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. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!" - her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. I also saw a more recent profile of him this spring on Food Forward.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Asia and the Pacific Rim. Europe and the UK.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

They have and initial $1,000,000 sponsorship pool from corporate sponsors. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. It would also be great to allow users to ask friends to sponsor their personal fitness goals for the benefit of an organization the person is passionate about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Relationships with sponsors. The collective buzz about this statewide event is appealing to sponsors, but so is the desire to align brands with social good. Key partnerships with TheUpTake.org , Mall of America , Razoo and Padilla Speer Beardsley have been critical to our success. Is there an area you need help?

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

They have and initial $1,000,000 sponsorship pool from corporate sponsors. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. It would also be great to allow users to ask friends to sponsor their personal fitness goals for the benefit of an organization the person is passionate about.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2014

We found out about BIKERSCAP when the organization's CEO, Greg Reaster , posted on our Facebook page "TechSoup has made all we do here at BIKERSCAP possible. For one thing, to judge from the BIKERSCAP Facebook page , these guys still manage to have a good time, biker style. isn't yet sponsoring their work.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters. A Facebook post engages your donor AND increases your campaign’s audience. The Robert Half Bowl-a-Thon to sponsor Junior Achievement of Greater Washington. or comment on your posts. Give Them A Tour.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Their voter registration app can be added to any Facebook Page and allows people to connect via Facebook to register to vote and share with their friends. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. As an expert on commerce and culture, I am sometimes commissioned to do sponsored research. Every year over 7,800 grants are made in the U.S. It’s downloadable as an ePub or as a PDF.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor. Official Rules.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor. Official Rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

It also is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes me over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19 Food is paid for by the site's sponsors and distributed by Mercy Corps worldwide and by America's Second Harvest to food banks throughout the United States.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. While many hackathons for good are run by nonprofits, there are some corporate-sponsored events as well. or Code for Oakland ). Library Hackathons.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In the past five years, Cause Camp has brought hundreds of nonprofit professionals together from all over North America and throughout the world. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter or join the conversation with #CauseCamp17. Inbound 2017 is sponsored by Hubspot and hosted in Boston, MA, September 25-28. Inbound 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Additionally, there are formal networking events sponsored by numerous organizations (ask around) where you have a chance to meet like-minded individuals with the premise of trying to connect. Facebook and LinkedIn can supplement your efforts and really validate your persona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 There are many ways to use excel, take for example, my Facebook Analysis excel template.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Latin America and the Caribbean. < Download Now > Thank you to our 2020 partners who helped increase the diversity and geographical range of this year’s survey respondents and thank you to Funraise for sponsoring the report! 32% have donated through Facebook Fundraising Tools. Canada and the United States.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Instead, each participant chooses a destination from eight different locations, including Africa, India, the Middle East, and South America. Provide Contact Information. If people have questions and want to contact you, where do they reach you?

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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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APRIL 28, 2021

Facebook Live and YouTube Live are free options that your participants will be used to. Finally, OBS is a more robust option that’s sponsored by all three of the platforms listed above. You’ll also need a livestream for a virtual event, and you want to go with something that’s simple to set up and very reliable. Social media.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Also, wed like to give a shout out to the wonderful people at OneWorld.net and Interaction who also sponsored todays event. There was a great discussion about social networking, particularly Facebook apps. A lot of the discussion echoed the points in our own Facebook Causes article. Is It Worth It?

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NTEN

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. I’ll pay attention as soon as I get my Facebook and Twitter strategy off the ground.” Michaela Hackner and Sandy Smith, Forum One Communications. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), an animal welfare organization in North America, was one of the nonprofits that participated in Giving Tuesday. The ASPCA, designed and implemented a virtual fundraiser using Facebook Live or Facebook-Live-A-Thon to help raise awareness and funds to support animals.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

We have compiled a list of the 20 best virtual (and coronavirus-mandated socially distance-friendly) fundraising ideas that leverage tools like Zoom, Facebook, YouTube, online gaming, and other platforms that can serve as a fundraising vehicle for your organization. 100% of the $1.75M in proceeds they raised went to Feeding America.

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Classy

AUGUST 25, 2021

Classy’s Why America Gives report showed the early success of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Livestream your galas, concerts, and other events for free on platforms such as Facebook live , Youtube live , and Zoom to deliver an engaging online experience . How Hybrid Fundraising Models Elevate Nonprofit Events.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

TechSoup and Adobe have teamed up to bring you a Facebook contest where you can win $1,000 by submitting any and all content your organization has created using Adobe. Upload your images to Facebook starting August 15. This Contest is sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., How fun is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Take your pick!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2016

In the social era, social media should be part of the marketing outreach because many potential donors will learn about a nonprofit via its Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram page. There might be other nonprofits or corporate sponsors that would be good fits for special events or other forms of outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. I took photos of my daughter wearing the t-shirts with thank you notes for each of the donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

I was looking forward to it because Michael Hoffman at C3 was a sponsor and participating. We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally. Secondary: $ raised for Share Our Strength.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. You know, we spend, you know, $100,000 with them per year and they’re $250 golf tournament whole sponsor. Facebook fundraisers, kind of another way. I’m most active on Instagram and Facebook these days. Look at it, 77.6% comes from individuals.

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Like, “We need to raise money, we should have another Facebook fundraiser. So even an example in Jonathan’s case, they had a $50,000 event sponsor that was steady. We will never ask that donor again to sponsor something and go back into transaction zone. We should have another 5K. We should have another event.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

And then finally one of our project sponsoring organizations is the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, so there are several US based Tech Laureates who have posted projects. The America's Giving Challenge was by far the largest of these contests we've run or helped run - generating almost $400,000 to projects on GlobalGiving.

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