Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2011

Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Tweetsgiving, created by Amanda Rose, raised $1.2

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. Receive monthly updates.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Social Capital. Photo by NimagesDR. a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And celebrating holidays (or planning for a holiday ) on Twitter is also becoming a tradition but these are community-driven efforts and some have been connected with raising money for good causes. He further describes how this works: As a result, the most powerful activity within Twitter is to watch the "Retweet" phenomeneon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations.

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