Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The theme of Tweetsgiving is gratitude, playing off the US national holiday of gratitude, Thanksgiving. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids. Other goodies will also be raffled off to raise money for Epic Change at the event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration enacted the nation’s first-ever social policy with the programs of the Social Security Act. In more developed nations with high levels of state capacity like the U.S., Johnson’s Great Society programs of the 1960s.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

As a means to aid with post-covid recovery, the Israel Tennis and Education Centers set up an emergency relief fund to serve Israeli children in need of essential services. If you’re looking to fill a funding gap, raise money for an unexpected emergency, or get an innovative idea off the ground, crowdfunding is another viable strategy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If we post on Facebook to remind our supporters it’s National Pancake Day, then it seems insensitive (for example) to not remember Hanukkah. By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population. There are 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

We’ve just added our first books in Tamil and Hindi (two national languages of India), and so it was fun to brainstorm about the possibilities. The coolest demo was of a high quality Arabic text-to-speech synthesizer. I could see that the adaptive technology possibilities for Arabic are both real and exciting.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

Check out this example from Israel Tennis & Education Centers Foundation. The Faith in Action National and Network Federations is working with a woman named Rosa to keep her from being deported. With most birthday party options still off the table as we socially distance, people are looking for creative ways to celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. Organization(s) : mGive & Keep A Child Alive, mGive & the Washington Nationals, The MLB and the Children’s National Medical Center, mGive & The All-Star Game, Stand Up for Cancer, and Make a Wish Foundation. Organization(s) : The U.S.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Hype Services, Like Services Some organizations who provide a service see a huge spike in online giving around the High Holidays (think of tickets to services for college students or the planting of a tree in Israel ). I love the National Council of Jewish Women and American Jewish World Service Rosh Hashanah ecards, putting a little web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

In advance of next week’s “ National Walking Day ,” I did an interview with Gina about how her organization’s culture is changing one sneaker at a time. Because we run large group bike rides (all over the US and in Israel) the office culture prioritized bikes as the mode of moving.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

And Dr. Susan Blumenthal , with whom I had the pleasure of traveling to Israel last year, spoke of an initiative during her tenure as the Assistant U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Surgeon General called ? Missiles to Mammograms ? Pubmed Central ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. Daniel steered the organization through this growth. He was born and raised in New York City.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2011

Caretakers of the land and people of Israel. Jewish National Fund ). Here are some of my favorites: Funding research that helps Dogs Live Longer, Healthier Lives ( Canine Health Foundation ). Improving the Lives of All Affected by Autism ( Autism Society ). Preventing injuries: at home, at play, and on the way. SafeKids ).

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). Areas served: US and Israel. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, 100 Women Charitable Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). Areas served: US and Israel. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, 100 Women Charitable Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

Soon celebrities and main stream media joined in the fun as it continues to sweep the nation. Technology rock stars have also joined the bandwagon, including Bill Gates , Robert Scoble , and Mark Zuckerberg (who was challenged to do this by Chris Christy, Governor of NJ).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. It's crowdsourcing for human rights." Keyes is not controversy averse, though.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2024

The increase corresponded with a relative decline in support for national organizations during the same period. The proportion of people targeting their generosity locally, nationally or internationally is relatively stable, at 65%, 28% and 9% respectively.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Center helps to build local, regional, and national networks of young activists, across interests, constituencies and geographies. It's about Israel and Lebanon and I was like, "I'll definitely do that, I'll definitely do that." You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student. The training will be lead by Parag Mehta, Director of Training at the Democratic National Committee and filmmaker Eric Byler.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

That ability to stand in awe and reverence for what a precious gift it is, just to be alive, and just to share this planet with so many other beautiful sister and brother species and nations and neighborhoods. When you go to Palestine or you go to Israel or wherever, you can't say, "Well that's George Bush."

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