Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Whether it’s a planned campaign leading up to the big day, or simply a day-of fundraising push, it’s up to you to choose the approach that’s right for you and your available resources. If You Want to Put More Effort Into It: Read our tips and suggestions for creating a successful GivingTuesday campaign ! GivingTuesday Guide.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. Once you know what worked and what didn’t, you can start looking at the current trends in fundraising to create the best GivingTuesday campaign to maximize your donor acquisition and retention.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Benefit concerts are often celebrations of major achievements or a part of a larger fundraising campaign. Create your merchandise The revenue from tickets might cover the hard costs, but merchandise can help add income to your fundraising campaign. You can also market your concert offline as well.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

To launch successful, engaging online campaigns, your nonprofit needs a peer-to-peer fundraising platform that meets your unique needs. Donors won’t just give to a peer-to-peer campaign—they’ll be more likely to continue donating over the long term. Donors give to the campaign pages. Learn more about pricing.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

To successfully amp up support for your -thon event, try these marketing strategies: Outbound campaigns. Outbound campaigns can include email promotions, digital ads, and printed collateral that you might hang up at local businesses related to walk/bike/ride events (like athletic shoe stores or bike shops). Create and share surveys.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. We should expand that view and definition of multi-channel to include offline action and mobile messaging/text. For many organizations and groups, the offline actions are most critical and yet most often forgotten. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. The positive is you can lock people ahead of a campaign and be sure they will tweet. She uses IFTTT and sets it up to collect photos with the event hashtag into a google document and then add captions and curate the sharing. One of the more popular with nonprofits is ThunderClap.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. I caught up with Rob Wu, co-founder of CauseVox , the platform used to support this fundraising effort, to learn more about the process and campaign. How did you co-created the campaign?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

If you create a microsite or special landing pages for campaigns, topics in the news, or specific programs, be sure to make links prominent for people to learn more and understand the why and how behind the actions. That may mean it is a quick text-based response, a photo, a very short video, or a good sized video, respectively.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

Colleen was new to setting up a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, and had been working with offline donations for a long time. By the end of the campaign, they had raised nearly $20,000. One of the most important elements of MDLT’s success was that their fundraisers stayed engaged on their page throughout the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

He shared a campaign called Testi-monials , created by FCB Cape Town for CANSA which is setting out to remove the awkwardness around talking about testicular cancer, and drive awareness about “how important it is that men not only talk balls but take care of them too.” Marcelo talked about how humor can capture attention.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

When creating a fundraising campaign, it's essential to be as clear as possible. Your primary purpose is to spread your campaign to as many people as possible. To prevent that, you can create a toolkit and a series of weekly emails that you can share with those who have started the campaign to reach your overall goal.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

JustGiving’s success, the sheer numbers (in millions) of people using the peer to peer platform for fundraising, campaigning and awareness, shows that people are ready and willing, jumping at the opportunity even, to integrate philanthropy and social change work into their every day lives. Photo: Howard Lake. What do you think?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even though many planned giving touchpoints occur offline in meetings or over the phone, your website still has an important role to play. stories about why they chose to give that way, what your mission means to them, and how they feel about the impact they’re helping to drive will work best, coupled with actual photos whenever possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

With this year’s GivingTuesday less than a month away , there’s lots of tips and best practices on how to leverage social media during the giving season both online and offline. For example, this year several cities, like Baltimore, are launching city-wide campaigns. Conan O’Brien was talking about me?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

First there was 10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns. Users can also download stories for offline reading. Human Rights Campaign :: Download. Get the latest news about the ICRC’s activities around the world plus a selection of photos, videos and publications on current humanitarian concerns. App Name: NPR News.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

This versatile software helps you consolidate donor data, centralize assets, enable the creation of integrated campaigns across various channels, and provides analytics on donor engagement. With Buffer, you can drive traffic to your event registration through strategic social media campaigns. Advertise your event.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Any resources to move from national to local?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. What should participants each measure for their individual campaigns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Photo by Leah Jones. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. " she's now taking her activism offline. Komen 3-Day in Atlanta.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Something I’d like to focus on today comes about from two things: Tuesday, the eCampaigning Report was released that showed data and best practices for campaigning and advocacy online; and yesterday I met with a local climate change focused nonprofit organization about some of the work they are doing. Create Actions for Everyone.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels. Nonprofits are crafting creative digital fundraising campaigns to recruit and upgrade monthly sustainers. Monthly sustainer gifts are clearly a win-win for nonprofits and donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! Here's the round up of suggestions: Via Commonknow.

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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. I think it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, learning to properly market online and offline is an important opportunity for organizations. However, if you don’t take time to plan, you’ll reduce the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. Nonprofits post photos, videos, IGTVs, reels, and stories to show the impact of their mission and advocate for support. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Flickr Photo by Canolais. His first Facebook campaign raised $250,000 in 2005 for Genocide Intervention Network, now known as [link]. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face. This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Incorporate compelling visuals, such as event photos or promotional graphics, to capture attention. Next, start crafting some engaging email marketing campaigns Segment your email list and send personalized invitations. Provide clear event details, including ticket prices and benefits, to encourage immediate action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. Here are a few of the more common questions: Are people giving more to the presidential campaigns and less to nonprofits? It’s worth noting that less than 1% of Americans give campaign contributions of more than $200 to political candidates, parties or PACs. Cover Photo Credit: Dan Ridley-Ellis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. What’s elevator speech for the organization, he campaign and your role. USA for UNHCR (my client) is a 501(c)(3) headquartered in Washington, D.C.

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Care2

AUGUST 18, 2011

Perhaps some of their ideas will resonate with you enough to test similar ideas for one of your upcoming marketing campaigns. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) uses QR codes in their brochures at their offline fundraising events. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We think this has huge potential. The Big Wild.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2020

After you’ve determined the best way to reach out to donors to promote your campaign, format your marketing material with these best practices: Tell an engaging story. Choosing emotional photos that are relevant to your campaign may motivate more people to give to your organization. Stick to your campaign timelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

That all seems like ancient history now but this started a journey of experimenting with personal fundraising campaigns using social media to raise money for kids in Cambodia and share lessons learned with other nonprofits. I shared my lessons learned from my first campaign in 2006 in this case study , with best practices work today.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

They created a campaign video spoofing the new film “ Moneyball ,” which the Huffington Post San Francisco called “the most entertaining campaign commercial yet. The campaign is also on Google+ and uses SoundCloud , a social media company that allows one to record audio messages and share them online.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. The NetSquared community consists of Local groups in 80+ cities worldwide that hold offline events for those interested in technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. The My Barack Obama community was built around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Third C: Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

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. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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