Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Using social media as part of getting your job done is easier to imagine and put into practice if you're in the communications, marketing, outreach, or fundraising departments. Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building. Follow the personal online communications guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Andrew leads teams of nonprofit and technology professionals as they develop internet solutions for marketing, advocacy, fundraising, collaboration, and other purposes. Ensure that private messaging is enabled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Confession time: when I am not thinking about everything fundraising, I am a part-time energy economy dork. So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Integrated online tools make it much easier to market to your pool of valuable activists, moving them to deeper and deeper levels of engagement and commitment both online and offline. The 2009 Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Study contains some good data on this synergy. So what should nonprofits be doing?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. 25% of donors aged 65 and older give both online and offline. The median online gift above $1,000 was $3,500 in 2009. Also, a higher percentage of donors with annual incomes greater than $50,000 and beyond $100,000 give online than offline.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

A good first step is debunking some myths about online fundraising that might stand in the way of your success. Myth #1: Online fundraising isn't as effective as offline techniques. It's not surprising, then, that donors give so little online, and fundraisers conclude that online giving doesn't work. have shopped online.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,376 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 over last year.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The difference is that Causes is continuing to blur the line between online and offline activity. That means taking things offline and into a traditional retail environment. Right now, most social media efforts should be focused on friendraising not fundraising. Will it work? Is it worth paying attention to? Absolutely.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,468 nonprofit organizations representing $2.25

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,412 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 over last year.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

Showing Fundraising to Outcomes Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raised over $68 million in the US to support their important work in Haiti. Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go? Since that day many nonprofits have changed and improved how they respond to these kinds of disasters.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) nonprofits in 2008.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. Key Findings: The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online continues to be a significant source of giving and new donors. This is in line with the 2010 Online Giving Report.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Target Analytics donorCentrics Index of National Fundraising Performance for 2009 reported this trend. Fundraising Email Response Rate is 0.13% The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study reports this gem. Fundraising Email Response Rate is 0.13% The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study reports this gem.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The Report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,812 nonprofit organizations from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving , online major giving data from 2,190 nonprofits, and both online and offline data representing $5.1 billion in total fundraising from 1,438 nonprofits. compared to the same time period in 2009.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Donors Flip Channels Dunham+Company has new data out in “A National Survey of the Impact of Offline Communication on Online Donations.&# 37% of respondents said that they respond using the charity’s website when they get a fundraising letter in the mail. 53% said they still respond to mail by using the mail.

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