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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal).

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal).

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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They asked their friends to figure out how much money they might spend on a Saturday night out (dinner and movies) and contribute the money to City Harvest , a nonprofit organization in New York that rescues food from restaurants and supermarkets and delivers it to soup kitchens and other programs that feed the hungry.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This network map illustrates how the challenge spread from celebrity to celebrity by who they tagged. Blue it Up (Lung cancer).

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Mobile Fundraisers: Explore Best Practices & Campaign Ideas

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For instance, Capital Area Food Bank’s “Feeding the DMV” campaign shows all the ways that supporters can give (including text fundraising) and how exactly that gift impacts your mission— $20 feeds a family for a week! For instance, if you raise money to fund cancer research, May is National Cancer Research Month.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy.

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