Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This might even inspire a few out of state donors to give to nonprofits in the land of 10,000 lakes where the men are strong, women are good lucking and children above average. National studies consistently find that Austinites give far less to charitable causes than people in other cities. I Live Here, I Give Here.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

While Kennedy has said he wants his agency to prevent future outbreaks, he’s also declined to deliver a consistent and forceful message that would help do so encouraging people to vaccinate their children against measles while reminding them it is safe. Two Texas children have died. Children in the U.S. in a decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2010

Leng Sopharath , the young woman our family has sponsored for college in Cambodia through the Sharing Foundation , could have ended up in a very different place, but instead was able to go to college. Donate $10 or $53 and help Cambodian children. Human Trafficking is a huge issue around the world, especially in Cambodia.

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Donorbox

JULY 2, 2021

PTAs, or Parent Teacher Associations, are school-based organizations dedicated to making schools a better place for children to learn and spend time in. School PTAs are usually associated with the national PTA, whilst PTOs (Parent Teacher Organizations) generally serve the same purpose but are independent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

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. This has been our metrics mantra at The Global Fund for Children, but now Andy Goodman of The Goodman Center has validated it. GEO’s 2012 National [.]

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

From the week of March 30 to April 4, five Bookshare training sessions took place in four of the island’s Service Centers for Special Education. They took place in Las Piedras, Bayamon, Hormigueros, and Ponce. One of the teachers enjoyed the training so much that he gave me his Puerto Rican national baseball cap!

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. Global Fund For Children. The Global Fund For Children believes that educating children and youth is the key to building a more peaceful and just society. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education. Mellon Foundation.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In the new mode, which can be seen at the timestamped section in the video below, several sounds are available for Tesla owners through the Toybox section they can use in place of a regular horn: goat baaing, applause, a little “tada” clip, someone speaking posh and, of course, the fart.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Global Fund for Children. National Park Trust. Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. WHAS Crusade for Children. Global Fund for Children. National Park Trust. Funding Priority: Youth Programs. Kellogg Foundation. Allstate Foundation. Kars4Kids Foundation. Good Sports. Daniels Fund.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Clubs offered, for many, the only safe places in their communities. It’s more important than ever that we deliver our much-needed services to the children and families who’ve been hardest hit by this pandemic.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

If you really care about making the world a better place, buy a trendy bag. The details of the experiment were published in an article entitled “Experimental Evidence Of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks” published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this past week in Seattle. Fortunately for Mateo, this guilty father is helping him celebrate with some of his favorite things and places this past weekend. Fifteen minutes for a four-year-old?!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Where children don’t feel hurt, alone, scared, and afraid. That’s why I’m so grateful for you, <Informal Greeting> You make this world a better place for kids. April is National Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. Where children don’t feel hurt, alone, scared and afraid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m pleased to see that some of the skepticism and complaints have now morphed in to more capacity builders providing tips for nonprofits to take advantage of this national day of giving. I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship. Kari: Carol Phillips wrote an article this morning suggesting that the differences in the work place may have less to go do with generational differences and more with trust. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations.

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The Verge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Apple’s new tools, announced last Thursday , include two features designed to protect children. One, called “communication safety,” uses on-device machine learning to identify and blur sexually explicit images received by children in the Messages app, and can notify a parent if a child age 12 and younger decides to view or send such an image.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator. The agency says it is “considering its next steps and any formal regulatory action that may be appropriate under the UK data protection laws.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Getting children to school safely and reliably is a challenge as old as public education itself. But rarely have any entrepreneurs tackled the problem of updating and optimizing one of the nation’s largest legacy transit systems, now nearly a century old. It’s still common to find people at U.S.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Examples of Nonprofit Vision Statements: Habitat for Humanity’s vision statement is for a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Teach for America’s vision statement is that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Matures and Baby Boomers donate most often to places of worship while Gen X and Millennials donate most often to children and youth development. In reality, 72% contribute at a rate below the national average. Source: Corporation for National and Community Service. Source: Maximillion. Source: Classy. S ource: Abila.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

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. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Throw open the doors – there’s learning going on!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you have a child in your life who wants to make the world a better place, how do you support him or her? Help them find biographical and autobiographical books, movies, and TV shows about inspiring people like Listen to the Wind , the children's version of the adult bestseller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

This comes from the “tin cup” model of fundraising, where we come from a place of begging. Rather, you’re seeking critical investment in work that will make your community and world a better place. As you suggest, generally there is more than one place to look to within any business. You’re not a beggar!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The term, somewhat synonymous with micro-schools, pandemic pods and small-group learning, describes small clusters of children within the same age range who are paired with a private instructor with the goal of replacing, or supplementing, school learning. Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech. A WeWork for education?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

The GeoFunders National Conference takes place from March 12-14th. GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer 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.

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Candid

APRIL 7, 2022

The community leaders who make up the Black Diaper Bank Coalition (BDBC) come from different places around the country. But they share important things, like “being invisible and hypervisible at the same time,” says Tamara Killian, who facilitates the group for the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN) , where she is chief of development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2010

The party will take place on Twitter using the hashtag #netnon, and on ustream.tv (URL to be announced). Beth is donating all of her book profits to the Sharing Foundation , which helps meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

” They chose to focus on primary-aged children, he said, not only because there were already a number of online tutoring services out in the market for secondary-school students (aged 12-18), but also because they believed that the fundamentals of learning needed to be addressed at a younger age.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Have your likes, shares, comments, and retweets increased since your branding enhancements took place? Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit that grants wishes to children with critical illnesses. Social media engagement: Are people interacting with your social media content?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Here are a few creative ideas and examples—especially for parents with young children. Children’s museum gift membership If you have little kids, you know what a godsend these memberships can be, especially when you’re stuck at home during the winter break or ready for a break from the heat during the dog days of summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

There is always a conundrum in measuring social change movements as well as networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. National demographics of key platforms, like Twitter and Facebook, reflect the demographic makeup of the nation.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 2, 2024

Those strides were discussed during the session “To Mid-level and Beyond: Real, Audience-First Donor Journeys,” during the Bridge To Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Knowing how, where and how often a person gives provides insight into causes and benefits important to the potential donor.

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