Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. This week, I will kick off the Orchestras and Social Media Survey 2009 series on my blog. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Many nonprofits have developed variations on the ladder of engagement – with ladders that take people from online connections to offline action as described in the 2009 post about SurfRider Foundation and in the video above and this more recent example from grist.org that illustrates how you can set up a measurement framework for measuring along (..)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

And with the publishing of the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , 5 main lessons learned in the way of multi-channel marketing were evident in 2009. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement. My son’s preschool, which is a nonprofit organization, is a perfect example. Coordinate your efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline. In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost. We think that KaBOOM!

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Looking for some good data and examples for your fundraising team? from 2009 when giving was $280.3 Median revenue per donor for multichannel supporters was $339 compared to $88 for offline. Fundraising Facts. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. – Charity Navigator. This is an increase of 3.8% – AFP.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. Thanks Donna for contributing this excellent example of multichannel success! How’d they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

And over the years, many other communities and states have copied the idea – for example Georgia Gives Back Day. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow. And, there were many offline events and printed marketing/communication materials that contributed to the turnout.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Integrating online and offline communications. I’m assembling a panel now and need some good case studies, so if you’ve got examples, please email me. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I Can you give an example of how a voluntary organization has used Social media effectively to engage with their supporters to generate income for their campaign/cause?&# -Claire. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year. I work in a small organisation and have heard a lot about web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Instead, they are examples of what it looks like when we double down on our focus to make change.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Examples from Haiti. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

But in many areas there will always be scope for offline delivery of a non-profit’s message. There will always be constituents who need the offline presence, just in the same way there are still shops and banks on the high street. It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During my April 2009 visit to work with the NHRC I noticed other changes in addition to upgraded computers and a better-trained staff, The NHRC had moved to a building that had a wheelchair ramp and a ‘talking’ elevator to accommodate visitors with physical or visual impairments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. For example, they recently set up an Amazon wish list for their Food Pantry and posted to their FB page. Within minutes, a fan commented that they had just placed an order for them. Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession ended in June 2009, and fundraising historically takes three years recover from a recession. Flickr Photo by Su Lin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses. Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. The Third C: Community.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

("Win free tickets for your answer."): Further down this email message, current community blog posts, discussions, and events are clearly listed: Govloop now has over 42,000 members, and is a great example of an online community devoted to professional networking and shared professional interests. Person-to-Person Email Messages.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Here are a couple examples of money left on the table, from the donors’ point of view. That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. And, of course, since the world is not black and white, there are plenty of organizations that fall somewhere along the spectrum between these two examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There have also been some good critiques of the article that I’d like to highlight here: Article Isn’t Well Researched: There Are Good Examples Out There of Folks Using Social Media for Activism. The examples are there, too. I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks.

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MAY 14, 2009

A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A couple of examples: Recently, Rep. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

60) Search « 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards | Main | 10 Best Web Content Practices » Friday Feb 27 2009 Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly Friday, February 27, 2009 at 06:43PM | by Daniel Bennett Daniel Bennett To Tweet or not to Tweet is not the question. Facebook is another good example of this.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). The DipNotes blog is also a good and early example of government blogging. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. Starting to sound pretty familiar? Perhaps not the cleanest or most glamorous, but they power the revenue engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For example, Convio client Environmental Defense Fund ( [link] ) started out as an advocacy organization focused on preventing the use of DDT. Integrated online tools make it much easier to market to your pool of valuable activists, moving them to deeper and deeper levels of engagement and commitment both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Government officials may use deception in undercover work and such practices have been ruled acceptable in cases related to intellectual property infringement (where investigators act as members of the general public seeking to make a purchase) and discrimination cases (housing discrimination against people of color, for example).

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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. The first is that online giving is growing fast, at a rate that’s 7 times faster than offline giving.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

This was an increase of over 34% from 2009. Keep in mind that 92% of giving still comes from offline channels and that 32% of online donors switch to give through offline channels. This varies a lot by sector and online giving type, but is still significantly larger than the average offline gift.

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