Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Nonprofit Conservancy Social Media National 278

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

And now, without further ado, here are the startups that make up the newest class of 500 Startups Fall 2012 accelerator class: BabyList: a baby registry that works like Pinterest enabling you to put anything online into your registry. Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. Everbill: invoice and estimate service.

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International India Brazil Croatia 136

Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

In 2012, Salesforce's huge and wonderful conference, Dreamforce , will be held September 18-21. In 2012, September 18th is the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah , a Jewish High Holiday. I was bummed to be forced to miss out in 2012. I married a Jewish man and we are raising our children Jewish. Maybe not.

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Calendar Organization NTC Conference 250

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010. Silent Generation (Born 1925–1945, Currently Age 69 and Older).

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Generation Donor Support Social Media 254

Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

In 2012, Salesforce's huge and wonderful conference, Dreamforce , will be held September 18-21. In 2012, September 18th is the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah , a Jewish High Holiday. I was bummed to be forced to miss out in 2012. I married a Jewish man and we are raising our children Jewish. Maybe not.

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Calendar Organization NTC Conference 230

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference offered a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Vicki Rosenberg, Vice President Education, Communications and External Relations, Council of Michigan Foundations.

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Blogger Conference Effective Organization 91

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

Mattel company spokesman Alan Hilowitz told HealthPop that the company will produce a friend of Barbie that will have wigs, hats, scarves and other accessories to give children "a traditional fashion play experience." " The kids will have the option to remove the wigs and head coverings.

Web 132

Web Children Social Media Journal 132

Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Has Invisible Children been transparent? Is this responsible social change?

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Lesson Campaign Video Uganda 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. I’m on a panel with Brian Kennedy, VP of Marketing for Children Now and Johanna Morariu, Director, Innovation Network. You can find the details here. Innogive Conference. At the Cross Section of Web, Social and Mobile.

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San Francisco NTC Conference NTEN 89

NetWits

MAY 9, 2012

In March 2012, Pinterest had over 4 million daily unique page visits. Hands On Childrens Museum. Good thing I’m not alone: Pinterest is now the no. 3 social network in the US (behind Facebook and Twitter). The average Pinterest user spends 14.2 minutes per visit. So what does all this mean for Arts and Cultural Organizations ?

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Arts Culture Organization Museum 206

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

Environmental issues, education, and children’s welfare are some of the areas that resonate with this generation. Preferred contact methods: Text or SMS messaging and social media posts Preferred donation methods: Online giving+ 5) Generation Z (1997-2012) Prefer smaller, grassroots causes and organizations.

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Giving Generation North America Social Media 242

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). Launched in 2012, #GivingTuesday has tremendous opportunity to grow into a global day of giving that could raise hundreds of millions of dollars for organizations.

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Trend Global South America Giving 249

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. While some children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. The Giving 2.0 What does it look like?

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Generation Donor Help Nonprofit 132

Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. Since 1986 the LRA has abducted 66K children, and turned them into child soldiers. Government to help capture Kony.

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Video Change Social Create 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. What were your results? per person.

Foundation 114

Foundation Results Community Learning 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

NTC 2012: Data Visualizaiton Panel. I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week. Organizational culture, visualization and data sense making techniques, and a case study from Children Now about they went from sharing all text-based advocacy data to using visualization for policy change.

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NTC Data San Francisco Case Study 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Al Gore (@algore) September 23, 2012. scsglobal young people are capable of doing more good in the world than ever before because of online connectedness — Beth Kanter (@kanter) September 23, 2012. SGSGlobal mashable.com/sgs twitter.com/gatesfoundatio… — Gates Foundation (@gatesfoundation) September 22, 2012.

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Conversation Reflection Action Impact 97

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since its 2012 inception, Acorns has raised just over $500 million from investors, such as private equity firm TPG, BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures.

