Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2013

I did this video with Chad Nelson who is in charge of their ocean conservation initiatives and Surf Rider Foundation has been featured in both my books. If you are not familiar with surf culture, an offline paddle out is a memorial service in the water that surfers do to honor a fellow surfer who has passed away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

Tweet or Facebook your favorite story about the ocean or share an ocean conservation link with #oceanLoveEarl hashtag. Surfers that participate in an offline paddle out memorial service, paddle out to a suitable location with flower leis around their necks or with loose flowers (sometimes held between their teeth).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Fact : Of the hundreds of thousands of organizations registered as possible beneficiaries in the Causes application ( Washington Post data ), only 20 organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, Doctors Without Borders and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, have raised over $100,000 using Causes. Context : That’s a lot of people.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Give because you deeply care about water conservation). Top GivingTuesday 2023 Highlights Here are some of the top highlights from this year’s GivingTuesday. With those statistics in mind, let’s take a look at what this reveals about donors. Who Is Giving? It’s tempting to try and motivate donors with situation-based appeals (e.g.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

They’ve conserved more than 80,000 acres of prime desert habitat, forever weaving together National Parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife linkage corridors. Colleen was new to setting up a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, and had been working with offline donations for a long time.

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Care2

AUGUST 18, 2011

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) uses QR codes in their brochures at their offline fundraising events. In that regard, it was quite successful, as we were able to tell a conservation + technology story," said Darren Barefoot of Capulet. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

Over the past couple of years I’ve developed a little bit of a love affair with one of our clients: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). WCS is a global conservation organization that manages five living institutions in New York City, including the Bronx Zoo. Author: Michelle Shefter.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising. Prior to joining Care2 Eric designed and executed integrated advocacy campaigns for environmental nonprofits including the National Environmental Trust, the Alaska Oceans Network, and the Marine Fish Conservation Network.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one? Nonprofits seem to be more acutely concerned than small businesses, for example, about what someone might think or what someone might say about this or that, and it makes them too cautious and conservative in their marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

92% of donors were “strong ties” people I knew and had a relationship with online/offline – most were professional colleagues and some friends from high school — all Facebook friends. Total raise $5563 or 10% over goal of $5,000 in 2 weeks. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd.

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Care2

AUGUST 23, 2011

She has led internet strategies for many organizations, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The Nation, Ocean Conservancy, Amnesty International USA, Earthjustice, Human Rights Campaign, the Humane Society of the United States, ACORN, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and CARE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Don't think this a passing phenomenon: younger generations practically live online, while over the last dozen or so years, virtually every prediction of how the web would infiltrate the 'offline' world has proven too conservative.

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Everyaction

APRIL 9, 2018

Beautiful Forms Donors who support conservation efforts are keenly appreciative of the beauty found in the natural world around them, and they look for you to demonstrate that you understand this by providing an aesthetically pleasing user experience when interacting with your materials, such as donation forms. Offline Organizing Capability.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

In Find the Future, the New York Public Library pairs online and offline activity to get the audience to explore the library’s offerings by sending them on a scavenger hunt throughout the collection. New York Public Library: Find the Future. Purpose: Engaging existing audience on a deeper level, recruiting a new generation of fans.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? including ASPCA, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, the Carter Center, American Legacy Foundation, and Meals on Wheels Association of America. So what and who cares? Please register now!

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. This new dedicated app for Google Drive will allow you to edit your Google Docs offline for the first time. Takes with a fitness and cause driven movement that the app creators are hoping to foster. Score one for team collaboration!

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. This new dedicated app for Google Drive will allow you to edit your Google Docs offline for the first time. Takes with a fitness and cause driven movement that the app creators are hoping to foster. Score one for team collaboration!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Just as with national advocacy, that local policy campaign will need some online/offline synergy to succeed. However, one of my favorite examples of successful local advocacy is the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) annual campaign to protect funding for the Bronx Zoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger. re doing offline. There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: so our online efforts dovetail with what we???re

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2017

According to the latest research from the Charitable Giving Report: The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. One donor might support conservation while another is intrigued by your education program. The average donor retention rates for first-year online-only donors is 21%.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. To reinforce the two points above, "conservation" alone is not the solution. As a colleague put it: "you can't conserve your way into infinity with energy plans, just like you can't cut all marketing to 'save' money. Starting to sound pretty familiar?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Harvey McKinnon (Harvey McKinnon Associates) and Teva Harrison (The Nature Conservancy Canada) join Ryann Miller (Care2) to discuss why to have a monthly giving program, what it means for donor loyalty, and the fundamental elements of all good monthly programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. Use QR Codes QR codes became a lot more popular during the pandemic, and they can be a great way for your nonprofit to easily shepherd offline donors to your online donation pages. Make every stamp count!

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Need some inspiration?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Online/Offline: Messaging supporters and potential supporters with messages to do something offline from an online message or to do something online from an offline message. The goal is to get supporters and donors interfacing with the organization both online and offline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars. Andy and Harvey, are you cool taking questions maybe offline, online? And if not, you can send us questions offline either way. .

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JULY 21, 2022

And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline. For example, say your organization is called Bengal Tigers Conservation Corps. Looking to grow your nonprofit fundraising program? Of course, you are – it’s why you’re here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While this represents around 150 million more users than this time last year, these numbers may still be conservative. Adding up all the users in individual countries around the world, there appear to be around 2.5 billion global internet users today – roughly 35% of the world’s population.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MobileCause :: mobilecause.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MobileCause :: mobilecause.com.

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