Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. According to our survey, 41 percent of respondents said they “like” GiveMN or their favorite nonprofit or school on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. You’ll also notice that the comments have many likes and many of those come directly from the Facebook admin for the page.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Williamsburg, Virginia is America's #1 Farmers Market! And this past weekend was particularly bountiful at my local market: Williamsburg was crowned this year as America's Favorite Farmers Market ! About the Contest. According to Hoffman, the contest has been a great success and succeeded beyond their original expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters. A Facebook post engages your donor AND increases your campaign’s audience. The tour will educate and inspire you about our programs so you can help us close the gaps and realize a brighter future for our children.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. How To Build A Ladder of Engagement by MixTape. Does your organization have a ladder of engagement? … Read More

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Getting Creative with the Help of Technology.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Monday, April 4, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. Make a donation on behalf of the Cambodians like my friend Phy that want to help us win this contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. Anyway, I'm using my status on Facebook to tell everyone what I want for my birthday later this month. I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. Dan Michel from Feeding America shared how his team measures and tracks their social media and links to key performance indicators. This conversation was started by. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Get help designing an API. Because data is powerful!

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge. and Canada.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Through this research, as well as in his role at Achieve, Derrick has worked with companies and organizations such as AT&T, Facebook, BMW, PBS and the Case Foundation to understand how the next generation of donors, activists and employees are redefining cause work. Kivi Leroux Miller. She is also a certified executive coach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

There's an unfortunate consensus emerging in the nonprofit sector that social media is only helpful for communicating with young people. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Anything that helps your organization use less paper, consume less energy, reduce travel, collaborate online, or extend the life of older computers is a green technology.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Anything that helps your organization use less paper, consume less energy, reduce travel, collaborate online, or extend the life of older computers is a green technology.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . It's open to 501c3's serving U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. I took photos of my daughter wearing the t-shirts with thank you notes for each of the donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Metric: Click thrus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. Unfortunately, many don't have regular Internet access (or credit cards) so their support doesn't count towards the contest. He made a donation to the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. Maine Health Access Foundation did an experiment on Facebook , including it in its channel to promote a funding opportunity but also posted the initial letters of inquiry on their Facebook page to get feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. When we both got back to DC we got together , and he and Mari needed some help with some business development support. Can you tell me about your dogs?

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Feeding America has launched a Causes campaign, sponsored by Kellogg's. It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

” We’re willing to bet that the NYCB digital team feels the same way, especially when it comes to getting the right content onto Facebook , Twitter, Instagram , LinkedIn , Pinterest , or any other social media marketing platform (we won’t judge you if you’re still trying to make Friendster happen).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. From my son's kindergarten class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Molson has a small social media team, lead by Ferg Devins @molsonferg who is not only responsible for selling bear, but he also believes in supporting the communities who need the most help. Molson's social media team, who were well known to the social media community, discovered it and offered to help. Refining the Definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I spoke about creating a culture of authentic generosity in your network, Stacey Monk talked about her organization, Epic Change, and Tweetsgiving Campaign, and David Armano talked about how social media is strengthening weak ties and how he leveraged his network to help a woman named Daniella.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Inviting those people and giving them opportunities to engage with your organization and helping to further your mission. we were going to help each other get out of the ice. And the how millennials want to help. Surprisingly and excitingly, 47% want to help fundraise. Sarah: Yeah, definitely. It’s been years.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A number of applications have been developed to organize causes on Facebook. " Obama's Organizing for America Page reposted it too. Therefore, it's reasonable to estimate that millions likely saw this message as it flowed into people's Facebook news feeds. Viral Status Updates. Competition is always a strong motivator.

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