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18 Articles match "2008","California"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Marketing Community
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Soliciting (a) nominees for the Guidance Group and (b) funding to support the development activities of the next year are the main action items you can help us with. Bob Marshall and Beth Sundstrom hosted a breakout session on the results of their survey of 408 social marketing list serve members and attendees at the 2008 USF Social Marketing in Public Health and CDC Health Communication, Marketing and Media conferences. The leadership of the American Social Marketing Association (ASMA), a California-oriented social marketing member organization, has decided to join in. The momentum for a global social marketing organization gained more traction and acceleration in 3 meetings at the recent Social Marketing in Public Health Conference.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Much has been written about candidate use of online tools in the 2008 election.
The focus was California’s Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriages in the state. But here’s one of the best pieces I’ve seen regarding sophisticated use of the internet for issue campaigning.
Whatever your position on the issue, the online tactics successfully employed by the ProtectMarriage.com coalition deserve your attention.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
The document released on Friday reports the findings of the project’s first survey, conducted during the summer of 2008 in the Philadelphia region. The study was conducted by Alan Brown of WolfBrown , the same firm responsible for a similarly enlightening project surveying people in California’s Inland Region . As I noted last Friday , Beth Kanter , Alison Fine , and Katya Andresen all weighed in recently on the recession and its effect on arts organizations. At the end of her post, Beth suggests, “Maybe arts organizations need to be doing ‘Social Capital Impact’
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Here in California, I often see bumper stickers that say, "I saw the Mystery Spot ." I drove behind a car yesterday that made me wish I had my camera with me. It was a city parking enforcement vehicle, sporting bumper stickers like those I've often seen on other municipal vehicles such as police cars and utility trucks. But this one took it to another level.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Governor Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver have worked hard to get California to appoint a Service Director to its cabinet level--and both McCain and Obama vowed to add this position to their cabinets at the federal levels as well. As promised , here is the guest post from CK following up on the proceedings from the ServiceNation Summit: Having just come off of ServiceNation's Summit I'm aflutter with thoughts. It's not every day that I attend an event with 500+ leaders of non-profit, NGO and social change organizations.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Two grants are available for art; one in California and one in art education in the United States. California Community Foundation Invites Los Angeles Artists to Apply for Cover Art Award Deadline: May 4, 2007 The California Community Foundation's ( [link] ) Cover Art Award is designed to support an emerging Los Angeles artist working in painting, drawing, or printmaking by purchasing an artwork that best reflects the foundation's annual theme: "Arts and Culture in Diverse Communities." From The Foundation Center... Below, are three grants.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Image via WikipediaTweets were everywhere yesterday and today, publicly mourning the loss of several daily newspapers all over the country and the disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, filing of Chapter 11 for the Chicago-based Tribune newspapers.Here in Santa Cruz County, California, my marketing director friend at California Greybears was delighted to find the Sentinel had give
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
10) Motorola Offers Innovation Generation Grants for Science and Math Education Programs Deadline: March 1, 2008 In 2008, the Motorola Foundation will provide a total of $4 million in Innovation Generation Grants to organizations that engage K-12 students and teachers in the U.S. Funding priority will be placed on pioneering programs that engage students and teachers in innovative, hands-on activities; teach innovation and creative problem-solving skills; focus on girls and underrepresented minorities; engage Motorola employees as volunteers; take place in Arizona, California,
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A New Paper Icon ApproachAt Staples right now is this inventive paper icon campaign for City of Hope, a research and treatment hospital in Southern California with a specialty in cancer.It goes for the typical $1. When you scratch off the overprint, you get a bounce-back discount coupon for savings from $5 to $50 on subsequent purchases of specific items at Staples.While there have long been
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
TOMS Shoes of Santa Monica, California has taken a page from MAC Cosmetics and created a strikingly straightforward cause-related marketing promotion. When you buy a pair of their shoes, another pair is given to a kid who needs them.Here’s the language from the TOMS website: “you buy a pair of TOMS and I give a pair to a child on your behalf.”The The shoes are Blake Mycoskie’s more fashionable take
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Located in Riverside, California I just recently returned from Nigeria, where I was taken to two villages to hear of their concerns for the villagers and children.
...Tags: [Blogger's Note: What follows is a letter I received from a startup nonprofit asking for advice on how to get an HIV/AIDS charity off the ground along with my response.]I I
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Here's a wonderful quote from a meeting I attended this morning of Santa Cruz County (California) nonprofit Executive Directors, discussing their response to the current financial crisis: "Don't panic. Not because there isn't reason to panic - there is - but because panic doesn't work." So, what is your organization doing to respond to the current economic crisis? Have you felt it yet, or have you somehow been spared?
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Thank you. ] Allegations that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles, California has operated at a deficit for 75% of the time, during the last eight years swarmed the philanthropy media, at the end of last week. The California attorney general's office is now, due to these potential legal discrepancies, auditing the Museum of Contemporary Art. [Please help us . We at The Grant Plant, LLC want to understand what nonprofits need from the services that they hire, today, given the economy; so please take our short survey.
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