Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan. Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

If LIVESTRONG had been able to capture data on everyone who wore their bracelets, they’d have built the largest cancer supporter database in the world. . Nonprofits must raise the importance and priority of collecting and syncing their honestly acquired PID. Used in concert, this can be extremely powerful. . During his 4.5

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2007

Challenge: Recruit walkers to commit at least $95 to participate in a 3-day event to raise money to fight breast cancer. A recent study conducted by Marketing Sherpa on behalf of the National Philanthropic Trusts Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk reports that email is the way to go. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. He got a donate now button and raised $10,000. 1-5% are uber activists who raise the money. Every local news station showed up.

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JULY 29, 2021

Mobile fundraising helps nonprofits raise money by connecting with supporters via a mobile device, like a smartphone. Plus, if your text giving platform charges you per text (or you have a messaging cap), segmenting your recipients can even save you money! Ready to learn more? Let’s get started. What Is Mobile Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Personal challenges involving cold water and raising money for a charity have been around for a while. In the early days of social fundraising in 2008, Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont’s Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont. Rubble Bucket.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

You might guess that version 2 would raise more money. The institutional version raised more than 4 times as much from almost twice as many donors. Based on our studies, we've concluded that stories can help you raise money — if you use them right. You'd be wrong. This test isn't an anomaly. So what to do?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. ” How many of us worked more and felt like we did more during the pandemic than we did when we were going to the office, including our commute even if the commute was trash money for the ’99 and 2000? ” Everybody is not motivated by money, my friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. They also ask that you donate some money. . Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. . to send a sick child to Disneyland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world. More than $550,000 was raised last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I thought this would be a good opportunity to look at the landscape of social media and charity: Individuals These are campaigns undertaken by a person, a wired fundraiser , who leverages their social connections to raise money for another person or a nonprofit. There are many others like Drew Olenoff and Paull Young.

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