Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. I hope it’s a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

I’ve blogged about how a few nonprofits are using them , and how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network was seeing real results , but it feels like there is a new energy around using them. 14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

I like to think of it as what we “used to” refer to as peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P (you know, used to, like in 2011). In her role of Community Marketing Manager at Maine Cancer Foundation , Erlene LeBorgne specializes in developing creative ways to cultivate her community of avid supporters and assist them with their fundraising efforts.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

and in 2011 won a $1 million prize! The software was used for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.) (Fun fact— Watson was developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! Watson’s first commercial application was more serious.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2013

This organization runs the world’s most heavily trafficked breast cancer website, with over 1.5 Back in the summer of 2011 (when just 13% of the site’s traffic was mobile), we knew by looking at the growth curve that Breastcancer.org needed a mobile-optimized website. million visits in a typical month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience. I will never forget meeting Leymah Gbowee , the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who led the women’s movement resulting in peace in Liberia.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. " Is email going out with 2011? And it's convinced me of one undisputable fact. How are you managing your data?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Judi Sohn, Colorectal Cancer Coalition - As the lead technology staff member for a young colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization, NTEN has been my guiding light. This resource is invaluable to a wide range of people of all ages, skill levels and ethnicity.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. Forward this to all the girls online” By 2011 the meme evolved a couple of times. The point is to see how far we can spread breast cancer awareness … and make the men wonder what’s up :) ".

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Judi Sohn, Colorectal Cancer Coalition - As the lead technology staff member for a young colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization, NTEN has been my guiding light. This resource is invaluable to a wide range of people of all ages, skill levels and ethnicity.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. By Judi Sohn, Outgoing VP of Operations, Fight Colorectal Cancer Fight Colorectal Cancer: > 6 year-old Org > 6 Full-time Staff > $1.1

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2011

After taking a look at the Nonprofit Times list of 100 top nonprofits based on income, my team over at craigconnects checked out who was proactively and effectively utilizing social media in August and September of 2011. but on the other hand, the organization following the most people is following 200,522 (The American Cancer Society)!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort. Why is 2011 even more important? Why did it matter? Isn’t this the heart of the matter?

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on June 2nd, 2011 I’m starting a new series of short interviews with people who are really changing what’s happening in the nonprofit sector. Are they doing it well?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

” Founded in 2011 by Miri Ratner, Naftali Chayat and Melamed, who was previously VP of Intel’s architecture group, Vayyar initially developed its sensor technology to provide an alternative means of screening for early-stage breast cancer.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com. Miles Orkin, National Director for Mobile and Web forAmerican Cancer Society Fundraising Focus: Mobile. Over and over again.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

In late 2011, Summit rallied the community to raise nearly $1 million to create a marine reserve the size of Manhattan in the island chain that hosted Summit at Sea. From connections made between entrepreneurs, artists and investors, Summit events have raised tens of millions of dollars for business and nonprofit ventures.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

American Cancer Society. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC ! I liked this little tidbit on Twitter : Shana Masterson , at the National Brain Tumor Society , is looking at. examples of nonprofit websites, and gave a nice shout-out to The. Let us know what else you find, Shana!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. According to this recent nonprofits and mobile survey summarized on the NTEN Blog , only 16% of the surveyed nonprofits plan on having mobile websites in 2011 compared to 90% of surveyed nonprofits use email marketing and social media in their engagement strategies.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Bright Pink helps save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

In his keynote address for South by Southwest Interactive in 2011, Seth Priebatsch of SCVNGR demonstrated how game mechanics can motivate real-world action by distributing different-colored cards to the audience, giving them rules (no talking, no moving from your seat) then having them exchange cards until each row had the same color.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. She had just given birth to her first child and her mother had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In 2011, for example, as many as 20 teenagers in upstate New York, almost all of them students in the same school, suddenly developed similar tremors. Explanations included environmental pollution and cancer clusters; Erin Brockovich sent a team to test local soil.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities. As Twestival founder Amanda Rose told us, $264,000 wasn't raised in one day by them on Twitter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. April 5, 2011 11:07 AM Mark Rubin said.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. For example, if you know I’m interested in lung cancer issues, send me a lung cancer project or research to fund. Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Prior to joining Feeding America, Liz provided strategic marketing and fundraising consulting to national nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Canadian Cancer Society at Convio.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Coming off that success, Cause Camp moved to a larger venue in Lincoln in 2011. Sadly, John Haydon passed away in 2020 from cancer. (Future Cause Camps experiencing last-minute speaker cancelations used the “when all else fails, form a panel” plan, learned from 2010.). Buy tickets here ! About the Author.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Erinn joined the GuideStar team when Philanthropedia was acquired in 2011. She works with nonprofits throughout North America — including BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, Union Gospel Mission, Share Family and Community Services, and Cancer Care Connection — and is an internationally recognized speaker.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

My favorite team has played themselves out of it in 2011; there will be no defending the World Series title for the San Francisco Giants. If you want to cure cancer, $50 million isn’t going to cut it. Author: Sara Spivey. I am a baseball fan, and I love this time of year. If you are a national org, stop looking at each other.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. Dozer’s fundraising page raised over $25,000 for cancer research that first year. Find the newsworthy stories within your event. Share these.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2011

When I was Chief Development Officer at the American Cancer Society, our worst calendar quarter overall was Q4. The Fidelity Gift Fund had its best first quarter in history in Q1 of 2011. Is year-end giving traditionally good because donors are in the giving mood. In other words, has Q4 giving become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011. For what it is worth, David Balcom of American Cancer Society shared that the number of donations given through a mobile browser doubled after ACS launched a mobile-optimized version of their site.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Coming off that success, Cause Camp moved to a larger venue in Lincoln in 2011. Sadly, John Haydon passed away in 2020 from cancer. (Future Cause Camps experiencing last-minute speaker cancelations used the “when all else fails, form a panel” plan, learned from 2010.). Buy tickets here ! About the Author.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. I particularly like the Funny for Good Award on the serious topic of testicular cancer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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