Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. Giving Tuesday takes a lot of these ideas and blends them together.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

They view both their network and their voice as two additional types of assets they can offer a cause. Aided by technology, an individual who donates his or her voice may still give skills, time, and money, and then go beyond these actions to advocacy. If Millennials treat all assets as equal, will they ever donate?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Causes allows donors to take control of their donated dollars and choose exactly how their money will make an impact.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Following the first successful Nonprofits Live (NPLive) event on the Future of Fundraising , the second edition of TechSoup’s NPLive covered the topic of social video. Touching on Hardy’s suggestion, Dave Neff advised nonprofits to look inside and outside their organizations for developing and distributing media content.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. While most of it was not particularly new for those of us who have been following, studying, working in social media for nonprofits, it all bears repeating. Social media is not a spectator sport—it’s a contact sport.” There were lots of good gems shared and discussed.

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Care2

MAY 2, 2014

In this study, college students were divided into two groups, each comprised evenly of those least likely to contribute to a food drive and those most likely to donate to the drive. Among the students deemed most likely to donate who were given little guidance, only 8% donated. Wrapping it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. The infographic summarizes crowdfunding data from different platforms : $88 is the average donation size. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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