Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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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

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Enter online fundraising contests. The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Website or event page so people can find it. Provide water station stops and set up a picnic at the end for people that raise money. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Charge for tickets, food and add competition awards (like wine) for people who can match all the bottles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Last year for the big 5.0, That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This year the awards have a category to solicit ideas from young people, age 18-25. This got me curious about the young people blogging about education or doing projects. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. Why are you passionate about teaching young people?

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Urgency encourages people to act fast to get involved before it’s too late. A finite timeline gets people to act immediately instead of later. Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters. , this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

By now, most of you have probably heard that our DataMasher application won Apps for America 2 via our press release or our celebratory tweets. Guns in Household , % Total Population in Prison , and: People per US Representative. The competing applications were impressive and the voting was close. Apparently, we won by only 12 votes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ. or “Love it!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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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. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America."

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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. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America."

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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. The waste problem in America is a real one, and one that in many ways can be daunting.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

" Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!) " Help seeking behaviour in young adults - NFPSynergy Report - nfSynergy's "newest free report takes an in-depth look at what young people's needs are and how they seek help.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

I saw lots of questions about this on the PX list and elsewhere and thought to myself, these poor suckers, they are going to spend lots of time putting this together, will get little response, and people like Beth — with big and active networks — will eat their lunch. They don’t have a chance.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. America: A Wasteland of Plenty. About the Success Stories Contest. In the U.S., Results That Matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Offline events included a young professionals networking “happy hour” at Rainforest Café in Mall of America and a live video “telethon” from Mall of America on which nonprofits and schools could introduce themselves and explain how funds raised that day would further their missions and work.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Jeremy Ames who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Environments Division, will speak about their Radon Video Contest -- the first video contest run by the federal government. Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Here are the top 10. Boulder Food Rescue — First-Place Winner.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge invites you to answer the question: How would YOU connect all the ways to take action to the millions of people who browse the web everyday? You can read more from Green America here. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2010

The public-domain mobius loop universal recycling symbol with three arrows in the triangle that we've adapted for our GreenTech logo was designed by Gary Anderson in 1970 as part of a contest sponsored by the Container Corporation of America for the original Earth Day in 1970. read more.

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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. The PayPal Donate button is a safe, easier way for people to donate money. s a simple 3-step process: ???

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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. Because data is powerful! Because data is powerful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! There has already been over $19,000 for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Updated (1/28/08).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. What if you could invite other people from the around the world to have discussions about those images? Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

There has already been over $20,000 for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge raised through the unselfish giving of over 700 people like Peter Deitz. Contest ends on January 31st at 3:00 PM EST. It would be nice to have this built into the system in some way. There is exactly 48 hours left to donate.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I liked most about the conference was the diversity of people that attended. It was a great mix of races, genders, ages and because the conference was focused on organizing women online and off, there were techy and non-techy people present. right with their FreeWillPower campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Several community foundations will be part of Give Local America , a campaign that encourages and supports local philanthropy and the 100th anniversary of community foundations in the US and the vital role they play. Getting People Excited About Giving Days by Guest Post by Marika Lynch. Most, like this one , were full of humor.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

They are a great, and fun, mechanism for bringing together people who are passionate about a cause and connecting them to opportunities to enhance civil society, create social change, and have a real-world impact. Narrowing the scope of your programs means people can contribute better. Bigger Is Better.

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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. 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. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge.

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