"One person can make a difference, and every person should try." ~ John F. Kennedy It's been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college. Ever since, I've continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia. I've donated my share of the royalties from my book, The Networked Nonprofit, and feel proud that its been able … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2011
Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?
Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network. It is a great technique to keep up with your field. I've been teaching content curation workshops this year and will teach it in the Middle East at the E-Mediat conference in March, 2012 (more about that in a later post). If that … [Read more...]
Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World
I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofits with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. So, when I heard that the Foundation Center and the Center for Effective Philanthropy were hosting an event "Transparency and Effectiveness," I was curious, especially given the speakers and the framing: Foundations are pressed to be more transparent about how they work andmore effective about achieving … [Read more...]
Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar
Note from Beth: Back in 2009, the first week I started as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I had the pleasure of meeting Holly Minch, Founder of LightBox Collaborative, who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change. I had the opportunity to design a workshop with her called "Aligning Social Media with Strategic Communications" over two years ago for a small group of people from … [Read more...]
Money for Good Study: Sharing Information About Your Org's Results Can Attract More Donors
MFGII summary findings Nov 2011 View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc. GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII). The findings suggest that if nonprofits are more transparent in sharing information about their results online that they could attract more donors. The research found that two-thirds of individuals do not typically research the organizations they donate to compared those that advise donors and foundation … [Read more...]