Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. Donating products to charities helps corporate bottom lines, reduces waste in landfills, and provides relief for people in need. One of the things we wished for as we navigated the campaign: benchmarks.

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MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2018

And go beyond the basic “we want to raise money.” Every time you’re in a grocery store and asked if you’d like to donate an extra dollar to breast cancer research, you’re experiencing cause marketing firsthand. Basically, you should sell yourself and explain all the reasons that particular business should collaborate with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at Planned Parenthood, and Susan G. Source: causes.com via Beth on Pinterest. On Tuesday, the Susan G.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

million charities and religious groups, according to Giving USA. The first step in choosing a charity is thinking about what you would like to accomplish. If the scope of your aspiration is local, find charities that are based in your neighborhood or city. Excessive salaries or fundraising expenses should raise a red flag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. To calculate your organizational goal you should know how much you need to raise in 2021 (or your whatever your fiscal year looks like). Study Past Fundraising Trends. Your Organizational Goal. Fundraising Goals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Teespring is a unique service that lets you crowdfund using customized T-shirts and hoodies to raise money for your cause. You can see how this works at the case study: How the ACCO Used Crowdfunding to Help Kids with Cancer. Find a case study here on how Kilbride Hospice is using it. See how charities are using it here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Dozens of crowdfunding platforms make it increasingly easier for people to raise money for any cause, from cancer research to disaster relief, often quite independent of direction from any charity. He raised over $760,000 by appealing to his worldwide following. Within a matter of weeks this campaign raised $3.8

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The discussion featured guest speakers Jen Burton , community director at Causes ; Tom Dawkins , co-founder of StartSomeGood ; and Miles Orkin , national director for mobile and web at the American Cancer Society. Causes differs from Kickstarter in that even if fundraising goals are unmet, money that is raised is still donated.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He has helped raised over a billion dollars for his clients. But, can you really raise money through social networks? The study, which builds on a similar study conducted in 2010, looked at the philanthropic habits of the following generations of Canadians: Generation Y (or Gen Y, born 1981 – 1995).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And the better you get at the whole suite of donor engagement, the more money you’re going to raise. The charity got a $2,500 check the following week without any ask. Well, good afternoon, everybody. It takes time.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Further, a Concord Group Study found that 49% of nonprofits don’t have a strategic plan. That’s because donations to these organizations are usually tax-deductible for the donor, making it easier to raise funds. There are over 1.8 However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. The answer could be “both.”

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I realize that I may have just lost my credibility after that first bullet point, but trust me, after double-digit years in the nonprofit consulting business, the main reason our struggling clients are not raising the funds they want to raise is because they are simply not asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

Because I lacked the will-power to get my butt out of bed and run, jump rope, hop on the bike or swim, I signed up for numerous charity runs or rides to incent the behavior. I often donated more to the charity after meeting someone at the event who told the mission-story in a way the moved me to do more.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Twitterstorm, anyone?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Email messaging raised 28% of all online revenue in 2017. To stay current on modern design trends for email, a good first step is to sign up for the email campaigns of large nonprofits similar to yours in mission and programs, and then study their design and implement the design elements you like. When to send your email campaigns?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 Dan Pallotta would go on to invent the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

I recently reached out to marketing experts at nonprofits and organizations who work closely with nonprofits to share their insights when it comes to engaging donors and raising funds in 2020. In your experience, which marketing strategy have you found most effective at engaging donors and raising funds? They delivered.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

That year we had to raise a ridiculous amount of money and also we had to do a rebrand of the organization. Studies have shown that when places have unlimited PTO, people don’t take PTO. So I might not know that grandma has colon cancer, but I know your primary care for grandma and something has gone left. They take less.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Follow and study the World Wildlife Fund , Sex, Etc. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Add charity rating graphics. ? Offer contests that reward fundraisers who raise the most funds during the campaign. ?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In her post on Convince & Convert, Jessica Gioglio shows 2 Amazing Movember Case Studies That Will Make You Grow it Back. Curious about what other findings are reported in the study? Dolores McDonagh of Charity Dynamics write on npEngage about the Top 3 Roadblocks to Event Registration. And I want more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Follow and study the World Wildlife Fund , Sex, Etc. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. . Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. . More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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