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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. How much good will is generated by those contributed and by the winners of the contest whose works will be posted on the Nature Conservancy’s FB and Tumblr.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Raising funds for a good cause and having the opportunity to earn bragging rights and a trophy? Need some inspiration?

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Overstated claims hurt the cause of the human rights movement over the long term. The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many).

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. Last year, Facebook Causes added its birthday wish feature and we saw more peer to peer fundraising unfolding on social network sites. What is important to take into 2010?