Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. 77% knew someone who had been diagnosed with cancer.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

posted by Jason Rescka , Music Event Manager & Community Board Member. Garage Community & Youth Center. One of the greatest challenges facing nonprofit organizations is garnering volunteers and, more importantly, the right kind of individuals. We gave these volunteers the titles “brand ambassador” and “brand promoter”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s also the top platform for 18 to 24-year-olds, with 85% of this age group on the platform (compared to just 51% for Facebook). . Community fundraisers. Community Fundraisers will enable multiple YouTube “Creators” to raise money for the same fundraiser on multiple YouTube channels and videos, all updated at the same time.

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JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Further, a Concord Group Study found that 49% of nonprofits don’t have a strategic plan. Does the community have a strong need for this nonprofit? Make sure that by starting a new nonprofit, you’ll be able to fulfill an unmet need in the community. Does the community seem excited about your nonprofit idea?

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Nonprofits can remind donors of these traits within themselves to increase their likelihood of giving and volunteering. Employ communication tools to grasp just how your donors explain their connection to the community you’re serving in their own words. Fundraising Tip: Make Your Recurring Donors Feel Like a Community.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Create online communities to connect supporters near and far. By now, you’re surely in the routine of posting frequently to spread the word about your organization’s fundraising and volunteer opportunities. Create a corresponding Facebook group. During the Challenge, all of the participants should be added to a Facebook group.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This allows you to group similar pages under one top-level category. For example, “Donate Now” instead of “Donate to our wonderful cause to eradicate cancer for good” is more effective to point to your donation page and keep your navigation bar looking clean. This all starts with an intuitive and user-friendly interface. Let’s begin.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Poncey Highland Community Garden. The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. The Testicular Cancer Foundation’s Beard Patrol campaign has got No-Shave November down.

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MARCH 14, 2022

They understand the concept of a global community and are good at making connections with people they might never meet. If you’re a cancer research foundation or a hospital network, you don’t need to pivot to working on antiracism or climate action. This can be formal, like a focus group, but it doesn’t have to be. Sterrin Bird.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

In her role of Community Marketing Manager at Maine Cancer Foundation , Erlene LeBorgne specializes in developing creative ways to cultivate her community of avid supporters and assist them with their fundraising efforts. flyers or offline donation forms). Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Maybe an influential pastor at a large community church. Susan is a grandmother, a cancer survivor and the major ingredient that differentiates organizations that truly make change from those that just make a lot of digital noise. Every grassroots organization has volunteers like Susan. But, you’d be wrong. Enter Susan.

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Nonprofits can remind donors of these traits within themselves to increase their likelihood of giving and volunteering. Employ communication tools to grasp just how your donors explain their connection to the community you’re serving in their own words. Fundraising Tip: Make Your Recurring Donors Feel Like a Community.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 30, 2011

At Fight Colorectal Cancer, we switched from web host email to Google Apps in 2007 and we haven’t looked back. Fight Colorectal Cancer received its Google Grant years ago and works very hard to stay within the program’s tight guidelines, and we were recently rewarded with a Grantspro upgrade. Guess which won?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ransom, MBA President & CEO, The Rayvan Group. Honestly, whether you’re in nonprofit or for-profit work, remembering the reason you’re serving a particular group is vital to moving the organization forward. Donor or volunteer engagement and participation may be an area of improvement. Networking in the community.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

But the holiday is also a way to rally your community together in the spirit of giving to share their support for causes they care about. Lacey Helmig , Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC), is excited to participate for the first time this year. Other companies are offering special deals or matching funds.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If I am building a community, maybe my community needs/wants/desires something different.” “The major gift classification created these unintended consequences of certain people feeling like they were the uber-in group and other people feeling like they were the less-than outgroup,” she said. For example: Register today!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If I am building a community, maybe my community needs/wants/desires something different.” When you’re in the business of creating a community, it’s really important to be intentional about nomenclature.” A lot of what we’ve inherited, it’s based on white dominant culture,” she said. “If For example: Register today!

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Create online communities to connect supporters near and far. By now, you’re surely in the routine of posting frequently to spread the word about your organization’s fundraising and volunteer opportunities. Create a corresponding Facebook group. During the Challenge, all of the participants should be added to a Facebook group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The best new media managers, online community builders, bloggers, and activists will be connected and communicating with their supporters from anywhere, at any time when the need arises. Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies. Most haven’t considered it. 12Seconds.tv.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2020

Peer-to-peer organizations have taken meticulously planned in-person events and worked to create virtual experiences to bring their communities together. It also calls for socially distanced activities the community can participate in on their own terms. The community we reinvigorate today will be the foundation of our events tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Ed Schipul is a colleague from the NetSquared Community that I have had the pleasure of knowing for two years now. The fundraiser is where group of volunteers grew mustaches and asked their friends to support the charity, the Texas Children's Hospital Center. Flickr Photo from DenneyTerrio. " I did. in its inaugural year!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Despite the popular myth which asserts that email is dying, the truth is that email use is growing with all age groups worldwide. For example, secure five local community sponsors that will give $2,000 each and create a $10,000 matching gift campaign. They also get a tax write-off, so it’s a win-win for both.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. Submissions will be accepted May 18 - June 26, 2015.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

It all started twenty years ago when esteemed members of the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association created a community project in 2001. The association offered a half-day seminar, “Marketing 101”, to nonprofit groups throughout the state of Nebraska. Sadly, John Haydon passed away in 2020 from cancer.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I turned Chatter on at Colorectal Cancer Coalition months ago, and the reaction from my colleagues was one big disinterested shrug. We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. The possibilities are endless. I get that.

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

” I went down that path for more than a decade, climbing the ranks to Group Creative Director before deciding it was time to leave consumer advertising to do something that felt more meaningful. A cause close to my heart is the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance. Tiffany Rivers. I’m a social worker now, but a different kind!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

A good social media policy provides clear guidelines on what staff should do when posting and interacting with constituents, volunteers, and donors. Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, spoke at a San Francisco online community event about how to make your organization go social. Connecting Up Australia. NetSquared.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Encourage the employee to spend a few days doing information "downloads" from fellow staff members or if it’s a smaller nonprofit, from key volunteer leadership. It’s important to make good use of the networking opportunities one attends, but sitting with your coworkers or volunteers won’t bring any new relationships. Get another!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Q: What led you to working in the nonprofit sector? A: This makes me laugh.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

After a decade of steady development, Cloud for Good sought to continue to give back to the amazing communities that helped us get to where we are today. That is why we are thriving as a company, because of our team and their desire to go above and beyond to do good in the communities we serve.”. The Selection Process.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

But they aren’t going to cure cancer, reduce hunger, or improve pre-K education. How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge? Why I Don''t Use Volunteers Speaker: Liza J. Dyer, Volunteer Program Coordinator, Multnomah County Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Carie Lewis.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

More exciting for me is that for the first time, I won't be the only representative from Colorectal Cancer Coalition at the conference. I got so much out of last year's content that I jumped at the opportunity to help design and facilitate sessions this year with an amazing group of brilliant people. Stop by and say hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

Currently the Online Community Manager for TechSoup , she was part of the original launch team for the Techsoup, a one-stop resource for nonprofit technology needs including free information, resources, and support. " Today as the Online Community Manager, Tenby oversees the community forums and works with editorial team.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

It all started twenty years ago when esteemed members of the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association created a community project in 2001. The association offered a half-day seminar, “Marketing 101”, to nonprofit groups throughout the state of Nebraska. Sadly, John Haydon passed away in 2020 from cancer.

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