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Social Listening: What Is It + How Does It Help Fundraising?

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Social media is an increasingly powerful fundraising tool, considering that 55% of people who engage with nonprofits on social media end up taking some sort of action. You can accomplish this through social listening, which involves monitoring and joining online conversations about your organization or related topics.

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Keeping the Social Impact Going When a Pilot Project Ends

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7 billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. By Kevin Tan & Nadia Ahmad Samdin.

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5 Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Social Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With these methods, your nonprofit can advocate for general philanthropy and altruism. Once supporters choose a charity to fundraise for, they can share their fundraiser with friends and family on social media to rally around their cause. Many charities are dedicated to causes that are impacted by public policy.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Participating as panelists are Jule Hall of the Innocence Project, Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Amarah Sedreddine , general counsel at Sedreddine & Whoriskey. I think sometimes, when we talk about nonprofits and philanthropy, we get caught up in financial structures.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It inspired them as they marched and protested as part of the Black Lives Matter movement; it inspired them as they engaged in nonpartisan campaigns to change state and local policies; and it inspired them as they worked to get out the vote. As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.