Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. companies, and even foundations to give away money. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Many nonprofits prioritize spring fundraising, making this a busy and lucrative time of the year for fundraisers. In fact, whether your nonprofit is in need of a quick financial boost or you want to engage your supporters in a prompt yet effective way (or both!), A 24-Hour Spring Fundraising Blitz On Social Media.

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MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We started as a nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We started as a nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. List of nonprofit donation platforms. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Remember you can buy a nice-looking domain and redirect it to anywhere you like to make the branding look more official.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. That’s the secret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) (If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! The Rhode Island 501 Tech Club is launching!

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Third, we're participating in the Apps for America Contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The goal of the contest is to create new applications using data from Sunlight and its partners to make Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent. Andrew Cohen (@ andrewjcohen ) will be among the many attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. A List of Examples.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

See3 has been working for months with NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation to conceive, develop, and produce their latest youth-oriented initiative: free.will.power. This innovative video-based online initiative is designed to reach younger activists and recruit a new generation of young women and men into the pro-choice movement.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Check out all the members, former and current, collaborating in this discussion about prioritorizing technology at nonprofits. Video submissions are being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by See3 Communications and NTEN. You can read more from Green America here.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. million for nonprofit causes. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The title of this blog post is taken from an article posted over at Slate mostly talking about the Facebook component of the recent America's Giving Challenge, posing the question, "Can social networks and virtual communities revolutionize charitable giving?" But, it not necessarily anything new.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Cause Camp is Nonprofit Hub’s annual conference, bringing the best and the brightest from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, to inspire, educate and transform nonprofits of all shapes and sizes, from all over the world. He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago.

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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. Take for example, this tweet: PayPal recently announced their nonprofit donation kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I'm a longtime member of the Nonprofit Circuit Riders community. Here's a definition: Circuit riders travel throughout regions of the United States and parts of Europe providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. If anyone has been holding off on donating to the Sharing Foundation Campaign don't wait any longer.

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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. So what can this mean for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Note from Beth: Over the last year, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting Giving Days throughout the year. Participants are learning and sharing best practices. This post was cross-posted on the Knight Foundation blog here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. one month ago was to determine whether there is potential for nonprofits to cultivate significant donors online (defined as someone who gives $1,000 or more), and how that can be accomplished. I used a cli.gs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

They sent out an email about a week ago to their list saying that a family foundation has agreed to provide $75,000 if the amount could be matched. Last week I shared the news that, in the spirit of the High Holy Days, a family foundation agreed to match your contributions up to $75,000. Yes, you do good work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands by Carol Cone. A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

We not only kept that promise, but our family went on to support various projects in Cambodia through my board membership on the Sharing Foundation and through the connections I made through my first blog, Cambodia4kids. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start. Funny, another negative note on Second Life.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing 101. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. What do you track?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week during the Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation , someone asked me “What’s Next?” And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Do you have a foundation background? 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. We think that a combination of the two is best - fundraises need to hit a threshold number of both to make the contest meaningful.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Here is a Social InfluencerGPT trained to help nonprofits from CauseWriter.ai. ThrowbackThursday is the perfect opportunity for nonprofits to illustrate impact over time. Lung Cancer Foundation of America does this with their #LivingWithLungCancer series, highlighting the human face of a disease they’re working to cure.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . foundation that paid down their endowment. So let’s go to the next slide while that is happening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. However, for those nonprofits that have purchased the ebook version of Mobile for Good it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality and content. Sign up for Google for Nonprofits and Google Wallet. ?

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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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