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The 2009 America's Giving Challenge

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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. million for nonprofit organizations.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: September 4th 2009

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Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. See the case-study here. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday!

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Great reads from around the web on September 9th

Amy Sample Ward

How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple. " Here's a case study from Jared Schwartz about how Critical Exposure used social media to fundraise and campaign.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What Happened on Give Local America Day? Early on Give Local America Day , reports of slow page loads and server crashes started to trickle in from a couple of community foundations hosting Giving Days using the Kimbia platform. Here’s a case study from Kivi Leroux Miller documenting what they did.

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Multi-Channel Fundraising: Strategies and Tools to Engage Donors through Integrated Campaigns

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Simon Moloney, NPower Network & Conifer Analytics and Rebecca Willett, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joined me on the panel discussion. and learn by example through a case study about carrying one message across many platforms. Mulit-Channel Fundraising Campaigns View more presentations from Big Duck.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Engage influencers and free agents.

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