Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Laura Fitton (aka @pistachio ) the Twitter for Dummies site where folks are contributing ideas and tips to help write the book. In addition, 10% of the proceeds will benefit a charity to be nominated by the community. That's when I used Twitter for the first time for fundraising for a charity. It wasn't the last time either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

E-Book #1: Fundraising and Marketing Tips for Nonprofits. The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. I was a reluctant blogger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2010

You've probably found your way here from a shout out Have Fun, Do Good got in the article, How to Start Your Own Charity by Sally Stich in the July 2010 issue of Woman's Day : "5. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 5 Tips to Start a Nonprofit Blog Welcome Woman's Day readers! Got a website?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Freakonomics » Ten Reasons Why I Would Never Donate to a Major Charity (How to Be a Superhero, Part 2) – "“Giving to Charity&# is another myth we fervently uphold as part of the Great American Religion — just like “own a home&# or “send your kids to college.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

The good folks at Razoo offered me two gift $50 cards , one to make a donation to the charity of my choice and the other to give away. I gave it to my daughter, Sara. I asked her, “If you could give a donation to any charity to support whatever cause you feel is important, what would it be?” Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Blogger’s Choice Award Lastly, there will be a Blogger’s Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). The CTK Foundation will choose a blogger (hopefully Beth) who will hand-pick one winner from any category. This award is open to registered nonprofits or charities of all types and sizes, worldwide. Good luck, Heroes!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2013

npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS) is a a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 15, 2010

Giving Green on Treehugger Help Haiti Recover on the Ellen DeGeneres Show blog Help Survivors of the Earthquake in Haiti on Charity Navigator Tragedy in Haiti - How Can I Help? The Charity Navigator blog post, Tips, Tips and More Tips for Funding Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts includes advice for how to avoid donation scams like: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Angela Stockman , an educator and blogger in upstate New York, told me about how Sarah Hanson from Alden High School and Stacy VanEtten's seventh grade class are participating in the Working Together 2 Make A Difference project. The Charity for Change project is another example where charitable giving is embedded in the curriculum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

posted by Aaron Stiner , Senior Program Manager, Paths of HOPE, Catholic Charities I am at one of the most intense, rewarding, and sometimes frightening times in my nonprofit career. If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. And I dont think Im alone. Bio: Aaron Stiner serves as Sr.

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Achieve

AUGUST 3, 2011

Donors make a yearly contribution of $15, $3 goes to operating costs and the remaining 12 is divided up a dollar each month to the charity of your choice. This site stands out, because each month 2 charities face off – donors view a video for each charity and vote by choosing which charity to give their dollar to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2011

WordPress, Blogger, TypePad), but what excites me about Tumblr for nonprofits is that it's quick, fun and visual. Here are a few examples: First Book Robin Hood Doctors without Borders Meatless Monday Red Cross This blog was created to, "celebrate unique contributions to the Red Cross mission." Some nonprofits' blogs can be a bit, er, boring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

November 21st is Family Volunteer Day Girl Scouts of the USA: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month Mission Serve Launches on Veteran's Day + Veteran Volunteer Opportunities 5 Tips for Volunteering in Schools Discounts on LUSH Cosmetics, Ladies Home Journal, Essence Magazine and Step Up Women's Network for WE Volunteers! and Craft Inc.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’ve made it easy for CauseVox clients to get on board with #GivingTuesday by creating a set of resources, tips, guides, and providing extra support specific to the campaign. Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Compile a blogger list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. I haven't slept much working on this project (but feeling really motivated!)

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. 500,000 will be awarded through the challenge to charities whose supporters have attracted the most unique donors to their cause using new and innovative online tools. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts. charity: water is a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations, has launched a September Birthday campaign. Have you celebrated your birthday by designating a charity?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. As of this writing, 240 bloggers have registered for the Blogathon and $16,161.91 Who needs a walk-a-thon when you can join a Blogathon! in pledges have been made.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Charity: Water : A nonprofit organization that has storytelling as central to all of its work. "It's part of our DNA," they tell me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.    He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.   Skelliwag has some awesome tips on how to fight poverty with technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Arizona doesnt have 15,000 federally-recognized charities — it now has closer to 12,000. Four of these public charities that lost their exemption yesterday were part of the ASU Lodestar Centers Scope of the Sector report and had revenues of over $1 million in 2005 or 2006. Out with the old, in with the new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

Tsunami relief: 82,000 donations totaling $11 million for 124 charities ?? Katrina relief: 107,000 donations totaling $13 million for 344 charities ?? Charities should consider offering recurring giving as an option in the donation check-out and emphasize it with donors. ?? This study is based on analysis of $24.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

" Also quoted is Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog was also quoted and he shares his expanded predictions here , including "Charities recognize the potential of social-media tools and finally get serious about integrated online strategies." Here's a tip sheet on Twitter. New (to me) Blogs.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Blogger, which turns 10 this year, was covered in depth, and I have to admit, I was quite impressed with the features and functionality it offers that I was totally unaware of. As you can see, a ton of great information was shared from the Google team with educational info, helpful tips and even a few success stories thrown in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

The summary: most big charities are based on direct mail. The intent is to leverage the networked effect or the Tipping Point (the title of a book by Malcolm Gladwell that means the given moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass.) Hat tip Amy Sample Ward for discovering it!). And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

an organization that provides services, training and consulting to other charities - and didn???t What are some of your best tips for being efficient in writing a blog? m not sure that I am an efficient blogger. Any tips for work/life balance? We were sharing food and tips for marketing our businesses.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger. Resolution Three: "I resolve to better know my supporters and their needs."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2008

This post was written in response to Nathaniel Whittemore's post, The One Thing You Need to Know Before You Donate to Charity this Holiday Season on Change.org. Check it out for more holiday giving tips from Nathaniel, and other bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. His Tweet-a-thon raised over $5,000 for his charity on Twitter. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. See below).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2015

I’m excited to introduce you to a new npENGAGE blogger, Shana Masterson! What worked for XYZ charity won’t necessarily work for yours. Nonprofit Fundraising crowdfunding donor cultivation fundraising ideas fundraising tips Peer to Peer Fundraising' Speaking of looking forward to new fundraising ideas in 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures. New (to me) Blogs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Here are some tips for nonprofits to improve link earning within their online communities. Get Bloggers Involved.

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