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376 Articles match "Communities","Service"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Of particular note for this forum is that social marketing has been included in the list to be forwarded to the Department of Health and Human Services for final clearance and approval this Fall. As many of us celebrate this accomplishment, I want to extend my thanks and props, first and foremost, to Bob Marshall for his untiring efforts and perseverance to co-lead our work with the HC/HIT workgroup and organize the outreach to the social marketing community and stakeholders during the public comment period. In a process that began more than 15 months ago , the US national health objectives are beginning to take final form.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The campaign was a great boost for Foursquare as location based services were all the rave at SXSWi this year. Kerrie LeBourveau , a member of the StudioGood team that executed the campaign, explains.
“It was a great way to energize an already active community. The Foursquare Checkin for Charity campaign at SXSW 2010 I first reported on last week was a big success for the Save the Children Haiti Relief Fund .
By the end of SXSWi , attendees had logged over 135,000 checkins on Foursquare.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Don't get me wrong--I'm a big believer in building relationships, and community, online. Event-management service Eventbrite has just introduced Eventbrite for Causes , a discounted program (no fee for free events) are designed for nonprofit needs. In a time when we rely more and more on virtual interaction, face-to-face gatherings are more important than ever. But face-to-face can't be replaced.
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The Best from the Nonprofit Marketing Community
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Monday, March 16, 2009
I have written and talked about the need to develop a global social marketing community and organization ( The Global Marketing Challenge ) that could be crafted around the following ideals: To continually improve the knowledge base and skill level of people
who This digital community (social network) should weave together the strands of social marketing that now exist. who use social marketing in their professional activities to improve
the the health and social conditions of people around the world. With the purpose of creating a set of experiences for program managers;
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Your Cultural Clipping Service has gathered up some useful gems from the past week that you might have missed.
This piece by Brad Stone in the New York Times gives an overview of Facebook’s growth -- including its recent 8-month doubling in size! -- and looks at the challenges the social network faces now that the community it built feels empowered. Tags: arts marketing community cultural clipping service cultural marketing facebook fundraising Search the Social Web Graphic Design for Regular People Raising Major Gifts with Social Media Facebook at 5 Ahhh, Friday.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
How can we entice more of them here? Our friends at Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering, and a whole lot more time acting. Does this sound familiar? "Prior to 2008, we had no coordinated online plan. Online donations trickled in on their own."
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Friday, August 14, 2009
More important, what can the average nonprofit learn from this historic campaign and what can never be replicated? A great new study by M+R Strategic Services, Wilburforce Foundation and The Brainerd Foundation attempts to answer these questions. This means purchasing a good Email Service Provider (ESP), investing in building and cleaning your online list, making your website easy to navigate and interesting to read, etc. 5. It's almost a year since President Obama's election, but there is still a LOT of interest in the staggering success of Obama for America (OFA). In particular,
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Friday, June 26, 2009
What ChangeMatters will be doing a lot more of, as a result of our participation: Looking for more ways to connect community-based arts organizations with community service action groups; Collaborating with colleagues to help service organizations raise more resources, improve governance, and plan for growth; Adding more tools to enable us to work more effectively as a growing "new economy consulting firm" (thanks to Laura Gassner Ottin g for this conceptual framework); Developing a board orientation program for arts organizations; Finding fresh venues and creating new ways to just
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Stephanie Strom wrote States Move to Revoke Charities' Tax Exemption , published February 27, describing how poor states are seriously considering charging taxes to the nonprofits within their jurisdiction (which of course are granted the benefit of tax free dollars in reciprocity for the services and programs that they provide to communities at no or low costs to beneficiaries). As Strom asserts, what about the critical services that nonprofits provide to our communities, especially to those with no or little resources? From The New York Times ... As Strom indicates
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Can your nonprofit's supporters (volunteers, donors, community collaborators) or your agency's beneficiaries (clients, etc.) If you do not currently offer a newsletter, but your organization is considering it, conduct a cost benefit analysis and gather current pricing for all services, steps, and needed supplies that are involved. more donors, a more informed and connected community base, etc.). __ In a newsletter your organization can acknowledge You may already think that you've fully tapped out all of the potential that a newsletter can do for your nonprofit. Perhaps
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Google Android for one), that’s not the point, the tools will change, however the concept of community-powered niche applications is here to stay.
the website), enter the era of micro niche service delivery (i.e. The concept of applications designed and developed by niche communities for niche communities at micro-costs (99 cents on average) is too profound for any of us to fully comprehend at the moment. I recently switched smartphones (now representing 50% of the worldwide cell phone market ) from RIM ’s Blackberry Storm to Apple’s iPhone 3GS .
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Deadline: April 30, 2009 Entries Invited for Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance The aim of the Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance is to propel Community Development Financial Institutions to a higher level of growth, success, and sustainability. MacArthur Foundation . Opportunity Finance programs provide capital and financial services that benefit low-income and -wealth people, helping them to build homes, schools, small businesses, and community facilities. From The Foundation Center...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
In a recent post of The Cohen Report, Social Entrepreneurism at the Public Trough , Rick Cohen shines a flashlight on the primary form of entrepreneurism of many of the leading national community service groups: Federal government funding. and Public Allies and more), and the leaders of the group of extraordinary national service organizations created mostly during the 90's (Teach for America, City Year, etc.) I don't think it'snecessarily a bad thing, but I do I agree that it is important to be out and honest about this.
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