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APRIL 27, 2015

Facebook to match your donations to Nepal relief efforts after massive quake : "Facebook is urging its members to donate to the emergency response teams responding to the 7.8-magnitude Facebook has added a message at the top of the News Feed to encourage its members to donate funds to the International Medical Corps.

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JULY 14, 2014

6 Reasons Why We’re Slacktivists: The Psychology Of Liking Causes On Facebook | Co.Exist | ideas impact : Whether or not this criticism holds water depends, in part, on why people like a cause in the first place.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

PRESS RELEASE Walmart Launches "12 Days of Giving" Campaign on Facebook - PR Newswire - sacbee.com : Who said write-in ballots are only for politics? For the first time, Walmart is empowering Facebook users to write in – or nominate – local nonprofits to receive part of $1.5 million in grants this holiday season.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization? But if you’re not a big collector of online information like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, what does big data have to do with you and your work? Without a doubt big data is one of the most talked about topics in nonprofit technology and IT in general this year.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo, From a Facebook Founder, to Focus on Charities - NYTimes.com: "Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, knows a thing or two about building online communities.Now he is applying his expertise to a new venture called Jumo, which aims to connect people with nonprofits (..)

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

An Interview with Sarah Koch from Facebook Causes | TechRepublican.com: "Facebook has a lot of great applications, but by far one of the coolest is Causes.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Athens charity wins $25,000 in Facebook competition | ajc.com: "An Athens-based organization raising money for muscular dystrophy research has been awarded $25,000 from the Chase Community Foundation as one of 100 charities chosen by Facebook users to receive grants.".

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Facebook Co-Founder Is Building a Social Network for Non-Profits [VIDEO]: "A few hours after (RED) CEO Susan Smith Ellis kicked off the Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit by saying that she thought someone needed to create a social network specifically for connecting people to non-profit organizations, Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes took the stage (..)

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town - CNN.com: "There's no reason that organizations or individuals who want to use the Web to relay critical information have to rely on Twitter or Facebook or Google or any other giant of the technology industry in the first place.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Work Smart 2: Improving Your Organization's Social Media Presence | Fast Company: "Organizations using social media, there's something you must know: getting thousands of Facebook fans or Twitter followers isn't as important as what you do with them.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Facebook, JP Morgan Chase To Give $5 Million Dollars To Charity Through Internet Promotion: "With this in mind, Facebook has teamed up with JP Morgan Chase to distribute more than $5 million across its network of nonprofit organizations.

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APRIL 28, 2010

The Nonprofit Quarterly | The Nonprofit Quarterly | Nonprofit Newswire | Four Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Reconsider Facebook: "April 27, 2010; Source: Nonprofit Tech 2.0 | Is your organization on Facebook? Like myriad other nonprofits, NPQ is.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Popular Facebook app: All talk, little cash - Washington Post- msnbc.com: "But it turns out that approach doesn't always work.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Nonprofits turn to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter to raise money, market themselves - Metro - cleveland.com: "Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are turning to relatively cheap online social media to raise money and market their organizations as they grapple with recession-battered endowments, fewer grants and, often, less patronage by their customers." (..)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Facebook frenzy created by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has now been replaced by back-to-school photographs, but the results have left leading Jewish organizations asking themselves, “Is this the fundraising wave of the future?” “I Is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge a Model for Jewish Fundraising?

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APRIL 3, 2013

The Permanent Disruption of Social Media | Stanford Social Innovation Review : Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. But for one day last fall, all of the people who work at For Love of Children (FLOC) spent all of their time on Facebook.

