Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. His list of benefits include: Video is a powerful storytelling medium and has the potential to engage people and build relationship, particularly if using some of the video/social networking sites.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the for-profit world, it takes an average of eight touchpoints with a person to make a sale. In fact, 42% of donors said that hearing personal stories from a nonprofit’s beneficiaries impacted their decision to give. You should also include the specific program that would benefit from the gift.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? If this seems like an uphill battle, it probably means leadership needs some education about the platforms and more importantly needs to be shown the benefits (through metrics) behind the power of social media efforts. for " Ctrl.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2018

A Panoramic Perspective or taking a bird’s eye view when crafting partnerships, by looking at people and organizations beyond their titles and sectors and allowing value to transcend profit. Taking this approach to nonprofit and corporate partnerships enables an environment of trust and learning as well.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2017

Many different efforts will add to its success, with each step of the campaign requiring donor interaction, solicitations, and stewardship. Consider these three opportunities to help you meet your goal, maximize exposure, and generate success: fundraising appeals , events, and stewardship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Who has been in charge of, and in control of, telling our collective stories? We need you to create and share your stories. You realize that it's making the whole environment richer with your unique participation — you don't expect anything else from it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time. The mindshift to be successful. Go read it. More here ). *

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

The series is based on the true story of a single mother who flees an abusive partner only to meet obstacle after obstacle as she navigates a system that’s ostensibly meant to protect and provide for her and her young daughter. Months after watching the series Maid , I am still thinking about it. The Promise of Comprehensive Community Care.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our Fundraising 101 formula for success: Build a base of donors. If your ideal donors care about the environment, focus on nature-oriented festivals. Is there a product the business can sell with the profit going toward your organization? And the best way to do that is with stories. Lots of stories.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

The primary goal of PEP’s integrated special education and mental health services is to enable children and youth to succeed in the least restrictive environment, ideally their own school district. They boast a success rate of over 90% for youth that complete their programs and now live in the community and stay in school.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization. What we also believe will start to happen is that you create an environment of sort of inspired competition. We should be able to tell the story and communicate the mission."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Individuals impacted by the criminal legal system also benefit from access to educational programs that prepare them for workforce re-entry while qualifying them for well-paying jobs. ASAP attributes its success to its use of digital technology. The reality is students learn better when they can learn together,” Devezin says.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Telling the Benetech story better is crucial to our future: crucial to making the social change at scale that we consider the essence of innovation. In 2012, we’ll be rolling out new branding, new media, and new stories all with the goal of getting better at what we do and raising our impact. They just worked! We value transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. Previously, we had examples to refer to during both the analog and digital periods, but the examples that were promoted were always the successful anomalies.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

So, let’s close that, and I will pass the mic virtually over to Francis to kick us off with a story. So, going into my story here, for this story, we’re going to go all the way back to March of 2020. Can you relate to that story? Like, this is not an unusual story. Francis Johnson: Sure. Thanks, Karen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

That, I would argue, is the other big benefit for consumers of Fair Trade. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

But by and large, people were pushed into poverty wage jobs and forced to make profit for huge corporations, while not having any opportunity to improve the living standards for themselves or their families. Almost never do they receive healthcare benefits or vacation time and oftentimes, have to work in incredibly oppressive environments.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a recent story, NPQ , quoting Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , asked, “How evil is too evil when it comes to donors?” MIT’s story suggests this may not be motivation enough. September 6, 2019, New Yorker and WGBH. Martin Levine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

I am a cause marketing director for MediaSauce, helping non-profits and corporations use online media to pull off their next big thing. (2) 2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? Metrics for Success - Primary: # of people signing the pledge. Keys to success?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So there are projections that a lot of foundations made about 10% in profits that year off their assets. So definitely look for a social media presence and follow or like them, because when you do that, you’ll see the stories that they publish. They’ll have success stories that they share. Now, the IRS.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

I work for a well-established non-profit (organization has been around over 100 years) and we dont have "online contacts" for most of our donor base and still received a lot of checks in the mail. It all comes down to cost vs. benefit. Our children likewise will have a story to tell their grandchildren. Think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. Kami said it best over in her post. "It

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." So when I was asked to do this panel and learned what this conference was about, I thought, "Well, I should have them come and tell their stories to you."

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