Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In a 24-hour period, nearly 4,000 Minnesota nonprofit organizations benefited through donations, matching grants and prizes. It’s become an annual holiday tradition for Beth’s Blog.

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MARCH 23, 2012

We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. >> Understanding the data and where the nonprofit industry is headed can be useful, but without action it’s purely academic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. They need to feel hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I want to thank the other 31 Facebook friends for their donations to the Sharing Foundation in honor of my Birthday Cause. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. Even though I'm not raising huge dollar amounts, what makes feel great is that small donations go a long way in Cambodia. Click to see larger image.

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MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" See Frogloop’s recent article on Facebook Causes ).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've taken the time to create a Facebook page. As nonprofit social media pioneer Heather Mansfield recently pointed out, your posts have never really gone to all of your fans , save for a brief moment in 2009. Facebook uses an algorithm, which it calls EdgeRank , to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes. Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it. Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. Identify prospects using the 990s of nonprofits with a mission similar to yours.

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JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. ” According to Newhouse, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised over $115 million from 2.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. Relationships with nonprofits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 million for nonprofit organizations. 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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Here's a smidge from his post: If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving , a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. What, pray tell is that, you might be asking? recordings. recordings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Today, 12for12k is holding a 24-hour video tweetathon to help raise funds for this month’s charity and end the first six months of operations in style! Additionally, join the 12for12k Facebook group for updates as they happen. All proceeds raised go directly to the chosen charities. Special event by the Looking Glass girls.

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AUGUST 16, 2014

Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. After some research, it turns out that this meme was started in December of 2009 in Canada. Could they have leveraged this opportunity to build their email list, and raise money? ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

BusinessWeek innovation blog reached out to its readers on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog asking for suggestions for social media innovators for 2009. She uses every avenue on the World Wide Web to raise funds for Cambodian children. And she shares what she learns with nonprofits everywhere. Beth Kanter is our pick.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website by raising at least $4000 online from 50 individual donors in three weeks. How does C ritical Exposure , a little non-profit with a small group of supporters raise more money than the dozens of other participating organizations, many of whom have a large, established fundraising base?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

As Jordan Viator explains on the Connection Café blog: It’s no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. The nonprofit tech community is one that supports itself, its members, and the sector. That’s right.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

How should nonprofits position themselves in this ever changing world of technology? To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Engagement is the new Investment: How engaged is your nonprofit? It says that 22.7%

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

2009 Year-End Fundraising Guide – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – “Is your nonprofit sending out 8-10 online fundraising appeals this holiday season? Nonprofits can expect 60% of their donations to come in between Christmas and New Year’s.&#. Does Directgov Deliver?

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. But the reality is that nonprofits are usually resource constrained when it comes to marketing. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) I hear you. I hear all of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Instead of scaling community giving and philanthropy and empowering their local nonprofits to use crowd funding, Give Local America Day amplified frustration, panic, hopelessness, and anger. One bright spot was Silicon Valley Gives which raised close to $8 million dollars on Give Local America Day, although they were not using Kimbia.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Are you a nonprofit that could benefit from some techie help? Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. - Are you a techie who could donate some skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. It's easy to set up. Happy (Almost) Birthday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. ” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Disruptor: Facebook. Not convinced that Facebook has been a disruptor? No, No,” I protested.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Last year, many more nonprofit panels made it onto the agenda and there was even a nonprofit lounge hosted by BeaconFire. . It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. He raised $28 million online, of which, “90% [of the contributions] were under $100, with over 250,000 contributors.” Jen Burton, Community Director of Causes Fundraising Focus: Facebook. Pacific time.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

If there’s one topic that’s near and dear to my heart in the nonprofit world, it’s participant fundraising. In memory of my brother-in-law, Bill Drew, I joined Team in Training in 2002 and committed to raise $2,500 and run a marathon. Now, participants have access to the tools they need to raise money online.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

." 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg fired up the death of email debate at the Nielsen’s Consumer 360 Conference Yesterday. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

However, when it comes to building communities online, often the first place an organization starts is with social networking accounts -- creating organizational Twitter and Facebook accounts. If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? What if the executive director tweeted about the upcoming gala?

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JUNE 24, 2010

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After all, location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla were the breakout technology at SXSWi just a few months ago.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

The 1300th submission to the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards is the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO). It's the first film festival dedicated to nonprofit and cause-driven films. Laura Norvig ( ETR Associates ) guest posts on Beth Kanter 's blog, writing about Friendfeed for nonprofit use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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