Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. How can we do that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. Of the Big Three, Twitter requires the most time to utilize.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways. In response, we saw an explosion in the number of events that made the pivot from in-person to virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It is funded by Open Society Foundations. AI Now Institute Co-Founder, Kate Crawford, shared the top line trends as a thread on Twitter. The mission of A People’s Guide to AI is to open up conversation around AI by demystifying, situating, and shifting the narrative about what types of use cases AI can have for everyday people.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With the right text-to-give platform, your nonprofit will be able to quickly access any funds donated. And that means you can start using those funds almost as soon as they’re donated to help your organization reach its goals. Promote a text-to-give call-to-action through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other outlets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

. • The American Red Cross is accepting donations for its International Response Fund. You can follow their work on the American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom blog, and on Twitter at @RedCross. • Fund for UNICEF also needs donations. You can follow UNICEF's work on their Field Notes blog, and on Twitter at @UnicefUSA.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Wyclef Jean , a highly regarded musician, was brought to tears during a press interview defending his charity’s use of funds. Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a way for people to communicate during a crisis. Charities are being scrutinized more than before. Do they pass the sniff test?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations. More than 53,000 individuals contributed to that giving day, and as a result, 4,300 nonprofits and schools received critical funding. Check him out on Twitter @daveiam. I’m so glad you asked.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ICA Fund Good Jobs. There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. The International Rescue Committee responds to humanitarian crises around the world by supporting refugees and communities affected by violence and disaster. YBlc.org annual report.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

And at the time the Haiti disaster occurred in January 2010, the nonprofit had virtually no social media presence aside from the Father Marc’s blog updating supporters of the organization's work in Haiti. million + Twitter followers.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s renewing your annual fund leadership donors. Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2019. Hosted by: Center for Disaster for Philanthropy and Candid. Every year, disasters and humanitarian crises affect millions of people globally and billions of dollars are distributed in response. Not so much.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What's the central theme of your fundraising campaign (the goal you're trying to solve, amount of funds you need to raise, giving deadline)? You can ask your supporters to share their photos on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using a hashtag. Find Michael Stein on Twitter at @mstein63. Ask These Questions to Start.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities. On average, we see about 50% of crowdfunding campaign funds come in this way. Even though you can get tons of awareness and traffic, they may not be the right audience that will fund your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Komen’s funding pays for about 170,000 of those screenings. Again, literally minutes later, I started to see mentions on Facebook and Twitter. I published around 11:30 a.m.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. Mission: To provide sustainable transformation in the lives of poor children and provide emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster. International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ● icar.ngo. United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2011

They run Internet auctions for causes, use Twitter and Facebook to spur giving, and find pro bono help for Massachusetts nonprofits and social enterprises. With the reach and ease of the Web, anyone in the world can potentially fund a playground project in Roxbury or instantly donate to the American Red Cross when a disaster hits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. We hoped to created more awareness of the need for support for all of those affected by recent disasters. I would have started a hashtag for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”. Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

For SXSWCares , a crowdfunding campaign for disaster relief, we worked with the press to get featured in CNN, NYTimes, Forbes, AdAge, and more. Try Twitter and the publication's own directories to find the right people. This lets your supporters create a personal page to help you raise funds as part of your crowdfunding campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Omaze is one to watch – and they just closed on new funding.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. The wizard behind the Frozen Pea Fund (and many others since) is Connie Reece, who specializes in developing marketing and communications programs that use Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. What we saw was that by 9 pm on January 12th we were able to launch the program and for the next thee days people only found out about it from Twitter and facebook and so many shared it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

(RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with the world's most iconic brands to produce (PRODUCT)RED branded products. A percentage of each (PRODUCT)RED product sold is given to The Global Fund. Habitat for Humanity's Operation Home Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Click for Twitter Transcript. Carrie came to ALS from the Red Cross, so she brought all her crisis and disaster communications management skills and knowledge to the Ice Bucket Challenge as the campaign went viral and the donations came flooding in. “It felt like when I managed communications at the Red Cross during Hurricane Katrina.”

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Healey warns that filling seats with “warm bodies” for the sake of reaching a magic number instead of recruiting those who are invested in your mission will help your organization navigate the rough waters if ethical disasters arise. When it’s time to recruit, you typically should look to individuals outside the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. But with disaster related giving, you should specify that you want your donation only used to respond to this particular crisis. Many of them include pleas to donate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. It is a provocative piece that really made me re-evaluate how I view disaster and humanitarian giving. This phenomenon isnt limited just to disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and volunteerism, though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Helping the women receiving the funds. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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