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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

On the personal side, I’ve donated, volunteered, taken action, and raised money. 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. Coordinate your efforts.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

More than $250 million was raised online for Haitian relief efforts in the first 21 days after the quake through Convio powered emails, websites, and other campaigns (up from approximately $120 million in the same period during Katrina). Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A

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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

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap.

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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. The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. The matching success rate is typically 10% to 20%.

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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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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. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. styles using orchestra conductors as the example.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. 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 active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether thats raising funds, engaging people, or something else. They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more.

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Whatever you might think of Hitchens though, one of his main criticisms raises an interesting point. For example, Convio client Environmental Defense Fund ( [link] ) started out as an advocacy organization focused on preventing the use of DDT. Hitchens assumes that saints should always be presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

One of the most common questions that I get is how much money is raised through online giving. Here are some important questions, answers, facts and figures about online giving: How much money is raised through online giving? This was an increase of over 34% from 2009. Which nonprofit organizations raise the most money online?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. I suspect the amount raised will be impressive. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

» Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my. We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. So I do know whereof I write. nonprofits in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. The March of Dimes community rallied to raise money in Maddie's memory, unleashing a groundswell of support and sympathy expressions. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. 3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

To create a seamless experience across Bonfire and Classy the individuals who purchased an item on Bonfire show up in the activity feed on Classy, all of the money raised from shirt sales is sent directly to your organization, and the donor data collected on Bonfire is synced to your Classy account so you never have to worry about fragmented data.

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