Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

Some organizations already accepting cryptocurrency donations include the United Way, Charity Navigator, the Lupus Foundation of America , the Human Rights Foundation , Red Cross, UNICEF, and Mercy for Animals. The next Amazon and Facebook will come from this space. Why are people donating in cryptocurrency?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With 51% of Facebook’s referral traffic now coming from mobile and more than two-third’s of Twitter users being mobile, many nonprofits are finally starting to come to the realization that their social media campaigns are doomed unless they embrace a mobile-first approach to online communications and fundraising. Oxfam America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The United States has Give Local America Day (May 1, 2018). Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 Post on Facebook a minimum of 3X. Go live on Facebook and Instagram at least once. Knight Foundation: Giving Day Playbook. million mentions on social media).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And there are more than 500,000 people in America experiencing housing instability on any given night. And while the issue of stable housing isn’t unique to the Bay Area, as a region that’s home to global companies like Levi’s, Facebook, Uber, Apple, and yes, Salesforce, it offers a stark example of just how pervasive the problem is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Fundraiser Stickers for Facebook Stories. Page Fundraisers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

The Rockefeller Foundation – “The World Bank recently published a noble and important report with answers to the question Is anyone reading our reports and publications? The short version is, Facebook has the ability to make you feel good or bad, just by tweaking what shows up in your news feed.” – eMarketer -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Roger Carr has said it much better than I can in his post directing his blog readers to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge fundraiser set up by Michele Martin. I'd also like to point over to Bob Uva's blog post about the supporting the Sharing Foundation. I met Bob through Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Joey (I think) coined a new term, " cause washing." Joey pointed out that Facebook's donation to Donors Choose in lieu of holiday party and Google's $20 million donation to selected charities in lieu of holiday gifts to Adsense and Adwords products is not cause washing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

CardsThatGive.org aggregates some of the best holiday card programs offered by nonprofits, but some of my favorites and th0se most-recommended by the fans of the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page are listed below: 1. British Heart Foundation :: View Collection. British Heart Foundation :: View Collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. However, like Facebook, simply posting a link without a personal statement doesn’t seem to result in much activity on Google+ and to post multiple times per day on Google+ with well-thought out personal statements could become time-consuming. Amazon CARES.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

On top of those challenges, Facebook reach has dropped to an abysmal 1%. Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile. Therefore, below are 10 tell-tale signs that your small nonprofit is on the right path and laying a good foundation for excelling at social media.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has been doing incredible work for over 100 years and, while content marketing isn’t news to them, they’re using content along with social media to make sure the online world knows about their work. Make-a-Wish Foundation arrived on the scene in 1980 by helping one boy become a police officer.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Small-dollar donors are often the solid foundation, the activists, the heart of the movement. There is another way to improve your reach via display and Facebook advertising—build a pixeled audience. You can promote these private/unique URLs in 1:1 email, in mass email, in SMS, via a private Facebook group, or even in direct mail.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2011

She’s the communications manager at Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) in NYC. What’s really interesting about Joelle’s work is that she helps build community through social media for the 155 overnight summer camps that the FJC supports across North America. Meet Joelle.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 15, 2021

Currently based in Atlanta, Dana has worked with Movember, Dress for Success, USTA, Honest Company, Sports Illustrated, American Idol, The Global Foodbanking Network, The Gary Sinise Foundation, LA84 Foundation, and many more organizations on their digital strategies. Dana is also a member of the Purpose Collaborative.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you missed your opportunity to donate to a nonprofit on Facebook during “America’s Giving Challenge&# , which raised more than $1 million from more than 50,000 donations in 3 weeks, you now have another chance to give on Facebook. Tags: foundation fundraising facebook social media.

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JULY 7, 2021

This one probably doesn’t come as a surprise, but by setting up your Facebook Donation Account, your nonprofit can enable donations via Instagram. Boys & Girls Clubs of America) and many other organizations use their Stories to drive people to donate to their Facebook Donation Account. #2: 1: The Donation Sticker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Since 2007, when the Case Foundation launched its first America's Giving Challenge, social media-infused online contests to raise money for charities have gained popularity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. Sharing Foundation Video by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson. Sharing Foundation Calendar Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This will be my first visit to South America and I could not have asked for a more joyous introduction to social good and social media in that country. Check the agenda , the list of speakers , follow the entire event via live stream and engage in the global conversation through Facebook and Twitter. Learn more on the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2009

He has watched his mother celebrate her birthday and use it as an excuse to raise money for the Sharing Foundation , a charity that cares for kids in Cambodia. . He's too young to set up a birthday campaign on Facebook Causes and asked me to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 16, 2022

5000 list , the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. Today, Inc. announced that Media Cause is recognized on its annual Inc. 5000 Methodology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Note: I've had this blog post in a draft for about a week and was reminded about it when I saw this post over at the NTEN blog asking Is Facebook A Bust or Is Obama's Model the Future ? My answer: The America's Giving Challenge campaign that I just finished was my fifth person to person fundraising campaign using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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NetWits

JUNE 26, 2012

Next came Social Media where platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way we engage with our supporters. This new segment of actively engaged supporters wants the opportunity to tell people what your mission means to them, why others should support you, and will change the foundation of the way you fundraise in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with the Sharing Foundation's founder, Dr. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. Instead, she started The Sharing Foundation. Ten years ago, she didn???t

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2017

At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. For our latest online giving push, we opted to keep our Instagram content awareness-only and make the hard asks via email, Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

The Hawai’i Community Foundation opened the Maui Strong Fund to provide financial support for rapid response and recovery resources. Feeding America is working with their partners on the ground in Maui to support recovery efforts and provide care in the immediate aftermath of the fires. Donate here to provide support.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Everyone's buzzing about the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. Go to the America's Giving Challenge page in Parade Magazine. For more information, go the Case Foundation's site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2008

How much has been raised on Facebook? There isn't a comprehensive study that looks at total dollar amounts raised from all fundraising apps on Facebook. Wired Fundraiser report from Network for Good reports on the Long Tail of Facebook Causes from FrogLoop from July 2007 which shows less than impressive dollar amounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation offers many programs in addition to the college sponsorship program you've read about on this blog and I want to share some of those stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube.

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