Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

According to research from Blackbaud and reported by Steve McLaughlin on the NpEngage blog, “ Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012. million processed on #GivingTuesday in 2012. I made my goal and had fun! Blackbaud processed more than $19.2 million in online donations on #GivingTuesday 2013.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Giving Tuesday began in 2012, raising an estimated $10 million in its first year, according to Nonprofits Source. Keep in mind that your Giving Tuesday strategy shouldn’t only focus on the day itself. You should also share the fundraising goal you’re trying to reach. This is because Giving Tuesday gets nonprofits real results.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Created in November of 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement to inspire generosity around the world. Before November rolls around, you need to prepare your organization for the big day and set your GivingTuesday goals. If you participated in GivingTuesday last year, analyze the data you gathered to help you plan for this year.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Giving Tuesday began in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y, a cultural and community center in Manhattan. GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide : Giving Tuesday is the biggest giving day of the year, so there’s a lot to keep in mind when preparing for it. What is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday Preparations.

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MARCH 30, 2012

." Sharing photos online – a decision matrix for non-profit organizations : Social Media 4 Good – "Many non-profits, NGOs and International Organizations are of two minds when it comes to sharing photos on the internet. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 26, 2021

Always keep in mind who you would like to target. But it’s important to note that the goal should be to touch on all these points to optimize your website, not simply rank well for a couple keywords. His journey in SEM and SEO started in 2012. To Receive Donations. To Help People Understand. About the Author.

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MARCH 9, 2022

For example, a 2012 article published by American Health and Drug Benefits found that stable housing contributes significantly to better health outcomes and less utilization of the healthcare system. The goal is to build support throughout local communities. And HH Week isn’t limited to peer-to-peer events! Recruit participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2012

Done right with SMART goals in mind, the day can be an incredible learning experience for every competitor. Geoff Livingston is an author, public speaker and marketing strategist who has dedicated his career to helping mindful companies and nonprofits achieve social change.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Let me take you back to March 2012. We were both frustrated with the fact that although we led very active lives and were at the top of our physical goals, our immune system always appeared to say the opposite. On April 20th, 2012 Soles-de-Soul was born. Melissa founded Soles-de-Soul , a health advocacy organization, in 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. You could, for example, have a goal of reaching 50% of your fundraising goal on the first day of your campaign (Giving Tuesday!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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APRIL 24, 2012

You need to begin with the end in mind. Will you be successful in reaching your goal or not? In just 3 short hours, we’ll put together a roadmap for you to guide you through the rest of 2012 so that you can raise all the money you want. Will you hand quilt or machine quilt? In fundraising, it’s very similar.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It is “primarily powered by our minds, our spirits, our hearts.” Registration for the 2012 Nonprofit Conference on Sustainability Strategies ends Sunday, October 14 th ! The 2012 Conference — "Unleashing Human Potential for the Next 100 Years". The core economy , although supported by money, is not driven by it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Whatever the participants were expecting as they returned from lunch, there was Ellie telling them to tune everything out, close their eyes and imagine it was January 2012. If you can see it in your mind, you can create it in your life.&#. Take a couple of minutes to think about this goal and social media strategy that you selected.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 5, 2012

Going after the charitable dollars of millennials may seem like “small fish,” but keep this in mind, millennials are now the largest generation in terms of population. The 2012 report has some very encouraging results, and helps give shape to a demographic you probably are not currently attracting in a meaningful way.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

In 2012, Microsoft employees reached an incredible milestone – 30 years and $1 billion in employee giving to more than 31,000 nonprofits around the world. In September 2012, the company launched Microsoft YouthSpark , a global, company-wide initiative. workforce — participate in the campaign. Software Donation Program.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise. Having a fundraising strategy that coincides with your goals and audience will help grow engagement organically. Your impact goal, fundraising goal, and timeline.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8%

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app. A Community Comes Together.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

