Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. And, of course, if you care about early childhood education in California, be sure to vote or add your questions. Where is it most useful? Crowdsourcing the Conference Agenda.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

. ** Feed The Children Selects RKD Group RKD Group in Dallas is the new direct response fundraising agency of record for Feed The Children in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. RKD Group will combine data science, digital and omnichannel efforts to create audience-first fundraising campaigns for Feed the Children. million, up from $387.7

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Jude Children’s Research Hospital, speaks not only to how Shadyac has led the organization through the pandemic, but also to how ALSAC has evolved over its 60 year history to meet the moment and expand its footprint. Jude Children’s Research Hospital this year announced a six-year, $11.5 Treatments invented at St.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 20, 2021

Working to support and educate the communities that impact children’s development, including parents, healthcare professionals, and policymakers, this vital organization seeks to lay the foundation for all infants and toddlers in pursuit of a bright future. Expanding Programs + Commitments to Children. Highlights.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Even if your private foundation is fully exempt from taxes, your organization must still report certain information to the IRS annually. This ensures that your foundation operates according to IRS guidelines and also provides transparency for your nonprofit. Private Foundations vs. Public Charities: What’s the Difference?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Fox Foundations mobile-optimized donation form : Giving apps Mobile giving apps range from simple tools to complex and multifaceted pieces of software. Mobile-optimized giving forms include specific features, such as large font sizes and spaced-out buttons, to enhance the mobile user experience. Check out the example below of the Michael J.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center Gold – Cultural Institutions The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center , a leader in cultural enrichment and social impact, earned Gold in the Cultural Institutions category. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. One thing that I loved was the playground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Get Well Gamers brings video games systems and games to children's hospitals by collecting used game systems and other donated product and sends them children's programs at hospitals. The organization was founded by Ryan Sharpe who spent a number of days in his childhood in a hospital ward.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The LEGO Foundation has announced a USD 143 million global challenge to fund impactful solutions focused on early childhood. The Build A World of Play Challenge will enable any organisations who can make a positive impact on the youngest children globally, to bid.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Still, many foundations shy away from working together, assuming it will require considerable time and a loss of independence. . Benefits of Funder Collaboration .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

These last few months, we worked with a number of partners to bring you the Baby Steps Storytelling Competition with the belief that early childhood education is the most important investment we can make in our children’s future. Together with the William K.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Early childhood education is the most important investment we can make in our children’s future. That's why we're collaborating with the Kellogg Foundation and FURTHER by Design on the Baby Steps Competition ! events tsdigs digital storytelling tsevents early childhood education campaign baby steps'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  I also talked to the volunteers about why they were so passionate about the issue of ending childhood hunger. I also met Alex Volkonsky who design depicts whimsical vegetables and fruits as well as a milk cartoon (emphasizing the need to children who need to drink their milk everyday for healthy bones).  

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The goal of the competition is to capture the way you work with young kids aged 5 and under through your organization, or with your own children, to help them learn and explore. If you haven't checked out the Baby Steps film competition yet, make sure to do it in the next few days in order to prepare your submission!

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 28, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) has been in business for over 31 years with the mission to find, develop, and support a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunities for children from classrooms, schools, and any sector that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Report: 2020 – 2021 State of Salesforce In the Nonprofit Sector.

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Charity Village

MAY 7, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every community in Canada and threatened the childhoods of millions of its youngest residents. However, we have not yet heard about what matters most from children and youth themselves.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Access to nutritious food is foundational to a healthy, thriving community and society. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children. Rachel Machen has worked in the public service world for over 8 years, pursuing her passion of ensuring children and families have adequate resources and support to promote optimal outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Name your children after them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. We then wrote a new set of marketing materials, programming literature, opera­tional handbooks, and appeal letters to donors and foundations. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

Tell me something in your childhood that you wished were different and go toward it." --Rosie O'Donnell, AWEARNESS Feeling blue? Dressed to Give: Kenneth Cole's AWEARNESS on the Case Foundation blog. "If someone says, 'I really want to serve humanity,' I'd say, 'Tell me what your dreams are. It's my favorite read so far this year.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with #GivingTuesday to develop the #MyGivingStory initiative, a space for donors, volunteers, and nonprofit staff to tell the story about why they give. SOS Children’s Villages shared that 75% of their new donors all year came through their year-end peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

Even though it’s been more than 30 years since Mandela gave his famous and memorable speech, his words about the children of today as our future community advisors and representatives are as powerful and accurate now as they were then. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

In this post, we’ll define the OKR concept and share how it could help your foundation deliver better performance and greater impact. Is the OKR process relevant for foundations? Consider the following OKR for a foundation that focuses on reducing childhood obesity nationwide: Objective: Eliminate childhood obesity in the Northeast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. A few days ago, the John D. and Catherine T.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Make your donors the hero’s of the story, you are simply a guide to helping them steward their money well and have a profound impact on the world The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with GivingTuesday to develop the #MyGivingStory initiative: a space for donors, volunteers, and nonprofit staff to tell the story about why they give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. January: Have a January birthday? And, yes they did ! It's your choice.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work. A few other takeaways: Foundation Center’s new tool is amazeballs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

7) Electronic Frontier Foundation Shop :: supporters.eff.org/shop. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. 17) National Park Foundation Gift Shop :: nationalparks.org/gift-shop. 26) Surfrider Foundation Store :: shop.surfrider.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

12) National Park Foundation Gift Shop :: nationalparks.org/gift-shop. The National Park Foundation offer their supporters a great way to show their love for the national parks – while supporting them at the same time. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children. Approximately 1 in 285 children in the U.S. Approximately 1 in 285 children in the U.S. Each day, 43 kids in the U.S.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Awesome Foundation. New Earth Foundation. Cornell Douglas Foundation. Kellogg Foundation. Whole Kids Foundation. Emeril Lagasse Foundation. The Barney Family Foundation. Change Happens Foundation. The Harry Chapin Foundation. Johnson Scholarship Foundation. Burkle Foundation.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first shot is recommended for children between 12 and 15 months old and the second between 4 and 6 years old. But childhood vaccination rates have declined nationwide since the pandemic and more parents are claiming religious or personal conscience waivers to exempt their kids from required shots. Why do vaccination rates matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. Nhuong has contributed and both he and his girlfriend are fundraising on behalf of the Sharing Foundation. Immunizing the Village's Children.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

12) National Park Foundation Gift Shop :: nationalparks.org/gift-shop. The National Park Foundation offer their supporters a great way to show their love for the national parks – while supporting them at the same time. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

As childhood obesity disproportionally impacts children of color, we specifically used social media strategies to reach communities of color. Many of the blog posts included pictures of food, school children and the bloggers interacting with sources they interviewed – making the blogs even more compelling to read!

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