What are you favorite nonprofit blogs? Not personal blogs about nonprofits, or by people who work for nonprofits, but by the nonprofits themselves.
I am giving a talk about nonprofits and blogging at the Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits sponsored by the United Way of Kern County and would love some fresh examples. I have my list of favs that I often use, but I would love to highlight some new ones.
I’ll send the first person to post the names of five amazing, effective, fun to read nonprofit blogs a Have Fun * Do Good mug or tote bag (your choice).
The guidelines are:
• The blog must be written by staff of a nonprofit of NGO
• It has an RSS feed
• It allows comments
• You enjoy reading it!
Thanks for your help!
Here are the ones I like:
So No Child Must Wait – http://interplast.blogs.com/interplast/
First Book – http://blog.firstbook.org/
Makehope – http://makehope.typepad.com/makehope/
Benetech – http://www.benetech.org/about/beneblog_archives/beneblog_archive.shtml
iAbolish – http://iabolish.blogspot.com/
Hope this is helpful!
Oops – I realized that the Benetech blog does not allow comments. So to make up for that, my favorite example of a public agency blog (which I think qualifies for nonprofit) is the LA Fire Department’s site (http://lafd.blogspot.com). I’ll be posting an interview with the LAFD blogger this week (I hope) on my site.
Have you ever seen Shaping Youth?
http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/index.php
Founded by an advertising/marketing veteran,
Shaping Youth is demanding accountability from that industry for its negative messages targeting children… She’s got her work cut out for her, but this blog is a GREAT read…
Thanks for the links, Nedra and Betsy!
Nedra, It looks like you are the winner! Let me know if you would like a mug or tote and where to send it to.
Betsy, I am familiar with the Shaping Youth blog. Amy is a frequent commenter here as well.
Britt
My favorite 5:
Katya Anderson’s Nonprofit Marketing blog:
http://www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com/
The Nonprofit Congress blog:
http://www.nonprofitcongress.org/blog
Where Most Needed
http://www.wheremostneeded.org/
N-TEN’s blog
http://nten.org/blog
Idealware’s blog
http://www.idealware.org/blog/index.html
And there’s no relation between Nedra and me!
Hope this helps extend the reach of all these blogs!
I don’t have too much time to read blogs, but I really like Shaping Youth.org. I’m the host of a radio show, Childhood Matters, and will soon (next week) have our podcasting up and running. All of our shows are on the web at http://www.childhoodmatters.org
Check us out!
Just signed up for your blog.
Rona
One blog in particular on which I’d like to shine some light is
http://povertyinitiativeappalachia.blogspot.com/.
It’s an annual, short-term, narrative-based service-learning blog maintained by students of the Union Theological Seminary — progressive stuff. The nonprofit of which it’s a part is
http://www.povertyinitiative.org/.
I hope this helps. Thanks for the engaging prompt.
Thanks for encouraging people to submit their favorate blogs. I will check these out.
I’ve been inspired by the blog exchange idea since Betsy first launched hers about two years ago. Now I’m trying to find a volunteer who will help create a blog exchange that connects volunteers, donors, board members, youth, etc. who are involved in volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs.
My goal is to aggregate these blogs in the Links Library at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org and to encourage them to blog topics during the May and November period when we host a conference in Chicago (http://www.tutormentorconference.org) and when we’re trying to create public awareness that would attract more volunteers and donors to these programs.
I hope that some of the people who read blogs like yours will be people who already blog these topics, and might want to help create the type of exchange I describe.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. They are a huge help!
Britt
http://blog.myspace.com/ihadsa