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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

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How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Cultivate and cheer on champions for your cause.

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American Giving Challenge Raises $2.1 Million Dollars for Charity

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If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. More than 82,000 individual donors made 105,000 donations to nearly 8,000 causes with an average gift of $17.73. The challenge raised $2.1 The challenge raised $2.1

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Wired Wealthy, Budha and Freud.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We Do you think the $53,000 came from $10 gifts? We actually received 2 $5K and one $15K gifts - not to mention a number of $1K. The Wired Wealthy.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

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Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. But I would be willing to bet that the particular donors would not have given a gift if it wasn’t for this effort. All are captured here ). The positives.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Even Microsoft Gets It

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I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation. And that is for a different post.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

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Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The theme of this year’s contest is From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place. This video has been viewed over 1.5 million times on YouTube.

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