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. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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JUNE 18, 2010

The sponsor would be committed to pay the charity at the conclusion of the day. The end result would be more followers for us, great PR for the sponsor (and a good deed) and $ and awareness through tweet to the cancer charity. Since, we have let the sponsor choose whoever they would like as a cancer charity.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

My point here isn’t to devalue cancer awareness, but to show that more awareness is needed for diseases like ALS. And if ice buckets, tagging friends on facebook, and our “look at me” culture helped bring light to fatal disease then so be it. Many often wonder how can we raise money from Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

." Report: Getting the message across: practical strategies to help charities change the way stakeholders see them - Free report from nfpSynergy: Getting the message across: practical strategies to help charities change the way stakeholders see them. "The Tags: roundup bookmarks. You tell us, we add to the map."

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

The Case Foundation, Facebook Causes and PARADE Publications just launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a competition designed to raise both awareness and funds for charitable causes. Tags: Fundraising nptech Social networking Facebook. What I find most interesting is that the Challenge.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Gary Vee used the tag RefreshGary as part of the session hashtag which was certainly helped, although the rules only counted a specific user's retweet once within a two-hour period. Tags: sxsw. but there's one hour left and I have 13,000 followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Last May after Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, he launched a charity called blamedrewscancer.com which donated $1 dollar to the LIVESTRONG foundation for every person that followed @DrewFromTV, the twitter handle of comedian Drew Carey. Tags: fundraising2.0 Report back on key milestones.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

While there has been some high-profile efforts to raise awareness and money, most recently by former football player Steve Gleason and his Team Gleason House , research efforts and awareness have been low compared to the other fatal diseases. Although as of this writing, the accidental campaign raised 31.5

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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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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 12, 2020

The issues non-profits and charities deal with are normally very serious, and it can difficult to find fun in their work. Starting with the most famous, ALS Association created this campaign, encouraging people to pour a bucket of ice water over their heads to raise awareness for ALS. Campaigns Don’t Have To Be Sad!

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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. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Total raise $5563 or 10% over goal of $5,000 in 2 weeks. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd. 21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. Fundraiser.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. Tags: events fundraising presentation facebook individuals notes slides socialmedia ssir.

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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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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

Maximise SEO through tags and titles. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Most directors are not accustomed to attaching a firm price tag to their organization's activities, preferring to adopt an attitude of "donate what you can." What competing organizations are doing to raise funds. Determine your "pricing" strategy. 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

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. I'm not sure that charity: water's biggest challenge is scale, as it is demonstrating impact and long-term sustainability.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Consumers/donors have expectations of an online relationship with their charities of choice that is different than what was expected just 24 months ago. According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

At everydayhero, we work with a diverse group of people who are passionate and involved in raising funds and spreading awareness for the causes that they care about most. We are now able to create appealing assets, on a regular basis, that increase awareness of our company’s mission. Do you want to raise awareness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. and the ps3 tag. It isn't just self either, the charity will benefit and be able to help a homeless young person. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe. Check out this YouTube video starring Youssou N'Dour and other artists participating in the charity album to learn more.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

If you're an NTEN member and have nptech news, don't forget to tag your posts "NTEN member" or "nptech" -- and give me a heads-up! You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here ! Tags: 501 Tech Club community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

So, now we are seeing an emerging practice that for lack of a better phrase, I’m calling “Charity Jacking.” Charity Jacking is imitating a successful fundraising campaign theme or idea that has become popular and instead of encouraging donations to the original charity, redirecting donations to another cause.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

The May holiday might call to mind breast cancer awareness or newer contenders like #EveryMotherCounts. Cold temperatures triggered One Warm Coat to start their campaign in 1992 around the day to raise coats for community. Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. Charity Date Auction.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

S ocial media has become one of the preeminent marketing tools for nonprofits looking to engage with donors and raise awareness about their cause as well as companies and social enterprises looking to incorporate a charitable component into their businesses. Project Angel Food serves its 15 millionth meal.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Fundraising Events.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

charity:water has a huge Twitter following of over 1 million fans and supporters and has a great deal of expertise using social media to leverage fundraising and raise awareness of their work. The Twestival and Charity Water's house social network are stellar examples. Tags: india twitter.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. Care2, Inc. in booth 22. Causemunity in booth 70.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. Care2, Inc. in booth 22. Causemunity in booth 70.

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