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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

NTEN

* HelpAttack allows donors to pledge an amount for each social media message. For example, you can choose to pledge 10 cents a tweet, or $0.25 You decide which nonprofit, how much you're willing to pledge per month, and HelpAttack! A donor takes action once, by re-tweeting a message and following up with a payment link.

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Nonprofits: Keep Calm and Mobile Friendly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He gave these simple, practical action steps – echoed by other web consultants. 3. . ”No one wants to browse a partially responsive site on their mobile, get really excited to donate, sign a pledge or act only to find out the action pages are not mobile friendly. Test the site. It defeats the purpose.”

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Getting Beyond the Slacktivism Debate

NTEN

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Campaigners are right to learn from testing, measuring and message appeals from direct marketing, and the use of petitions, pledges and letters from centuries of campaigning practice. What is the theory of change?

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Gaming for Good: Interview with Joel Bartlett, Director of Marketing at PETA

NTEN

Most importantly, we saw that hundreds of players went on to sign our pledge to be vegan or to order our free vegetarian/vegan starter kit. We also measure how many players go on to take a meaningful action for animals. That's nearly 2 million people who were exposed to facts about veganism.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

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Call 2 Action in booth 88. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge. Democracy In Action in booth 11.

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

NTEN

According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4 When you remove the estimated $122 million in corporate pledges from that number, more than half of all funds raised came online through those organizations.

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Open Source Donor Management Systems: Know Your Options

NTEN

It’s straightforward to add a donation, and to receipt it via email, but you’ll need to know if a donation corresponds to a pledge prior to entering it, and you need to export the data in order to mail-merge a thank you or other letter. The system is based around a central constituent record, with a configurable “interactions portal.”