Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

For example, if you are raising funds for a much-needed van and someone donates a van that meets your organization’s needs, you can close that campaign and focus your efforts elsewhere. A subscription is expensive, but you may be able to get access for free from your community foundation. Cool, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

We discovered that fundraising is the biggest hurdle, but our respondents nevertheless cited many successes in their efforts to raise money online, and we found more than a few stellar examples. A case in point is Georgia Shakespeare. This theater organization faced closure due to shortfalls in public and private funding.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

The Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation is the star so far, having raised three times their target amount. Most of the partially funded projects are planning to complete funding either by traditional fundraising or doing another TechBridge crowdsourcing campaign.” ” The fully funded projects are being implemented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

" After an analysis of the amounts and totals raised by the winners in Causes, the writer asserts: The amounts involved show that Case understands these endeavors are more social experiment than nonprofit sweepstakes. I have raised over $100,000 for the Sharing Foundation (not counting any prize money) with and without contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Georgia Popplewell. Rebecca Corliss is Boston area social media activist and one of the leaders who helped raised over $20,000 for Jane Doe, Inc. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism. Social Change Activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

That’s something we have heard more and more over the last year, as foundations and nonprofits look for ways to tap into the growing online giving market with these daylong campaigns raising funds for local causes. Giving Days aren’t just about dollars raised—though they certainly can bring in lots of cash for worthy causes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. The big charity relief efforts there, however, are being spearheaded by the Trag Foundation in Belgrade which is fundraising for victims. an hour, would raise $20,000 dollars in one year.

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APRIL 5, 2011

And, in Maryland, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Florida, the percentage of non-Hispanic whites has fallen below 60 percent. Panelists included Patricia Monahan, Former Deputy Director for Clean Vehicles, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Angela Howe, Litigation Manager, Surfrider Foundation.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

We recently spoke with Elana Frank about her experience founding and scaling the Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF). Her background at a community-organizing nonprofit in New York and a master’s degree in nonprofit management gave her a solid foundation for starting a nonprofit. But even so, she’s had much to figure out along the way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

Can we create the same energy with the paddle-raise? For example, watch the 2020 Raise the Region Gala from the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia: ?. For example, 21st Century Leaders on Twitter : REMINDER: Our Georgia Youth Leadership Awards Auction is open on Wed., 4) Live chat with your viewers. March 27th!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

During the week the young women in the program from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia wrote their own posts answering the question, we commented on their posts and they commented on each other's posts. Here is Beth's post and here is mine. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. They call me their lifesaver because when they first met me, they were raising $23,000 a year from individuals. This is not the matriarch of the foundation. We were raising $5 million for a capital campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

As the organization shifts to a more community, value-based module, the foundation will need to shift as well. Prior to the pandemic, there was already a growing trend by individual donors and foundations to support initiatives that expand beyond the hospital walls and beyond the reach of a single organization. Donor Alignment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Casey Foundation Data Dive. Atlanta, Georgia: Meet and Greet with Trivia at 5 Seasons Brewing. Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Washington, District of Columbia: DataKind / Annie E. Sunday, December 4, 2016. Monday, December 5, 2016.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Sending comprehensive annual report booklets to the right donors can pay off, like in the case of The Rhode Island Foundation. While he waited to be seen, he picked up one of the copies of the Rhode Island Foundation annual report. On the page above, we can see how the foundation used charts and spacing effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2015

Guest Post by Michelle Huttenhoff, Knight Foundation. With the clock ticking for Give Local America on May 5, community foundations and others are finalizing plans for this national day of online giving. The Community Foundation Boulder County did – and raised $43,600 through 201 donations.

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