Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2021

The idea for the first DipJar came from founder Ryder Kessler in 2008 as a way to tip coffee shop baristas. DipJar has always been about “in-person” giving, but we are in an increasingly “hybrid” world, and believe that more and more events will combine live and virtual presence. Cheers to Creating (Many) More Giving Moments!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The second group’s priority is finding unique, high-quality items to bid on, but they’re happy to support a good cause in the process. It’s important to make the cause your event is supporting clear for both groups, and your auction catalog is a great way to do just that.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2009

Fundraisers in the worst economic era since the Great Depression continue to struggle according to a study out this week from the Giving USA Foundation. While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% Second Highest Level of Giving Ever!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. There was also a session announcing the " All for Good ," an application that makes it easy for people to give back to their communities through volunteering.

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Whole Whale

MAY 26, 2022

For perspective, suicide has continuously ranked tenth in the leading causes of death in the U.S. since 2008, with 44,000 Americans losing their lives through suicide in 2020, which was just two years ago. The helpline is available for both calls and text messages, giving options to people in crisis for calling for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. August, 2008 Using Twitter and other channels, I raised $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s not that Millennials want to give less, but they are constrained in ways that previous generations have not been. For this younger generation (sub-45 years old), what is the solution that helps ease the financial challenges of giving what you desire for both donors and nonprofits? Why Do Younger Donors Donate Less?

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See3

MARCH 10, 2009

The Cause Marketing Forum will be hosting Michael Hoffman on Wednesday, March 18, at 1:30pm EST for a teleconference titled “Online Video as a Cause Marketing Tactic&#. We’ll be referencing many of the cause marketing videos below. Haagen-Dazs: Viral Ads for Product Related Causes. Trees for Troops 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

For the companies themselves, this relationship also presents their marketing departments with numerous opportunities to embrace cause marketing and corporate social responsibility. Facebook helped launch the company Causes which has raised more than $20 million for various nonprofits. potential consumers). 1) Facebook. Owned by Yahoo!,

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NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

The Chronicle called this the worst decline in giving in twenty years. Instead, so far in 2010, giving to the United Way Worldwide (the largest charity in the survey) decreased by 4.5% and giving to Salvation Army (the second largest charity in the survey) dropped by 8.4%. According to stats from the RUN. The collective $133.9

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) released a 2010 Arizona Giving Report earlier this year. It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data.

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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

JULY 19, 2010

If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. More than 82,000 individual donors made 105,000 donations to nearly 8,000 causes with an average gift of $17.73. The challenge raised $2.1

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. Want to start or help a cause? Share them with us below!

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. This contemporary public-privatepartnership gives NOAA access to 8 million targeted activists who canwork with the government for common objectives. October 7, 2008 | Paul Greenberg Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

While system data and trends show online giving is growing, consumer research reinforces the need for nonprofits to focus on how they integrate online and other technology into their marketing and development programs – not just for today, but for the future. . 2) Mobile technology. To get your invitation visit [link].).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Give Lively. Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. And they give it all aways for free (except standard credit card fees or 3rd party costs like Stripe). MobileCause is a one-stop-shop for online giving. Online revenue is up for nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Personally, I’ve learned a lot from seeing how Salesforce employees give back to their communities. At the same time, people were even more interested in giving back. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. How do you do that in an all-virtual world?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. I've been following Peter's work since October 2006, when I first discovered Peter's research on group giving when he introduced himself on Netsquared. or $200.09.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Just added to our ever-growing Care2 in the News section is a great piece by Inside CRM highlighting Care2's partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) as an effective way for government and social media to team up for a cause. We tend to agree!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. In fact, my family gives to some nonprofits each year only because of the charitable deduction, or because of the generous tax credits available to Arizona donors.

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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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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA); * $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud); * $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago; * 30% of online giving happens in December. Did You Know? *

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

Sometimes, I’ll talk about technologies I think are just cool, and useful, and, well geeky, ’cause I can’t help being a geek. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol. That is, basically, the addressing system computers and routers and such use to direct traffic around a local network, and the internet.

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Qgiv

APRIL 7, 2021

If your nonprofit is looking for a bold way to attract attention and raise money for your cause, an over the edge fundraiser is a great solution. Over the Edge has been partnering with nonprofits to host rappelling fundraisers since 2008. Give yourself time to prep. Then, give participants enough time to fundraise.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. In the meantime, you can browse nonprofits and causes on Pinterest at pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In other words, take a page from how you approach major giving and begin treating your top fundraisers the same. Similar to top fundraisers, find ways to involve them and connect them to the cause. If you can get new donors to a second gift, though, the likelihood increases dramatically that they will give a third gift.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) It gives me much more. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. Check it out [link]. 3 Dustin J. Mitchell 10.25.07

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 23, 2023

To add an extra creative touch to your baskets, give each one a catchy title. This way, supporters can understand how their auction contributions will further a good cause. In 2008 Jeff founded Winspre with the goal of helping non-profits across the country increase their event fundraising revenue and identify new fundraising sources.

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