Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc. I’ve been tracking nonprofits design and deploy chat bots for a few years now as the pace of broader adoption of chat bots has accelerated. For the most part, the other two types are experimental and the subjects of laboratory experiments.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

It can be participating in a TV text-to-give appeal from your couch, supporting a fundraiser on Facebook or rounding up the spare change on your morning coffee. Today, many brands (like Lyft and Macy’s) have adopted round-up programs that ask their customers if they’d like to round-up on their purchases to support certain causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more! " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? For high school and college students, where are the nearby schools? If you are seeking college students, schools have places to post volunteer opportunities.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.). Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions. Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Organization’s Fax Number. Organization’s Founding Date/History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you search for it online (especially in Instagram and Pinterest) you might think it’s a tool for professional graphic designers – but it is not, and you don’t need to be a graphic professional to adopt it. BuJo is a personal tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

1) Text-to-Donate on Facebook. They posted to Facebook to help raise awareness and ask for donations. Perry’s Place is a cat adoption center and sanctuary in North Hollywood, CA. In just forty three seconds, we get to know some of the students and understand why they’re raising money for their field hockey team.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Every day, these students struggled with self-esteem, grades, expectations, and friends. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I also learned that one of the design personas was an individual who was therapist who needed to keep a professional wall between her work and clients – much the same issue that educators have in friending students or their parents. And, of course, the Facebook VS Google War has just gotten started.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. How did they do it? And now to the interview.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. How did they do it? And now to the interview.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A volunteer manager at a library in Oregon explains why translation tools are not enough: A couple years ago there was a Spanish language Facebook page for the library. While some technology tools, like Facebook, incorporate different language pages, other technologies do not have options for non-English speakers.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Hey, this is our yearly fundraiser, won’t you gives us money to help current students have a great experience at our university? Valencia College Foundation fine-tuned their ask down to a fund that would provide scholarships to first generation students. Create Excitement & Provide Ownership. Planning & Timing.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. Because so many people use Mailchimp, it is easy to get support via Mailchimp Facebook groups and YouTube tutorials. Google products are widely used in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. They were all on Facebook (turned their noses up at Myspace), watch YouTube videos, and use IM applications, with more 20 people on their IM lists. (Not he said. ???

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

I was a freshman at BU and my boyfriend at the time was a freshman at Harvard , birthplace of Facebook. Tangent: Did you know: the “original” Facebook was a physical Harvard directory of incoming students. If only Facebook as we know it today had existed then!). They didn't get it. But don’t worry.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, a 14-year-old Brazilian student, launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If your Board adopted a budget for the fiscal year, your fundraising goal is the same as the total expenditures, plus at least 5 percent for cash reserves. For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. A Facebook page that has a lot of engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 24, 2016

The tides have changed and people have embraced Snapchat into the same category of social media powerhouses as Facebook and Twitter. During dead week and finals week, we let students hang out and use our space to study. Every social media platform is adopted early by a younger audience. Don’t discount the potential.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an educator (and a social media neophyte), I was dismayed that – despite the scant five students in class – the instructor never asked us to introduce ourselves and discuss why we were there. Even though I've been working in nonprofit technology for more than 12 years, I'm a consistent late adopter and a reliable skeptic.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Through adoption and pet retention programs, a low-cost mobile spay and neuter clinic, lifesaving shelter transfer partnerships, extensive volunteer and foster networks, and a trap-neuter-return program for community cats, Brother Wolf Animal Rescue impacts the lives of thousands of animals each year in the Western North Carolina region.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

Number of Facebook followers . Number of students enrolled . Number of animal adoptions . Often, organizations want to see metrics increase, whether it’s to see more students graduate, or more animals adopted. Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization . Number of animals rescued .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. She notes that in the short-term Facebook isn't threatened -- for now. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). Platform???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. Many early adopters in nonprofits got started this way - outside of the firewall. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. is an ongoing book and blog project that shares schoolyard stories -- both good and bad -- to help current student feel less alone in their social bewilderment. Adopt An Acre of Rainforest. Details here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

If you’re feeling a bit shy about asking, try throwing a Facebook fundraiser for your birthday and asking your inner circle to give. Why no t ask your Facebook friends for a donation to an organization close to your heart on your special day? Ask each board member to host a Facebook birthday fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. They know the advantages of a college education, can relate to Leng Sopharath as a fellow student, and are tapped in to loads of social networks (Facebook, MySpace, et al).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Kevin McSpadden, Facebook. Kevin McSpadden is the director of marketing and brand strategy at Facebook, joining the company 18 months ago. He is working on a social good strategy for Facebook. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. Boundless communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. If you want to follow my trip, you can subscribe to my public updates on Facebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. And again, remember, if you are relating to one or all of these things, you are exactly like I was and exactly like all of my students were and basically, 99% of the fundraisers that I see. I was talking to a group of students and parents around test anxiety many years ago.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. And again, remember, if you are relating to one or all of these things, you are exactly like I was and exactly like all of my students were and basically, 99% of the fundraisers that I see. I was talking to a group of students and parents around test anxiety many years ago.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 5, 2016

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. For example, of 165 nonprofits examined in October 2015, only 58% provided links to their Facebook and Twitter accounts from their websites and vice versa (Koenig).

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