Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Windows are low to the ground so children can easily look outside. Hallways are lined with a corrugated plastic for wiggly fingers to touch as children transition to other locations.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. But it won’t happen unless you facilitate it.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But there may be a group of willing volunteers that you’ve previously overlooked: children! Reach out to role models Children are more likely to do something when they see others doing it, including volunteer work! That way, you can focus on facilitating the volunteer program while your supporters take care of recruitment.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Stalkerware and other tracking software is dangerous, campaigners say, because it can facilitate domestic abuse and harassment of partners. As it’s written, the policy also mistakenly says parents cannot track their children. Acceptable forms of these apps can be used by parents to track their children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

” This is the advice that Carolyn Miles of Save the Children offered. Here’s an example of Save The Children and its CEO, Carolyn Miles. Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.” As you can see, the CEO’s reach is larger, although she has fewer followers than the branded account.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

Lend4Health is a non-profit organization that facilitates community-funded, interest-free micro-loans as a creative funding option for individuals and groups seeking optimal health. Currently, Lend4Health is facilitating loans for the "biomedical" treatment of children and adults with autism spectrum and related disorders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The project supports a cohort of children’s health care insurance advocates with monthly peer calls, a face-to-face annual workshop, and expert one-on-one coaching from SpitFire coaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Our panel included Free Agents Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed, along with reps from Red Cross, Save the Children, and Common Ground Communities. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Rob Cottingham. As the discussion was unfolding, Jonny Goldstein was capturing it. Photo by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. But these are steps to bigger outcomes for this network – such as making sure there is health care for all children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Modern Warfare” could support War Child International , or other groups that help children affected by war. Consider an organization like Child’s Play, which improves the lives of children in hospitals through games. But what if you want to make a difference, but can’t think of a natural fit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Think Different Summit was 15-20 smart people, led by an experienced facilitator, trying to imagine the future of the learning disability rights movement. I would not expect the parents of blind children to drive the rights struggle for blind people, but I had taken the role of parents as the prime movers in the LD movement for given.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 4, 2022

Dear Not a Tax Lawyer, While it’s not your job to be your donor’s financial or legal advisor, it is your job to be their philanthropy facilitator. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Should I be doing or saying something different? – Not a Tax Lawyer. You don’t need to be a tax lawyer to do this job effectively.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Evidence at trial alleged that the defendants’ helped facilitate harmful fraud on the victims whose data they sold. At trial, elderly victims and their adult children testified about the scam letters victims received falsely promising cash prizes. A federal judge in 20223 ordered the firm to turn over records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

It’s big, it’s inspiring, and it helps me think more clearly about Global Fund for Children’s work to scout, support and strengthen grassroots groups serving vulnerable children around the globe. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. True grit matters…a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event. If you know my work, you know I have a strong connection to Cambodia because I adopted two beautiful children from the country who are now teenagers.

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Candid

AUGUST 5, 2024

How market research can help expand a nonprofit’s reach and impact To illustrate, let’s look at a nonprofit that provides engaging, age-appropriate content to help children understand social issues related to gender and sexuality. They also offer resources for parents and teachers to facilitate these important conversations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

With only a two-person IT department serving more than 200 employees and 600 volunteers, Daniel Yu, IT director for Arizona Baptist Children's Services (ABCS), has his work cut out for him. The organization works in a variety of areas, supporting the neediest children and families in its community. Transitional Program BBQ.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The report tells the story from the perspective of several parents who have lost children and who suspect that they bought the pills using the popular chatting app. In at least one instance, a parent suspects Snapchat facilitated a deal with a drug dealer who might only live a few blocks away. Snapchat isn’t off the hook.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” MentalHappy’s approach to solving this problem is to develop low-cost peer support groups on its app, with qualified professionals facilitating each group. “We will facilitate case by case management of the identities of people in dangerous situations,” Blue said. ” Image Credits: MentalHappy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2024

Try and see things from their perspective and recognize that life is hard, people are often more fragile than they appear, and they feel vulnerable when leaving their children in other’s care. Consider having older children sign the code of conduct as well as all adults responsible for their children’s care. Build community.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, I noted a discussion board in the "Nursery" gallery. For the Nursery discussion board, it's other adult visitors to the Children's Museum. Every adults who takes a child to a Children's Museum cares about his or her identity as a caregiver.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

The fundraising software facilitates tracking your donors, accepting online donations, creating social campaigns around your fundraising activities and more. Here are some of the campaigns run with Donorbox: Some of the kids helped through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities." There’s no reason why giving back shouldn’t be fun.” In addition to fundraising, TechiesGiveBack.org has planned to bring 50 children from CampInteractive’s program to Manhattan for an afternoon of ice skating and activities.

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Classy

MAY 31, 2021

For example, Made In The Streets is a nonprofit working to “love and serve children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya – meeting their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs; loving them fully; equipping them to earn a living and sending them out to a new life.” Donors feel close and connected to the beneficiary of their gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

One of those expectations is that children, dogs, and cats should not be seen or heard on zoom calls. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. . #4 New Workplace Norms for Meetings .

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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. I love serendipity!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Last year, Nathanial Whittemore facilitated an online discussion by asking bloggers to answer the question: " What is the one thing you need to know before you donate to charity? " This year the answer to the question isn't overhead ratios and executive salaries. . Photo by Oblivion 9999. My giving style is streamlined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating several peer exchanges on the topics of measurement, social media, and networked nonprofits. This is feeding into my work on a book with KD Paine on that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. I’m on a panel with Brian Kennedy, VP of Marketing for Children Now and Johanna Morariu, Director, Innovation Network. Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. Amy Gahran, CNN Journalist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. I really enjoy teaching in different cultural contexts and observing different learning styles and approaches to working for a nonprofit. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. They wanted to visualize their network for a specific purpose: getting a national bill ( Moving Children Outdoors Act) on Obama’s desk for signature by Oct.

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