Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 The Greater Miami Jewish Federation and The Children’s Movement of Florida reclaimed the top two spots this year for the most money raised for the day with $368,739 and $156,925, respectively. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century.

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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. Have you seen great examples of nonprofits using the “selfie” meme for good?

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

In November of 2013 Upworthy traffic grew to about 87M unique visits, which was quite a drastic leap from less than 5 million a year ago, according to Quantcast. Just like you were never the Obama campaign when their fundraising tactics were all of the rage. However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Jamie is an expert in online engagement and giving, inspiring Millennial donors, and the force behind BMore Gives More, the movement to raise $5.7 million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. I love the metaphor of a successful GivingDay campaign to a party: Timing is key. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Last week I published the 112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss , that compiled some of the wisest words and insights from across the industry this year. . npEngage’s Top 20 Posts from 2013. Steve MacLaughin showed us when he created the Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits.

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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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