Classy

JUNE 16, 2021

The example below from Hope for Haiti shows how to highlight these tips in a digestible way. Include sample text in your fundraiser toolkit that can be easily personalized or copied and pasted directly into Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms. . Storytelling Examples.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Tools like mobile text/sms, facebook, twitter, and even Wikipedia have permeated the global community and in times of crisis are natural outlets for updates, news, and even cries for help.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2010

Over the last week, technology has played an unprecedented role in bringing aid to and saving lives in Haiti. Over $22 million has been raised by the American Red Cross via text message (about a fifth of total Haiti-related giving to the organization so far). And then there’s the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. After the 7.0-magnitude

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. Do Not Give To The Haitian Government – Haiti is known to be a corrupt country. Author: Jordan Viator.

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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.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a way for people to communicate during a crisis. Take a moment and think what you would be doing right now if your agency was in a situation like Haiti. Tags: Facebook Marketing and Awareness Tools communications crisis earthquake wyclef yele.

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. We simply needed to make Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an extension of what we were already doing and saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2014

Such is the call of a recent integrated marketing campaign launched by Mission of Hope, Haiti (MOH). For the past fifteen years, MOH Founders Brad and Vanessa Johnson have indeed been changing the world, dedicating their lives to save tens of thousands of children in poverty-stricken Haiti. Hefty numbers, to say the least.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. That said, below are 10 text campaigns that I was able to find through Google and Twitter searches: 1.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2011

Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Tweetsgiving, created by Amanda Rose, raised $1.2

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Over the last week, technology has played an unprecedented role in bringing aid to and saving lives in Haiti. Over $22 million has been raised by the American Red Cross via text message (about a fifth of total Haiti-related giving to the organization so far). And then there's the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Over the last week, technology has played an unprecedented role in bringing aid to and saving lives in Haiti. Over $22 million has been raised by the American Red Cross via text message (about a fifth of total Haiti-related giving to the organization so far). And then there's the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. Over 1,000 mentions a day. They had social content.

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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.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above. Share Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. Post it to your Facebook Fanpage and any other social networks your organization is active on. textPlus, a mobile app, offers users free texting with group text capability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

First, organic reach is at an all-time low and the value and effectiveness of social media advertising is questionable : Facebook: 2.9 Twitter: 238 million monthly active users – organic reach is estimated to be 4%. Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ? Instagram: 1.4

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. It’s all about your return on your engagement; Return on Engagement (ROE) is the new Return on Investment (ROI). And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti? Identify an appropriate spectrum of tools (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to use in this endeavor. Consult Details: What it will take in systems and people to get online giving set up for Trees Atlanta? What kind of cost are we looking at? Group #035 - Green Chamber of the South.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly. We already pulled some of the data for a feature research package on mobile giving , particularly related to the response to the earthquake in Haiti. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.)

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You can follow Traveling Postcards at travelingpostcards.org , on Facebook , and on Twitter ( @TravelingPost ). Please tell your friends, and "like" us on Facebook. How does Traveling Postcards work? Lastly we always love to receive an individual card in the mail. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly. We already pulled some of the data for a feature research package on mobile giving , particularly related to the response to the earthquake in Haiti. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

Our friends who own Issues magazine shop, where we had the bake sale, very generously allowed us to set up in front, and we got in touch with all kinds of people who participated in the San Francisco one, sent out a lot of emails, made a Twitter account, and just spread the word. Can you talk about how you did that?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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