Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

The organization is called Video Volunteers. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. Some manage a handful of volunteers, others work with many thousands.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 13, 2024

While many challenges arise, one stands out as the most significant: recruiting, training, and retaining volunteers. A staggering 52% of school fundraising professionals report managing volunteers as their biggest hurdle. Burnout : Overworked volunteers can become disillusioned and leave.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

10-year retrospective Credit: GregTheFine – Outsized Marketing for Mid-Size Nonprofits A simple promotion – fill a bucket with ice and water and encourage friends, followers, partners, volunteers, and others to dump it on themselves – reaped millions for the ALS Assoc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To secure new volunteers? Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. That said, if you decide to use Gmail e-mail as your login hub, then it is best to not give interns or volunteers access.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. Effective pro bono volunteer programs — also known as skills-based volunteering — are built upon this idea. For volunteers, it enables skills development, and improves wellbeing by connecting their work with their purpose. Volunteers Align Personal and Professional Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. This volunteer service opportunity was intended to provide the homeless with job opportunities and an income through electronics recycling. On the wall, was something that Robert Egger referred to as “Codified Transparency&# a bill of volunteer rights.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. Volunteer Alliance Projects. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. The website also enables nonprofits to invite their users and volunteers to post feedback about them. This exchange is empowering, and technology has made it more accessible.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2024

One of my favorite colleagues and co-host of our Eskin Fundraising Training Non-Profit Empowerment webinar series, Rhanda Luna, has been hired as Director of Corporate Giving and Special Events for SAFE, based in Austin, Texas. Review progress on these goals and objectives at least quarterly.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Defining ‘community service’ broadly Based on surveys and focus groups, Leveraging the Potential of Youth Service found that young people ages 18 to 25 defined “community service” broadly, beyond volunteering with a nonprofit organization.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn. Leverage fundraising tools like Flipcause to raise funds on social media by creating and promoting engaging campaigns, utilizing event registration tools, and offering volunteer opportunities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. You can’t force people to volunteer. Look at the other assets you have in your community, like skills, volunteers and goodwill, and put them to use in sustaining it. A set of principles and guidelines which we believe underpin the most successful ‘social by social’ projects. People want control.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2024

board, advisory group members, committee members, active volunteers, major donors, key staff), and invite them all to attend. You’ll want to be prepared to then immediately provide volunteers with assignments so they can hit the ground running! When storytelling has concluded, ask the group for feedback Ask first for volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. Next, she asked for a volunteer to come to the front of the room and read their card. She modeled reading hers.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

We’ve provided links to the organizations and to their donation pages; if you are local to any of them and want to volunteer, there will be links for that on these sites as well. By doing a bit of research, you can find out where the current need is greatest. Here are some places to start. Bail and legal funds. National Bail Fund Network.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. We have a recipe for how to address disaster quickly and effectively: kitchens and volunteers. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. million meals!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

They’ve also leveled the playing field and have a special category for smaller nonprofits (under $1 million budget). And there is also an award category for individual champion, whether board members, volunteers, or a free agent. They used social media to help win the DC Best Place to Volunteer Contest.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Tech Recycling Day This volunteer service opportunity was intended to provide the homeless with job opportunities and an income through electronics recycling. On the wall, was something that Robert Egger referred to as "Codified Transparency" a bill of volunteer rights.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We got the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Elizabeth Dove, the Director of Corporate Citizenship for Volunteer Canada. Hear how she sheds light on the nonprofits they serve, how they’ve shifted their strategies, how companies can support in innovative ways through volunteering, and more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. TechSoup works with 32 partners throughout the world to provide Microsoft products at a discount.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Measuring volunteer impact benefits more that your program: it empowers YOU. The life of a volunteer manager can feel lonely. This purpose often means we are the only ones in charge of scheduling and coordinating volunteers. As volunteer managers, we know this to be true of our volunteers, right?

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.-Muslim Muslim relations.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world. The prize money aside, what impressed me most about the winners is the creativity that each has shown in combining multiple disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have other standard training opportunities, such as for volunteers or for advancing one’s position, you can also implement new materials into those programs. . This article sets up a scenario of an animal shelter that has multiple locations and relies heavily on volunteer involvement.

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Kindful

AUGUST 17, 2021

Digital technology is making it increasingly easy for boards and volunteers to engage with and support their organizations. Create social media messages with clear calls to action—to donate, volunteer, post, or share stories and events. Making the case for digital fundraising . Get your marketing department to help with this.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

3 steps for engaging in "empowerment marketing," including identifying your organizational values, telling the truth and being interesting. He volunteered on the Strategy Committee for the Boulder Farmers Market, the Board of Prevent Human Trafficking, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of Citizen Effect.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Uphill Battles: Understanding the Challenges While their impacts are undeniably vast, nonprofits face their fair share of challenges: dwindling funds, donor burnout, volunteer retention, and the ever-pressing need to modernize in a rapidly evolving digital world. Real-time Analytics and Reporting: Knowledge is power.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. Cheryl Timoney (CT): At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a huge focus on the shift to virtual and engaging volunteers and the community through digital means. How do you do that in an all-virtual world?

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Qgiv

JUNE 11, 2024

This fundraising approach relies on the community’s ability to come together with the active support of its members, including donors, volunteers, staff, and beneficiaries. Community-centric fundraising (CCF) is a fundraising method that prioritizes the collective well-being of the community over individual organizational goals.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Taking it further: Boosting empowerment through calendars You can also use calendars to support growth. By highlighting fundraising events , board training, and volunteer opportunities, the calendar makes everyone feel included and part of the team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Volunteer organizing] felt very manual and inefficient, but they won some things. “By day I would be working in the bio-instrumentation lab at MIT on medical injection devices, and by nights and weekends we were organizing students to support these janitors in their bid for better pay and working conditions,” he said.

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