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Faith-Based Organization Fundraising: 5 Top Tips Based On The Latest Trends

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Not only did they raise their initial $220K goal to $300K, they surpassed that stretch goal by an additional $30K. If you’re looking to fill a funding gap, raise money for an unexpected emergency, or get an innovative idea off the ground, crowdfunding is another viable strategy. And guess what?! Crowdfund To Fill A Gap.

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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Happy Tweetsgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money. Was it all hype? .

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Twitter, Facebook, Chris Brogan and 81 other people send Cambodian girl to college! If we go over goal 100%, we'll send a young man to college too!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I raised the money on my blog. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. My fourth personal fundraising campaign was to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. The money goes to the Sharing Foundation.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. .

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