Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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MAY 3, 2011

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change. My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. To Mama With Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games.

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JULY 13, 2021

The revenue generated from peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns is typically greater than crowdfunding or ticketed events, but that amount could reach even higher levels if nonprofits better understood why people give. . By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. Dollar Dash: The Behavioral Economics of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. By Dan Pallotta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

And in this post by Joanne-Fritz, How to Close the Loop with Donors by Email , she shares how nonprofits can provide “closure” after fundraising campaigns. Creating marketing campaigns based around current holidays or events is a no brainer for nonprofits, but there’s a catch. Give a teaser for an upcoming campaign?

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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. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research.

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