Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

NetSuite's integrated, cloud-based business tools can help enhance fundraising at your nonprofit or charity. Other nonprofits, including Good360, Kiva, and the San Francisco SPCA, have all adopted NetSuite. It also helps ensure that your financial statements are accurate and comply with auditable accounting practices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. They collect ways for you to get involved in the causes you care about from 30+ action sources like Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! He contributed to the Facebook Cause and also to Global Giving page if that icon below is you Adam. With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. Productivity Tools in dozens of categories that can help organizations get a handle on the social Web. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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JANUARY 15, 2010

I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause. Specific goals help focus. realize_ink : Q1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). Slacktivism 101?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

He has helped raise over a billion dollars for his clients. But, how will these two trends help you reach each generation of Canadian donors? Crowdfunding involves a large number of people funding a program, project, or cause. First, let’s look at the generations studied. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? By Skylar Woodward.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

It isn't difficult for me to care and want to help a cause, or an individual entrepreneur on Kiva , or a reader who emails me for advice. I don't want to spoil it for you by describing it, but let's just say that when someone is getting on my nerves, and I remember to think of it, it helps me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I was particularly moved by an interview with one Stanley Hotel resident, a heroin addict, who said, "I wish people had a better understanding of the kind of people we are, 'cause we're not animals, and we're not contagious. Lots of people get inspired to work at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, but organizations always need help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

from DonorsChoose.org at the bottom of posts, so that readers can find opportunities to take action to help classrooms around the world. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. possibly related classroom projects??? and describes SocialVibe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You? Photo by Dmason.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I am all for equipping believers of a cause to go out to the world and do good.but I am less enthusiastic of sending out a swarm of independent mavericks. This small group organized the first Twestival to raise money for The Connection , an organization that helps homeless people by providing specialist services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. This can help you get out a blogging rut. Katya Andresen has an entertaining post about Bourbon and extracts some lessons in nonprofit marketing.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money. Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

It didn't matter whether gifts of money and time went to churches or symphony orchestras — givers to all types of religious and secular causes were far happier than non-givers." Autumn 1999)" There are so many resources available to help you give time, money, skills and stuff, it could probably fill a phone book. Give blood.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

In the edited transcript of my September 1st interview with co-author Lisa Witter for the Big Vision Podcast , she discusses how nonprofits can use four principles from the book, Care, Connect, Control, and Cultivate to get the word out about their cause. Kiva's a great example. We can't help but want to sing the song.

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