Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2010

His analysis looked at Apple’s flimsy excuses for their policy of prohibiting donations. He examines possible solutions to the problem – like in-app donations – which unfortunately would mean that Apple would take a 30% cut!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Charity Donations: Is there an App for that? The 30-per-cent cut Apple takes from any trans­ac­tion through the store is just the coup de grace in deter­ring iPhone-enabled donations. Meanwhile, I’m going Android shopping. by Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps (read Jake Shapiro’s Editorial or this post about why Apple pulled PayPal’s app ). Donors have to click at least several times before they reach the donation form. Here’s more about why it is important. The barriers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2011

A donation of $25 will get you a cool poster created by Morningside Analytics – that is a social network analysis map of bloggers who link to Global Voices and cite similar online content). Donate today! Plus, you’ll get the undying love and loyalty of the Global Voices mascot, the GV Ferret.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event. Embed Video on a Donation Page. Video can compliment a donation page. Test, but be careful. Utilize YouTube Annotations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2010

They also have a list of charitable organizations/ngos doing work in Haiti that need donations - like Partners in Health. If you want donate, make sure you keep your scam filter active. You can also text to give to the American Red Cross: Text HAITI to 90999 donate $10 to the Red Cross for Haiti efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps and we all want them to get it right. As the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Quarterly reported last week, Apple’s policy has raised the ire of some nonprofits leaders. All of Steve’s points are good ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

In short, Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps (read Jake Shapiro’s Editorial or this post about why Apple pulled PayPal’s app ). Did you know that Apple won’t allow you to make a donation to your favorite nonprofit using an iPhone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2010

There was a $25 donation from Samathida Kem, the daughter of Kem Sokha, a human rights leader in Cambodia. Her sister, Monovithya , who is in Holland attending school couldn't get her dutch ATM card to work so she asked her sister, who is in the US now, to make the donation. You can donate here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

So, in addition to Convio matching dollars, if you donate you get to nominate someone from the community to participate in a video version of the Muppets Movie they will create and share at the opening plenary. And, thanks to Convio , NTEN can more waive registration fees because Convio will match all gifts dollar for dollar up to $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

where you earn donations for your favorite charity, for free, just by playing. The better you do at the games, and the longer that you play, the more you donate! The more people log on and play, the longer they play for, and the better they perform at the game, the more donations they generate for the charity of their choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Joey (I think) coined a new term, " cause washing." Joey pointed out that Facebook's donation to Donors Choose in lieu of holiday party and Google's $20 million donation to selected charities in lieu of holiday gifts to Adsense and Adwords products is not cause washing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

There's an added benefit, people who donate generate more dopamine, the "happy" neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, craving, and reward. So, get happy, feel good , and donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation to celebrate my birthday. If you don't want to donate through Facebook, here are some other ways to wish me happy birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I'm introducing the the Green Charity Donation Contest! Include a sentence or two about an environmental cause or organization where we can make donation online via Network for Good. *. The winner will receive a $20 donation from us. (This month she is helping Project Linus and the Pajama Project). Why Network for Good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Watch the video , donate $1, pass it on The most recent web fundraising campaign from Fight Hunger, an part of the UN World Food Programme to end Child Hunger by 2015 is elegantly simple. The young girl in the orange t-shirt is one of the children featured in the video. The campaign site is also very zen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

If you maintain a blog about bike repair and continue to ask for donations to support a team of doctors helping in other countries, you will probably alienate your readers pretty fast. This made me think of the pyramid of peace visualizations that Nancy White surfaced on her blog illustrating the flow of donations from networked fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

When I give to nonprofits based on an institutional appeal, I only give if know the organization first hand. But most of the donations I tend to make have been requests from friends or colleagues to support their charity. Of course, if a stranger or someone I don't know all that well asked to donate, I probably wouldn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19. For more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Crowdfunding campaigns bring causes to the attention of wide audiences who find it a convenient way to make donations, typically of modest amounts. Individuals also use crowdfunding campaigns to encourage their friends to donate to various nonprofit or community efforts. Online crowdfunding platforms must.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2009

