Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Did the awareness raising and engagement around the importance of giving to charity push the needle on charitable giving? ” Tom Watson interviewed Steve McLaughlin to take a deeper look at these numbers in his Forbes Column. Were there robust results ? Did it light up generosity?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Or donating a percentage of their sales to a local charity? Along the same lines of time-off-for-hours-volunteered, consider pushing a once-a-year (or other time-limited) fundraising effort where the company matches dollar for dollar any monies raised by its employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5 My answer: yes and no. million. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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JANUARY 22, 2024

That’s because donations to these organizations are usually tax-deductible for the donor, making it easier to raise funds. For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Hold interviews.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You can use those ads to drive traffic to your nonprofit’s website , promote programs and events, increase awareness about your cause—there are so many options! Give Me a Summary Google Ad Grants is a fantastic resource for nonprofit organizations, especially if they’re looking for ways to raise their visibility online.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Many smaller nonprofits don’t have the resources needed to set up an effective and efficient HR department, but if you want to scale your charity, you’ll need one. Without a way to professionally screen, interview, or hire employees, you could onboard staff that aren’t fit for the job. What if you consistently miss paychecks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

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. Conclusion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

It was one of the first 24-hour day of giving that rallies and inspires to donate to charities. I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. The goal was to establish some brand awareness across Minnesota.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

– "This interview is part of our "Social Citizen Sightings" series, in which we highlight how people are using their creativity, idealism, and digital fluency to support their causes every day. And I was glad to see Chuck raise the issue." Social Citizens Blog | Immerse.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Focus on participation – Judge success by number of donors versus just total dollars raised. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Apply those lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

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. Which is why Twestival Local hopes to challenge city organizers with two important questions with their selected cause: (1) What will the not-for-profit do with the funds raised? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2015

And like Oprah, PewDiePie has a passion for philanthropy and raises money for charities through his “Bro Army” fanbase, according to my teenage son – what he calls the people who subscribe or watch him on YouTube. XPrize – Raised almost $1M from over 2,000 contributors to revolutionize education technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

While H&I is well known and respected abroad, their brand awareness in the U.S. The project budget wouldn’t permit a nationwide research project replete with surveys, focus groups, user interviews, and so on. We fully expected all three ad campaigns to garner awareness and engage our audiences. hovers somewhere near zilch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. To date, the fundraiser has sold nearly 5,000 t-shirts and raised $75,000.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2020, they set a goal of raising $40,000 for their combined #GivingTuesday/year-end fundraiser to raise funds for their virtual summer camp. For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. This made curious: How did Twestival get started?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Every director of a charity is well aware that donations are triggered by a desire to assist in a cause and that there must be pre-existing trust in the ability of the organization to achieve that goal. What competing organizations are doing to raise funds. Conduct a survey. What you need to do in order to induce them to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Kiva is not a charity. Expanding marketing and awareness. Exposing the Kiva organization to new people in this interesting digital world and raising money to fund loans. There is another group that has raised $300 USD for Kikiva on Second Life and we also work with them. His profile said. Do good at Kiva.org!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Photo by Thomas Hawk. I think this was a really interesting and insightful observation by Toby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

Child protection charity Thorn created a powerful trailer for their channel that perfectly captured their mission, check it out to inspire yours. Find a format you can easily recreate so that you can produce consistent content without it taking over all your time, for example uploading an interview every week, or footage from a new project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. We're aware of that. Are we being used?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with several nonprofit organizations that weren’t part of a national charity, university system, or hospital, which have attracted multimillion dollar donations. So, how did they raise multimillion dollar donations? They did it through strong branding, awareness campaigns, and outreach.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Project Aware. Project Aware somehow manage to slip them in here and there without overdoing it. The best part about Project Aware is that they connect well with their audience on social media. 45 million was raised by nonprofits through Facebook fundraisers on Giving Tuesday. Facebook refers 29.4%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our 5-year-anniversary video from charity: water on Vimeo. Since then, over 10,000 individual fundraisers have raised more than $11 million – including over $1 million for Central African Republic as part of the 2010 September Campaign to bring clean water to all of the Bayaka people. The overall goal is to raise $1.2

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

They shoulder the responsibility of monitoring the ways funds are raised, ensuring ethical practices at every step, and supervising how the funds are allocated and spent. Besides raising your visibility, it kindles relationships and sharpens your understanding of those you aim to uplift.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Optimize Your Website for Search Engines Search engine optimization—or “SEO”—is a valuable tactic for anyone who wants to increase traffic to their site and raise their online visibility. Look for opportunities to participate in others’ webinars, podcasts, and even radio or television interviews. But don’t limit yourself to a race!

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, are they passionate about charities that support children? Share your social media awareness campaign with X number of friends. Raise $X by a certain day for a specific project. Interview a major or long-time donor and highlight them in your newsletter. Create an individual peer-to-peer fundraising page.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Are you raising money for a particular campaign? Maybe you would like to raise awareness around a certain issue that your organization works to address. You can do this in your video by including interviews and showing those that have been impacted by your organization’s work. Share your video!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The initiative set about to help raise awareness and funding in support of medical research, services and treatment programs for children with autism. Interview: Online Campaigning Success Story. They both were aware of what was out there, but we talked a lot about engagement and creating conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2012

. ~ Pinsulin: repin for those who pin 12 times a day , osocio • Christine Sculati created four Pinterest Boards to raise awareness about the California State Parks crisis. ~ Wild Apricot Blog • Allison Fine interviewed Ian Haisley, Opportunity International's Director of Online Strategy, about how they used Pinterest to fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2009

CNET's Caroline McCarthy published an article called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks. Photo by Seerjith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This world-wide fundraiser, with a $1 million fundraising goal, brought together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. The first post I wrote was called " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” So you raised $20,000. So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water. ” until you get down to the most important thing. ” So what?

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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. will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the GlobalGiving website if they mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors.

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