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It's Official: Sharing Foundation Raises $100,000 and wins Network for Good Charity Badge/Yahoo Competition!!!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Three weeks ago, using what I learned from my first personal fundraising campaign , I launched a second campaign to raise money for the Sharing Foundation education programs using the Network For Good Charity Badge and entering the Yahoo! For Good competition which would double the amount raised by the winner.

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How do you encourage your kids to contribute to charity or causes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. My kids pose for photos in t-shirts (see above), empty their piggy banks, contribute clothing or other types of drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.

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Blogathon 2007: Raise Money for Your Favorite Cause with your Blog

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Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. As of July 8th she had already raised $297 in pledges towards her $900 goal. Who needs a walk-a-thon when you can join a Blogathon! in pledges have been made.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity.

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Network for Good Study of Disaster Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. It looked at why donors give online, how donors give online, their giving behaviors and implications for nonprofits seeking to raise money online. Tsunami relief: 82,000 donations totaling $11 million for 124 charities ??

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Should You Quantify Love? Redux 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. s Giving Challenge , the charity fundraiser sponsored by Parade Magazine.

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The 501c3 Blogosphere

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology. Lisa is curious and raises some excellent questions: Go Bob for blazing a trail!