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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Digital fundraising professionals face a significant new challenge when it comes to fundraising on Facebook. How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm?

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits!

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Join Us: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book Events in Washington, DC

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next week, KD Paine and I will be doing several public events in Washington, DC and online. Please join us! October 23, 2012 at 10 am PST/1:00 PM EST. Workshop: Washington, DC Foundation Center. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. Free Webinar : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit – Networked for Good.

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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The next Amazon and Facebook will come from this space. If you’re in the Washington DC area, stop by for one of our happy hours. Founded by a group of early cryptocurrency users, BlockShop DC is a nonprofit serving as a blockchain incubator and event space in Washington DC. Why are people donating in cryptocurrency?

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Facebook Causes: Not a Cash Cow (Yet)

Robert Weiner

The recent analysis of giving through Facebook Causes by The Washington Post was not encouraging. A recent survey published by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort had a similar conclusion: Only 39 percent of respondents said they've raised money on Facebook. percent said they had raised over $10,000. read more.

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Washington Post Piece on Facebook Causes Prompts More Dissing and Some Brilliant Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is more analysis and reaction to the Washington Post piece two days ago that trashed the Facebook Causes application and caused quite a lot of commentary and reactions from those of us work with nonprofits. Tags: facebook. Photo by Matt Callow. Its a slow process, but progress is definitely being made.