Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. There are three stages starting with ignition, what captures immediate attention.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards. Recruit loyal supporters to fundraise for your cause. Recruit loyal supporters to fundraise for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at Planned Parenthood, and Susan G. This isn’t the first time that Komen has endured a social media backlash.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Leaders at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta went into last year’s GivingTuesday with a plan. Those results should give pause to anyone convinced that email is losing sway to text messaging, social media, or other channels. “I That is something the American Cancer Society has long done. “If Research backs this up.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 1, 2020

Infographics can transform your social media marketing for the better! Infographics are a great visual way of sharing knowledge with your followers, and they’re the secret to an effective social media marketing campaign. They’re attention grabbing. Caters to short attention spans.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 1, 2020

Infographics can transform your social media marketing for the better! Infographics are a great visual way of sharing knowledge with your followers, and they’re the secret to an effective social media marketing campaign. They’re attention grabbing. Caters to short attention spans.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Have Them at Hello Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our By tracking what pages your constituents pay attention to on your website, you can send emails targeted to their interests. Our supply of pantry items will last only 30 days.”)

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

HAVE THEM AT HELLO Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our By tracking what pages your constituents pay attention to on your website, you can send emails targeted to their interests. Our supply of pantry items will last only 30 days.”)

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. Contrary to popular belief, successful social media accounts are not run off-the-cuff!

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

The donor experience doesn’t stop with social media and email appeals. Whether your organization offers services or tangible goods, it’s important to connect donors to your cause. What connects donors to your cause? That said, don’t draw too much attention from your donation form. Adding images to giving plans.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

But, one of the things that has the biggest potential to drive more ticket sales right off the bat is having an amazing fundraising event invitation that captures your audience’s attention. On the flip side, if I understand what I’ll get out of the event I may want to attend even if I don’t have any particular connection to your cause.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

You’ll want to host creative fundraisers alongside the giving day to attract attention to your nonprofit and maximize donations. We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media. It makes sense to use all of the fundraising tools available to you—including social media fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In a positive sense these social entrepreneurs, startups and large companies are bringing much needed expertise, resources and reach to critical social challenges. With this in mind, here are a few steps nonprofits can take to stand out among nonprofits and for-profit brands.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Digital fundraising, specifically on social media channels, provides a way for nonprofits to connect to younger generations who do not have the time nor desire to receive lengthy appeal letters or printed newsletters. Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. Be consistent.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

The cause . “My My family and I are riding to celebrate my niece, who is now cancer free.” . Sends a fundraising email and/or promotes page on social media . The audience is there primarily because they care about the cause. The goal is typically high visibility of the cause with many participants.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2011

So using Causes , a Facebook app for micro-fundraising, I donated my birthday to a great cancer fighting organization. I’ve only recently gotten involved with this organization and it was my first time to uses Causes; so all around, a very new experience for me. And from Causes, a few helpful web pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Just like Mark, @home is moving beyond the old models of documentary film, using social media, web video, and a smartphone “game for change” to to spark a conversation about homelessness, and how we can solve it. His films have explored causes from human rights and curing cancer to animal welfare and religious coexistence.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Charity events don’t just raise money for your charity, they also help to engage your supporters and bring publicity to your cause. Charity events don't just raise money for charity, they also help to engage supporters and bring publicity to your cause. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause!

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

You’ll want to host creative fundraisers alongside the giving day to attract attention to your nonprofit and maximize donations. We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media. It makes sense to use all of the fundraising tools available to you—including social media fundraising.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . Ashley Madison.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

Every day, individuals are seeking new ways to more creatively support the programs and causes they are passionate about. 69% of all adults are using 1+ social media platform. That is 7 out of 10 adults that are on at least 1 social media platform. Since 2005, social media adoption has grown from 5% to 70%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Social Media Club workshop in Hawaii as part of Podcamp and WordCamp in Hawaii.    I asked folks who was doing interesting social change work with Aloha spirit.     You also created a surfing program for breast cancer survivors. 

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2012

That seems like it should be easy to answer: depending on the mission of our organization, it might be because we care about animals, want to cure a certain disease, or depending on your role, maybe because you want to be the standard-bearer in the industry around social media, or fundraising, etc. We believe cancer can be beaten. (No

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Create a Page not a Group or Cause. Facebook pages give you a ton of great features that Groups and Causes do not. Stand up 2 Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation – Athletes for a Cure. Athletes for a Cure ( read about their social media strategy ). Pages, Groups, and Causes: How are they different?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

For example, a group of friends shared stories of their beard-growing journey to raise funds for breast cancer research. You can use these storylines to frame your story and get your crowdfunding campaign the attention it deserves. Your campaign or cause has to be newsworthy. Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. They raised $28,000.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

By hosting a volunteer program, your organization can enable students, city officials, business owners, and other community members to get involved with a cause that aligns with their values and helps people in need, strengthening community ties in your area. Send out social media blasts. View this response as an opportunity.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. Use social media to mobilise and engage, not just take money.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2014

We all strive for it – the “wow factor,” or that certain je ne sais quoi that grabs people’s attention and entices them to want to know more. We’re programmed to pay attention to the people and things that stop us in our tracks and evoke an emotional response. Why should others join your cause? Build a presence on social media.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2009

If you haven't already heard, a few great minds in the nonprofit and social media worlds have a new event on the horizon to help bring the power of video to the nonprofit and advocacy space with the Lights. Nonprofit Film Festival (yes, a film festival exclusively designed for all you do-gooders out there!) In short, Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. How do you combine mobile with the grassroots power of social media to successfully engage donors. 2.) QR codes via mobile.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

Social media remains a powerful force for nonprofits to communicate with their stakeholders and supporters. According to the Global NGO Technology Report, 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. Grab Attention. Visuals are imperative on social media channels.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. . The Role of Experts: Pepsi has a list of some difficult social change problems to solve! Pepsi is taking a bold move. The top 100.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

The fact that you’re doing a 5K for a worthwhile cause by itself is not news. Nonetheless, you need media coverage of all types to ensure your event’s success. Here are a few ways to ensure your event gets plenty of love from the media: 1. Here are a few ways to ensure your event gets plenty of love from the media: 1.

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