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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

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Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours. and a Digital Strategist at PwC in Austin, Texas. I’m so glad you asked.

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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Community foundations across the country have been promoting local giving days to motivate people to support nearby charities, encourage nonprofits to embrace technology, and bolster their reputations. Kimbia, an Austin, Tex.-based Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5

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Congrats Mark Horvath & Invisible People TV for Pepsi SXSW Challenge Win

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media celebrity charity endorsements with social media rock stars helped raised the visibility of the contest and as a by-product, the different causes. I think it is important for the contest design to think about sustainability, longer term results, and doing no harm to charity. He doesn't give up.

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Wired Wealthy, Budha and Freud.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We We raised $53,000, plus we got a $50,000 prize). I had coffee with Gene Austin at NTC and he told me that the study is available for free but you have to register first to get your copy.

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I heard it on the news

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Our Next Generation of American Giving report also reinforced that – Mature donors first reported that they learned about the charities they support through direct mail (35% of them). For Gen Y, Gen X and Boomers mainstream media is the #1 they first hear about charities they support (Gen Y 27%, Gen X 24%, Boomers 28%).

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The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has now donated $33,600 to TNC's Facebook Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

million has been raised for 19,445 different 501(c)(3) charitable organizations. raised per nonprofit. " With social gaming applications where users are engaged with the charity through play and generating sponsor revenues - does this model have the potential to raise even more dollar amount?

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.