Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. Gen Z donors are likely to have a much larger network of connections or friends online, because they don’t connect with their peers at school, their networks are global. Gen Z By The Numbers. You can read more her here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare.

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MAY 20, 2016

It's a multi-tiered approach in which donors are asked to raise money in addition to donating. The basic premise behind P2P fundraising is that donors will be more likely to support someone they trust (a friend, family member, etc.) Increasing your donor base. Reaching a new target demographic to add to your donor base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

What if our child had cancer? As Parr points out, empathy is powerful because our innate ability and need to understand and connect with others – even we don’t know them personally. Empathy creates a connection that makes us pay more attention to something. We can’t help but to feel for Miles Scott and his family.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The demographic profiles of these donors skewed younger, the vast majority being Millennials or Gen Y. Gen Z donors are likely to have a much larger network of connections or friends online, because they don’t connect with their peers at school, their networks are global. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. d never seen so many first-time blood donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Kickstarter is a perfect place for nonprofits to appeal to small-time donors. More than 1.5 To date, the fundraiser has sold nearly 5,000 t-shirts and raised $75,000.

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Classy

APRIL 7, 2021

A virtual event for fundraising is your opportunity to introduce your cause directly to a worldwide audience of donors, as long as you have a solid plan to attract them. In 2020, 60% of donors gave online to nonprofits. Use Movement to Mobilize Donors Around the World. Download Now: Your Virtual Event Toolkit.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

attending Mass Comm week at Texas State University and of course checked out the Social Media for Social Good panel presented by Kerri Qunell, VP of Communications at Capital Area Food Bank , David Neff, Director of Web, Film and Interactive at American Cancer Society , and Jordan Viator, Interactive Communications Manager at Convio.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society. Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks. Honorable Mention: CauseForce and Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger.

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

In addition to the hunger for more video content, the COVID-19 pandemic also affected the type of content users are most interested in. Livestreaming on social media quickly became the standard for nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic, and donors loved it. Brief and educational videos have shown to engage larger audiences as well.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

The fundamentals of human behavior have a large effect on an organization’s ability to fundraise, so this book breaks down the psychology of peer-to-peer fundraising and the fuel that drives donor and volunteer behavior. Responsive Fundraising: The Donor-Centric Framework Helping Today’s Leading Nonprofits Grow Giving .

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. This year they did something a little different. Komen for the Cure race.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

It’s okay if the donor wants to remain anonymous. If hunger among the elderly is on the rise nationally, share what you’re seeing locally along with a few key stats and a little about how you’re addressing the need in your community. Make copies of the story, and send it with a personal note to your donors.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. 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 like to see charitable donations spent on advertising.

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

You’ve got 3 kinds of donors – the True Believer, The Casual Fan, and The Reluctant Tagalongs. More and more donors are giving online, especially towards the end of year. Yes, even your older donors! There’s a lot of talk about attrition rates, and what nonprofits must do to keep their donors around.

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JANUARY 1, 2014

A few words of advice and caution about these challenge campaigns: Don’t forget to follow-up with donors about the final results. Help cancer survivors like me. Risk of severe hunger – please read. Make a resolution for less outputs and more outcomes in 2014. We couldn’t have done it without you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. . Stacey is doing this with gratitude, Drew is doing it by blame (blaming his cancer). For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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