Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As we were singing happy birthday, I realized that Harry is growing up with having social networks and generosity in his life. 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. .

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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. Match your contact records to nearly 100 social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Via Roger Carr's blog post at Everyday Giving , Dr. Mani was introduced to the Sharing Foundation and became a donor to the America's Giving Challenge campaign. He also retwittered to his network. Ten years later, Dr.Mani's team has raised over $100,000 and funded heart surgery in 23 children, with many more to follow.

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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. Dr. Hendrie has been working tirelessly on this campaign using her social networks.

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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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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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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Set fundraising targets Use your organization’s budget to determine generally how much you need to raise to achieve your philanthropic goals. Stakeholders might raise the alarm if your fundraising amount is too drastically different from last year or if you’re relying on strategies that have been ineffective in the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Now, in your 6th year, drum roll, tell us Give to the Max Day by the numbers : Total raised: $18,316,626.42 (7% increase over 2013). While I am thrilled that we broke our record for dollars raised, the growth in donors and organizations are the numbers that I am over the moon about. Total gifts: 120,664 (13% increase over 2013).

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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. Social networks and connections let you strengthen loose ties with consequential strangers. His daughters were quickly put on a plane out of the country.

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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. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits.

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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. Our Social Media Command Center. We had additional volunteers who were curating content and monitoring conversation via social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

" This analysis caught my eye because helped crystalize some thinking about Facebook causes based on an experiment I did as part my fundraising for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge (please consider donating $10). According to this analysis, Causes probably falls in the Adapted Patterns/Competition.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Secret Sauce to Social Media Fundraising: DC’s Give to the Max Day Story. Category: Social & Environmental Change. 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. Hosted by: New America Foundation.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do. Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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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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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? If not, then your social media strategy is missing something.

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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?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Then, I thought, ah - someone who I can ask to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation!    It is a very well written and researched look at  how these tools have been are being leveraged for social change in way that is new and will continue have major implications.   I did. .   I did.

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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Roger Carr at the Everyday Giving Blog responded to my reflections about networked fundraising , particularly my concern about donor fatique and potentially annoying blog readers here when I'm raising money for the Sharing Foundation. The question is "when is enough enough? (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

The image is from Roger Carr who is raising money to support the Arthritis Foundation???s s annual nationwide event, Arthritis Walk, that raises awareness and funds to fight arthritis. Dr. Mani points to some good examples (including Roger) - but also Anne Mitchell who helped raise money for the desperately poor in Tajikistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He also shares that he wants to create a social fundraising wizard Currently, I am building an automated wizard. that will assist in planning and implementing a peer-to-peer social change campaign. The wizard will recommend platforms to use and best practices for spreading the campaign through social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A local radio announcer in Vancouver (Buzz Bishop of 95Crave) approached me to join his 95CRAVE Team Diabetes crew, a group of passionate runners raising money to support the Canadian Diabetes Association. As I've only recently taken on this challenge , I'm currently at $700 in funds raised to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Since then the Foundation has ventured out to many of the social sites, spreading awareness about our cause and connecting with supporters. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog. July 24, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

I shared some learnings from the recent America's Giving Challenge Campaign which raised a total of $93,000 (included the $50K prize) from 1829 donors (1650 official count on 1/31 at 3 PM EST) in 50 days. The points include: (1) In the 5 campaigns I've done, it has evolved to a personal, socially networked fundraising campaign.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 2 Comments | by Share Article in Misc.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2016

You can argue that we haven’t always lived out that truth, but it is, never-the-less, a basic tenet in America—as it is for many other nations. In fact, Network for Good noted in its “20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats” last fall that according to Boomerang, “88% of dollars raised comes from 12% of an organization’s donors.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Electronic Frontier Foundation. School of America's Watch. She also points to a recent article in the Australian press about nonprofits in Melbourne raising money in my space called It's MySpace, my charity, your money. Handicap International. Human Rights Campaign. Impact Awards. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. Save Darfur.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2015

Now more than a decade into the Social Web, the use of social networks still continues to grow worldwide and will continue to do so for years to come. GivingTuesday 2014 raised 63% more than 2013. Source: The Case Foundation. Email fundraising accounts in 1/3 of all revenue raised online. Source: Frogloop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. Thank you Jonti and Nancy White ! So, I twetted it. That's a problem, both in the short-term and long-term.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Make-A-Wish America. Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts. 45 million was raised by nonprofits through Facebook fundraisers on Giving Tuesday. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual. 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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