Damron – Part 2: Building Community
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Here is Part 2 of our 3-part blog series of highlights of our 1-On-1 interview with Greg Damron of ATD St. Louis who offered insight on building community and offering membership value.'
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102 1-On-1 With Greg Damron – Part 3: Events and Welcoming New Members
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
Here is our final post in our 1-On-1 interview series with Greg Damron of ATD St. In this post, Greg offers insight into his organization''s event planning and member welcoming processes as well as some final words of advice for his membership peers.'
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11 Inspiring Nonprofit Facebook Timelines
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 4, 2012
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis :: facebook.com/contemporaryartmuseumstl. Amnesty International :: facebook.com/amnestyglobal. Big Cat Rescue :: facebook.com/bigcatrescue. charity: water :: facebook.com/charitywater. GLAAD) Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation :: facebook.com/GLAAD.
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New Webinar Series for Nonprofits in Australia & Oceania
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 9, 2015
Nonprofit Tech for Good is based in St. Louis, Missouri and the vast majority of our webinars are scheduled to accommodate nonprofits on the East Coast of the United States and Canada and Western Europe.
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6 Reasons SEO Is Important to Nonprofits and Why
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 12, 2019
Your organization will rank better for searches that include your area like “dog rescue St. Louis,” and rank without an area mention, like “dog rescue.” Why focus on something as global as search engine rankings when your organization has a local focus? Search engines include geographic information in the results.
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How You Can Help Haiti Relief Efforts
Qgiv
AUGUST 19, 2021
Future Forward for Haiti works in the remote villages of Trois Mares, Chapottin, and St. Louis d’Ayiti. No matter how devastating a storm is, there are always people waiting to help. If you want to support a smaller nonprofit, here are some great options. Their focus is on the well-being of children and families.
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Employee Spotlight – Ryan Ram
fusionSpan
MAY 25, 2022
An avid St Louis Cardinals baseball fan, Ryan has traveled across the U.S Ryan Ram Salesforce Consultant Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Ryan holds a master’s degree in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson University.
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8 Museum Apps Doing Good
Care2
JULY 13, 2012
Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. Choose a photo from the map or gallery to learn about the architecture, the context behind the image, and related anecdotes from St.
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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts
Kindful
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
The Crawford Taylor Foundation is committed to enabling and enhancing programs that create legacies within their St. Louis communities. Areas served: St. Louis area(Missouri, Illinois). Gray Family Foundation.
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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients
Volunteer Hub
AUGUST 1, 2021
Our volunteer program production is equivalent to 24 full-time employees…the value add is huge,” said Mary Cooper, Office Service Coordinator, St. Louis Area Foodbank. This method wasn’t an effective use of our time,” said Mary Cooper, Office Service Coordinator, St. Louis Area Foodbank. Louis Area Foodbank.
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The 5 Hottest Nonprofit Conferences of Summer '16
EveryAction
JULY 11, 2016
The highly-anticipated, always exceptional Netroots Nation annual gathering is taking over downtown St. Louis at the end of this week. Make sure to stop by and chat with the EveryAction team about all the ways you're building a better fundraising program this year (and beyond)! Netroots Nation 2016.
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Practical Tips for Running the Best-Ever Online Fundraising Store
Qgiv
MAY 21, 2021
Check out this example from St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness! People who buy merchandise from St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness know exactly how they’ll receive their merchandise before they even look through the items! If you’re shipping items, how much should you charge for shipping fees?
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Graduating Ally shares his unique perspective
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 15, 2018
I was born the second oldest of six to a single mother on the north side of St. Louis, City. These clean-ups would inspire my family to host one of our own back home in St. Louis, in honor of my cousin who died last year due to gun violence. It was quite the opposite. Public Allies has made my life come full circle.
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40 SEA Chapters
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 26, 2008
Our first chapter was in St. Louis, and our second one in Baltimore, and more are forming all the time. One of our new strategies to respond to the increasing demand for social enterprise knowledge is to encourage chapters to form. The initial chapters have just been starting this year.
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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 16, 2013
This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Louis Science Center''s mission is to "ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning."
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Top 10 Most Generous Cities in the U.S.
Care2
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
The donors in the most generous cities increased their total online contributions by more than 11 percent over 2010, which is pretty impressive considering the tough economy. To 10 Most Generous Cities. Seattle, WA. Alexandria, VA. Washington, DC. Arlington, VA. Cambridge, MA. Ann Arbor, MI. Berkeley, CA. San Francisco, CA. Bellevue, WA.
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77 Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. It doesn''t mean that these teenagers are any less valuable to the St. Louis Science Center or society as a whole than others. In the case of the St.
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TechSoup Global Launches Local Impact Map
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 18, 2017
where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Louis through sales of a street newspaper, What’s Up Magazine. Visit the TechSoup Global Local Impact Map and traverse the globe by clicking on any of the highlighted spots. You can begin in the U.S.,
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NetSquared Events to Cure Your Social Media Ailments
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 1, 2015
Check out our newest groups: NetSquared St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Saint Louis, Missouri: What Is NetSquared St. Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. Newest Groups. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Tuesday, June 16, 2015.