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Italy Spain Teen France 114

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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Google Practice Nonprofit gMail 207

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Invisible Children (Shot from 26th to 1st in under 2 weeks after release of the Kony 2012 video). Invisible Children. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. For a legend explaining how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the lists. Top 10 Organizations in Terms of Facebook Likes. National Public Radio. Livestrong.

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Social Media Web Media Social 96

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

It turns out Martín was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. So I was recently taken by surprise when I discovered by mere coincidence that he had become the Chief of Staff for the Interim President of Paraguay, Federico Franco!

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Paraguay Award Teach Africa 142

Care2

JANUARY 21, 2013

While many nonprofits have spent some resources on creating videos, the nonprofit community only has a few real success stories such as The Meatrix, a flash animation about factory farming and of course the Kony 2012 video. Of course nonprofit’s also witnessed the downside of the Kony 2012 video success.

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Benchmark Survey Video Nonprofit 69

Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Then in 2012, Ross Hendrickson and myself decided to start Bloomerang based upon the premise of bringing proven best practices in professional fundraising to life. Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children.

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France Captivate Picture Indianapolis 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Public Learning Sound Conference 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The CTK Foundation has just launched the 2012/2013 Heart & Soul Grants , with over $55,000 to assist nonprofits like yours in accomplishing your mission. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”. Re-inspire your sense of mission by participating in the Heart & Soul grant. Two $5,000 Grant Awards to 2 US Nonprofits.

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Profit Alabama Grant Award 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

The experiment studied deferred gratification in children by offering one marshmallow to each child and one additional marshmallow if they could resist the temptation of eating the first one for fifteen minutes. The ubiquitous world of Disney is inescapable when you have small children. Fifteen minutes for a four-year-old?!

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Children Conference National Foundation 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent email, she described her newest project: In years past, our gratitude has been invested in changemakers from the US, Tanzania and Nepal to build classrooms, a library, a children’s technology lab, a temporary home for disabled veterans, and more.

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Tanzania Classroom Nepal Social Media 108

AFP Blog

MARCH 8, 2012

Invisible Children Responds To The Kony 2012 Viral Video Controversy | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Children 24

Children Ideas Video Change 24

Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Without education, Dalit children continue in the same generational work as their parents, which is generally street sweepers, leather workers, garbage workers.

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Storytelling Children Video Charity 66

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Patti Carlin, Associated Services for International Adoption (ASIA) ASIA works to create a better future for abandoned or orphaned children, provide cultural, emotional and educational support for adopted children and their families, and increase cultural awareness of inter-racial adoption.

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San Francisco Create Change Nonprofit 79

The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Rosenworcel was first nominated to the FCC by President Barack Obama and served from May 2012 to January 2017. President Joe Biden has appointed Democratic commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the Federal Communications Commission until an official chair is confirmed.

Georgia 96

Georgia Advocacy Communication Online Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org.

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Practice Data Nonprofit Social Media 131

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Matt first learned about crowdfunding when he was raising funds to volunteer in Southeast Asia in 2012. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%). 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer. 78% attend fundraising events.

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Kenya Giving Trend Mobile 194

VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stan''s essay: Constitution Day, 2012 Stan Stahl, Ph.D. As if we were children, still believing in fairy tales. It is again absent in 2012. It''s about technology designed to help partner organizations cooperate where they can and maintain privacy where necessary. Working together to work better. I''ll meet you there.

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United States National Chart Washington 100

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Arizona 2012 , is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool that can be used by agencies and individuals to help Arizona’s families make real progress toward economic security. For families with young children, the cost of housing and child care combined typically make up about 50% of the family’s budget.

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Research Arizona Tucson Children 80

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Sources: [1] Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA 2012, pg. As part of a.

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Research Arizona Philanthropy Foundation 75

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the coming years, trillions of dollars in wealth held by the Baby Boomer generation (born from 1955– 1964) are poised to transfer to their children and grandchildren, millennials (1981 – 1996) and Generation Z (1997 –2012).

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Philanthropy Generation Giving Change 119