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. My colleagues who support the The Sharing Foundation also make fundraising for their favorite cause a family activity. "My parents encouraged us to donate 10% of our weekly allowance to charity.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Watch our Nonprofit Leader Panel from our The 2020 Digital Fundraising Summit that dives into the details of how Fiver and Catalogue For Philanthropy successfully planned and executed their #GivingTuesday campaigns: Trust me, learning best practices from real fundraisers who have run successful #GivingTuesday campaigns will pay off in the long run.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

posted by Terry McManus Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, TGen Foundation We all know the old adage “what gets measured gets done,” but knowing what to measure is easier said than done. In most professions certain tasks are closely correlated to success, and resource development is no different. These must be tracked and evaluated.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Community Fellows posed the question: “How might we leverage the full power of the Salesforce ecosystem – employees, philanthropy, product, suppliers, and policy influence – to address food insecurity?” Access to nutritious food is foundational to a healthy, thriving community and society. “ Jennifer Thall. John de la Parra.

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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? Related blog posts Kenneth Cole’s Awearness Initiative Reveals the Philanthropy Behind the Fashion on FeelGood Style. Dressed to Give: Kenneth Cole's AWEARNESS on the Case Foundation blog.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

Julia Campbell is a leader in nonprofit marketing and has worked with organizations like Road Scholar, Make-a-Wish Foundation, and Plummer Home for Boys. Organization: Kantor Early Childhood Education Center. What your organization does: The Kantor ECEC is an early childhood education center in Henderson, Nevada. Matt Seltzer.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The Boomer Esiason Foundation raised thousands of dollars for cystic fibrosis research by working with corporate sponsors who donated five dollars for every tweet or Foursquare check-in charity supporters made that used the hashtag "#tackleCF." A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Baldrick’s Foundation located in Monrovia, California. This nonprofit raises money for childhood cancer research and is most noted for their head-shaving events where participants ask for donations before they agree to, yes—have their locks shorn. A great example of an organization that’s figured this out is the St.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

I had a tough childhood there, but I was able to go to school and worked hard for the education my mother had given me the opportunity to get. I went back to Europe and once my modeling career was established, I started exploring setting up a foundation in my home country. CK: Where does your passion for philanthropy come from?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Give supporters PPE (Personal Philanthropy Equipment). Part of a personal fundraising page for the Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation ‘s Gold Gala 2021. Hospice of Marshall County Foundation’s Race to Remember 2021 shirt for sale on their event’s peer-to-peer store. Make a Facebook fundraisers referral.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here is my childhood utopian vision: I believe that technology is the greatest component that will help us create, learn, …and experiment towards our collaborative missions. A couple weeks ago I actually attended a speaker session on the State of Philanthropy in Central Florida. Long-Time President of the Nonprofit Fan Club.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

She’s over at Blue Sky Philanthropy, helps a lot of organizations raise money. So I think it was Shannon at the TELUS Foundation here in Canada who was sharing that in her team meetings. I’m like, “I got to have Emma on.” ” And now we’re finally doing it. Check her out.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

She’s over at Blue Sky Philanthropy, helps a lot of organizations raise money. So I think it was Shannon at the TELUS Foundation here in Canada who was sharing that in her team meetings. I’m like, “I got to have Emma on.” ” And now we’re finally doing it. Check her out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Efurd’s question demands an examination of the functions that philanthropies need to tap — functions that could be commoditized and procured and delivered over a network. A number of standard philanthropy business processes, like financial due diligence, come to mind. Philanthropic Functions. The Importance of Scarcity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

There is a tradition of micro-philanthropy here, although it isn't necessarily taken online. 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. childhood immunizations are routine and taken for granted.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Also essential to the day were 12 coaches, whose areas of expertise ranged from digital media to business analysis, and three judges: James Rooney, Microsoft; Deena Pierott, iUrbanTeen; and Sonya Watson, Tides Foundation. You can learn about the three winners here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

d certainly want to get on avatar and get the chance to chat with Mr. Fanton directly about the foundation???s s funding interests, find out what they learning about virtual worlds and philanthropy. There's an interesting article over at the MacArthur Foundation Spotlight highlighting some recent virtual worlds research.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. The UN Foundation View on Technology. In 1990, 1.9

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

You can support NTEN in Giving Tuesday and join Beth Kanter for a live discussion of collective philanthropy - get the details here. Check out the 124 NTEN Members participating in Giving Tuesday below. Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He’s given tens of billions to Buffett family-affiliated foundations, and while not all are based in Nebraska, three of the state’s top 10 grantmakers are The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, and Buffett Early Childhood Fund. fourth in charitable giving, and seventh in formal volunteering.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

These can have serious health effects including increasing cancer rates and lowering childhood IQ scores. The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.

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