Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You know better than anyone that planning a university fundraising campaign can feel a bit overwhelming. With many moving parts and ever-changing components, it’s important to find the right higher ed fundraising platforms that can support your school every step of the way. Why We Love This School Fundraising Platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

Is you’re organization looking to support free agent fundraisers and the changemakers who are passionate about your cause, want to support your work, but do it their way? A free agent changemaker having success fundraising with Twitter. THON is the largest student run philanthropic organization and is run by students at PSU.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Initially, we envisioned six solution line trails: Fundraise with Nonprofit Cloud , Manage Programs with Nonprofit Cloud , Engage Constituents with Nonprofit Cloud , Achieve Advancement Goals with Education Cloud , Build a Connected Campus with Education Cloud , Enroll Best-Fit Students with Education Cloud. The Results (So Far).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is a person who comes to one meeting a year, and doesn’t return the CEO’s phone calls, or leaves a 6 am voicemail in response saying, “Tag, you’re it.” Anatomy of a light-lifter What’s a light-lifter? Light-lifters promise to do this and that, but then you never hear back from them. I shared these stages with Steve.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Thanking donors well is an essential aspect of fundraising that is often done just once—when the donor makes a gift, or, worse, it’s overlooked entirely. Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. Aaron LaMonica-Weier , Sr. It’s popular ,” Aaron shared.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country. DonorsChoose.org grew out of a high school in the Bronx where teachers saw their students going without the materials needed to learn. About DonorsChoose.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I gave $25 [which will provide 1 student with textbooks and other supplies for 1 year]. Tags: Twitter Micro Fundraising Online Fundraising. If you are feeling generous, please join me in making a small donation. Since they use Google Checkout to process their donations, you can give as little as $1.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2010

My session was called “4 Simple Steps to Building Donor Relationships and Fully Funding Your Mission Using Donor-Based Fundraising.&#. My intention for this breakout session was to help my students focus on building donor relationships and share my concept of getting fully funded. Fundraising is not only easy, it’s fun!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2010

My session was called “4 Simple Steps to Building Donor Relationships and Fully Funding Your Mission Using Donor-Based Fundraising.&#. My intention for this breakout session was to help my students focus on building donor relationships and share my concept of getting fully funded. Fundraising is not only easy, it’s fun!

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North Carolina Charlotte Fundraising Fund 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

For the third and final Conversational Case Study on America’s Giving Challenge from Allison Fine and I, we pose a question rather than answer one: Is there a “special sauce” for successful participation in online fundraising contests ? Does this competition complement our communications and fundraising activities for the year?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

A Special Thanks :: To everyone of you who have ever RT’d my content, posted a comment, or taken my webinars (I have almost paid off those student loans!). To Change.org , my clients , Twitter, Fundraising Success Magazine , TechSoup , and my dear, sweet husband for putting up with my social media obsession over the last five years.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Read the rest of the interview here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

million. And critics, with a scarcity mindset, talk about slacktivism (“Not everyone who did the challenge donated or even mentioned ALS”) and fundraising cannibalism (“People won’t donate to other charities because they will be tapped out”). The numbers speak for themselves.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Tags: challenge fundraising donorschoose interview social media socialbrite video.

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Social Media Interview Challenge Classroom 120

Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

For school volunteers, you can gather thank-you notes from students and teachers. You can also go into your volunteer database and mention any outstanding accomplishments, such as reaching a certain amount of hours or raising a certain amount of fundraising contributions. Remember to be aware of any allergies your volunteers may have.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? Maybe you might need a volunteer committee to plan and execute a fundraising event. For high school and college students, where are the nearby schools? These are all Ideal Volunteer roles!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The prior evening I had just helped put on the first major fundraising event for a nonprofit of which I am the executive director. Use these tips to help you when you’re planning your next nonprofit fundraising event. We could have gone with a formal name, but we wanted to be more than just a typical fundraising dinner.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

The goal is to get professors — and, in turn, their students — involved in producing more articles on public policy and improving the quality of the articles that already exist." The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2 Please add any experiences or thoughts of your own."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? Any suggestions?

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

Whether you’re creating a receipt for a general donation form on your website or for a specific a fundraising campaign, one of the essential components is creating a donation receipt that will get automatically sent to donors following their donation. A sincere thank you to your donor.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. or to join your fundraising team. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. What other marketing and fundraising opportunities are they forgoing to make social media work for them? It only enters one social media contest a year. survey software.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Secret Sauce to Social Media Fundraising: DC’s Give to the Max Day Story. Join us for the discussion with players of last November’s giving day to see how they were able to leverage social media for fundraising and doing good. Hosted by: Razoo and AARP. Category: Social & Environmental Change. Location: AARP.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

We need to ask the committed student to be creative and bring his networks. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Fundraising. We need to invite them to act in a way that is powerful for them. We need to ask the CEO to leverage her relationships with decision makers for us. We need to ask the first-time donor to sign a petition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. What a dork I am!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

Relatable to the general audience — If your supporters are mostly working-class people, having your main character be a college student might not be the right course. Responding to DM’s, comments, and tags from followers. Starting a Facebook Challenge . Utilizing stories on Instagram for a more personal experience .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 20, 2010

Long story short – I made some wonderful new friends including a preacher, an assistant Athletic Director at a college, and 2 pre-med students. We’re all still thinking about the year in front of us and how we can make the most of it for our fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2009

A fundraising letter or other piece of collateral is a unique opportunity to show the humanness of the people your nonprofit serves: as an outreach tool, that's more effective (and ultimately more important) than telling a story about how your organization swooped in solved everyone's problems. "They are easy to find." read more.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2009

With over 400 students to graduate, I was expecting a long, dull evening. Tags: General Fundraising Special Events special event. When it comes to donors and especially special events, it’s always a good idea to exceed their expectations. What I got instead was a thrilling experience! Come back and let me know how it goes.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. As your event gets closer we should start seeing a variety of posts specifically aligned with your upcoming event or online fundraising campaign. Robyn Mendez provides some insight on Social Fundraising: Expanding Beyond the Fundraising Event.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Want to bring your fundraising to the next level? Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Not only do fundraisers help you continue making a difference in people’s lives, but they can also be a great opportunity to build a stronger community within your church.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

I wrote briefly about FourSquare last November when it was used for a fundraiser in NYC. Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. Tags: location. And, when you add new places to the Foursquare database, it can get interesting. Have you found personal value in using Foursquare?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Whether you're a social media maven, an online fundraising guru, or a wireless networking champ, you can lend a hand. What should we expect from an online fundraising tool? How important is it for me to present the online fundraising option to my clients? Consult Details: How to formulate an online fundraising campaign.

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