Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Evan Bailyn, an author who writes about what makes content go viral, said: “I read the critical responses and found no convincing reasons to disregard the campaign. The Kony campaign is actually bigger than even its highly noble mission. The victims are Ugandan children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara. It was an inspirational talk that spoke to my inner philanthropists and hopefully awakened the urge to give in my children! Thankfully, Sara or anyone else for that matter – doesn’t need to be famous to be successful raising money for a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s also a great opportunity to collect valuable insight you can use in future fundraising campaigns. In fact, reaching out to your community offline can help you stand out from the hundreds of digital-only marketing campaigns your donors receive. But that doesn’t mean analog channels aren’t valuable!

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MAY 25, 2022

For example, you can compare this year’s year-end giving campaign to last year’s. For example, if an organization realized that its budget for a previous campaign was too low, it can predict that the budget for the next campaign, if unchanged, will also be too low. Budgeting and forecasting for future campaigns.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2013

Gen X and Gen Y are more likely to support children’s charities. However, it’s worth noting that that majority of money raised by nonprofits today is still through offline channels like Direct Mail. It’s important to note the following data emerged across the generations.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way. The articles in that (free) series present a clear, step-by-step plan you can use to raise more money during the final weeks of the year.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

She is passionate about crowdfunding and coaching customers to help their fundraising campaigns succeed. Remember, campaigns that raise funds for regular expenses and general needs usually don’t work on crowdfunding platforms, because people don’t see a measurable outcome. Think about both online and offline thank-you gifts.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

So while the developed world spends on a new party outfit or the latest toys for their children, a small portion of that can go to feed. Participating nonprofits are restricted from promoting the program by email and other offline marketing channels. attempt to alter shopping behavior. Tried and True Concept. More From TechSoup.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. Don't measure success of mobile Apps just by the £s raised.

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JUNE 6, 2011

It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns. What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. The more is raised, the more impact they can make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. Dr. Hendrie has been working tirelessly on this campaign using her social networks. Although she told me yesterday she might too old for twitter.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It's fun to play with, engaging for constituents and has helped us raise 28% more funds online since this time last year. Offline activities. However, when you are launching social media campaigns on Twitter, Facebook, etc. If you don’t have a system that does this yet, get help and find one - it’s the now. Geographic location.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. She sits on their board. .

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Our curated list of industry-leading templates is guaranteed to help with your next social media campaign. They’re running campaigns, such as the one to end home fires. Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

Mirroring the look and feel of a live event, campaign donors were invited to become ‘virtual table captains’. The ministry completely blew their campaign goal out of the water. Not only did they raise their initial $220K goal to $300K, they surpassed that stretch goal by an additional $30K. And…they didn’t just stop there.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. When I was 9 years old, I told my parents who were volunteers in a lot of ways, our church, the summer celebration, political campaigns, I told them that I thought I wanted to help everyone in Minnesota, and so I should try to be governor of Minnesota.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. They have children, they’re doing all of this. I worked with a organization that they worked with abused children. They’re busy just like you. not a jet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! So Bhatia’s business partner, Robert Chatwani , used social media tools to implement a Help Sameer campaign.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. First of all, these children have taught themselves.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Tracking offline and online behaviors in a single database is either a reality or an imminent goal for every nonprofit I’ve worked with. Figure 3: ALS Association Community of Hope P2P Fundraising page showing dollars raised. Invisible Children also had great success storytelling via video with their Kony 2012 campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

We would see them do things like put pink marketing campaigns together, but we knew that that wouldn't work for a certain amount of women. Britt Bravo: In the book you advise nonprofits and political campaigns to use the rule of the four Cs to reach women. That sort of humor is really important to women. Now, the second C is connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In August, I did a little fundraising experiment that involved Twitter and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. blogs to raise money for charity? Do your homework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. Laughing Squid was a donor to the Cambodian Bloggers campaign I ran over the summer, although indirectly via Citizen Agency.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2009

Originally posted on the Nonprofit Strategies blog by Andrew Olsen of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. Here’s a sample of our 2008 year-end campaign. In December of 2008 we conducted our typical year-end direct mail campaign. Multi-channel fundraising. Many nonprofits are doing this, and doing it well.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Sometimes we get so busy trying to raise money that we lose sight of something important: Why people give. Understanding the psychology behind giving can help you understand the donor’s motivation, which will help you plan your next campaign, your next fundraising event, or your next face-to-face ask. Or mail in a check?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. 2) No one knows with any degree of precision how much money is raised each year via direct mail. So I do know whereof I write. nonprofits in 2008. nonprofits in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. 3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. .

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