Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Points of Light Institute’s primary mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world. We believe that civic engagement is a vital part of a healthy democracy and therefore promote and support volunteerism in the broadest sense. What does success look like?

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Achieve

MARCH 30, 2016

Am I really crucial to the organization’s impact equation? Beyond the appeal to emotions, whether someone gives or not tends to be driven by the simplest of equations: Is this worth stopping what I’m doing, grabbing my credit card, filling out the pledge form, putting a stamp on the envelope, and making a trip to the mailbox?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the viral spread and impact of Elkin’s spoof, especially as it turns out that he had a serious goal in posting his parody, which is to get people involved in fighting global warming and in particular to draw users to a Facebook app he spent months writing called “ YesWeConserve.com.&#

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You collect pledges from family and friends based on the number of miles you walk. After the walk-a-thon is over, you gather all the pledged donations and contribute them to your cause of choice. That way, it’s easy for employees to continuously give back to their favorite causes without any further action needed on their part.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As the second week of COP26 — the UN’s global climate change conference — draws to a close, climate scientists are poring over the pledges made by world leaders, trying to determine whether their commitments to reduce carbon emissions will bring us within the agreed limit of a 1.5 degree global temperature increase. Reduce Your Emissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Several of her regular readers including Deb Roby have pledged to match her donations to The Bay Area food bank. Interesting twist on "impact." This reminds of something that Peter Deitz wrote about over at the Social Actions blog called "How Wil Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?" Here's a few examples.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many of the fundraisers in this section, your participants can create personal fundraising pages and gather pledges from their network, often tied to their performance during the tournament. If you want to see the system in action, request a personal demo that’s customized to your nonprofit’s needs.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so in addition to being horrible fundraising, he’s told this story to many people, which has a negative impact on the organization and that individual doing this. . So I’m all about the legacy gifts as well, I feel like that’s where the action is moving. . So respect is earned. So Kevin is doing slides for me.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So even if it’s not a basic needs program, it’s still providing support in other areas that have been impacted by COVID. And that’s where you can also leverage social media, can you create that call to action using social media and just thinking about how you want to build out those platforms?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A service of Tech Impact , npCloud is a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure all nonprofits can use cloud-based technology to better serve their communities. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

What can nonprofits do to continue supporting marginalized communities with the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action? The role of nonprofits in a post-affirmative-action world. Moving forward, it remains to be seen how the fate of affirmative action will reverberate in other contexts, such as the nonprofit sector.

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