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APRIL 9, 2014

Organizations'' annual social growth is also booming, with the average number of Facebook fans increasing 37% and Twitter followers increasing 46%. The average one-time donation increased as well, from $60 to $68 ($57 via email only), and overall non-profit website traffic grew 16%. NPOnlineGiving NPonlinegiving trends'

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MAY 4, 2012

Thousands ‘like’ idea  Anderson Independent Mail : hat compulsion to communicate, check in and comment was good news for organ donation registries around the country, as many reported new donors signing up in record numbers via the new Facebook feature we told you about earlier this week.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Nonprofits: Drive Behavior With Social Media - Forbes : real-life experiment by Facebook to encourage organ donation, adding one’s donor status to one’s timeline, sparked an immediate 2,000% increase in the number of people signing up as donors.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : Staff of nonprofit organizations may find themselves working in social media silos. For example, three different programs might operate three different Facebook pages, and no one talks to one another. Nonprofits: Avoid Those Social Media Silos! - It’s easy: Just bury your head and do your work.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

But after 70 years of giving people fish and teaching them how to fish, the organization is now connecting farmers with computer technology so they can sell the fish, too. Under a Heifer pilot program in Peru, farmers are using things like Excel, Photoshop, and Facebook to sell goods online and off." ''via Blog this'''

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Giving in the Digital Age - Mobiledia : nstead of relying on galas, clipboards and clamoring bells, we have Facebook pages and Kickstarter campaigns. And since young people prefer this digital way of donating, the smartest thing a charity or non-profit organization can do to fund its future is log on and sign in. Philanthropy 2.0:

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MARCH 8, 2012

While most non-profits realize the benefits of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, far fewer organizations fully realize the inherent power of LinkedIn. Are You Effectively Using LinkedIn at Your Non-Profit?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Improved customer engagement via social media a key goal for marketers | TMA Resources : Organizations of all kinds – private and public, corporate and nonprofit – are increasingly striving to utilize social media.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

- Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - : As nonprofit senior leadership starts taking social media more seriously to engage supporters, they are also starting to ponder their own organization’s influence. Fair enough.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Community Foundation launches new fundraising method | Home | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA : LAFAYETTE — The Community Foundation of Acadiana launched a new donation method — an embeddable fundraising widget — to make it easier for people to give to nonprofit organizations that are assisting those recovering from last week’s flash flooding.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

She created Love Your Neighbor, a new Treasure Coast nonprofit dedicated to helping local families, by using word-of-mouth and Facebook to spread the simple idea — adopt a family in need for a month — that has turned into a three-county organization.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Just as electronic communication altered how we interact with the world, so the use of social and digital media is changing how most nonprofit organizations communicate with their constituencies, and even creating shifts in how the organizations work.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Online Social Media Campaign e-Book from Network for Good and Zoetica | Case Foundation: "With the holiday season approaching, we see businesses and organizations launching campaigns daily to take advantage of the spirit of the season. There's no doubt.

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JUNE 29, 2012

They must consistently generate support for the work they do--and despite the advantages of Facebook, Twitter, email, and other cause-oriented platforms in reaching out to receptive people, the web’s design and technology capabilities have expanded faster than advocacy groups have been able to use them.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Two Annapolis nonprofit organizations are doing just that, in just 30 days and using only social media such as e-mail blasts, Facebook and Twitter."

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AUGUST 17, 2011

“GOOD has managed to establish really the pre-eminent content platform with three million unique visitors a month,” said Chris Hughes, Jumo’s founder and a veteran of Facebook as well as a digital organizer for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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APRIL 28, 2011

CharityVillage Research: Five Things to Do Before You "Do Social Media" : "Like many charities and nonprofit organizations, you've probably put 'Do something with social media!' Most nonprofits are already maintaining a presence on one to three popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Communities: Real and Imagined by Quintus Jett of Rutgers University | Community Techknowledge : I've seen many nonprofit organizations struggle with how to harness the growing capabilities of social media to build community and resources.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Hollywood's 'Digital Death' Campaign DOA | TheWrap.com: "It appears the organizers of a Hollywood campaign to raise money for AIDS in Africa either overestimated the popularity of the celebrities they used -- or what their fans would be willing to donate to get them back on Facebook and Twitter."

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JULY 6, 2010

region (Saratogian.com): "Nonprofit organizations are no exception to the growing use of social networking in the workplace.The Saratoga Hospital Foundation, for example, started a hospital-wide Twitter feed in February and just joined Facebook.".

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

week ago, a record number of status updates on Twitter and Facebook using the phrase '#BeatCancer' helped raise $70,000 for four non-profit cancer organizations". Social network updates a friend to charities: "Got a tweet to spare? It could help the charity of your choice.A NPtech NPTwitterFundraising.

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