NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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VisionLink

JULY 20, 2011

Sources in order: Portfolio.com, 2010 Men''s Health, 2010 National Geographic, 2010 Bon Appétit magazine, 2010 Kiplinger''s Personal Finance, 2010 Backpacker, 2009 GQ magazine, 2011' Douglas Zimmerman President & CEO VisionLink, Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your nonprofit does international development in Asia or Latin America, try Hi5 or Quepasa. Peer-to-Peer Fund-Raising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly. It’s a brave new world in online fund-raising. It can also work well for nonprofits that respond to natural disasters or crises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. While I am thrilled that we broke our record for dollars raised, the growth in donors and organizations are the numbers that I am over the moon about. Total gifts: 120,664 (13% increase over 2013).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple. Earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website by raising at least $4000 online from 50 individual donors in three weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? Early on Give Local America Day , reports of slow page loads and server crashes started to trickle in from a couple of community foundations hosting Giving Days using the Kimbia platform. The Give Local America Day is a centralized campaign all on one day using the same platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view. Launched [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

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. One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Which audience will help you raise the most money? In 2009, he co-founded the award-winning ITWorks program which helps vulnerable young adults get started in careers in technology. In 2013 he was named one of the country’s top emerging nonprofit leaders by Bank of America. . . 2) Social Media Takes Time to Do Right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Simon Moloney, NPower Network & Conifer Analytics and Rebecca Willett, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joined me on the panel discussion. With all the new technology out there, nonprofit organizations have more ways than ever to reach donors online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Enter the 2009 America's Giving Challenge. Join DonorsChoose's 2009 Social Media Challenge to raise money for education. You could win a $5,000 or $2,500 donation in your name to the charity of your choice. You could win a donation of up to $50,000 for your favorite cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 26, 2019

Changes in Government Regulations & Laws – While some governmental changes can be beneficial to Social Service nonprofit organizations, such as the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 , others can have a negative impact, such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge. Kellogg Foundation Grant to America’s Giving Challenge Significantly Increases Number of Overall and Daily Awards Offered to Nonprofit Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. Jenn Thompson lists the conferences she's looking forward to attending in 2009 and why she recommends them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

After all, volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofits, and with 64 Million volunteers taking the time to give back in 2009, National Volunteer Week is as much about thanking volunteers as encouraging them to come back. Serve.Gov One year old today, this site and associated initiatives were created by the Serve America Act.Ê

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

The Free Music Archive is a curated, interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU , the most renowned free-form radio station in America. It was launched in 2009, and as of May 2015, it contains 83,000+ recordings. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2009

60) Search « Washington Post: Fundraising Via Email Is Way More Effective than via Social Networks | Main | Punching Up Your Action Alerts and Online Fundraising Appeals » Tuesday Apr 21 2009 Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 11:22PM | by Clinton OBrien 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

From: Pavi Mehta Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:36 AM To: Bookshare Team Subject: Thank You Notes from the Volunteers Hi All, Just wanted to send out these snippets of appreciation from volunteers (in response to what Carol Lake’s donation made possible). Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. This reminds of something that Peter Deitz wrote about over at the Social Actions blog called "How Wil Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?" 2009 will most certainly be year of fundraising innovation and changes. Innovative Giving: Gaming For Rice.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I am fortunate in that my family raised me to value my heritage as an indigenous person of Mexican descent. Part of this process is developing an ethnic identity , which involves the exploration of one’s ethnic background (i.e., 5] When a person feels good about one’s self and one’s ethnic group (i.e., Witherspoon, D., Rivas-Drake, D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

Mashable Party Monday, March 16, 9:30pm-12:30am Six Lounge, 117 W 4th, Austin, TX 7870 There will also be an effort to help raise awareness of childhood hunger issue during SXSW, so stay tuned. I'm blogging this for two reasons - so I have it in one place and so if you want to meet you'll know where to find me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

In a packed room at the 2009 NTC in San Francisco, LeVar Burton loomed large. An appeal with an intro about polar bears (including a devastatingly cute polar bear picture) raised nearly three times as much for EDF than a nearly-identical appeal with an intro about future generations of humans (including a devastatingly cute baby picture).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One is about the Grateful Dead ( Dear Jerry ), the other about the dawn of surfing in the Americas ( Princes of Surf ). Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I also did a little, non-scientific analysis of some of the cities that had jumps of 20-30 places in their 2008 to 2009 ranking. Without getting political, rather to prove a point, look at the dollars raised both for and against the congressman who shouted during the President’s joint speech to congress.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? Friday, May 29, 2009 at 09:41AM | by Allyson Kapin In the next five years, money spent annually on direct mail will decline by as much as 40%, from $49.7 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? billion in 2008 to $29.8

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. Other projects during this time included ABC News’ re-launch of Good Morning America and World News Tonight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. We’ll exit this year at over $50 million raised for global nonprofits. (3) At the time, the program was called Auction for America.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I started this project back in July of 2009 at the prompting of a friend who was out of state and was having a birthday. I'll raise my hand -- who just doesn't want that person to feel alone, doesn't want that person to feel burdened too much, then I felt like I was adding goodness to the world, and I think our world really needs that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . You can even add a good deed widget for your site. Good Reads: Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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