Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water , a nonprofit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, is leading the way when it comes to redefining nonprofit marketing; they are exceptional at inbound marketing, focusing on creating powerful content to inspire people to join their cause. How can your organization apply this?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2013

More than 10,000 partner charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations joined in the ‘giving spirit’ as they asked donors to give to their favorite causes from across the nation and around the world. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Part of the reason is a commitment to altruism, but I also use (for lack of a better word) these 31 nonprofits to study how nonprofits are progressing in online fundraising, social media and mobile communications. Social Networking Icons on the “Thank You for Your Donation” Landing Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. I’m pleased to see that some of the skepticism and complaints have now morphed in to more capacity builders providing tips for nonprofits to take advantage of this national day of giving.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

I have no idea how it got started, but one of the most available and effective forms of corporate social responsibility are pro bono legal services for charities. I was reminded of this because of the American Bar Assocation's National Celebration of Pro Bono last week. OK, I do know that lawyers in the U.S United States.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. I'll say more about that below.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has been doing incredible work for over 100 years and, while content marketing isn’t news to them, they’re using content along with social media to make sure the online world knows about their work. He’s the 2011 March of Dimes National Ambassador. Now that’s content marketing in action!

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

85+ countries now have their own GivingTuesday chapters, and 2022 saw nine new countries launch national GivingTuesday movements. Whether you look at GivingTuesday campaigns from organizations in your hometown or charities on the other side of the world, there’s no shortage of nonprofits who are doing amazing things.

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MARCH 11, 2012

As SXSWi showcases the breakout apps and products for 2012, I wanted to highlight three social apps that I think are worth checking out and could be helpful to the nonprofit community. million charities, with all of their giving managed in one central location. Here’s how it works. Reward Volunteers.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. social justice issues?that?impact?the Participants?observe?a

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. social justice issues?that?impact?the Participants?observe?a

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Defourny et al.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Online , nearly 3,500 Social Media Ambassadors have pledged to support #GivingTuesday. Did the awareness raising and engagement around the importance of giving to charity push the needle on charitable giving? million processed on #GivingTuesday in 2012. Were there robust results ? Did it light up generosity?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

The company stated that they will not be selling the dolls at stores, but instead will donate them to children's hospitals and other hospitals, as well as the National Alopecia Areata Foundation." The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000, plus $1,000 to donate to their favorite charity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Twive and Receive Reveals the Top 20 Most Generous Cities & Who Would Win In A Fight Between the Hulk and a Kitten | Razoo Media Room – "Julie Nations, the Executive Director of The Ellie Fund said “It’s been the best communications outreach program we’ve ever done. Martin Luther King Jr. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

By most accounts, the annual late November #GivingTuesday online giving tradition has been gaining traction since 2012. It was founded in 2012 by New York's 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation. GivingTuesday has had double-digit year-over-year growth in online donations since 2012. What Is #GivingTuesday?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This was a time of increased social activism and political reform. This was also a decade of prosperity and success for many in the nation towards the turn of the century. This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. Go big, or go home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. that touches on the subject.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. ” She also told us that their Youth Projects’ video was aired nationally on the Foxtel network in Australia. They are all very proud of us too.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given that nonprofits must operate in a wide variety of complex environments, they must work diligently to continuously create innovate strategies to meet the needs and expectations of their diverse stakeholder populations (Benjamin, 2012). Social Auditing. Good to Great and the Social Sectors.” National Council of Nonprofits.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Flicker:doug88888 The use of technology for social good is always changing, and NTEN Members are part of the driving creative force. The National Conference on Volunteering and Service is currently accepting session proposals for their 2012 conference. Mashable recently featured the twitter application SwearJar on their blog.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

According to the 2017 RWR 30 released in March, revenue from the top Run, Walk and Cycling events are down 8% since 2012. 69% of all adults are using 1+ social media platform. That is 7 out of 10 adults that are on at least 1 social media platform. Since 2005, social media adoption has grown from 5% to 70%. There are 1.8M

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data. 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. Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

#GivingTuesday is entering its fifth year as a global social media movement inspired by the purpose of giving. Since its creation in 2012, over 10,000 organizations have participated in #GivingTuesday and over $55 million has been raised. Keep it simple and send 1-2 emails, along with preparing posts for social media.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Benefits of a Mobile Site. Yes, that's right.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. All social media is utterly native to mobile devices. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those words, and so many more beautiful thoughts and tributes about Simone, can be found on almost every fundraising blog, publication, and social media feed. We were both speaking at their National Fundraising event held nearly 30 years ago. Instead, I am going to go down a different and very special path.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 Pallotta’s latest book, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World , was released in late 2012 to very positive reviews.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

A while back, you might remember seeing a beautiful infographic about the social media practices of the top 50 nonprofits. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that these were not ranked in terms of social media use, but rather based on net income. National Public Radio. charity: water. National Public Radio.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

From Dan Pallotta’s widely viewed TED talk, “ The Way We Think about Charity is Dead Wrong ,” to conferences and publications, overhead is hotly debated. grassroots, national) of nonprofit organizations. Would local grassroots organizations experience less impact than national charities? Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

If you work in nonprofits and social media, you are likely to be seeing a lot of more of Libby as she will is doing a lot more speaking about Facebook and Nonprofits. In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

since 2012, and only continues to grow in reach and influence. What sets Giving Tuesday apart is that the sector is trying to build a new unselfish social habit, which means it will take more nonprofit and company participation to compete with the existing holiday corporate messaging. Use social norms and price anchoring.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

Currently, he serves as Digital Media Manager for Pathways to Education Canada leading the organization’s national digital strategy. In 2013, Jason led Pathways to Education to became the first national Canadian charity to issue tax receipts for Bitcoin donations. 14ntc Community nten awards'

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is for charities and the people who support them to sign up on the #GivingTuesday website. Supporters commit to doing something good like donating money or services to a registered charity. Charities agree to spread the word about the movement to their networks and to submit. There is no cost of course. VolunteerMatch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Knowing basic HTML or using a tool like Live Writer to generate HtML can transform a nonprofit’s ROI (Return on Investment) from using social media. Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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