Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Every year as we approach the end of the year and holiday giving season, millions of Americans give to charities hoping to have a positive impact on the communities where they live and work. Stephen shares some insight and ideas - and an offer - around matching gifts. 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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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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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. It is very difficult to measure impact. We're looking at we can look at impact on a customized basis. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Need time and patience.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Impact statements – Use your text giving tool to show impact to current and potential donors. This not only shows supporters the value of your work, but lets them know just how much their gifts can impact your mission! For instance, if you raise money to fund cancer research, May is National Cancer Research Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

We work to empower the millions of people and organizations that use Facebook to create high-impact solutions to problems big and small, all over the world. 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. How long have you worked at Facebook?

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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. Before taking the plunge, he setup a group fundraising page at FirstGiving.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

These donor-centric emails speak to the impact that one person — specifically, the reader — can have: "Earlier today, I was with President Obama as he signed the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' into law. Instead, tell stories that explain your mission and your impact. Explaining stories don't, by themselves, compel readers to act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. . Stacey is doing this with gratitude, Drew is doing it by blame (blaming his cancer).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

The term " social good " implies that there is social impact, a change of behavior on the ground or systemic change. I think there is some indirect social impact when we use social media for charity. Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008.

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