Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

While there has been some high-profile efforts to raise awareness and money, most recently by former football player Steve Gleason and his Team Gleason House , research efforts and awareness have been low compared to the other fatal diseases. Although as of this writing, the accidental campaign raised 31.5

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Connection Cafe

MAY 17, 2012

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. It reminded me of an experience I had when I was a high-schooler raising money for a community service trip to Ecuador with Amigos de las Americas. Color me impressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Some of the best grassroots fundraising for projects in developing countries take the form of clothing donation campaigns. Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts. They hope to raise $1.5 million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. As soon as I read and contributed to Amy's campaign, I knew I wanted to set up my own campaign for the Sharing Foundation. It's easy to set up.

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