Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. A multi-screen world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors Guest Post By Geri Stengel, Ventureneer. Note from Beth: We know that social media can bring in the small dollar donors, but what about larger gifts? Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. Who are their big individual donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Do you know what it is like to be a donor to your nonprofit? Network for Good is launching its first ever Be Your Donor Day on October 24th to inspire nonprofits to play the role of their donors and rate how they are performing from the perspective of those supporters. October 24th is that day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors. But look out, get ready to reach out to Gen Z donors , sometimes called “ PhilanthroTeens ” or “ PhilanthroKids.”. What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2012

MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. Three years ago, the first study on Millennial donor engagement was published by Achieve and partner JGA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The findings suggest that if nonprofits are more transparent in sharing information about their results online that they could attract more donors. The study also states that donors want to be able to obtain this information from third-party portals and 53 percent of donors survyed want to use such sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future? While they may not be using nonprofit created apps or donating via SMS, are the next generation of nonprofit donors following on the heels of Millennials? Qwerty Monsters are teens, age 13-17, who have gone mad for texting on their mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Help them set up and manage their campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an opinion piece, “ AI Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors But Fundraisers Can’t Ignore Potential Pitfalls ,” a topic that Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about since 2017. Then uses their human skills – empathy and knowledge – to revise the draft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

The Millennial Donor Summit explored this question and others while engaging participants in a virtual setting. The MDS11 extended the concepts and ideas discovered in the annual Millennial Donors Survey conducted by JGA and Achieve by building knowledge around the topic of millennial engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2020

Nonprofits using AI to support their fundraising efforts will be able to identify new donors much more efficiently, tailor their communications and outreach efforts to the donors interests, and ensure no one falls through the cracks for renewals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Earlier this year, I was able to raise $ 6,893 for the Sharing Foundation using Causes birthday application from 167 donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

New research funded by the Columbus Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation demonstrates that High dollar donors — especially 30-49 year-olds — use the social web, but have yet to be engaged by strong, trustworthy philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

Network For Good hosted a virtual conference today called “ Fundraise Like Netflix: Engaging Donors in a Subscription-Driven World ,” that included several hours of online presentations about strategy and tools for getting repeat donors. He also mentioned Quilt.Ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence is providing enormous labor-saving help to fundraisers, helping them research prospects, talk to donors, and increase retention rates. Take for example, the mundane and time-consuming task of culling the donor database to create a prospect list. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The legislation signals the need for more responsible and ethical practices that support nonprofits, donors, and platforms. Crowdfunding – broad, public, online fundraising campaigns – has emerged as an important vehicle for both donors and nonprofits. Donors deserve verification that their donation was delivered as directed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

The map above gives you a geographic representation of the donors to my first personal fundraising campaign on behalf of Leng Sopharath. What you are looking at is a new ChipIn mapping feature that. that mashes google maps with GEO-IP tracking of contributions. It works in real-time as donations come in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Read more about how Facebook, Twitter, Chris Brogan, and 45 other people including this donor helped Leng Sopharath get to college! John and I have never met face-to-face, but I feel like I know through having conversations online for years. Thanks John for helping with this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

streamlined supporter & donor communications. improved donor acquisition & prospecting. more efficient and wider donor targeting. scaled personalized donor engagement and communication. And chat bots are being used to bring the stories of patients to life for potential donors. Fundraising & Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As fundraisers, we need to understand this shift and change how we look at fundraising, reaching new donors, and engaging our current supporters. You can do this by: Asking your donor to connect on social media and through email. Get to know your donor on a personal level. 3: Donors Hold Power. 1: Relationships Matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2021

And here’s the most exciting part: Smart nonprofits create a “dividend of time,” a gift of new time that can be spent with clients and donors, preventing crises, thinking, learning, and even dreaming!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

AI-Driven fundraising key benefit is the ability to scale 1:1 engagement that now is primarily reserved for major donors. And, while automation has enabled early adopter fundraisers with the right database tools to pinpoint donor segments and customize communication, it is not the same thing as 1:1 engagement at scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I was concerned at one point that the donations I'd received from these sorts of campaigns might be "transactional" - in that new donors to my charity would only contribute once and that was that. But, Britt is repeat donors. Again, as all fundraisers know, donor stewardship important. You can't say thank you enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

We are particularly interested in the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and support donors. These “instant-messaging using human fundraisers” chat with donors, provide links, may refer them to a chatbot for more information, or donation link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Myth 9: I’ve heard GT can only involve donors, not my staff or volunteers. Myth 10: Donors will only pay attention to your organization at the end of the year. Myth 7: If my org doesn’t have a big online following, #GivingTuesday won’t be successful for us. Is your nonprofit ready for GivingTuesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Donor Perfect is matching the next $3,000 that is donated). NTEN staff pulled together the collateral materials and made it very easy for us board members to focus on raising the money and thanking our donors. The platform lets us set up own landing page and reach out to our networks customizing the ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

You’ve smiled through back-to-back-to-back-to-back meetings with donors and your best donor prospect just cancelled on you, and now you’ve got to finish that grant report before you can go home. Maybe every little thing about a donor, a board member, or your executive director is rubbing you the wrong way. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

In terms of the Sharing Foundation campaign, there has already been over $17,000 raised through the unselfish giving of over 600 people. If you have not yet donated $10 (or more) to this important cause, please click here. and change a child's life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Crowdfunding – the practice of raising small donations from a large number of donors online – raises over a billion-dollars a year, with donations going to support start ups, gadgets, nonprofits, and directly to individuals. Unlike donations to nonprofits, these are not deductible for the donor. Local Charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Nonprofits can encourage their supporters to participate or if you are a donor, than you can submit your story. Entries will be accepted through November 30th and voting runs through December 7th. It is very simple to enter this contest. Here are the steps. Write or Record Your #MyGivingStory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2013

One of the things I do at The Impact Lab is to help organizations better understand the donor experience. Every time a donor clicks your site to donate and then bounces away before completing the donation, you are leaving money on the table. Segment New Donors. Not all donors are the same. Audit your giving experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

He was working and completed his legacy book, Donor Care. We will all miss him and a great loss to the nonprofit marketing field. John never stopped being productive, even at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

kanter A real family philanthropy manager/donor, a real wish to wear a cape & punch out dumb foundation, donor, nonprofit behavior. The Whiny Donor who complains about nonprofit fundraising mistakes. The Whiny Donor (@thewhinydonor) September 10, 2013. Bruce Wayne of the Wayne Family Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The exact opposite is more likely especially for wealthier donors. The potential for tax code changes are more likely to encourage these donors to give now instead of waiting. The data shows a troubling trend in the nonprofit sector: Donor populations have been shrinking for the past five years and revenue per donor has been flat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to grow support and keep donors engaged. Collecting stories from your donors as to why they give and from your volunteers as to why they volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Encourage Donors to Spread the Word by Sharing Their Personal Experiences With Your Organization. We want our donors to be advocates. Finally, take heed when Young talks about building relationships with their donors that will hopefully last for years. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible.

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