Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded : 2016 Givebutter is a fast-growing fundraising platform used by more than 30,000 good causes – from youth groups to the world’s largest charities. Founded: 2008 MobileCause has a pretty simple goal: Help nonprofits raise more money with less time and effort. Platform Fee : Free Transaction Fee : 2.9% + $.30 MobileCause.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. How did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers. ROI: You Can't Quantify Love or Can You? Using Metrics for Continuous Learning. You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse for Your Birthday? Birthday Greeting. Beth's 51st Birthday Challenge. Harry's Fundraising Video. Spell my Twitter Name Correctly.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

March 30, 2009 | rabia Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The interactive conference was a unique opportunity for cross-industry learning among 11,000 web geeks from every area of the web. March 27, 2009 | Dave Steadman So nicely put, Ill have to pass along to client. Here, here to relationship building and lasting engagement. Cheers, Ali!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

2008 will be a great year. I'll just end with Beth Kanter's blogging advice rings true: I'll start off the advice with try to get into the habit of writing regularly. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact and sustainability organizations and causes. If you take Matthew’s excellent advice, a great option is to invest in nonprofit system integration. Research backs that up.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? And, if you have a minute to offer some advice. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? And, if you have a minute to offer some advice. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It's filled with good advice on this topic. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Beaconfire is (again) creating a nptech space at SXSW in Austin this March, and they want to make sure your cause is there in spirit , even if you can't be in person. Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. They collectively raised over $4000 online in one day for her cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits. He also said that showing a human face to a cause is incredibly powerful because it brings people, who would not have necessarily cared, to the nonprofit. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

topped $307 billion in 2008. While the relative proportion of individual/corporate/foundation giving will vary from organization to organization, for those just getting started with major gift fundraising, my advice is to focus on individuals. People give money to people with causes.". People give money to people with causes.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. We will use technology to stay in touch and collaborate on ideas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

The collection of essays by changemakers (lots are celebrities) is organized by cause: political activism, human rights, civil liberties, homelessnes and poverty, well-being, HIV/AIDS, criminal justice, the environment, youth and education, and volunteerism. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Terrific advice Gail! Donor knows she is part of an important cause. Dr. Adrian Sargeant’s original study in 2008 f ound that when donors IDENTIFY with you, they have a sense of connectedness and social identity that includes you and your cause. What would they do for you? Well – they will give and give and give again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Some are focusing on capacity building and providing last minute advice on getting the most out of the current giving season. that is encouraging conversation and other ways to give contributions that aren't cash to charitable causes. Mom Advice did that earlier this fall and her results have nothing less than spectacular.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Many are connected only randomly.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2019! Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. The results are then refined into one of seven actionable, behavioral groupings called “Loyalty Insights,” providing you a clear understanding of which donors have the strongest affinity to your cause. Be a nice human.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Using their advice, you can make sure that the night before Christmas your potential donors nerves arent a-jangle, and they make that critical donation. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively? Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Using their advice, you can make sure that the night before Christmas your potential donors nerves arent a-jangle, and they make that critical donation. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively? Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008. I haven't yet seen any case-studies or how-to posts with advice to free agent fundraisers or nonprofits on how to organize or facilitate this a "Charity 2.0" Britt Bravo has some terrific advice. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. In addition, there is attention to major donor development and a focus on the cause and the people affected by the work of the charity.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

60) Search « SXSW Panels Offer Key Advice to Nonprofits | Main | GuideStar Study Says Nonprofits Need to be Transparent » Wednesday Mar 25 2009 Convio Releases Nonprofit Online Marketing Benchmarks Study Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:02PM | by Allyson Kapin Allyson Kapin, Editor-In-Chief ‘Tis the season for benchmark studies.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Almost free. Great campaigning!

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Almost free. Great campaigning!

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal). What advice do you have for nonprofits that are considering developing their own video content? Which is better for nonprofits ?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Whether big, small or mid-sized, nonprofits are looking for ways to better understand donors and focus their fundraising on creating opportunities for donors to support the particular causes and interests they care about. “Cultivate those relationships,” was the advice given to the volunteers, he says. Darlington School.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal). What advice do you have for nonprofits that are considering developing their own video content? Which is better for nonprofits ?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2014! Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. The results are then refined into one of seven actionable, behavioral groupings called “Loyalty Insights,” providing you a clear understanding of which donors have the strongest affinity to your cause. Be a nice human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

It was an echo campaign to complement a radio roadblock on Friday, September 19, 2008 when the NAB encouraged all radio stations to run a Red Cross PSA at 1 pm EDT. I also believe that it's more inspiring for an individual to feel moved enough by a cause and take action independently of the nonprofit. The Social Media Roadblock.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

Strike while the iron’s hot – leverage your recent joiners’ newfound interest in you and your work by sending them meaningful ways they can get plugged in to your cause right away. Especially the advice about striking while the iron is hot (as opposed to grabbing the bull by the horns, which is not nice to the bull).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We asked a variety of online fundraising experts and delved into some key online resources and found some great advice. Sarah Burris, recently of Skyline Public Works , has some more “evergreen” advice, she says if you want to be successful raising money online you have to ask, and ask a lot more than many groups currently ask.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

We asked a variety of online fundraising experts and delved into some key online resources and found some great advice. Sarah Burris, recently of Skyline Public Works , has some more “evergreen” advice, she says if you want to be successful raising money online you have to ask, and ask a lot more than many groups currently ask.

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