Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Now, this is a cool use of a widget! It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. The Summit, hosted by coalition partner Yahoo! network of networks.??? The 18Seconds.org website, built by Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. Although the amounts raised in Linden Dollars sound impressive, the USD amounts are still modest. I donate money every month through the Combined Federal Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause.

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. Even putting the widget on my page was done for me, I just clicked where I wanted it to sit!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Social media and the Internet have completely changed the way people donate money and discover causes they're interested in. member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. Donated Fundraising Tools from TechSoup. Becoming a GrantStation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Social media and the Internet have completely changed the way people donate money and discover causes they're interested in. member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. Donated Fundraising Tools from TechSoup. Becoming a GrantStation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Build awareness. Raise more money. Build awareness and generate buzz. Raise more money – Write posts that will guide and encourage people to give. Make it easy for people to give online and offline while also showing people how you are using their money. Incorporate these widgets into your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. Leng Sopharath, February, 2007.

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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. According to the TweetMeme Widget on the post - which could be underestimated) So, let's see - that's 298 x.11 20 cents per re-tweet or $200. 11 cents = $32.78

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. How much are you hoping to raise? Upload a personal photo.

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CauseVox

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. Will the money be used much further down the road? Activity or Event: An event is a great way to raise funds for your year-end campaign on the spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2022

One of the best tools you can have for your donation form is an embeddable donation form widget. Here are a few ways you can optimize your donation form to raise more money and bring in more donors to your nonprofit. The post Donation Form Widget: Embed A Donation Form on Your Website appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. you need to build to build relationships with people before you try and raise money from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. We hoped to created more awareness of the need for support for all of those affected by recent disasters. The Social Media Roadblock. I have no idea!

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

" We took folks through the steps required to raise the profile of an organization using Facebook Pages. Define your goals: Are you looking to find volunteers, direct activists, recruit talent, or raise money? Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget. (click to enlarge).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Video Blogging Steve Garfield offers this advice when selecting a video host for your videos: Be aware of where you put your Creative Commons Non-Commercial videos. (An Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog." " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. How are nonprofits using online social networks effectively as part of campaigns to build awareness, build community, drive traffic or raise money? Energizing and prospecting with Micro Media. The Socially Networked Nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Maybe you gave them money. Not many people give money because they read a well word-smithed mission statement. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. Think about the last time you did something for a cause. Maybe you did a walk.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Hold your horses, we’re not ready to ask for money just yet! Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. It doesn’t have to be a fundraising campaign, think of Movember , which asks its audience to share photos of their best moustache in November to raise awareness for men’s health issues.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Event 360 helps nonprofits use the art and science of event fundraising to build and deliver powerful experiences that drive giving, loyalty and awareness.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Event 360 helps nonprofits use the art and science of event fundraising to build and deliver powerful experiences that drive giving, loyalty and awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

Working primarily as a Facebook app, Causes automatically publishes any user’s interaction on their friends’ newsfeed, spreading awareness with each "like," "share," donation, or petition signature, or if they’ve joined the cause. raising money (i.e. fundraising website and community.

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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. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. There is prize money available for the organizations attracting the most donors and funds.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Users are accustomed to retail purchases where spending money results in a new object or service rendered. Spending money on a nonprofit site is different because the user doesn’t directly benefit from the purchase. Figure 3: ALS Association Community of Hope P2P Fundraising page showing dollars raised.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2015

So now two things happened – my friends brought awareness to organizations I’d never heard of and certainly hadn’t supported – and because it was a FRIEND asking – I was motivated to support them and their cause and tell even more friends about it. As long as I know they got the money, that’s ok because I care about the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Secondary: $ raised for Share Our Strength.

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