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. You can vote once per day, so I'll probably come back and vote for the other organizations where I have relationships with their social media strategists. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! While it is an offline event, the organizers leverage their social graphs to invite friends to the event and use social media for all aspects of managing and promoting the event. The event raised about $1,400 within six hours.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. And, they have generosity in their genes.

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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? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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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. How do you balance online action with offline engagement?

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It didn’t come from your email database or your direct mail piece; it came from personal relationships – people motivated by a cause and those personal relationships. Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. Or better yet, add a video – campaigns with a personal video raise over 2x more than those without videos !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. He got a donate now button and raised $10,000. 1-5% are uber activists who raise the money. There are offline ways to do it. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. And in 2018, as you saw, as I hurriedly got on to this to this presentation, I was diagnosed with cancer and I felt I needed to retire. ” Because I have worn your hat.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While having hand s -on-deck was critical to mobilize food to those in need, the North Texas Food Bank supporters also raised almost $100,000 leveraging peer-to-peer fundraising technology. M ore than $20,000 was raised by employees of a tech company, and over $24,000 raised by a local photographer.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. We are mailing out dope boxes today, y’all. Yes, Lisa, amen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

I'm not really sure what women's issues are, besides breast cancer and ovarian cancer, but you know what I mean when I say it. Which is a really interesting observation if you think back on Hillary Clinton's fund-raising and Barack Obama's fund-raising. That sort of humor is really important to women. Women do connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world. More than $550,000 was raised last March.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

In the middle of his epic cancer battle, John Haydon said to me that he couldn’t “afford the luxury of a negative thought.” Multichannel donors are worth more than three times more than online-only or offline only donors. You might set aside 30 minutes every morning for inspirational listening (or reading).

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