Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Your CRM is a key tool for engagement and can drive your fundraising strategy, moves management, campaign analytics, and operational reporting. Campaign Segmentation. You plan specific segments based on prior donor behavior and other traits to optimize the success of your campaign, analyzing a broad range of data points.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. How did the outcome feel, and what did it teach you? The Story of Self, Story of Us, and Story of Now Framework.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? To Mama With Love is an open, community campaign.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. Here is what my typical writing process looks like: Understand the goal and calls to action for the campaign. Brainstorm hooks and key messaging ( Here’s an in-depth guide on creating messages for fundraising campaigns ).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Plan your read-a-thon campaign. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser? How to host a read-a-thon fundraiser.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

While the benefits of a phonathon campaign are fairly straightforward, running a successful campaign is no easy task. To plan a successful phonathon campaign, be sure to: Focus on the larger mission. By adding matching gifts to your phonathon strategy, your campaign will see even greater success. Practice with mock calls.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. We just wrapped a fundraising campaign and for the first time ended without opt-out numbers that were abnormally high.”.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

An organization that wanted to provide value to its members could host a series of webinars around teaching reading as a science, publish whitepapers for its members, and provide resources those educators can use with their students. A nonprofit CRM with membership management tools will help.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Put another way, if we ask donors to cover the cost of a learning event to help students gain job skills, with different set amounts per month (e.g., As you point out, rescuing a dog, providing a meal, sourcing 20 chickens, or teaching a child new skills are multi-faceted processes. and FASB rules.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

This is one of the biggest mistakes I've seen clients and students make. I say this to clients and students all the time. For example, raising $100,000 from 3 major gifts and 2 annual giving campaigns. Yes, it talks about planning for 2019 but everything I teach in it is applicable to planning anytime!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. Since the visit to the school I’ve already had students follow up with me.”. You’ll Experience Growth And Learning Too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that my family and I sponsor a college student, Leng Sopharath, with the help of many of you. The Sharing Foundation's English Language Program offers village students, ages 8-18, the opportunity to learn English, allowing them to obtain jobs in tourism and word processing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

First we identified the titles we wanted to add—all requested by Bookshare non-student members, including some of the best science books of 2013 as reported by NPR’s Science Friday show. To help now, please visit Benetech’s Challenge campaign and give whatever you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I won't tell you how long it took me to create it, but I wanted to thank the 50 folks who have so generously contributed to my 52nd Birthday Campaign. The money raised from my birthday campaign would help us hire one of the college students that the Sharing Foundation has sent to school to teach the kids. You all rock.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. For example, if teaching is your profession, you might feel most comfortable and fulfilled when spending your volunteering time tutoring young students. Students make great volunteers!

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AFP Blog

APRIL 27, 2009

Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline: "Many of the students in Menck and Ekechai's classes said they weren't on Twitter until they were encouraged by their teachers and guest speakers. one of Menck's classes, students craft a marketing campaign for a nonprofit client.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. Also, make sure your stunt won’t cause a backlash and is appropriate to the timing of your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

I'm pulling together all my notes and will post reflections about all the campaign shortly! AND, Leng Sopharath is only one of 16 college students the Sharing Foundation is supporting. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. In the meantime, enjoy the thank you video!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Once they’ve completed the training program, Haiyya Fellows campaign on civic issues in their own neighbourhoods. A Fellow’s self-interest in making her campaign a success is often the anchor and motivation.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, you’ve most likely heard every industry leader teach this until they’re blue in the face! If your organization is running a specific appeal, then the banner image and messaging should match or closely resemble your campaign theme. Let’s look at some examples: Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester. Columbia Christian School.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2011

These campaigns are aimed at elementary and middle school students respectively; over 40,000 schools participate each year, teaching kids about the importance of exercise, heart health, and helping others. Click here to check it out. Click here to see it in action. 71% increase in online registration.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2019

How are colleges and universities addressing student loan debt? An increasing number of institutions are striving to offer free tuition to more of their students. At Dartmouth , tuition is free for students with families who make less than $100,000, and Princeton has raised the threshold for full tuition coverage to $160,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Their program includes about teaching artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Leng Sopharath, Phon Vandy, and CHom Thavy - Sharing Foundation College Students. I was able to raise $850 which helped cover the costs for her to participate in the Sharing Foundation’s college student sponsorship program and send her off to Noroton University with an accounting major in 2006.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But now, as I counsel my university students, I feel it unethical to recommend the same path I took. Is it unethical to ask college juniors and seniors, graduate students, and recently qualified degree holders to undertake multiple free internships? I have taken a firm stand. Absolutely. They''re the Internship Generation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2019

Our best advice is to clarify your institution’s goals and ensure that you have the capacity to deliver on your campaign. Read about how to consider this possibility in The New Era of Year-End Giving Campaigns. Since giving days have a strong online component, technical challenges around marketing and social media can slow you down.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

Alex Flores , Teach For America. continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Often, nonprofit leaders look at brands as just a “simple visual trigger from which to develop communication campaigns rather than a strategic tool for focusing the organization.” Welcome to Research Friday !

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

[Include options like annual donor, monthly donor, former donor, board member, former board member, committee volunteer, direct service volunteer, in-person event attendee, virtual event attendee, conference call participant, fundraiser, social media advocate, member, program participant, student, patient and client. Pick the top 3 – 5].

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

An exclusively online campaign can be executed much faster than a traditional direct mail campaign. If you’re a school, ask students to help. ” The Executive Director added personal handwritten notes to these appeals, and they yielded significant high returns. Send an email targeting lapsed donors. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It may seem odd to bring up online ads before you’ve analyzed your audience, but running experimental Facebook ads can teach us a lot about who we’re trying to reach. This is an excellent way to test possible messaging around a campaign as well. Naturally this tactic only works if your audience is on Facebook.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

She mainly does marketing support though, running four web domains, running social media campaigns, and all their graphic and web design. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search. The program serves 750 students in 14 rural schools. Their Educational Talent Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. One of the students asked if Google was the best search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

On Monday, when I landed, I went straight from the airport to meet Leng Sopharath, the college student our family sponsors through the Sharing Foundation's program. Some of you may remember that I used Chipin for my first personal fundraising campaign last November to sponsor her and write a case study here.). They were not sure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Ever wanted to use open data in support of your advocacy campaigns? Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign — February 10 to March 25. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students. Or learn how to use Excel better? Need help finding the right WordPress plugin for your website?

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Conor Barnes, Advisor, Investor, & Student. Melissa Campbell, Campaign Associate, Casey House Foundation. Michael Dardis, Director of IT Strategies & Operations, P.E.A.C.E., Mark Reyer, CTO, Xerox Business Services.

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