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How to Turn Your Nonprofit’s Social Followers into Donors

NonProfit Hub

When visitors come to your Twitter profile, your call-to-action and donation link immediately draw their attention. If your nonprofit uses our “Impact Stories” feature, draw attention to those stories in your social post, or incorporate them into your goals (e.g.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets. They showed Harry Dickerson reclaim his life from homelessness on their Giving Tuesday campaign and raised over $70,000 with this storyline. Build a tribe of champions.

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. Our story challenges get lots of attention. It was filmed on location outside our free medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of Melbourne.

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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Okay, maybe I've been really busy and wasn't paying attention to the media, but I didn't recall reading about it.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image by Codilicious from Flickr. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. They used Twitter to draw attention to a free concert happening on the Washington, Mall which resulted in 60,000 people attending.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. and volcom sector adoption. What are items on the checklist to determine whether web2.0

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. And, yes they did ! It's your choice.

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