Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

In 2008, Liz joined Feeding America at the onset of the sweeping organizational brand transformation; and helped guide direct response fundraising efforts through a successful brand transition. Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You can also check out my lists from 2005-2009: Favorite Do Good Books of 2009 Favorite Do Good Books of 2008 Favorite Do Good Books of 2007 Favorite Do Good Books of 2006 Favorite Do Good Books of 2005 Favorite Have Fun Do Good Books of 2010 (in alphabetical order) I always enjoy Anna Lappe's books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

It raised $3,500 in 15 hours. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

” Christine Bork, Chicago-based chief development and communications officer for CureSearch for Children’s Cancer in Bethesda, Md. CureSearch for Cancer Research. . “We’re looking for what makes the donors tick, not just treating everyone the same.” “Meet your donors where they are,” she says.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. Just got a press release this morning announcing the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program ! In the coming months, nonprofit channels will have a centralized area on YouTube, making them and their videos more easily discoverable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Tweet-vivors: Social Media Conquers Cancer. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

If LIVESTRONG had been able to capture data on everyone who wore their bracelets, they’d have built the largest cancer supporter database in the world. . An organization that owns its data and manages it correctly owns its distribution channels. But every piece of my data offers another avenue of communication and clues to what I care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

According to the Council for Aid to Education's 2008 Voluntary Support of Education Survey , matching gifts as a percentage of corporate giving totaled $175 million in 2008, up $6 million from the previous year. It’s not hard to see why matching gifts are so popular.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2007

Challenge: Recruit walkers to commit at least $95 to participate in a 3-day event to raise money to fight breast cancer. A recent study conducted by Marketing Sherpa on behalf of the National Philanthropic Trusts Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk reports that email is the way to go. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com What do you do?

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire with they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach. I knew Robin was a cancer survivor and was then diagnosed with a blood disease as a result of her chemo. I was watching the ESPY’s and Robin Roberts was honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Also, the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation recently posted a humorous video about the importance of checking oneself for testicular cancer, which landed on the YouTube homepage and garnered well over one million views in three days. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Also, the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation recently posted a humorous video about the importance of checking oneself for testicular cancer, which landed on the YouTube homepage and garnered well over one million views in three days. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

According to a March 2008 New York Times article, Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness. Today my husband and I learned that the wife of a friend, who was diagnosed with cancer not that long ago, has just a few days to live. Brooks, "people who give money to charity are 43 percent more likely than nongivers to say they are very happy.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire when they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach. I knew Robin survived cancer and was then diagnosed with a blood disease as a result of her chemo, but I didn’t know Robin’s story. It was incredibly moving.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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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. It was a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before, raising over $250,000 from over 200 cities around the world via Twitter. As my colleague David J.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

Make it interesting and it will just happen," said Dave Neff of American Cancer Society (Social Media ROI Poetry Slam). March 30, 2009 | rabia Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Maybe success is as simple as providing something people want. March 27, 2009 | Dave Steadman So nicely put, Ill have to pass along to client. Cheers, Ali!

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

cancer donations – 880 search per month - $17 per click. How much money has been donated to cancer research? What has cancer research achieved. Since 2008 Michael has been helping both the largest websites in the world and small local business achieve their goals and grow their business through aggressive digital marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. What if you committed to leave this conference with a tangible commitment to changing one thing about the way your organization's operates. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I joined Facebook in 2008 as a member of our inside sales team. In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was also surprised to see a number of folks asking questions — many of these people had personally survived cancer or were going through their own battle with a different form of cancer.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Judi Sohn, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. When C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition started in 2005, cloud computing wasn't the buzz word it is today. I was first touched by colon cancer in 1998 when my father was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. It was simply the only way we could operate and build the organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Judi Sohn, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. When C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition started in 2005, cloud computing wasn't the buzz word it is today. I was first touched by colon cancer in 1998 when my father was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. It was simply the only way we could operate and build the organization.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

For example, despite being pivoted to virtual in 2020, Big Love Cancer Care’s annual Santa Dash was driven further with text giving and even reached its goal of $150,000. For instance, if you raise money to fund cancer research, May is National Cancer Research Month. Small donation & grassroots campaigns.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

Now more than ever I hear about big nonprofits, organizations like the American Cancer Society, that didn’t get it with big social media initiatives. What is the biggest change you’ve seen over the past 3 years in the nonprofit sector? The big nonprofits have come to play. Are they doing it well?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

In the early days of social fundraising in 2008, Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont’s Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Macmillan Cancer Support. Phase 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money. Rubble Bucket.

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