Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Resources “>here ] My training craft and what I have been teaching in train the trainer’s sessions around the world – how you blend content with engagement, both online and offline. I was challenged when I walked into the room and saw a podium, two large screens, and microphones set up in the middle of a sea of tables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

For example, using Social Actions (which aggregates actionable opportunities from across the web), you could pull all of the actions related to your organization’s specific environmental focus and push them out via Twitter or your website, and so on. What do you think? This post is really to start a conversation.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

In general, the consensus seems to be that Facebook is not the place to pin all your fundraising hopes. After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. After all, we know that offline donors who are on our email list have a higher average gift.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. They fundraise via their network and then transfer the total amount to an institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. It is evolving from individuals leveraging their personal networks to groundswells.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information. Also use political fundraising reporting tools to learn who donated to particular politicians. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . My fundraising colleagues concur.

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Classy

APRIL 5, 2021

Offering these year-round fundraising and donation options is a great way to generate sustainable revenue, diversify your fundraising portfolio, and keep supporters engaged with your mission. In order to take advantage of today’s virtual landscape, it’s crucial to transition your supporters from offline to online givers.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Facebook is another good example of this.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline — either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. Examples from Haiti.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The research in these reports is extensive and well worth the read if you’re into all things fundraising, but I’d like to focus your attention on one piece of the findings for now. The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online fundraising continues to be a significant source for acquiring new donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

The study takes a deep dive into the metrics associated with a multi-channel marketing program at CARE USA – particularly the relationship between traditional direct mail and digital channels (also referred to in the study as offline and online). Online engagement improves the retention of traditional offline direct response donors.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. Those quick 911 type fundraising projects are perfect for crowdfunding. Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

They bring together America’s fundraisers on one page, showing off their success whilst displaying how anyone can help them. In an average peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, 15-18% of donations are referred directly from Facebook. 45 million was raised by nonprofits through Facebook fundraisers on Giving Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. Would Twestival forever change the nature of social media fundraising. How did the relationship originate?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) nonprofits in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Taking Action or Fundraising: You're using social media tactics to spur supporters to action or donate. by Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). In this election, supporters set up their own fundraising pages and reach out directly to their web of friends. What formal and informal networks do they cultivate? Develop your Sticky Message(s) and Test Them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Using Wordle, nonprofits could generate word clouds that add some color and creativity to their online fundraising and outreach campaigns. Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Extreme Email Makeover.

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