Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I first met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. He won the competition and the prize money was use to build the WeAreVisble Site.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

When I began my career leading fundraising efforts for a national nonprofit, the focus of everything I did was on the individual donor. And these tools have led to the emergence of a newer, savvier way of raising money: peer fundraising. Give the power back to the people who care for your cause just as much as you do.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Although not bad behavior per se, it’s at least gauche to ask others to financially support a cause that you don’t—and part of being a board member means generating funds through networking. It’s to be expected, then, that board members also put their money where their mouths are, so to speak.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In the digital environment of email, social media, and mobile, we can use storytelling in innovative ways to inspire supporters and donors — and raise more money. Supporters can create their own fundraising pages to raise money for your cause and tell their own stories about why they're involved. About the Author.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

National LGBTQ Task Force / Washington, DC / 475. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2018 Creating Change Conference convenes in Washington, DC, January 24-28, 2018. We are excited to host our national movement gathering in the Capital. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network National Conference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 22, 2014

posted by Jessie Singer Executive Director, American Lung Association in California A philanthropist recently asked me, knowing that I’d be looking for new Board Members soon, what types of people I was in need of. Jessie is a National Board Member for YNPN (ynpn.org) and YNPNsd (ynpnsandiego.org).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The program is made possible through a partnership of the National Football League , Mobile Accord , United Way, and the Mobile Giving Foundation , and supported by VeriSign. Previous mobile fundraising campaigns have included Text-to-Give campaigns to raise money during Hurricane Katrina and the Southern California fires this past October.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When I was leading fundraising efforts at a national nonprofit, the focus of everything I did was the individual donor. or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. This blog was originally published on. Philantopic. on January 31, 2015. Liberty in North Korea. ,

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 24, 2013

That search combined with the tremendous shifts and losses of money, possessions, and position that has occurred during the Great Recession makes it no surprise that many people are considering switching careers into a nonprofit environment. Some causes are easy to love. Every nonprofit organization needs money. Contribute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

is a rich country and, as of 2011, ranks as the most generous nation in the world, 1 only five percent of its charitable giving goes to international causes. Or, "how can I be certain my money will be used adequately?" Here are three simple reasons why your "heart" may tell you to give to international causes: 1.

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MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Connecting and enriching a national movement.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Some users may be irritated that they’re being asked for money before you tell your story and impact. When a would-be donor decides in a momentary surge of charity to give away their money to a cause, they may not know to whom they should give it. Otherwise, the user will probably default to the national lung cancer charity.).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

For example, Play Pumps , a nonprofit that provides clean water to developing nations, uses a water tank as its website's donation thermometer. Supporters need a designated space to read about your cause, perhaps leave comments and give donations. The water tank splashes closer to the campaign goal as each donation is collected.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

You can’t use marketing speak and emails to fundraise and then, when it counts, not to be there for your cause. In the wake of the Prop 8 loss in California, which outlawed gay marriage, there is a lot of wondering, “How did we lose? If HRC had led, they could have thrown their money weight behind it.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook? Marlow’s study sheds even more light on the Washington Post article that said Facebook Causes are not raising much money for nonprofits. Only a small fraction of the 179,000 nonprofits that use Facebook Causes have brought in $1,000.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Sure, he raised over $20 million for Haiti and an impressive array of non-profit organizations including American Red Cross , Oxfam America , Salvation Army , Habitat for Humanity , International Rescue Committee , and the United Nations Foundation used his services. I mean, seriously, is raising money all he can do? Good for him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 happens, I observe day laborers.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

.” Central to Pallotta’s argument is that “for hundreds of years, charities have been forced to follow a rule book that doesn’t allow them to spend money on the things they need to achieve real change.” But we don’t want people making money in charity. Organize ourselves, our friends, and colleagues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

As part of the anti-genocide moment, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world. So, with a friend, and the help of his parents and teachers and community leaders, he began a campaign to divest the state pension system of California from the worst offending companies doing business in Sudan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Exhale , an award-winning pro-voice organization based in Oakland, California, provides a one-of-a-kind service for women and men with personal experiences of abortion: our national, multi-lingual post-abortion talkline. .” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. ” — Chinese proverb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

Participants do a video of themselves dumping the water on their heads or donating, and tagging other people in their network to do the same. This was not a campaign started by the ALS Association, but young people who wanted to support the cause. See this piece by MacAskill for an explanation.).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. It is a large nonprofit and the largest funder of legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation. Marnie is watching the field of complex data.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 47 Even so, this money is not enough to support outreach to other cities to start their own driver cooperatives. Airbnb has an app for that.

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