Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Very interesting to see the American Cancer Society on the list as its budget - according to a 2005 annual report linked on their Guidestar Profile is well over $10 million).

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Contest Charity Facebook Giving 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. The design of the Giving Challenge was such that any organization, even small grassroots organizations, could enter and even win.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Like GoFundMe, Booster lets you to raise money for any cause by designing and selling your own t-shirt. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding.

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