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TechSoup Global Launches Local Impact Map
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Louis through sales of a street newspaper, What’s Up Magazine. Visit the TechSoup Global Local Impact Map and traverse the globe by clicking on any of the highlighted spots. You can begin in the U.S.,
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Tales of faux donors scamming charities
Robert Weiner
AUGUST 8, 2012
The husband portrayed themselves as major philanthropists from St. Louis and he also claimed to be a great friend of the late Yul Brynner and had started up a foundation that carried Yul Brynner’s name with several million in assets. True, I found some photos of the two of them at a black tie gala in St.
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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?
Museum 2.0
JULY 28, 2010
Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. It doesn't mean that these teenagers are any less valuable to the St. Louis Science Center or society as a whole than others. In the case of the St.
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53 Jack Dorsey Pledges Fifth of Tech Firm Square to Charity - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2015
Jack Dorsey Pledges Fifth of Tech Firm Square to Charity - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "Tech mogul Jack Dorsey has launched a foundation to aid needy communities around the world and will give it a nearly one-fifth stake in mobile-payments company Square, Quartz and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
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HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to FourSquare
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 10, 2010
Enter the address. FourSquare requests that you use abbreviations for streets and avenues. Cities should be spelled out. States and countries should be abbreviated in CAPS: 438 E. Springfield, MO 65806. Enter your organization’s Twitter ID.
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College student's idea grows into electronics thrift store with a purpose
AFP Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
College student's idea grows into electronics thrift store with a purpose : Angela Haas was a senior at St. Louis University when she got the idea to refurbish and resell old computers to other students. Now, a dozen years later, she's president of a nonprofit that last year recycled 7.5
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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas
CauseVox
JUNE 28, 2021
Ask local businesses to sponsor a team, or get people to fundraise to fund their participation like The First Tee of Greater St. Louis (hint: this is a great place to use CauseVox’s peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities). One of the best parts is that it’s an activity that can be held while socially distanced.
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98 Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 22, 2011
St Louis Volunteen won, two Millennials are the ones that developed it – geolocation app to find volunteering opportunities, find contests, find things tied to schools, and sharing on social media. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest.
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3 Nonprofit Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss This Summer (and How to Stand Out From the Crowd)
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 14, 2017
Location: The America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Here are three important nonprofit conferences coming up this summer, along with some tips on how your organization can use them to stand out. National Urban League Annual Conference. Dates: July 26-29.
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32 10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 2, 2016
Stray Rescue of St. Louis is a much-loved no-kill rescue that consistently writes and shares great rescue stories. However, just as important as the story itself, it how it is presented online. It should be published in a largish font, have plenty of visual content, and a clear call-to-action.
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100 Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 11, 2012
Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. , & McCrary, S. A case for stipends in volunteer service. CDS Working Papers 09-12. McBride, A., Gonzales, E., Morrow-Howell, N., & & McCrary, S.
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Most Generous Cities in America
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 20, 2011
How generous is your city? Check out the cities that made the top 10 for most generous online. Alexandria, VA. Cambridge, MA. Arlington, VA. Seattle, WA. Washington, DC. Berkeley, CA. San Francisco, CA. Ann Arbor, MI. Minneapolis, MN.
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Get Involved with the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Photo: United Way of Greater St. Is your organization involved in any projects related to remembering 9/11? Have you posted a tribute on 911day.org already? Let us know in the comments below.
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40 The American Public Gardens Association and TechSoup's National Accounts Program
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Missouri Botanical Garden Café in St. Louis was named the state's firest certified green restaurant. Three great examples of how member gardens are leading the way in greening the planet: The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh is preparing to open a new Living Building in 2012. Longwood Gardens.
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How the Indianapolis Zoo Preserved their Visitor Experience with Dynamic Pricing
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
Woerner met with representatives from sports teams, including the St Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, as well as Zoos from around the world to talk about their pricing models. In order to preserve their visitor experience, the Zoo needed to spread their traffic across the entire week and beyond peak visitor season.
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41 TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 27, 2017
Betty Martin is director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library , which is located about 115 miles southeast of St. Lending Free Home Internet Access to Students and Job Seekers. Under her watch, the library has developed many innovative programs.
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Here’s Your Chance – A Message to All New Graduates in Philanthropy
Achieve
MAY 22, 2016
One was going to work as a systems analyst for Anheuser Busch; one friend was going into a leadership program with SBC Global (now AT&T); and another was going into a manager training program at Enterprise – all prominent St. But I had no idea what I wanted to do. And this gave my parents some reservations.
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Connection Cafe
JANUARY 27, 2012
Can’t quite figure out how St. Louis, Missouri snuck in there, but I’ll have to ask Gene Austin, our CEO who hails from there. I suspect these same places also pay more bills online and buy more goods and services over the internet, but I haven’t seen those statistics. I am sure he has a theory on that.
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