Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. happens, I observe day laborers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Here’s an example from the Jewish Education Project. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 22, 2007

Annie's Homegrown , the company that produces Annie's Mac N' Cheese (yum), sent an email last month asking me to help spread the word that they are accepting applications for their new Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship Program. They fund projects and conduct outreach designed to improve agricultural systems.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Nevertheless, participating in some (surely not all) of these contests will provide your staff members a focused opportunity to use social media to communicate with supporters.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse. Scholastic Fundraising Ideas Scholastic events can be held for K-12 students or for major alumni associations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. How many people were involved with LWB on the contest? That went to several thousand supporters.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. How many people were involved with LWB on the contest? That went to several thousand supporters.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They even created a Facebook application. How hard is it for you and your team to manage the work flow of all of these projects? But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Hiring people.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

When the IDEO team was working on a new financial tool for a project in Mexico, they used Lean Startup’s focus on Customer Development to test it with real potential customers. Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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MAY 25, 2007

Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. First a little background. Widgets are big.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice. will invariably widen that gap, not narrow it.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Proposed solution: An online community portal that would allow associations to post events or projects that need volunteers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And so that leads into my next slide here, which is a quote from Derrick Feldmann, who’s the founder of the Millennial Impact Project, which is an organization that studies millennials in philanthropy as well. So just, if this next part is not as applicable to you, know that we’re getting to you in the next part.

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