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Twitter for Dummies: Nominate A Charity to Receive Proceeds - I nominated one of the first Charities to raise money using Twitter.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, 10% of the proceeds will benefit a charity to be nominated by the community. That's when I used Twitter for the first time for fundraising for a charity. Was that the first a charity used Twitter for fundraising?

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American Giving Challenge Raises $2.1 Million Dollars for Charity

Care2

Over the course of 30 days, individuals competed for donors donations and matching awards for their favorite charities. The challenge raised $2.1 If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation.

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

Crowdrise is an innovative, crowd-sourcing community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service, raising money for charity, and having the most fun in the world while doing it.&#. One of the key’s to the success of Causes is their Create a Cause Wish for Charity concept. 2) Causes – [link].

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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook helped launch the company Causes which has raised more than $20 million for various nonprofits. org to help raise funds for Haiti and to end malaria. Twitter also has a Charity Suggested User List. Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. TwtPolls: 1) Which company is the most generous ?

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5 I chronicled some of these back in 2008. My answer: yes and no. million.

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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

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. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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Research Friday: Current Status of Arizona's Philanthropic Resources

ASU Lodestar Center

It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data. The findings reveal some interesting facts and raise serious questions about the funding of Arizona's nonprofit sector: First, Arizona's institutional philanthropic sector is smaller than most states. billion to charities.

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