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JULY 14, 2008

There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video. One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur. Why or why not?

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APRIL 5, 2009

The best example comes from Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC), an organization started by Gradon Tripp, that uses social media tools to raise money for nonprofit. This charity event was not a self-organized, networked fundraiser, but an example of an agency-driven event. Twestival is the most recent and impressive example.

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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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MARCH 18, 2010

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. We are connecting otherwise isolated groups to share information about parenting, cancer recovery, etc.

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MARCH 18, 2010

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. We are connecting otherwise isolated groups to share information about parenting, cancer recovery, etc.

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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. These are some of my favorit examples of nonprofits doing great, creative things with Twitter.

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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. These are some of my favorit examples of nonprofits doing great, creative things with Twitter.

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MAY 19, 2008

He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. You can do something to help donor give with their head - for example Donors Choose. Every local news station showed up.

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JULY 17, 2012

We provide resources to effectively share information about the ways that causes can use the platform to engage with supporters — for example, we produce best practice guides and Facebook live talks that we make available online at our Nonprofit Resource Center. I joined Facebook in 2008 as a member of our inside sales team.

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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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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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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. Matt Damon’s version of the challenge is an example of charity:jacking. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Macmillan Cancer Support.

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MAY 3, 2011

For example, what if we told a story of a single child before introducing the thousands at need, or spoke of one endangered animal instead of citing how many there are? For more examples, actionable tips, and our top three recommendations for making stories work for you, read the full report and join our live webinar on May 5 at 2 p.m.

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MARCH 14, 2009

The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this. link] com/2008/07/02/tweetup-blood- drive/. link] com/2008/07/05/blood-drive- tweetup-a-success/.

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My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So I might not know that grandma has colon cancer, but I know your primary care for grandma and something has gone left. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

While " Tweet and Meet " events, called "Tweet Ups," were popular with Twitter users in 2008, "Tweet-Meet-Donate" events became more and more common in 2009. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Here's a few examples of the latter that were mentioned on the Twitter stream. . His Daniella story is an example as is the story of Hollis Hawthrone and probably countless others. Another examples is "Free Agent" fundraiser, someone who is using social media to reach out to their social network to ask for money to support a nonprofit.

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