Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Anita Jackson pointed out that the immigration reform movement has done a couple of selfie campaigns, including #Fairdoras. Fedoras for Fairness uses the fedora hat as a metaphor for the many hats that women wear to create a brighter future for all. Although selfies have been around for years , they have gained popularity recently.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. ” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Look no further than the Ice Bucket Challenge , which raised over $200 million worldwide last summer.

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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. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. Storytelling: One of the Most Important Things that Charities Do.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

For those new to their work, GlobalGiving is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits and charities of all sizes all around the world. Since 2002, more than 7,800 projects have raised nearly $85 million through GlobalGiving.org. In the latest Open Challenge in April, 351 organizations raised over $590,000 with this opportunity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Recently, TechSoup presented GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising Strategies , a webinar aimed at helping organizations integrate #GivingTuesday into their end-of-year fundraising campaigns. Melissa Cronin gave us some background on the event she helped start and pointed us toward resources we could use in our campaigns.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded : 2016 Givebutter is a fast-growing fundraising platform used by more than 30,000 good causes – from youth groups to the world’s largest charities. These groups have raised over $100 million annually using Givebutter’s modern forms, campaign pages, and event technology. Platform Fee: Free Transaction Fee: $0.50

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Fundraising is an undeniable part of the nonprofit sector, particularly for 501(c)(3) public charities. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics at The Urban Institute, 2013 saw $1.74 Younger generations have been raised with it and on it. Treat crowdfunding campaigns similarly to capital campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Community foundations across the country have been promoting local giving days to motivate people to support nearby charities, encourage nonprofits to embrace technology, and bolster their reputations. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 Kimbia, an Austin, Tex.-based million for about 9,000 nonprofits in 24 hours.

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JUNE 27, 2017

billion in 2013 and are expected to reach 5.07 Nonprofits who have adopted texting campaigns find it to be an effective, low-cost marketing method that yields impressive results. Text messages allow organizations to contact donors in real time, making texting an efficient tool in fundraising campaigns. billion by 2019.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

Julia is an author, consultant and speaker who helps plan and launch modern nonprofit marketing campaigns. His 2013 TED Talk entitled “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” is one of the 100 most viewed of all time. . She specializes in major gifts and capital campaign fundraising. Beth Kanter ( @kanter ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

To celebrate the strength of the growing community, I invite you to join NTEN’s Board and other Community Champions like me to take the 2013 NTEN Challenge. ” NTEN launches its NTEN Challenge campaign every year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. It is completely free to launch a campaign and Teespring does not take a percentage of your campaign's donations.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Building community takes many forms and is done for many different reasons: to raise money, pass legislation, connect with like-minded people, have fun, learn new things. Jamie brings a strong perspective on nonprofit communities having worked for Charities Review Council and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. and on and on. for " Ctrl.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

He has helped raised over a billion dollars for his clients around the world. With some persuading, your board approves a text-to-give campaign, and you’ll now be focusing on social media – you even hire one of those social media gurus. The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013.

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To my mind, social networking is the most important development in fundraising since the advent of direct mail campaigns and phonathons and holds the promise of transforming organizations by making them more responsive to the needs and interests of the community. Obviously, we will raise less. We started raising it.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

million raised, a 63% increase in total donations over 2013 according to the Case Foundation. Start your campaign early. Additionally, CCS didn’t just use one channel to market their #GivingTuesday campaign, they shared a consistent and targeted message across their social pages, email lists, and website banners.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. The New York Times Outs Google+.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The larger the donor file, the greater the number of dollars raised. And there’s certainly truth with that statement – the 2013 Benchmark Report is broken up by not only NTEE verticals but by revenue band and email tier – but the sheer size of an organization’s email file is starting to mean a lot less.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Mobile giving is a low-cost way to raise funds on an ongoing- or campaign-based basis. The majority of cell phone users now own smartphones, and by 2013, experts predict mobile phones will replace PCs as the tool most used to access the web." Three out of five of those were smartphones. Yes, that's right.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

Latest research from the 2015 Millennial Impact Report shows that donating to charities and volunteering are important to the group that now represents the majority of the U.S. 55% of Generation Y members follow charities and other nonprofits on social media. The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Development staffers are spending countless hours brainstorming the next big social media campaign. Fundraising by definition is “an activity done to collect money by a charity, political party or school,” i.e. the Ice Bucket Challenge. Even crowd funding campaigns do better via social media when starting with volunteer promotion.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In the same period, online giving at 202 congregations and other faith-based groups that raised a total of more than $110 million over 12 months grew 16.7 Based on data from 3,828 charities that raised more than $12 billion in the prior 12 months, The Blackbaud Index reports that overall charitable giving grew 2.3

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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. John Haydon is one of the most sought-after digital marketing experts for nonprofits and charities. charity: water.

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The answer is a lot, including bots and tech, that stole personal information and led misinformation campaigns. Furthermore, suppose nonprofits do not know how a data breach at their organization could lead not only to angry donors but also liability and the end of their charity. So, what changed? Technology Goes Mainstream.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. For example, 65% of charities still do not pre-select a mid-range gift on their donation forms even though the data shows this approach performs better.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

This year, Whole Whale predicts that $605 Million will be raised on the day, read more about the stats and predictions for GivingTuesday 2020. In 2018, Giving Tuesday crossed the $1 billion mark, raising over $400 million on the day. In 2019, $511M was raised on the day of giving. Learn how it all started while you read this.

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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 million views online and he is the keynote speaker at NTEN’s upcoming 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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billion in 2013. “Direct mail is not just simply annoying,” said Corinne Ball, Online Communications Specialist for environmental group Forest Ethics and manages the Do Not Mail campaign. But at the same time, direct mail is continuing to raise money for her organization, Donahue added. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Donors want to hear them.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

An example is Charity Wallet , an online tool that simplifies the online giving process for donors who support more than one organization, which was launched during the event! Of course charities using mobile phones is not new by any means, but in 2012 tablet computers in combination with smartphones are clearly reshaping the IT environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The infographic summarizes crowdfunding data points including average gift size and average crowdfunding campaign totals from platforms like Causes, Causevox, FirstGiving, Razoo, and StayClassy. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

” This brave group beta tested not only the content in the book, but also the workshop curriculum that I will be teaching during 2013. On the Unmarketing team at GlobalGiving , we put a lot of effort into figuring out how to use Facebook to support the thousands of charity projects on our website. and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s

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JANUARY 15, 2014

More notably, 64% of all online giving is given through charity giving pages, which means you had better pay attention to how well your donation page functions. A branded donation page is typically focused on a raising funds for a specific project or campaign. Ask them to talk out loud as they navigate your website.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2015

As it wasn’t organized and managed by a single charity, it wasn’t included in the official P2P Thirty rankings. The Ice Bucket Challenge was clearly the most talked about campaign of the year. In 2013 the average American looked at screens 8.5 Her birthday wish went viral, raising $1.2 The Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. A growing number of nonprofits are offering match or challenge programs as part of their email campaigns. Can you help raise $50,000 in 6 days?

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