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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. The LA Kings have recently embraced the organization as a charity. gid=104492.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Launched in 2002, GlobalGiving.org is a crowdfunding platform for NGOs, charities, and nonprofits worldwide which has raised nearly $500 million online. For example, the American Cancer Society on GoFundMe Charity : 7) Sign up for Facebook & Instagram Charitable Giving Tools.

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. You wouldn’t know it, but charity: water had very little Twitter presence before Twestival, compared to the way they use it now. View more presentations from Olaf Witkowski.

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Yahoo! for Good

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Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Examples: For World AIDS Day, avatars wore shirts with red ribbons and for Breast Cancer Awareness month they wore shirts with pink ribbons. Examples: Climate Concern's Group and the ONE Campaign's Groups.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. His Tweet-a-thon raised over $5,000 for his charity on Twitter. This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message.