Thankyou to everyone who has donated so far and I'll be sharing a reflection about this campaign in the coming days for sure. They know personallyh the power of getting an education in a country like Cambodia and know that even at $10 donation to purchase a uniform will make all the difference in the world for that child.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

During the four-day campaign, each Tweet will leverage a 10 cent donation – up to 50,000 Tweets – from NCM Fathom to the global humanitarian organization CARE. Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. in 450 select movie theatres nationwide on March 5th. apowerfulnoise [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

And it goes beyond just putting a cute little green vegetable plant on your profile -- the applications is making donations to green causes. The most recent donation was made May 1, 2008 to the Adopt An Acre. program of the Nature Conservancy bringing the total donated to $33,600 and 16,000 members or an average of $2.00

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

As I do every year for my birthday, I ask for donations to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of gifts or cards. This year for my birthday, I'm inviting the readers of this blog, my professional colleagues, my friends, and family to donate $10 or more so we can send these youngsters to school in 2009!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Does it exist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Laura Quinn has published " Donate Now: Selecting an Online Donation Tool." " The report walks through the available software tools to accept credit card donations from an existing website, with considerations, guidelines for choosing, recommended vendors, and detailed reviews of nineteen different tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Where should be donate? Even if you don’t have a lot of money to donate, every little bit helps. And, as blogger Vu Le says, donating to organizations on the ground can be a form of self-care. I’m not alone, according to Pew Research, 22% of Americans have donated to a crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Simply follow this @mrsrosey and she will donate $1 dollar to Susan G. I couldn't sleep and was up early and Maria Thurrell and Tori Tucan told me about this micro-philanthropy ( #5 on Lucy Bernholz's buzzword list ) on Twitter to support Breast Cancer. Komen Foundation for each follower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By letting each volunteer create an individual donation page, they can easily post it on social media and ask their friends and families for support. A donation thermometer to help keep track of how much has been raised so far. There is plenty of peer-to-peer fundraising software out there that can help you. Hold a fundraising event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. There is an individual who would like to donate, but also only does online transactions via PayPal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Get Well Gamers brings video games systems and games to children's hospitals by collecting used game systems and other donated product and sends them children's programs at hospitals. If you have stocks of new product, or used systems in good condition that you would like to donate contact Get Well Gamers. It's free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2008

So, she's come up with this micro donation campaign: I don’t want to ask much of any one person. I figured, I go back and donate the remaining $3. Laura wants to save the lives of children, but she knows it's been very difficult year , especially for charitable giving. Betaworks and Tipjoy. Let the micro fundraising begin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Mizfit is donating a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Here's a few examples. Go over there and comment right now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. Looking at donation totals to thousands of nonprofits around the world and covering each of six major disasters over the past two months, we’re not seeing major evidence of donor fatigue. since Aug.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tyson Foods was willing to donate 100 pounds of protein to the Boston Food Bank per comment on its Hunger Relief blog. . The theme for Social Media Breakfast #11 in Boston this morning was " Social Media for Social Good." To kick off the event, Bob Collins and I organized a call to action for the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Why not send a virtual gift that sends a donation to support breast cancer research or some other cause? By making a donation, you can print out or email these beautiful cards featuring children's artwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Not limited to restaurants, over 15,000 businesses across Mumbai region, Delhi, and other large urban areas will offer their customers the convenience of making a donation while shopping. With over 7500 verified NGOs across India, IamHere, another app makes it possible for people to discover NGOs near them and donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Donate here before the contest ends 1/31 at 3:00 PM EST. This has been a labor of love and I've had lots of support from my generous network (thank you). 31 3:00 PM EST. Please join the over 1,000 unselfish people who have donated to the Sharing Foundation and help make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged Cambodian children.

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