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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to craft and launch online fundraising campaigns. The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days often inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. 16: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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How Facebook Community Pages Undermine Nonprofit’s Official Pages in Facebook Searches

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I wanted to promote the the National Arbor Day’s Facebook Page on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. So, I searched Facebook for “Arbor Day&# and three Pages came up: 1) Arbor Day :: 79 Likes: www.facebook.com/pages/Arbor-Day/103129336394300. And Wikipedia Tabs? Tags: Facebook.

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2016 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful for online fundraising. The real-time, in the moment nature of social media increases the likelihood that donors will be inspired to give to your nonprofit on cause awareness and giving days provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote them effectively.

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

. —– If you’ve been on facebook at all in December this year, you may have seen something happening to all your friends – their pictures changing to their favorite cartoon characters! The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#. What do you think?

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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings. It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Google Maps.

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Around the Mug: What Happens After the Ice Melts?

Connection Cafe

It simply happened and they chose to support it and to do everything they could to keep the awareness momentum going. It was an awareness campaign. Facebook: 440 million users uploaded IBC videos with over 10 billion views. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 It wasn’t just about the contributions.

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