Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

My favorite part of negative posts are the “save the ice for another day and next time just donate to the cause” ending statements. If you asked the same group if they’d heard of cancer, I’m willing to bet they’d all say yes. For many causes, starting a conversation is the first step towards making something happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. Crowdsourced Campaigns for Causes: Benefiting social good or just social? During the conference, there [.].

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Quite frankly, ALS is not a very wide spread disease like cancer or heart disease. Fundraising by definition is “an activity done to collect money by a charity, political party or school,” i.e. the Ice Bucket Challenge. Most people don’t know someone with ALS—most have never even heard of it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Here at Network for Good, where we process donations for over 10,000 nonprofit websites and serve as the engine for many social networks (like Causes on Facebook), we see similar renewal rates -- but important differences depending on where donors give online. What's a nonprofit to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tags: sxsw. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tweet-vivors: Social Media Conquers Cancer.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

The May holiday might call to mind breast cancer awareness or newer contenders like #EveryMotherCounts. Capitalizing on both the holiday and baseball season, Father’s Day is dominated with messages of prostate cancer from the MLB. Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. Mother’s Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” I wanted to turn this experience into something positive…so, basically, we released BlameDrewsCancer.com which allows you with a twitter hashtag, #blamedrewscancer , to blame anything you want on my cancer.” Tags: guest blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

So, now we are seeing an emerging practice that for lack of a better phrase, I’m calling “Charity Jacking.” Charity Jacking is imitating a successful fundraising campaign theme or idea that has become popular and instead of encouraging donations to the original charity, redirecting donations to another cause.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

This is yet another indication of the growing interest in the charity sector at SXSWi. Some people in the room were frustrated because the discussion focused on social media for charity and did not include social media for social change. Or should we simply just call fundraising and charity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it.

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See3

JUNE 24, 2009

But at the Cause Marketing Forum a few weeks ago I was looking over the attendee list to the workshop where I spoke and saw that someone was listed as being from Movember. So they added the charity component and no one can argue with that. Tags: fundraising advocacy. So I did look it up. I know what you are thinking.

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