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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. 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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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best example comes from Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC), an organization started by Gradon Tripp, that uses social media tools to raise money for nonprofit. SM4SC's goal was to raise a $20,000 donation with $13,214 contributed as of today. The event raised about $1,400 within six hours. As my colleague David J.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities When: Sunday, March 15th from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Room C Description: This talk gets to the heart of how people interact and exchange information in online communities: through social capital, or as Cory Doctorow calls it, Whuffie. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Mobile Fundraisers: Explore Best Practices & Campaign Ideas

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Mobile fundraising helps nonprofits raise money by connecting with supporters via a mobile device, like a smartphone. For example, despite being pivoted to virtual in 2020, Big Love Cancer Care’s annual Santa Dash was driven further with text giving and even reached its goal of $150,000. Influencer or celebrity campaigns.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. TikTok influencer. That year we had to raise a ridiculous amount of money and also we had to do a rebrand of the organization. So I might not know that grandma has colon cancer, but I know your primary care for grandma and something has gone left.