Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. The mother from Missouri that pretended to be a teen boy and cyberbullied a young girl to the point where she committed suicide.Tragic yes, but MySpace’s fault? To this day, the celebrity factor on MySpace is untapped by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. Try 'em out, pitch in for a good cause, and who knows? Many of these encourage folks to work with kids and teens ( ) and share their life experiences!

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JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. Fitness challenges. Game nights.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Looking beyond the top-line results, #GivingTuesday was also a day for individual action, for nonprofits to tell their stories, for businesses small and large to stand up for a cause, and for communities to join together in a desire to do good. Dress for Success celebrated #GivingShoesDay , asking supporters to donate shoes to the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

  In partnership with Girls Court and The Surfrider Foundation's O'ahu Chapter , Derosier started The Spirit Sessions, a six-week program aimed to help at-risk teens redirect their lives in a positive way through surfing and other ocean-related activities. It's a celebration of spirit.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Even if your donor loves your cause, if your email hits on a day that they don’t have much time, the subject line is the key to getting your email opened. For those who aren’t yet in love with your cause, the subject line is absolutely critical. Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . Make sense? By midnight !

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. Fitness challenges. Game nights.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

To begin with, the aforementioned high open rate applies to donor bases that might be otherwise hard to reach, such as teens and seniors. While text-to-give campaigns have proven successful, some causes seem better positioned to take advantage of this method than others. Keep a Child Alive uses mobile giving at celebrity events.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

These may become cause areas during virtual times and where you should consider looking for virtual events first. Is this decision based on previous relationships or new issues caused by the disaster? A lot of the virtual volunteering opportunities listed online right now include helping students, youth, and teens.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. How did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Her main objection to "vote me contests" is that it pits one amazing cause against another, perpetuating the scarcity mentality that lives in the hope of a pot of gold. She also feels that contests have too much of a myopic focus on channeling dollars or click actions rather than engaging people's hearts and minds and souls. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Whether it’s sharing a #CecilTheLion cartoon, or sharing a #PlannedParenthood petition, all of these actions are expressions of our passion for causes we love. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. sporting event or concert)" (12 percent); and "an appeal from a celebrity" (nine percent). The results of the survey were very encouraging for the current and future state of mobile giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. He is an expert in art at his institution and keeps abreast of what’s happening the world around that provide an opportunity to celebrate art. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums. Visibility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

Now, for-profit companies, influencers, and nonprofits alike are using TikTok to spread information, advertise, and raise funds for causes. TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. One example of a successful cause marketing challenge was Oreo’s #CookieWithACause campaign. The majority of U.S. Hashtag Challenges.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

These ideas will be more powerful if they are done with the mindset of peer-to-peer fundraising and connection to your central cause. Flowers are the medium of communication for the day so organize sales campaigns with schools, offices, communities to support the cause. Be unique in tying the product to the cause.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

In celebration of Women's History Month, we wanted to share some of these sheroic tales and introduce you to young women who are carrying the torch forward today. Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? This is a long post, so use the links below to browse the topics or jump to an area of interest: Literature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. Stop Complaining About Cause Fatigue! Inspiration.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But not only that, what I want to draw your attention to is that 36% of people using social media said they have used it to show support for a cause, which I think for all of us and all of our particular goals and objectives is really important. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Speakers ranged from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via Skype), to online ethnographer danah boyd , consultants from the Obama and McCain ’08 campaigns (and the Obama Whitehouse), academics and thoughtleaders such as Mark Pesce and Clay Shirky , and techno-celebrities such as Craig Newmark ( Craigslist ) and Gina Bianchini ( Ning ).

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