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. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

So, by all means, find people who are most likely to care about your cause and give them the chance to give. It’s not enough to say you want to make sure children don’t go hungry. You want to provide X number of meals to X number of children for X amount of time. Their gift helps fulfill their personal philanthropic goals.

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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. His cause says a lot about who he is and who is friends are! Photo by Steve Garfield.

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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. Individuals reflected on why they gave to a certain nonprofit organization and then shared these personal stories in a contest form on the #GivingTuesday website.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Every parent wants to provide their child with the happiness and excitement of receiving a gift, and a toy and supply drive can make that possible for families who might not have the budget to buy their children the toy of their dreams. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Cookie or ornament decorating party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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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. I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to all my networks.

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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

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. But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2008

Photo by Rich Anderson. My thought was to blog about the cause (a stretch), but to share as much learning about personal/social fundraising or what I'm learning about social networks - that should be of interest some readers - and even those I'm competing with for the contest. The question is "when is enough enough? (in

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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. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Movie Night Transform a community space into a cozy movie night venue, charging a small admission fee for a cinematic experience that supports your cause. Escape Room Challenge Challenge your community’s problem-solving abilities with an escape room event, charging participants for an exhilarating experience while supporting your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Sometimes, unique or cause-specific holidays can be perfect for your social media. Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Over the edge – This fundraiser is a challenge where participants rappel down the side of a building to raise money for a cause. DIY – Do-it-yourself events are skyrocketing in popularity, with people on Facebook starting their own fundraisers for causes they care about.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Despite the recent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are still ready and willing to give to the causes they feel strongly about. You just need some fresh strategies so you know how to get donations for your cause. This will make the giving process feel tied directly to your cause. But are you aware of all your options?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. I hope you'll join the fun.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

In short, when you know the reasons people support your cause, you have an edge in asking for…and getting…donations. There’s always a driving emotion that causes people to give. Developing an understanding of why people give can help you figure out which psychological triggers will lead to donations for your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Write content and secure photos for all website pages. ? Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ? Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Integrate mobile and social media into online contests. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Write content and secure photos for all website pages. Experiment with online contests to build your email list. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Integrate mobile and social media into online contests.

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