Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Relationships built, not just on a one-time gift, but from a foundation of trust in your organization’s methodology and assurance that every donation will make an impact is extremely important for donor satisfaction and ultimately, donor retention. A Facebook post engages your donor AND increases your campaign’s audience. The goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. Anyway, I'm using my status on Facebook to tell everyone what I want for my birthday later this month. I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Kellogg Foundation added another $75,000 to the pot to give away.

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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. Make a donation on behalf of the Cambodians like my friend Phy that want to help us win this contest.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. Other projects during this time included ABC News’ re-launch of Good Morning America and World News Tonight.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own. Get an iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

We not only kept that promise, but our family went on to support various projects in Cambodia through my board membership on the Sharing Foundation and through the connections I made through my first blog, Cambodia4kids. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . It's open to 501c3's serving U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. Maine Health Access Foundation did an experiment on Facebook , including it in its channel to promote a funding opportunity but also posted the initial letters of inquiry on their Facebook page to get feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

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. Unfortunately, many don't have regular Internet access (or credit cards) so their support doesn't count towards the contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

After taking one look at the syllabus, course faculty instructor Jennifer Aaker and invited guests , I couldn't resist designing a learning experience that integrated a social media birthday fundraising experiment aimed at helping support the work of the Sharing Foundation with "listen, learn, and adapt" and real-time tracking and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. We think that a combination of the two is best - fundraises need to hit a threshold number of both to make the contest meaningful.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

” We’re willing to bet that the NYCB digital team feels the same way, especially when it comes to getting the right content onto Facebook , Twitter, Instagram , LinkedIn , Pinterest , or any other social media marketing platform (we won’t judge you if you’re still trying to make Friendster happen). Fox Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ? Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Offer contests that reward fundraisers who raise the most funds during the campaign. ? Facebook. ? Instagram. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. From my son's kindergarten class.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Experiment with online contests to build your email list. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study Partners in Health , Feeding America , American Cancer Society , African Wildlife Foundation , and charity: water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests. Contests have been a marketing tactic for years. The Case Foundation's pioneering work in online challenges has been replicated by many in the philanthropic sector and now contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. I've experimented with this approach to raise money for the Sharing Foundation where I am a board member.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

So some of the key characteristics of millennials, of this generation, and this comes from the Case Foundation, which is an organization that studies millennials in philanthropy, are that millennials see all assets as equal. For example, to encourage them to host an event or take more initiative on behalf of the foundation.

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