Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook.   The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together.   GiveMN has been hosting their giving day, Give to the Max Day for the past few years and working as a peer coach.     As part of the … [Read more...]

Over the years,  I've attended events where a representatives from Facebook shared with nonprofits how to use the platform more effectively.   During the Q/A after the presentation, one of the most frequent questions asked has been, "Will Facebook be making grants to nonprofits?"   The answer is always something along the lines of "We are giving the platform to nonprofits to use for free."       Earlier this week, in line with that CSR strategy, Facebook announced that it was rolling out a … [Read more...]

On Tuesday,Dec.3rd,  the GivingTuesday logo was blazing in neon on Times Square.   The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter.    As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday is making too much noise.  And indeed it did: The #GivingTuesday hashtag was used 269,000 times in the 24 hour December 3 period, (as well as 406,000 times in the last 7 days, and 514,000 times in the last 30 days).  That’s an average of 11,208 tweets per hour, 186 times per minute. #GivingTuesday … [Read more...]

Happy #GivingTuesday! It is the official start of  giving season and year-end campaigns.   For the past three years,  I've been a fundraising champion for NTEN, the premier organization for nonprofit techies. Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone.      In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST,  I'm going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can sign up for the chat here.    I've also joined a group of many awesome nonprofit techies who are serving as "Champions" and launching fundraisers to help NTEN reach its goal of $50,000.    You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. NTEN offers nonprofit techies like me the opportunity to connect … [Read more...]