Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… Look how Selfies With AEDs saw their social media ambassador was posting from the city where a partner organization is located and took the opportunity to tag the partner (and share their advocacy campaign in the process).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. and the ps3 tag. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We need to structure content to answer voice queries, tag our images for visual search tools, and create conversational interfaces with users. For example, you say people experiencing homelessness rather than the homeless to make sure people retain their personhood and arent defined by an often temporary condition. Personalize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. Tags: Free Agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The “5 in 10” tag line reflected how donors could learn through videos and stories about 5 nonprofit issue areas in 10 minutes. Example using the issue of homelessness: First, use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people begging for money from drive-by cars or pedestrians. One issue would be highlighted every month.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last year, I connected with Stephanie Rudat over a year ago when we were both named on a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following. (It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Tag friends in Egypt, and those active in this movement in your posts/tweets to broaden impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. Tags: birthday twitter. I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. What could be more fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Tags: twitter. Some will launch sooner, while others have already swung into action. This cause-related campaign has a big fancy web site and nonprofit partners.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. When we are focused on impact, we are able to see potential collaborations we may have missed before when we looked only at our programs or services.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to "meals for homeless children," just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In an attempt to create a demo to explain tagging and social tagging to some folks who run a ctc that works with homeless for Friday, I came up with the metaphor of a potluck dinner. All you have to do is upload a photo of the food to flickr and tag it beth_potluck. Here's on one of the desserts.

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2009

Photo Gallery: Connections for San Francisco's Homeless. Tags: Events. While several of us were in San Francisco for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we helped install a wireless network in a local community center.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Tags: Nonprofit. We want to figure out how to do a better job letting people know who we are and why we matter in a way they’ll listen. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. Convio Summit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

I got on Beth Kanter ’s case a while back , when she was posting about "Tagging for social change. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change." Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. They used Perky across channels to invite people to donate a Turkey for a Thanksgiving meal for Second Harvest to distribute.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Compelling mission (like feeding the hungry or housing the homeless). Tags: Fundraising Planning fundraising plan nonprofit fundraising. They are things that you have going for you that you can leverage in your plan. Here are some examples of nonprofit organizational assets: . Large donor base. Well-known staff or Board members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. Tags: Online Fundraising. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way to increasing open and click-through rates and more importantly - raising more money for your nonprofit. Short, Catchy Subject Lines. What’s Wrong with it?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech BBNC Blackbaud Net Community Non-Profit. Think about it this way. You’re about to send out this month’s eNewsletter and you want to focus on a call to give, but which topic do you focus on?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 His project InvidiblePeople.tv

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. 350 is an excellent example: people around the world used a tag “350ppm” to start uniting their content whether it was blog posts or analysis or videos.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Startup World’s winner in Cape Town Pashash is a cross between Pinterest and Facebook- When you see an item you want to buy, you take a picture of it, tag the store and price and share it. Everything you share is then added to your profile, which serves as a virtual reflection of the things you love.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

You should do some research into each of these SEO content writing points: Header Structure/Hierarchy Title Tags & Meta Descriptions Best Practices Call To Actions To target your keywords, try to use them naturally throughout your content, particularly in the title tag and headers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. I developed a small refurbishing operation with a bunch of homeless guys who were much better at fixing things than I. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. They''ll be visiting 7 cities along the way, sharing the stories of homeless youth and the folks fighting to end this crisis. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

They've kindly given us permission to host this stream of a conversation between Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer and his wife, Janus, about how Dr. Greer started working with Miami’s homeless. Tags: Spotlight. with roots in FDR's Works Progress Administration. Salinger who took a trip to meet the reclusive author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

But as Mark Horvath pointed out in his remarks and (we’ve had many discussions about this issue ), he and his work has not always been greeted with open arms and an invitation to lunch by nonprofit homeless agencies or government entities. In fact, he’s been told in no uncertain terms to get out of their community!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. on homeless issues, access to healthcare, or wetland preservation are. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. In this age of unfettered access and. crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by. Consult your.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. Tags: sxsw. And, it's amazing what we can accomplish when we get together. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv And that will make all the difference.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. They''ll be visiting 7 cities along the way, sharing the stories of homeless youth and the folks fighting to end this crisis. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

With a small staff, big hearts, and the right mix of singles, bunts and a few homeruns, MLF continues to raise more funds, increase its volunteer base of more than 12,000 and accomplish its mission of providing food, clothing, dignity, and housing to the homeless and indigent working poor. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

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