Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. Tags: social entrepreneurs O'Reilly Benetech jobs social enterprise Bookshare. We all want to work on Stuff That Matters.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

. – Here's an interesting piece from Paul Lamb in the Christian Science Monitor: "A Facebook protest or online petition is not the same as a sit-in or hunger strike. As activism re-invents itself, the experience of the older generations and the innovations of the young each have something to offer."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. Tags: social entrepreneurs O'Reilly matters. We all want to work on Stuff That Matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2009

billshore is Bill Shore and the CEO of Share Our Strength , an organization dedicated to getting rid of hunger. He tweets a lot about leadership issues and of course, his passion - ending hunger. Last hope for ending Hunger - Washington Post article " (Article here , some folks from Share Our Strength quoted) 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Tags: Training Design. Here’s an example from the Food Bank of Monterey County , a Lucile and David Packard Grantee that I’m coaching this year. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." Help with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Tags: Case Studies Engagement Facebook. Here’s an example from the Food Bank of Monterey County , a Lucile and David Packard Grantee that I’m coaching this year. I like to call it the ladder of love! The very first [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000. One of the campaigns for the Oracle effort during Hunger Awareness Month was “Hunger: Put a Fork in It.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Tyson Foods was willing to donate 100 pounds of protein to the Boston Food Bank per comment on its Hunger Relief blog. (Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog.) . That's a lot of chicken, but the work of addressing hunger never ends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. Tags: hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

It is designed to do more than deliver content on the issue of hunger in Central Texas, it also has interactive components such as a game featuring a virtual "Kitchen Cupboard," where users can stock their kitchen shelves with healthy, non-perishable food items they've caught. Tags: mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

tags: givelist giving ). Before you read any further, go over to Tyson Foods and c omment on this post about hunger in Massachusetts. This comments for food concept was first implemented very successfully by the Austin Social Media Club during August's Hunger Awareness Month HAM Tweetup. Read more here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Innovative Giving: Tyson Foods For Hunger Relief. Tags: fundraising2.0 Innovative Giving: Leverage Your Twitter Network. Innovative Giving: Gaming For Rice. Innovative Giving: Play It Forward With Akoha.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tyson Foods was willing to donate 100 pounds of protein to the Boston Food Bank per comment on its Hunger Relief blog. . tags: givelist giving ). To kick off the event, Bob Collins and I organized a call to action for the group. Social Media Breakfast View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

This book draws on case studies from Donor’s Choose, DoSomething.org, Idealist.org, Move For Hunger, Women Deliver, The USO and decades of experience of running internship programs. This is an excerpt from Whole Whale’s book – The Simple Guide to Building an Awesome Internship Program , now available on Amazon.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There, they welcome local hunters to donate specific, legally tagged, wild game meat, including deer, and they’ve designed an FDA-approved butchering process to package the meat for community members who select that food option. More than 98% of all donations go directly to feeding programs for people facing hunger.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

We recently sent out a thank-you email to thank our community for successes during Hunger Action Month in September. make sure you tag your links in a way that your database can read and track. Ask folks what they are interested in and use that information to change what you report about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Tags: social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

podcast , transcript Jessica Prentice, co-owner of Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen and author of Full Moon Feast: Food and Hunger for Connection podcast , transcript Temra Costa, author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat podcast , transcript You can listen to all of the shows (going all the way back to 2006!)

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Deep in my heart, hunger was and still is an important issue. Tags: Inspiration Major Donors fear fundraising mindset major donor. For example, when I worked at the local Food Bank, I knew that when I did my job, people ate. It was that simple to me. And that helped me be strong to do the things I was timid about doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Tags: change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. Take a quick look around their homebase Web site to easily see their creative use of social media, from bloggers campaigns to Wall Against Hunger. Leave it in the comments.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, it is also worth noting that in addition to their advantages, producing a nonprofit explainer video often comes with a price tag and can be a time-consuming process. Use an engaging and quick opener to convince viewers to care, for example: “More than 9 million children faced hunger in 2021. That’s one in every eight kids.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Based on the response to a couple of how-to articles about Google Analytics I've posted to the NTEN blog recently , we know there's a hunger for more information about how to understand what's going on with your organization's web site. . Tags: NPTech NTEN web analytics. Series Cost : $50 for NTEN Members, $100 for non-members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Facebook users will be able to nominate non profits that serve the general public in the following areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. Tags: fundraising2.0 generosity.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Feeding people does not end hunger. Tags: Change Management Leadership microsoft NPTech Planning. We need to run IT shops that protect our assets while encouraging this innovation. When everyone's a part of process, the revolution happens much more quickly. Open by default.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Other panels on social good explored crowdsourcing ideas to change the world, and brought folks together during the CauseLabs to brainstorm offline solutions to ending hunger in America. Tags: sxsw. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin.

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See3

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The next issue is hunger. Tags: Uncategorized Video youtube. It was all kind of vague. But they just started to pick issues and create contests to encourage people to make videos on that issue. The first issue was animal welfare. Seems to be working. Way to go YouTube! Here you can read YouTube’s blog post on the subject.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

No single organization can tackle hunger in its community. Tags: june holley Leadership network weaving. Flickr photo: Cindy47452 One of the things we know to be true about the work we do: we can't do it alone. No single entity can protect and preserve open spaces. They require multi-dimensional answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. Tags: fundraising2.0 Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Tags: NPTech NTEN data visualization 09NTC. Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could. Are our students learning? .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's hard to imagine why Internet access should matter to a hunger organization or an after-school program, but it does. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. It's a fine place to be. The problem is, not everyone is in here with us, and many of those people are our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

A Sneak Peak of the Pledge to End Hunger Campaign Case Study. Between the for-profit and non-profit organizations leading the Pledge to End Hunger, we had seven existing email address databases. Tags: community engagement guest blogging twitter. If you’re not doing it, someone else will. Cultivated vs. Non-Cultivated Emails.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone. There is no try.".

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone. There is no try.".

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