Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I invited her to share her thoughts about cause fatigue and scaling as she launches the Twestival Local. My gut told me to think locally and use this international momentum and inspire people to shine a spotlight on a local cause, or a cause that a community would get behind. So, can we have a Twestival every week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

The locals told him about several excellent small local nonprofits that provided supplies and help. One guy told him how he had broken his leg and had been living in his car until volunteers from a local nonprofit came and found him and took him to the doctor. David's article ended up being published in Salon.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

“This is ‘for the community by the community’ education and engages the best local experts to share their knowledge and experience for free.". Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Also, phone calls to local organizations prior to the event might help with no-show rate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. Similar exchange systems were also established with the police department and local nonprofits that might refer youth to the shelter. Then we conducted volunteer interviews. There weren’t many options in Alaska, so I had to expand my search.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. They could help you coordinate a corporate volunteering day or connect you with a local club that is seeking a volunteering opportunity. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Schedule local events in advance along your road trip route. Pitch Press - Try to drum up press coverage from local outlets along your route. Connecting and enriching a national movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups. Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. Each localized event is putting its own unique flair to the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This could involve setting specific goals or quotas for the number of diverse candidates that are interviewed, as well as making sure that the pool of candidates that are considered for board positions is diverse. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. We are testing it on the ground with these social champions, and with curriculum, and with local leaders.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. Many of them don't have the clothes required to go to a job interview. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Interview Constituents. For example, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide food and supplies for the homeless might create a registry with nonperishable foods, shower products, vitamins, and other useful products. Interview Constituents. One way to do this is by interviewing your constituents. . Volunteer Opportunities.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

They aren’t interested in large-scale issues like ending homelessness — that goal feels too big. But providing meals and blankets for the homeless people in their community is more attainable. Interview someone who has received your services about the difference a donor made in their lives — a donor , not your nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. Many of them don''t have the clothes required to go to a job interview. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Your organization might use Google ads or set up a booth at a local event to connect with potential supporters, for example. For example, you might send half of your list of contacts an email that opens with a short anecdote about a beneficiary and send the other half a similar email that includes a video interview with that beneficiary.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The following is an overview of a BetterWorld customer, HealthRIGHT 360 and interview with Dave Dayter, IT Director of HealthRIGHT 360 discussing their experience with BetterWorld and the TechSoup VoIP Donation Program. This is a guest post by Salem Kimble, Manager of Online Strategies with TechSoup donor partner BetterWorld Telecom.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2009

And with the post-announcement news that the group secured donations of over $1000 to proceed Austin-based Arts from the Streets who brings positive, nurturing, encouraging experiences and relationships into the lives of homeless individuals through twice-weekly art courses, Lights.Camera.Help. A brief interview with Director Layton Blaylock.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2016

Here’s an example, let’s say that your organization has a homeless shelter and the city that you live in has recently cut funding for local homeless shelters. Waiting a week to respond to a story the local TV stations were covering means that you’ve likely missed the opportunity. Respond in a Timely Fashion.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Here’s the industry that we’re trying to fill, and now here’s a list of potential candidates, let’s interview these candidates.” ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions. Here are the characteristics that we’re looking for.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Project Open Hand’s emphasis on volunteering information, video interviews, blog content, and social media feeds are great examples that you can implement into your own site. The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society works to improve the lives of homeless and in-need animals across the Ontario region. These include: Local events calendar.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. And as I said, these are not necessarily all federal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. Now there are organized events happening locally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Are there any who you'd like to hear interviewed on the Big Vision Podcast ? Mike Rocco | City Hall Fellows | San Francisco, CA City Hall Fellows creates the next generation of enlightened leaders for local government empowering them to be effective change agents. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16. Twitter: @cityhallfellows ) 17.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Engage with Local Leaders and Organizations Make an effort to reach out and forge strong partnerships with local leaders, other nonprofits, and community-based organizations. Perhaps there’s an increase in food insecurity, a rise in homelessness, or a new health crisis emerging. The next step is to analyze it critically.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Please note that there is a graphic description of what one women endured, but the rest of the interview is very uplifting--I promise! When we met her, Honorata was homeless.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” Does that make sense? So you raised $20,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey. The earthquakes on February 6 that devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria have left an estimated 54,000 people dead. An estimated 2.2

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Each episode features insights and in-depth interviews with leaders from across the nonprofit, for-profit, and education sectors. For more, read a deep dive into each of the six episode focuses: nutrition insecurity, health equity, workforce development, homelessness, mental health, and climate action. It’s a matter of nutrition.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 21, 2025

They arent interested in large-scale issues like ending homelessness that goal feels too big. But providing meals and blankets for the homeless people in their community is more attainable. Say that, in its simplest form, your unique value proposition is that you provide three meals a day to local children during the summer.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by Robert Safian, former editor-in-chief of Fast Company. The second is when the federal government and the state and local governments pull back, there are more people in need. One is direct funding of nonprofits.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The floods have highlighted the resilience of local people to work together for collective survival in rural Appalachia. There is considerable local inequality that is often overlooked in a region portrayed as one-dimensional. This reality was rarely acknowledged by local and state governments. Yet theyre happening more often.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Small to medium-sized and local nonprofits are challenged to create awareness. Interviews with Experts (e.g., When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank we were able to recruit local celebrity chefs for this purpose, and even one national food writer. Conduct an interview with a trusted expert. Recommendations (e.g., “Top

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