Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. His campaign video is here. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d And then goes on describe the features. Big or small.it

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. million nonprofits in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2006

While thousands of people board planes to visit family and friends during the holidays, Gabriel Stauring and Stacey Martino from Stop Genocide Now will be traveling to the Darfur/Chad border. You can see a video of stories they collected from refugees on the Darfur/Chad border during their last trip here. Darfur blog genocide video

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. So in that case, we got a two-for-one -- both raising awareness of the issue and flooding a decisionmaker with an important column.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Workshop leaders, Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the Non-profit Marketing Blog , and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and the Sea Change Strategies Blog believe that there are 7 Deep Human Needs that you need to remember when you are creating nonprofit campaigns. Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

She is the online campaign coordinator for a national grassroots organization, ANTar , that supports indigenous people. It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning. Human Rights Campaign. Save Darfur. Her recent blog post, called web2.0 goodness , caught my eye.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

He began the talk by telling the story of the first time Google Earth was used for awareness raising by Rebecca Moore, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach. Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But when their campaigns offend, watch out for the mobs. Two recent viral campaign failures demonstrate the dangers of appearing callous to your target audiences and how quickly things can spin out of control if you don’t listen and respond quickly. When startups and corporations do good in the world, everyone loves them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Our dream is to raise the floor for every person with a disability, to ensure access to the material needed for education, employment and social participation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Perhaps it is because my generation was raised reading The Diary of Anne Frank and watching dozens of movies about the Holocaust. As part of the anti-genocide moment, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world. His campaign was successful. Someone should have done something.

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MAY 3, 2011

You might guess that version 2 would raise more money. The institutional version raised more than 4 times as much from almost twice as many donors. Based on our studies, we've concluded that stories can help you raise money — if you use them right. You'd be wrong. This test isn't an anomaly. So what to do? Don't panic.

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JUNE 25, 2007

In 2006, the Aquarium sponsored a letter-writing campaign in the museum, giving visitors an opportunity to send postcards to the governor expressing support for the establishment of marine protected areas on California's central coast. Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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APRIL 22, 2009

Even for this fortunate few, the results they achieved on Facebook were reportedly dwarfed by the fundraising results that good old email campaigns and other tried-and-true methods achieve for nonprofits. In only 10 days, Save Darfur raised more than $415,000 through an email series.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app.

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MAY 13, 2009

USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. More examples can be found on the Google Earth Outreach page of nonprofit case studies.).

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