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JULY 5, 2023

Pere-to-peer fundraising is more than just a physical event, and there are many campaign ideas your organization to test out, including: Contests Challenges Crowdfunding DIY fundraising A-thon events Network fundraising Virtual storefronts Giving days And more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Since the great wall fell, we've been able to promote initiatives like the Western Union Foundation contest to all of our chapters and blood regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

As more and more nonprofits and individuals flock to social networks, creating acacophony of fundraising pitches and the subsequent cause fatigue, how can organizations scale? charity:water was one of the first to create it's own social network for fundraising. There's also a cake contest.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users. He loves bacon.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. As Allyson Kapin wrote recently on the Care2 Frogloop blog , “Activists and donors rely more on their personal and social networks today, not celebrity endorsements.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. But the idea of doing this through your online social networks has become normalized in the last few years as online social networks have become intertwined with our lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Social media specific webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lucy talked about how technology is driving the shift to a social economy and picked out a few themes, pointing out it is not the technology itself but how we use it. She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2016

Recently, after getting more into the app myself and discovering that more than just sneaky teenagers were using it, I decided to revisit Snapchat as a viable platform for nonprofits. Something I always recommend for getting started with a new social media platform is to study how other organizations are using it.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Crowdfunding is built around and relies on an online platform that allows individuals to make donations with a simple click of the mouse. Some crowdfunding platforms allow organizations to create fundraising teams, set up giving levels and offer t-shirts or other “gifts” at various donation levels. So, what is crowdfunding?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. That said, social media is not a science, so there is no correct way to do things.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Severn spearheaded a new marketing initiative for the San Francisco Ballet that used social media to grow audiences through a series of contests. Using Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook, and WordPress, she cross-promoted The Nutcracker by offering special seats to contest winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He also shares that he wants to create a social fundraising wizard Currently, I am building an automated wizard. that will assist in planning and implementing a peer-to-peer social change campaign. The wizard will recommend platforms to use and best practices for spreading the campaign through social networks.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You can create a camp aign contest that gives donors and patients the oppo rtunity to share their favorite caretaker story to inc rease engagement and lead those to gift consideration. . Your efforts are multiplied with the assistance of even a few social media influencers. . The social platforms where your contacts are most active.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition. While TikTok might not be everyone’s thing, one can’t deny all the people this social network attracts. 30) Social Media Challenge. It might be time to start using a dedicated fundraising software platform.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. This is a flawed assumption.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. They want to connect. They are in control.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

We developed Causes because we know what it takes to be an activist and we know how much social networking can revolutionize grassroots organizing. Across the platform, users have donated over $9 million in 24 months and our daily donation total is up 10x over the past 12 months.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Take a look.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Make it easy to put faces and names to blog posts Posts should say, by your name , not by admin , or by the name of your organization.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We arent an exclusive platform - you can post here and anywhere else.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We arent an exclusive platform - you can post here and anywhere else.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. Today they just announced that the W.K. Challenge Has Already Raised $1.1

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 4, 2023

Fundraising The Top 5 Best Nonprofit Social Media Examples 7 min read Read Now Building a Personal Connection There are tons of strategies out there for building a personal connection through your content on social media. Just about all nonprofits This platform focuses on video sharing.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Common Peer to Peer Fundraising Platforms Why is Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Effective? Peer-to-peer fundraising has proven to be a highly effective method for nonprofits to raise funds and increase awareness because it leverages the strong connections that individuals have with their own social networks.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

A high-quality P2P fundraising platform will help your nonprofit identify new supporters, engage your current champions, manage events, and raise more funds with purpose-built analytics and social networking capabilities. This kind of email fundraising requires a top-notch constituent relationship management (CRM) platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

One that really speaks to me is the point that “measurement helps nonprofits understand and improve their social networks.” We were looking to build the same kind of group sharing on social platforms that we were seeing on the blog. In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes. Why the dog photo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. It also focused the experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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