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by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Our final Gear Up for Giving Ask the Guru session before America's Giving Challenge launches took place today with Sarah Koch from Causes. We were excited to end our series with this session in order to give our audience a chance to ask an expert...
by Beth Kanter
Giving Guru Beth Kanter is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. She is a frequent contributor to many nonprofit technology web sites, blogs, magazines,...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
We had another great Gear Up for Giving Ask the Guru Session yesterday with Holly Ross, Executive Director of NTEN. Not only were viewers enthusiastically asking great questions, but Holly got to quickly crowdsource a name for the NTEN penguin...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Thanks to all who participated in today's Gear Up for Giving Ask the Guru Session with Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global. If you missed the live session, you can still get her great advice from the video below.  Here are some key...
by Holly Ross
Giving Guru Holly Ross is the Executive Director of NTEN, where she has spent more than five years leading the organization in finding ways to help their members use technology to make the world a better place. She is also editor of the book,...
by Marnie Webb
Giving Guru Marnie Webb is Co-CEO of TechSoup Global where under her leadership the NetSquared initiative is in its fourth year of helping nonprofits worldwide use innovative web tools to increase their reach and impact. A sought-after speaker and...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
As we wrap up the third installment of our Gear Up for Giving Ask the Gurus session with author and activist Allison Fine, we are thrilled with the thoughtful and strategic questions the audience continues to email, chat and tweet in. Below are a...
by Jean Case
We are very pleased to announce today that the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a national competition launching on October 7. The Challenge, which will be featured in an...
by Allison Fine
Giving Guru Allison Fine is an author, activist and Senior Fellow at Demos: A Network for Change and Action. She has written extensively on social media for social change and the effects of new media tools on democracy and activism. Allison will be...
by Kristin Ivie
Our Gear Up for Giving Ask the Gurus sessions continued today with more great advice for nonprofits who are learning to use social media for outreach, marketing and fundraising. Katya Andresen, COO of Network for Good and nonprofit marketing blogger...
by Katya Andresen
Giving Guru Katya Andresen serves as Chief Operating Officer of Network for Good and is a well-known speaker, author and blogger about nonprofit marketing, online outreach, fundraising and social media. She has trained thousands of causes in...
by Kristin Ivie
Thanks to everyone who joined our first live Ask the Gurus session, during which Geoff Livingston shared his perspective on how nonprofit professionals and supporters can leverage social media for their cause. If you weren't able to join our first...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
We are thrilled to launch our Gear Up for Giving: Social Media Tutorials for Nonprofits initiative today. As mentioned in previous posts, Gear Up for Giving is a month-long series of trainings designed to help nonprofits understand how to best...
by Geoff Livingston
Our first Giving Guru, Geoff Livingston, has spent more than 16 years as a public relations strategist in Washington, D.C. and has been dubbed a "local blogging guru" by the Washington Post. Now Is Gone, his book released in 2007, is an award-...
by Kari Dunn Saratovsky
We’ve seen a great response since announcing our Gear up For Giving Series earlier this week – but it’s safe to say, we've only just begun. Starting next Tuesday, we will be launching a full set of online tools and live streamed seminars aimed at...
by Jean Case
It's hard to believe that when we launched our first America's Giving Challenge in 2007, social media was a somewhat new phenomenon, largely comprised of early adopters to technology, Facebook had only a fraction of the more than 250 million users...