Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Online , nearly 3,500 Social Media Ambassadors have pledged to support #GivingTuesday. People worldwide unified around the idea of the #UNselfie , or an unselfish selfie. Over 7,000 #UNselfies were submitted on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The donations are $25 and Amazon will match pledges to the first $200,000. This summer Communities in Schools is using Alexa to encourage donors to donate a backpack full of school supplies to students in need. The interesting part of this campaign is how they are thanking donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

It allows anyone to create a pledge to action that follows a simple formula: "I will do X action, but only if Y number of people will do Z action." Fundraising with PledgeBank, however, creates a type of social contract -- the people pledging their money are doing so on the condition that a certain goal is met.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Donate NOW just by tweeting: p $2 @wellwishes for (your message here) via @tipjoy If you follow the link to Laura's blog post and want to use tipjoy, you can type in your Twitter name and password and it automatically posts the tweet and your pledge. You have an option to pay your pledge right there using your paypal account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Download the Be Your Donor checklist and join other nonprofits in pledging to be donor-centric this year. [link]. Join the fun w/ these donor-friendly tips + a fundraising checklist [link] via @Network4Good. Share on Facebook : Network for Good declares October 24th as “Be Your Donor” Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

So, I went over and pledged some support. Last year, Alan won the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest and I donated 50 bucks to his cause. As I was casually planning the Beth 5.1 Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest (details to be announced in early 2008), I caught this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett publicly launched the Giving Pledge to encourage billionaires to donate the bulk of their wealth to charity, which includes one from Zuckerberg, although it does not describe the scale of his gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

These action types include: join, pledge, answer, sign, give and a range of other actions people can take to help their favorite nonprofits. Causes.com has hooked into Facebook’s Open Graph with a number of action types that will allow people to publish their social good accomplishments to Timeline and their friends’ news feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

If your goal is to get countries to pledge to wipe out poverty, then your social media clickthroughs are just a means to an end. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Measure program success, not just analytics. Analytics are just one indicator of success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to the donation cycle from pledge to payment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I just pledged a small amount to fund a story on California's educational system, something I'm very interested in. It's a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. You can pitch a story to be crowd-funded or donate to an existing pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Fundraising : Unlike traditional fundraisers, on The Point, no one parts with a dime until enough people pledge funds to reach the tipping point. Creating a Social Contract : Some group activities require safety in numbers to be worthwhile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

to pledge their support for cleaner air???it???s To raise awareness and encourage action, they've launched a project with Earthjustice called Adopt the Sky ([link] This site offers everyone a chance to make their voice heard. Visitors can add their own personalized message about the issue and ???adopt??? a square mile of sky above the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

namo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. After you sign the petition, the online pledge rips a pixel from a photograph depicting hooded and handcuffed prisoners at the detention site. Tearitdown.org , from by Amnesty International USA, is billed as an online movement to tear down the prison at Guant??namo government???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You’ll also want to set up landing pages that reflect this message and offer a kind of simple test of visitors’ support for your cause–a petition, pledge, or something similar. You can then track which of these groups clicks on your ad most often, and of those clickers, who passes the test or converts most often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

” For nonprofits, some app developers, like Causes, are already envisioning types of nonprofit supporter actions on Facebook, such as Give and Pledge, which will allow them to prominently feature higher-value actions amidst the sea activity posted to Facebook everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

They are encouraging all nonprofits to take the green pledge. An excellent resource for everything green and nonprofits and tips for celebrating Earth Day, check out GreenNonprofits. GreenNonprofits is also writing a book and is crowdsourcing the cover art work and title. Take the quick survey here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Do you need to raise $50,000 for a pledge drive? For example, the Humane Society uses social media primarily for customer service, while Global Giving uses it to drive fundraising. Quantify what you’re looking for. Do you want 2,000 signatures? If that’s your goal, then demonstrate in your reporting how Facebook helped you achieve it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. The Reboot the Suit campaign lets you donate as little as a dollar, and the biggest group of donors have pledged less than $25. More than 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

It was a no-brainer for me, despite the daunting $4500 minimum pledge goal that I'm now working towards, as I knew that this disease not only touches my family, but millions of others in North America, as well. What is your progress on your fundraising goal? I have two ways that I'm doing the majority of my fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2009

I pledged to donate 10 x my age or $520 if the Sharing Foundation's Cause get's to $5,200 my by birthday. There's something here about a new way of creating a culture of giving with your network and how social networking tools and social fundraising is not just transaction donations, but over time you create this collective relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries. And now, we have a Text for Food, or rather Text Donations for Food Campaign from Share Our Strength.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

We set a target goal and must raise that amount or lose all pledged funds by the set deadline of 12 p.m., We are currently trying to raise $40,000 of our $200,000 budget through Kickstarter, the online fundraising platform that facilitates grassroots investment. January 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

More businesses pledged their support, blogs and magazines ran articles on the idea of Keep ‘Em Wet. In this case, they targeted businesses and companies that serve anglers to participate. As the campaign took off, other companies wanted to host their own Keep ‘Em Wet photo contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Chris Brogan, one of my favorite bloggers, has started a project called The Social Media 100 where he has pledged to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for business, organization, or personal interests. Flickr Photo by My Alieness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Video blogger Jay Dedman is also offering a video blogging workshop (and my old video camera is going to get a new home with some lucky New Orleans Nonprofit that pledges to video blog regularly after we leave.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward. With the launch of public voting on the Pepsi Refresh Project , now is a good time to discuss the efforts we’re taking to set the new standard for transparency in online contests. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

He pledged that anyone who donated would have the name printed on the newspaper. The statue given by the French people was ready but it lacked the money to build the foundation. Joseph PULITZER, renowned for his International Prizes in Journalism later on, was the owner of newspaper The World. So in 5 months, they raised the $100K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

He says above all, he user flow for mobile should be consistent. ”No one wants to browse a partially responsive site on their mobile, get really excited to donate, sign a pledge or act only to find out the action pages are not mobile friendly. It defeats the purpose.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2015

Rossetti says that Felix (PewDiePie’s real name) is reserved, humble and philanthropic. ”He personally pledged toward his own fundraising to motivate donations and engagement.” .” Who knew that a famous YouTuber interested in online games would also have a passion for philanthropy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Everyone will pledge will change one mind in their organization. Only 4 out of every 10 tech-responsible staff report to leadership. How many of you report to the Finance Director? And they let you spend money on technology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The League of American Orchestras, Chorus America and the Association of California Symphony Orchestras have pledged their support in promoting the event. We’ve already gotten some great responses and we’ll be updating the line up as we confirm conductors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

I felt like an NPR station during a pledge drive, and except that I asking people to donate the mugs too. Yesterday I raised several hundred dollars using Twitter in under an hour and got a few t-shirt donations. You can see some of the tweets here on my profile.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

I doubt it, even if all the billionaires who signed the Giving Pledge invested in a centralized campaign platform, it might just be too expensive and too impossible to scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate. It was relatively easy to add mobile to significantly enhance an existing program. Ace: Do One Thing. This campaign is from the Alliance of Climate Education.

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