Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

National Public Radio :: Download. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. App Name: NPR News. Updated: March 4, 2010. App Name: Red Cross.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Even so, getting attention from the shrinking, but highly diversified, press pool still takes persistence and creativity. Here are 6 steps to get the press to tell your story: 1. A small story, even an announcement about your special event or volunteer project, in a weekly newspaper could lead to interest from the local TV station.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

— Maybe you’re satisfied with your communications strategy.Perhaps your nonprofit was recently featured on TV or saluted in the local newspaper. Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. And I believe voters would be better educated if we all played American Public Media’s Budget Hero.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The public counts on nonprofit organizations to champion important issues and bring about positive change. Farm-to-Table Job Training: Grow Local Leaders. Media coverage: The local media can bring in a new wave of support for your organization, so you might try reaching out to the press to cover your fundraiser.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Local businesses often look for opportunities to give-back to their community. This allows them to reach out to new potential customers, and receive free publicity through media coverage. to find out what connections they have in the local community. Yet, there are still a number of hard-costs required to produce an event.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

As the weeks pass, the disaster recovery is increasingly shifting out of the hands of professional first-responder organizations into the hands of the local NGO community. The nonprofit sector in Japan has a major role to play now in providing services and support to the devastated local communities.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Feature new directors prominently throughout your social media platforms and send press releases to their local publications and news outlets. Mentors can contact new directors before the meeting to review the agenda, discuss norms for behavior, and answer questions that might be awkward in a more public setting.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map. Direct Content. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. All HRP’s publications are available online. and the European Union.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter."

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Does your nonprofit have a public relations strategy? After all, maintaining your nonprofit’s public profile is a lot of work—and it can often take awhile before you start seeing results. By using thought leadership and social media content you can build your nonprofit public relations strategy on pillars of trust and credibility.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Mastercard ) or issuing periodic press releases announcing aggregate funding to groups of nonprofits (e.g., Microsoft has also made public some of the exact amounts they’ve donated to specific organizations. For instance, the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation announced $62.5 the NBA Foundation ).

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2022

Corporations account for 55% of the total dollar value of grants awarded; foundations and public charities 40%; and high-net-worth individuals for 5%. Candid collects data from publicly available sources, including press releases, websites, membership reports and surveys, and local reporting. Giving by funder type.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This is a great time to set up your GivingTuesday donation page, plan a few publicity blasts, and start approaching donors about commitments. First, decide how much effort you want to put into publicity and promotion. Then feel free to choose one of our suggested publicity plans, or make your own!

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VisionLink

AUGUST 29, 2011

The Red Cross opened more than 500 shelters, providing local assistance across the entire eastern seaboard. The challenge now is to keep the public engaged as the storm resulted in more chaos than the reports of "missing the bullet" would suggest. Our press release about the Top Ten ranking can be read here.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Crisis communications is often studied by public relations practitioners but seldom is it used. The Library system was now charged with informing our patrons [and the taxpaying public] how and why this was happening. . Jenifer R Daniels, Communications & Marketing Specialist, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. What we learned .

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

If you will have a home office, is that allowed by local zoning? Will you have to pay local business taxes? develop templates for proposals and contracts (Nolo Press is a great resource for contracts). Your local government might as well. public speaking. Do you need a rented office or home office? Options include.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward. Ask advocates to send proclamation requests to their local leaders. Advocacy is a long-term calling. This can be done through education as well as action.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Nonprofits and the sector at large will look to funders to lead the charge toward a future of data equity, protecting individuals and communities while unlocking data’s vast potential to address pressing global challenges.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You want to have commitments for about half the money before you go public with the campaign. Having that inner circle donate prior to launching or being public is going to help influence those people who may come in from social media at that point. Stage 4: Go live and share on social media. It’s a huge social motivator!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Case in point is our team’s work with local LGBTI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them establish independent human rights documentation initiatives. We want to address pressing social challenges by prototyping new tools in areas outside our established programs as well as better serving and empowering our current user communities.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language).

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Members of the public pay to participate in voting and/or to participate in the competition. While famous celebrities may be reserved for large nonprofits, there are plenty of speakers, authors, and local celebrities (think politicians, athletes, newcasters) who are within reach for small nonprofits. Competitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I blogged about it on November 16 as part of a trend of focusing online competitions on regional and local givings. To reinforce the local focus of this program, 501( c)(3) non profits with an operating budget of $10 million or less will be eligible. Many other nonprofit and do good bloggers helped promote the contest.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Press Releases . If you want to reach more people and help promote your brand recognition while positively shaping the public’s perception of you – learning a few key strategies and skills around external nonprofit communication is vital. . Potential locality. Newsletter. Social Media. Live Events. What their pain points are.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

They may wish to build good will with their employees, clients, or the general public. They may need to whitewash their reputation, especially if they’ve recently received negative press. They may be seeking inroads into a particular market, and perhaps your constituents represent that market. Back to your worry about “optics.”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We talked to people working with public records extraction in real time, with designers building lightweight, real-time presentation sharing tools, Google engineers have some incredible ideas about ways they hope that their PubSubHubbub real-time protocol will be used – stuff like real-world sensor networks and contact info syncing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As the first social networking website used by the masses, MySpace carried the brunt of bad press. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. MySpace is not just a community of poor people! MySpace is not dangerous. took over MySpace.

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Classy

JUNE 21, 2021

Ask a local business or corporation that aligns with your mission if they’d be interested in teaming up to sell their products in support of a good cause. Establishing strong relationships with local personalities or influential members of your community can generate buzz around your organization and amplify your campaigns.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Government Grants and Contracts Local, state, and federal governments offer grants and contracts for specific projects or programs. Therefore, it’s crucial to invest in crafting a public persona that truly reflects your mission, hones community recognition, and welcomes durable associations with prospective supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Together they will discuss how entrepreneurs, philanthropists, academics, and business leaders can leverage popular media channels, be it games or social media, to address pressing social issues. The winners of the Real-World Games For Change Challenge will present the results of the first public run of their game “ Commons ”.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Worman said that the challenge platforms also promoted local champions who had actually solved a social problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. A single year’s worth of 990s costs over $2,500, arguably to recoup the costs of pressing and mailing all these dics. To view the full text of the report, click here.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 21, 2019

Additionally, many corporations are worried their contributions will go unnoticed by the general public. Cue: the importance of press releases ! Increasingly, philanthropy is being used as a form of public relations or advertising. Think global, act local. Now, corporations are using philanthropy as a business tactic.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

After almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the public is more distrustful and fearful than ever, with climate change being the second biggest fear for respondents.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 20, 2018

However, to reach those people with education, resources and services, you need external aid from the press. Here are six ways to capture the interest of the press and earn media coverage to help you impact your local community. Build relationships with the press. If you want to affect the press, get to know the press.

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Blue Fox

MARCH 5, 2020

This is the step where you generate the powerful content for your future public relations efforts (steps 5 and 6). (1) Ask yourself these questions: What are your most pressing funding needs based on your data? If you don’t have one, consider trading sponsor visibility with a local agency.) trust) in the eyes of donors.

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