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Three Ingredients for Successful Year-End Fundraising

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Guest post by the one and only Allyson Kapin - co-founder of Rad Campaign and blogger at frogloop – Care2′s nonprofit marketing blog. This is the time of year that your organization should be raising up to 40% of its donations online. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. Fundraising Facts.

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Guest Post by Frank Barry: Your Network Matters: Fatcyclist Raises Over 135K in 8 Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.  In 3 days @ fatcyclist raised about $50K. 5 Takeaways.

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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

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Like other studies have noted, social networks like Facebook are not raising much money. In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. of the organizations fundraising on Facebook, raised $10K or more. Check out the key Facebook data below.

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Two Examples of Nonprofit Social Media That Will Make You Smile (and learn a best practice or two)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. He wasn’t fired, and the scores of Ramona lovers even set up a petition to give him a raise. What to do? Quit Facebook or other social media?

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Day 12: Let’s Help Send Some Cambodian Kids To College – #12days of giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each day a different blogger champions a cause. She graduated in 2010. As of this morning, we’ve raised $1,677. If I can raise another $323 before Santa Claus arrives, then we can send two kids to college! . Each day a different blogger champions a cause.

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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers?