Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

World Water Day is the best know cause awareness day for online fundraising success and # GivingTuesday is the most successful giving day fundraising campaign at $168 million raised in 2016 (700,000 online donors, average gift of $107 USD, 1.3 The United States has Give Local America Day (May 1, 2018). 68 million was raised in 2015.

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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. The Challenge raised $1.8 I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

This article will list the top 5 stickers your nonprofit should use to engage with your supporters, build awareness, raise funds, and more. #1: This one probably doesn’t come as a surprise, but by setting up your Facebook Donation Account, your nonprofit can enable donations via Instagram. to your profile or raising funds through.

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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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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. Allan Benamer had a bet with Causes founders last September but it required disclosure of total amounts raised on Causes. Great question, great blog too.

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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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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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See3

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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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

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.

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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. Funds raised are being used to provide supplies and emergency relief to people and animals, support firefighters and frontline workers, and meet other needs that emerge over time.

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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 ? But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more.

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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. . It doesn't work that way."

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. What is the definition of success?

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

But aside from thinking about this season as just a time to raise money, also stop to consider how you can truly enhance relationships with these current donors while you’re making the big “ask.”. Check out this list of 7 spring fundraising ideas that focus on raising money AND deepening relationships with your current donors.

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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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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. Use a powerful Facebook Ads integration. Improve your email deliverability.

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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

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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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. 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. Raise your hand if you remember the #MSReadAThon. Card for a Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. Our goal in this 3 rd year is to raise millions of dollars for thousands of Minnesota nonprofits in one day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Are you using social media primarily to raise money? Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. Learn Basic HTML.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington raised $2,017,196 with 17,838 donations for over 1,000 nonprofits in the DC, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia areas. The Give to the Max Day Facebook page had a 99.4% Hosted by: New America Foundation. Location: New America Foundation. Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America !) to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. I asked folks to raise their hands if they had a smart phone, most did.

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NTEN

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?" Get an iPhone.

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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. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2010

Once they arrived in America, they organized an all-night candlelight vigil in front of the White House to call attention to their father's plight. I've never met them face-to-face, but almost four years to the day, our paths crossed virtually when their father, a human rights activist, was thrown in jail in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura! Thanks Julia.

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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. Kellogg Foundation added another $75,000 to the pot to give away. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge. Challenge Has Already Raised $1.1 Kellogg Foundation. “We

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APRIL 28, 2021

Many nonprofits were compelled to become experts on virtual events and online fundraising overnight, and many found themselves pleasantly surprised when their virtual fundraisers helped them raise more than in-person events. One great example of this is the Free Teacher Market from the Polk Education Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

" He has set up a blog and has a Facebook profile , but to update them he has to ride his motorbike an hour into Phnom Penh. " She's asking her network to one or two of the following: Contribute the $10 -- If her school raises the most, the Sharing Foundation will give her $50,000 additional for the school.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

billion users on Facebook each month. If those figures don’t get you moving, just think of the $115 million dollars the ALS Foundation raised since July with the “ Ice Bucket Challenge ”, all because word spread like wild fire through social media. There are 1.23 Generation Z isn’t entirely responsible for the epidemic either.

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