Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

That’s why I liked donation pages that offer several options to send in the money – from Paypal and online credit cards to cheques and bank transfers. I need the donation process to be simple and straightforward, and one I can help to promote to others who might want to donate too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Peter also mentions in the article that the Chronicle is working on the next online tool in partnership with Blackbaud, PayPal, and Network for Good to create a new index of online giving that will debut later in September.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

It’s taken on more techie monikers like crowdfunding or micro-funding as advances in social media and tools like PayPal have made collecting small donations from a wider base of supporters more accessible than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

All proceeds from the sale after costs (ebay + paypal fees) will be going to charity, split 50/50 between the Sharing Foundation and Beyond Blue. eBay FTW is the logical choice, but I don???t t think it would be fair to profit from something Google has sent me. So I won???t t be profiting from it. Thank you so much Duncan!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

via PayPal. After using some Twitter donor soliticitation techniques , According to Killer Startups , will enable anybody send payments using the popular micro-blogging platform via pay pal. This is implemented in the following manner. First of all, you have to fund a Twitpay account. The amount of this account can vary between 10 and 50 US$.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

This is how Target ran its contest and more recently PayPal's FruitCake Challenge. The pool of applicants is either open to everyone, tiered, or starts with a group of charities hand-selected by the contest sponsor. Closed Pool of Contestants: The contest sponsor hand picks the charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

It features a PayPal link with a dollar pre-filled and a pointer to the video. The Campaign Video features a group of young supporters from all over the world asking us (in different languages) to donate a dollar and the impact that a one dollar donation can make in the life of a hungry child. The campaign site is also very zen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You can send a small donation to here paypal account here. com community has banded together and they are no longer homeless. But they still need some help for food and necessities and perhaps a little something extra for the holidays. If you want to join the community on care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2007

I know for my ChipIn campaigns, I've had a number of donors from Australia because paypal does currency exchange. I'm not sure whether they want donors to be able to contribute in Aussie dollars or have the merchant account it is linked to go directly to the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2008

You have an option to pay your pledge right there using your paypal account. The minimum transaction amount is $5 to minimize the overhead , so when you pay you have to pay in advance for $3 worth of tips. Once I paid my $2 pledge, I saw the progress report on the campaign - there was over $500 raised so far from 88 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

All proceeds from the sale after costs (ebay + paypal fees) will be going to charity, split 50/50 between the Sharing Foundation and Beyond Blue. eBay FTW is the logical choice, but I don't think it would be fair to profit from something Google has sent me. So I won't be profiting from it. I presented the check to Dr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

I've set up a Network for Good charity badge where you can use your credit card, check, or PayPal to contribute. Several blog readers have suggested that I set up other ways to donate to the Sharing Foundation in addition to Facebook Causes. Thank you Celeste for the suggestion AND donation!) Can you think of a better use of $10 or more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Set up this Facebook Cause for the cool kids: [link] /causes/causes/73459 Donations accepted most directly at Paypal here: [link] Thank you for any support you can lend. CAMINOS will also have to find a temporary home. from where to continue our computer training and work force development. I want Laura and Petra to know they're not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I woke up this morning to an email from paypal saying I received a donation from Anol Bhattacharya. Last night, while coming home from taking the kids to the movies, I noticed one of my neighbors left out a big, gently used samsonite suitcase with a sign that said "FREE." I took this an optimistic sign. " So, I did!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

It allows a vlogger/blogger to add pledge drive on the blog - visitors can pledge, have it be linked to PayPal, and then have a graph show the progress towards the goal. It was used for the HaveMoneyWillVlog project.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dunbar and commissioned by PayPal discovered after examining several online fundraising campaigns that combine celebrity and online personality presence with social media found that many celebrities do not effectively raise money for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

So I chipped in $65 (unsure if PayPal would keep some or not -- it didn't), putting her over the top. Here's how and why from Justin: When Michael Bailey decided to try a group donation experiment. This morning, I noticed via Twitter that Beth needed another $57 to meet her $4,000 goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

Donors via PayPal (as of 8.23.08). The ball kept rolling - the combined total as of $3,774. THANK YOU GNOMEDEXers and everyone who contributed. YOU ALL ROCK. We're solving real problems!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Social Fundraising Is International and Needs Paypal. Mon Channy's Story. The Generosity of the Twitterverse. Jonti brings us to $15,000. Ed Schipul's Conference Presentation Features the Campaign. Twitter Donation Solicitation Techniques. Dr. Mani's Passion. A Youtube Message of Support from Finland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2005

I loved the interview - especially the "Lies to Tell the Phone Company" bit. It made me wonder why there weren't more female nerds on the nerdtv guest list ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

This is how Target ran its contest and more recently PayPal's FruitCake Challenge. It's more than the basic eligibility requirements -- nonprofit versus individual or for-profit or particular interest areas or even the legal language. With some contests, the contest sponsor vets a list of participants before letting the crowd vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The other task we have to do is convert the money received both from SL into PayPal because people are giving the charity money from outside of Spain - which is new. When we go home, we leave the computer connected, and the kid sleeping inside the cardbox. How much money have you collected? How many people in second life visited you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Lucy points to some implications for organizations to consider : Video, blogging, twitter, online payments, viral marketing, instant thank yous, etc as the minimal expected organization infrastructure; Community building (you can identify other donors, everyone blogs about it), instant infrastructure (giving managed by chip-in, Paypal enables the back (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Another example of offline/online charity event was the Social Media Smackdown which took place mostly online, although it was launched at a face-to-face event sponsored by Mashable and Blurb during SXSW and hosted by PayPal , Kompolt and Mashable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

4) PayPal was an enabler. " As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale. Suddenly, my needs changed and I needed my profession to be validated. I had some money in my account. 5) The specific dollar amount was an enabler of convenience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Facebook and PayPal together offered a $7 million match for Giving Tuesday donations and saw that match gobbled up “within seconds” after 8 a.m. People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I heard about a fundraising contest that PayPal was running called " Regift the Fruitcake, " where you could set up a fundraiser on behalf of a select few nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Our focus is on harnessing the reach and scale of our core businesses – eBay and PayPal – to create a positive impact. At eBay, we think about citizenship and sustainability in terms of People, Planet, and Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

Miriam's blog is about thoughts, ideas, and news items to help further the discussion about the benefits of focusing on the younger generation as a donor segment for nonprofit organizations, as well as on how to get them to open their wallets (or PayPal accounts or Google Wallets), their hearts, and their friends. I'm all ears, Miriam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

and paid directly out of my PayPal account. I had been about to buy a new t-shirt on Threadless , but instead made a donation to her cause. She made it as simple as possible. I just clicked ???ChipIn!??? And then I felt really good for the rest of the day. It got me thinking though???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Donations were coming in from several streams, including Amiando, Tipjoy, Paypal, and cash donations. Amanda says it was difficult to work with cities around the world, all with different financial systems, fundraising approaches, and cultures. 4) Set up a system for incoming donations to be aggregated quickly and easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.) We used Paypal for donations; while it has its issues, it’s also a well-known and trusted brand, and we seem respectable by association.

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