So, as your organization works to create content that invites and inspires, it’s important to ensure everything is created with your audience in mind. This outreach to our followers solidifies our goal to listen and engage with individuals. In 2012, we struggled to find a way to keep the campaign fresh and exciting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

In 2012, we’ll be rolling out new branding, new media, and new stories all with the goal of getting better at what we do and raising our impact. Our goal is social change at scale. We usually have three different revenues streams in mind to make a venture sustainable, but if a fourth approach appears to work, we’ll take it!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

This day of giving is truly becoming an international movement and tradition gaining momentum each year since its founding in 2012. Cancer research funding is very competitive right now, but because of their strategic approach, CCS was top of mind by the time #GivingTuesday rolled around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

What does it mean to live in a “social” world in 2012? With this mindset and approach to technology we need to move to the other end of the “social” spectrum where the goal is to create a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

s first significant fundraising campaign come from the minds of Charles Sumner Ward and Frank L. billion in donations for nonprofits in 2012 and has only been growing since. A cause many found to be worthwhile was the YMCA. Though the organization had been around for years, in the early 1900s we saw the U.S.’s

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MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Since its creation in 2012, over 10,000 organizations have participated in #GivingTuesday and over $55 million has been raised. And year-over-year more organizations are doing it, many with great success like Sanford Health Foundation—in their first year running the campaign, they raised just over $19,000 (their goal was $1,000). #2

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Keep in mind that every donation program at TechSoup has its own rules and restrictions. Norton Internet Security 2012 takes your security one step further. Our goal is to help your nonprofit or library use technology to create a stable base on which to grow organization and better accomplish its mission.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A study by EdgeRank documented that organic reach has declined from 16 percent reach per fan (meaning an average post reached 16 percent of a total fan base) in February 2012. The goal was to bring its members into its social media fold and tap into each of their personal and professional networks. Organic reach dropped to just 6.5

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Physical preparation in the business world is less about becoming a Navy SEAL and more about learning how to set goals, overcome challenges, and get in the habit of incremental improvement. He has been profiled by Forbes , People , and on CNN and has been named a 2012 CNN Hero and awarded the 2011 GQ Better Men Better World Award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. With that in mind, here are nine marketing lessons other nonprofits can take away from charity: water. Keep in mind that not all stories need to be long-form.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When you mastered arcane rules to achieve your goal. Particularly when it comes to a project like Loyalty Lab, whose goal is to encourage repeat and meaningful participation, game design techniques can help visitors feel a sense of measurable purpose and mastery as they deepen their engagement with the museum.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Your testing tasks should cover the most important goals of your supporters (e.g., Keep ‘em goal-oriented: Since your users come to your website with goals in mind (e.g., I want to find a “donate” button), your tasks should be very goal-oriented. Some tips for creating tasks….

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Set a goal: First, figure out the message you want to get across. As iPhone video technology advances in quality, it’s certainly possible to make a great video with your iPhone — but keep in mind that this should be done with care if this is the tool you have to use. Are you raising money for a particular campaign? Share your video!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The concept of Giving Tuesday came about in 2012 on East 92nd Street in New York City at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact. Next, your team will want to begin thinking about goals, how you’ll measure success, what story you want to tell this giving season, who your target audience is, and what will inspire them to give.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Since its inception in 2012, Giving Tuesday has become one of the most popular and well-known giving days in the world. Keep in mind, though, that many users are protective of their mobile space, so don’t overuse text messaging. Bonus points if you reached a specific goal that you can praise donors for helping you achieve!

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AUGUST 29, 2010

For the next 2012 Farm Bill, it's imperative that we all advocate for change, because that's where the dollars are allocated to different funding pots that support either corn products -- which are making us sick, type 2 diabetes and obesity -- or organic food, and young farmer and rancher programs. That would be pretty amazing.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But it seems that many nonprofits are still having trouble: Nonprofit click-through and conversion rates significantly declined in 2012-13. The goal is to provide the best user experience, regardless of device. Keep in mind that images won’t appear initially in many emails. How can you design mobile-friendly emails ?

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