Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2021

For example: Do they share a passion for a specific cause, religious affiliation, or prefer local vs. international causes? Your list could include: age range, income range, religious affiliation, making donations to other charities, having school-age children, etc. . What attributes do those people have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

No purchase is required at any store, and karma points can be redeemed to benefit nine predefined good causes. CauseWorld will appeal to the online activists… those folks that love to recruit you to join Causes on Facebook and Twitter, but it’s unclear how much $$ = 1 Karma. 2) Fundraising :: Charity Finder.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

If you know you have a supporter base that are planning to give up drinks, treats, or Starbucks, challenge them to donate what they would spend on those weekly cocktails or daily croissants to your cause. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Cereal-for-Dinner Dinner Party (March 7).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. I’m known to care about charity. Photo by Steve Garfield. I’m known to dig Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. So what can charities do to embrace the future? Author: Julia Woodcock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. After donating $26 to FreeGeek to honor Amy's 26th birthday, I went poking around Causes to see if I could install the application. The folks at Causes are controlling the installation. And, yes they did !

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

Events like 5Ks, fun runs, field days, and charity sports tournaments drum up a lot of excitement from donors and can be very profitable fundraisers. Parents of picky eaters may need to prepare back-up snacks or meals for their children. Some attendees may have intolerances to specific foods and will require accommodations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. The winner of this challenge will receive $50,000 to help their charity. This is my story in why I hold this cause so dear to my heart.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. Just ask Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass! Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass hosted an incredibly successful event called Givers & Gamers that raised 22% more than their fundraising goal. It just takes getting creative!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Name your children after them.

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” These individuals give an estimated 440% more to charity over their lifetimes than one-time donors. To learn more about how our platform can support your cause, reach out to us for a demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  I also found this photo from 1964.  So, here's the social media version of collecting money for charity on Halloween from FutureNow. widget below to charity. Every cent we collect will be sent to charity. There are 2 goals for Trick or Tweet : 1. The maximum we ask anyone to donate is $20 for the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. and Sdfj Dfsjlfkddjf.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

GivingTuesday has grown in popularity since its inception, with people from all over the world continuously giving their time, money, gifts and voices to the causes they care about. Over $1,640,000 in gifts were given this year, and over $177,000,000 was raised online for charities and nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Magic is part of the Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses , a Florida charity that visits more than 35,000 adults and children each year with its team of tiny horses. The organization visits hospitals, hospice programs, and children who have experienced traumatic events. You can also post memes that relate to your cause.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

The most popular charitable group with Baby Boomers is religious charities, while Gen X and Millennials prefer children and youth development. The Humane Society uses text-to-give and social media campaigns together to raise funds for their causes. Text messaging and social media are perfect partners for charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You DO want to be their favorite charity right? They generate income for you month after month, showing with their actions that they trust you and care about the cause. If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. If you work with animals, can you have a fashion photo shoot involving holiday sweaters?

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Care2

JULY 27, 2010

Specifically, though it raised awareness via successful CNN iReports , photos, video, podcasts, blog posts, and social network outreach, the effort provided critical insights: Defined the problem facing fishing families , an identifiable and actionable issue within the larger oil spill context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive. He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". Justin passed this message along on Thursday: Still no word from our orphanage.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support. SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. No bells or whistles — just straightforward. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards. In gratitude for the apple of her eye (her first grandchild) THE SHARING FOUNDATION became her charity of choice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo). There's a lot of reasons for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In her recent article, From Organizing Charity to Community Building, Susan Ellis of Energize Inc. Ellis reflects, "The problem, for me, is that the charity model is one-way. Flickr photo credit: One Way uploaded by Jef Poskanzer. is about listening to me. is about listening to each other. Cross-posted from The Extraordinaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. It won't be easy, but it's worth setting a goal of everyday or at least every month giving in small amounts to charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. but I enjoy saying " I am only 20 ") I this is the best gift ever! I just did).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Photo: Jim Harrison. Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. million a month for 12 months to good causes. GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

" After an analysis of the amounts and totals raised by the winners in Causes, the writer asserts: The amounts involved show that Case understands these endeavors are more social experiment than nonprofit sweepstakes. I have to say that I've had a good percentage of were repeat donors - people who donated to more than one cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Photo by Rich Anderson. It will be easier to ask many times if your site is focused on the topic of philanthropy or related to the mission of the charity you are raising funds to support. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge.

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