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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. The next Amazon and Facebook will come from this space. If you’re in the Washington DC area, stop by for one of our happy hours. By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block.

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How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. 1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) As can be noted, many are on multiple sites: Facebook – 92%. 52% of Facebook users access that site at least once a day. ".a MySpace – 29%.

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Social Media Study Finds Most Nonprofits Have Presence on Facebook But Raising Little Money - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Below are key highlights from the study: 74% have a presence on Facebook with an average community size of 5391 members. See Frogloop’s recent article on Facebook Causes ). On Facebook, almost 40% of respondents raised money via fundraising, but 29% have raised $500 or less over the past 12 months.

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Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. (I’ll I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands.

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Philanthropy 2.0 Study Results Published on Mashable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

This isn't a tale by Washington Irving and there's no fast-forward button or TiVo to skip past what happens in-between. Causes on Facebook breaks it. And the 2008 U.S. It takes place over a period of time. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Kiva breaks it. Care2 breaks it.

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