Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

One of the most frequent applications has been to use them at events and conferences. Although this was before Twitter, the advice about what makes an effective tagging community still resonates and are applicable to effective Twitter hashtags. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

In Nick Sonnenberg’s new book, Come Up For Air , (available February 7, 2023), you’ll learn about his CPR Business Efficiency Framework , which stands for: C ommunication P lanning R esources This framework focuses on eliminating the pain points most teams experience by optimizing these three operation areas foundational to every organization. “In

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

An organizational summary. Your organization’s name, mailing address, and website (if applicable). Form 990-PF is specifically designed for private foundations. No matter their size or gross receipts, all private foundations are required to complete Form 990-PF. tax-exempt private foundations. The tax year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In Nick Sonnenberg’s book, Come Up For Air , you’ll learn about his CPR Business Efficiency Framework , which stands for: C ommunication P lanning R esources This framework focuses on eliminating the pain points most teams experience by optimizing these three operation areas foundational to every organization. “In

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AFP Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

The application summaries will be available for viewing at www.kitsapfoundation.org through April 7.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 12, 2021

Mission statements can often be taken as a summary of your nonprofit in its entirety. This is also true for foundations and grantmakers. Guides like this one get into the nitty-gritty of writing a grant application, but for the most part, the same principles apply.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As we consider what makes a website successful in 2022, here are four strategies we believe are absolutely essential for foundations to consider when approaching a next website redesign. In summary. Think beyond the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Via Allison Fine The Case Foundation is looking for some folks to serve as external reviewers for the first part of its new grantmaking effort focused on igniting citizen-centered community work across the country. The Foundation has received some great applications from a number of people across the country.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Knight Foundation has launched a particularly interesting Knight News Challenge this year. The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. And it's very easy to do an application. The Knight Foundation wants to do something about it. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It isn’t a new field—it has been around for decades—but recent increases in computing power combined with decreases in the cost of that power have created a new generation of AI-powered tools and applications that are available to everyday people and organizations.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Forum One works with enterprise-level nonprofits, associations, foundations and government agencies to develop and launch websites that meet audiences and goals. All four will go a long way to ensure its success and help you meet your digital goals. Planning to redesign your site? Let’s talk. Get in touch today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. I’m also in a [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Use Box’s collaboration features like commenting and task management to manage the completion of a grant application. Speed up collaboration by allowing users to review time-sensitive work in the cloud in real time from any device, instead of through traditional file-transfer applications and internal servers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. Legal implications of using technology to learn about employees and applicants. At the Packard Foundation, I've been involved in discussions about social media policy. Beth: Do you have a social media policy at your foundation? The key points: Follow all applicable policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This is a summary of my notes and take-aways from the small group discussion on the Boston Youth Sports Initiative with Roberto Cremonini with Cremonini Consulting (formerly with Barr Foundation, funder of project) and Chris Lynch with Squash Busters (formerly with the Initiative). The message was that the network was open to everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service. Foundations and Blogging Back in September, Nancy Schwartz was hard pressed to find blogs written by foundation ceos. and nonprofits trainers' toolkits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This letter can be used with foundation and individual funders to say: we need more overhead to build the infrastructure to measure our outcomes. In addition, a survey of beneficiaries or constituents is a relatively low cost method that is nearly universal in applicability for measuring outcomes. Keystone Accountability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. To browse available apps, go to “Edit Profile > Add an application” and add at least one app.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator. It involves expertise like the ability to find applicable and valid supporting data from other data sources.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . departments across campus, including advancement, marketing, financial aid, academic leadership and more,?from?private

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2012

The surety bond application process is also used to keep unqualified individuals from working jobs through which they might take advantage of consumers, businesses or nonprofits. In her free time Danielle volunteers as a photographer for the city of Columbia, Missouri, and advocates for the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Why Use One? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

This blog post over on the Care2 FrogLoop blog, from Allyson Kapin , pulls some good summary and take-aways from the recent study from fellow NTEN member organization Idealware about the question of the "Usefulness" of social media for nonprofits. There are a bunch of NTEN members scheduled to speak! Thanks, as always, Beth!

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Extremely limited or otherwise not applicable to many members. We’re going to cover what each model entails, how they compare, and instances in which each would be applicable for your association. The graphic below provides a summary of each model: Free Pricing Model. Not backed by subject matter expertise.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal. Make sure you have everything you need for your application. Make sure you can match all the eligibility criteria before preparing your proposal to avoid wasting energy on applications that are ineligible for approval. Tell a powerful story.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

However, to use text-to-give, organizations must first meet a few requirements and apply to the Mobile Giving Foundation. Though text-to-donate has one or two extra steps that donors have to take, it is much more convenient for your organization to set up and you avoid an application process (and application fees!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. To browse available apps, go to “Edit Profile > Add an application” and add at least one app.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

While these are the primary benefits of outcomes for foundations and nonprofits, there are other benefits that can help organizations become more effective. In our ongoing dialogue with thousands of members of the giving community, we’ve heard from hundreds of foundations that are either measuring outcomes or want to measure outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. These sites are well worth exploring for the richness of learning about the application of emerging technologies and learning. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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