Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. What is the definition of success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day is to get 35,000 people to support their favorite regional charity, raising more than $3 million in donations and grants in just 24 hours! I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. Go to THIS PAGE right now and donate and make a big difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. There is an individual who would like to donate, but also only does online transactions via PayPal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Roger Carr at the Everyday Giving Blog responded to my reflections about networked fundraising , particularly my concern about donor fatique and potentially annoying blog readers here when I'm raising money for the Sharing Foundation. The question is "when is enough enough? (in case study here , here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You could win a $5,000 or $2,500 donation in your name to the charity of your choice. Enter the 2009 America's Giving Challenge. You could win a donation of up to $50,000 for your favorite cause. Join DonorsChoose's 2009 Social Media Challenge to raise money for education. Send in your story pitches in writing or video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The title of this blog post is taken from an article posted over at Slate mostly talking about the Facebook component of the recent America's Giving Challenge, posing the question, "Can social networks and virtual communities revolutionize charitable giving?"

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Its staff members are intensive users of an Adobe Creative Suite TechSoup donation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . And the better you get at the whole suite of donor engagement, the more money you’re going to raise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

Build in something that helps you map the flow of donations to help analyze your network and campaign. There has already been over $20,000 for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge raised through the unselfish giving of over 700 people like Peter Deitz. There is exactly 48 hours left to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. Don’t worry if the conversation is small, don’t worry that it isn’t leading to donations right now. Don’t prescribe, listen and learn.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Sure, he raised over $20 million for Haiti and an impressive array of non-profit organizations including American Red Cross , Oxfam America , Salvation Army , Habitat for Humanity , International Rescue Committee , and the United Nations Foundation used his services. I mean, seriously, is raising money all he can do?

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

We will need to raise money for this effort, and there are lots of logistical challenges. Our broader goal is to invigorate Jewish life in America with the values of service and we hope that this effort can help energize a new generation of Jewish leaders to step up and act. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

Solo Ride to raise money for learning disabilities. contest with cash prizes. The $$$ was donated by a member that is a film. One America Committee Vlog : to engage in visual conversation. Right now, users can't submit their own videos and there are no RSS feeds, but. " (Hmm. way cool video as conversation) 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. Go vote here.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

I will donate. But why is it important that I donate now. “I just got this email about the matching and I want to donate.&# This is the first time in AJWS history that we have been able to extend such a generous offer to our supporters, so please, help us reach our new goal of $175,000 by making a donation today.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and TechSoup's Safer Online for Nonprofits initiative, TechSoup is raising awareness about how nonprofits are taking practical steps to keep their organization safe: in the office, in the field, and on the go. If this box is not checked, submission will NOT be accepted. Eligibility.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Carie says HSUS has raised $20k through the Causes app, though I’m not finding that in my search of Causes. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. A year later, I competed in the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Contest, coming in first place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. I donated $50 to the winner's charity. What was my birthday Wish At Age 6 ? Monday, January 11th is my 53rd Birthday! I hope you'll join the fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

In the grocery store, I saw the above fund raising campaign to support a local temple. I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. He made a donation to the campaign.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Feeding America has launched a Causes campaign, sponsored by Kellogg's. It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. ? Prominently feature a donate button and social network icons in your e-newsletter and email fundraising appeals. ? Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ? Set default donation amounts.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. Best Use of Mobile: Online donations on a mobile device should surpass 10% in 2015 and that makes mobile friendly emails that much more important. Fwd: Steven – Review Your 2015 Donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. □ Prominently feature a donate button and social network icons in your e-newsletter and email fundraising appeals. □ Experiment with online contests to build your email list. Set default donation amounts. □

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Molson launched a campaign to replace the public funding with private sector donations, starting with its own $20K donation. Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. The Molson Team spread the word , using Twitter to urge a wider audience to attend and donate. Take for example contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I thought this would be a good opportunity to look at the landscape of social media and charity: Individuals These are campaigns undertaken by a person, a wired fundraiser , who leverages their social connections to raise money for another person or a nonprofit. There are many others like Drew Olenoff and Paull Young. As my colleague David J.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

So that’s going to be really important with how they engage with your nonprofit, your organization, because they’re going to see, essentially, a cash donation and an equivalent number of hours donated as being equally important to them and to you. This is how much we want to raise.” Peer influence is key.

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