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#thankful4home: Raising Awareness Around Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. The Boot Camp includes training, coaching, and project based learning.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. If you share links via social media, make sure the links are mobile friendly given the stats on how people are consuming social networks info on their mobiles.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Waters True Value donates $4,000 with the help of social media - News - Dodge City Daily Globe - Dodge City, KS

AFP Blog

Waters True Value donates $4,000 with the help of social media - News - Dodge City Daily Globe - Dodge City, KS : Waters True Value utilized Facebook to bring awareness about relief efforts to the community. After only two days, the status generated over 2,000 shares.

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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Feeding America , originally founded in 1979 as a faith-based organization, is headquartered in Chicago, IL, a central hub of the food industry. Aaron defines digital as integrating the website donation page, with digital paid ads, organic social media, with occasional infusions of peer-to-peer giving.

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

This is a good indicator that campaigns run on other marketing channels, like social media and personal phone calls, influenced the broader awareness of GivingTuesday campaigns. As we’ll outline below, the time of day our clients sent emails on GivingTuesday did not have a direct impact on when donors made gifts.

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Groupon: Buying Power or Money Looser?

Care2

Do you remember when Groupon aired a series of TV ads during the Super Bowl to raise awareness about their company and their passion for Tibet and the Brazilian Rainforest coupled with discounts of Tibetan food in Chicago and Brazilian bikini waxes in NYC? Like many other ad and social media fiascos though, people eventually moved on.

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