Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. Over 5,000 websites participated in The Day We Fight Back event by placing banners on their sites. The centerpiece of the campaign is Safer Internet Day that kicked things off on February 11 th , the same day as The Day We Fight Back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Beth Kanter actually attended an event -- and learned something! American Cancer Society. Organized by Nancy Schwartz and Getting Attention, there are more categories to submit in this year, including special event taglines, campaign taglines, and any program. It's a helpful compilation about online tools for.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Twitter was just a channel to mobilise people to give up their time to create real offline fundraising events. According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why GoFundMe is a Fundraising Game-Changer: While the GoFundMe platform can be used to raise money for any cause – like funding a vacation – charitable causes are some of the most successful campaigns on the site. Booster launched its first campaign in 2013. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2011

When I was Chief Development Officer at the American Cancer Society, our worst calendar quarter overall was Q4. Our best was Q2 because that is when our largest special event (Relay For Life) was held each year. This has me thinking a lot about timing of fundraising promotions – mail drops, events, and campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

In part 2, I will wrap-up my takeaways from the Nonprofit Mobile Day event I recently attended, presented by the Direct Marketing Association’s Nonprofit Federation (DMANF). For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011. What kinds of results should you expect from your mobile efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

It was then that I first worked with partners like (RED) that were just starting to use Facebook to build awareness around their various campaigns and initiatives. In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. The rest of the message and the entire year-end email campaign from Oxfam America were all well done. The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. Subject lines are just one aspect of a successful email campaign. Here it is!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. The best email campaigns of December had a mix of the right ingredients. I refer to it as the Kickstartification of fundraising where nonprofits use time-boxed fundraising goals to drive giving campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. This year’s annual event landed on December 1st and the second highest number of emails were sent by nonprofits on this day.

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