Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. We didn’t have much time to respond to the Pepsi Refresh challenge. Here's my analysis.

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Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. Before the event starts, challenge participants to take pictures or videos that align with your chosen theme, such as “best costume” for a masquerade ball.

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Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. Before the event starts, challenge participants to take pictures or videos that align with your chosen theme, such as “best costume” for a masquerade ball.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. Sports tricks contest. Have them set up individual fundraising pages and upload videos of them attempting the challenges. Coaches talent challenge. Design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge.

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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. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge.

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APRIL 21, 2023

In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. There are many options for peer-to-peer fundraising you can use: Contests Challenges Crowdfunding DIY fundraising A-thons (walk, bowl, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Last January while I was celebrating my birthday, all of the Roteang Orphanage children were celebrating theirs!

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JANUARY 1, 2024

The Challenge of Fundraising Planning for New Nonprofits Established nonprofits have an advantage in planning for fundraising — they can build their fundraising plan based on their numbers from prior years. It’s not enough to say you want to make sure children don’t go hungry. Think in terms of action. What will this cost?

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If you know you have a supporter base that are planning to give up drinks, treats, or Starbucks, challenge them to donate what they would spend on those weekly cocktails or daily croissants to your cause. Take a hike” day or Sponsored Step Challenge. Give it up for Lent (varies; usually in March). BBQ for Good. Themed Bake-off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Contest is here!

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JUNE 19, 2015

While challenges exist for everybody, these challenges assume more serious proportions for people who have low incomes. WORTH Trust uses a two-pronged model that addresses challenges faced by people with different abilities at various levels. Getting enough work in the initial days was a challenge.

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MAY 28, 2014

Caravan Studios offers one of those different perspectives, and though still in its start-up phase, it has already delivered two apps: SafeNight for crowdfunding emergency shelter and Range for connecting underprivileged children with meals when school is out. The contest sought solutions to support and empower trafficking survivors.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The children who had access to education from an early stage of life had the best results. As a result, OvidiuRo decided to focus on helping preschool children through early education. "These people want to educate their children and are willing to walk daily a few kilometers by foot to bring their kids to kindergarten.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The children who had access to education from an early stage of life had the best results. As a result, OvidiuRo decided to focus on helping preschool children through early education. "These people want to educate their children and are willing to walk daily a few kilometers by foot to bring their kids to kindergarten.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Every parent wants to provide their child with the happiness and excitement of receiving a gift, and a toy and supply drive can make that possible for families who might not have the budget to buy their children the toy of their dreams. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Host this event as part of a holiday party. Check out B.I.G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. Every year, GrantStation runs a contest to uncover some of the best proposals that have been written. Join TechSoup's Storymakers Challenge. Telling a story doesn't have to take pages and pages of text. Some Winning Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Jeremy Ames who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Environments Division, will speak about their Radon Video Contest -- the first video contest run by the federal government. Ames will offer advice on meeting the challenges of using a video sharing site within a government agency in support of public communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This might even inspire a few out of state donors to give to nonprofits in the land of 10,000 lakes where the men are strong, women are good lucking and children above average. This is similar in contest design and implementation as the Target Challenge that focused on ten large nonprofit organizations six months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. I heard about the challenge because Laura Fitton posted this tweet. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. Tags: contest fundraising2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! There are so many stories that I hope to share with you about the many children that the Sharing Foundation care for.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Learn how Summit Assistance Dogs and Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ran massively successful virtual fundraising events : Tip: Schedule a demo with our team on how you can quickly start a campaign site for your virtual fundraising event. Teams can register to compete in different challenges with the top scorers winning a prize!

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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?" But, it not necessarily anything new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Look no further than the Ice Bucket Challenge , which raised over $200 million worldwide last summer. million challenge videos. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. So is giving money.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge.

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MAY 2, 2012

Gene has lead a team of very high capability and high integrity individuals who challenge each other everyday but also support each other through thick and thin. Or maybe it is the life-size Angry Birds games, high jump wall, hot wings contest, or 40-yard dash contests that keep this such a great place to work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

As we wrote in the Mashable post: While the social web has been a fantastic place for nonprofits to harness the long tail of giving with movements like Twestival and the Case Foundation’s Giving Challenge , high dollar donor cultivation has not been prevalent. The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0 Don’t prescribe, listen and learn.

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APRIL 30, 2008

On another note, in her article, The Dark Underside of Oprah's Big Give , Linda Diebel rightly points out that during an episode focused on helping two public schools, "not one contestant turned to another and asked how such bleak Dickensian conditions could exist in American schools in the first place." Involve the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I am not sure if everyone is following the ups and downs of Beth Kanter's online fundraising for the Sharing Foundation in America's Giving Challenge. There is just 36 hours left to the end of the challenge and the campaign is in the lead by 16 donations. This is exactly the kind of example we want to give to our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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