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AUGUST 21, 2023

Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. Because a lot of GivingTuesday promotion takes place on social media, consider using different platforms’ paid ads options to boost your campaign before the day arrives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. Focus on Engagement That Leads To Action.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you’re just getting up and running with ads, check on your Meta Ads Manager Account , a tool to run and report on ads for Facebook and Instagram. And if you’re expanding your ads program and adding more platforms? Set up Google Tag Manager to centralize tracking codes across platforms to enable faster and easier updates.

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sgEngage

JUNE 30, 2023

Cause Marketing Cause marketing involves partnerships between nonprofits and for-profit businesses for mutual benefit. Large corporations can provide visibility for the nonprofit, while the nonprofit can help boost the company’s public image and be seen as a value-add for employees who are aligned with the cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

on social media platforms like Facebook each day. That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. You know more about the cause. You have more time than your community. This is a big one.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

—– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. Here are a few reasons why using multiple social networking platforms doesn’t just mean you repeat your effort.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

You might remember that a few weeks ago there was an article in the Washington Post proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. Allison suggested that we reframe how think about Causes. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. Some key questions to ask yourself include: If people are supporting you by directly connecting with you on different social media platforms, what are you doing to encourage them to connect with you in a space where you have access to the data?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising (one of the big things you can do on our fundraising platform) accounts for ? When your donors fundraise for you, they build credibility for your cause. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). The Research. What It Means. Secrets, secrets are no fun!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

—— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline. Here’s what I mean: Cross-Platform Community Building :: Tending to Multiple Flowerbeds. What do you think?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Most nonprofits generate at least two “touches” with supporters during the year-end fundraising season using a variety of marketing platforms. 31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Which marketing platforms received the most engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. What is the “autonomous world?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

One can’t really claim cause and effect here, but social media is becoming an important tool in grassroots organizing. At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, learning to properly market online and offline is an important opportunity for organizations. After you’ve conducted research and feel confident about who is most likely to donate to your cause, you can segment those donors into groups based on their common characteristics. Instagram: Instagram is all about visual media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Knowing your audience remains essential, because each platform is a new arena for expression, and a new avenue to engage different targets and users. But simply put, cross-platform campaigns are the future of documentary film, and issue advocacy. … Read More Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

Create a vibrant online platform that inspires offline action, where challenges are posted, solutions are debated, successes and failures are archived, data is both disseminated and captured, stories are shared, and essential civic relationships developed. Disclaimer: Razoo is a Zoetica client).

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

The most effective way to increase the number of touches you have is to share your invitation in a wide variety of channels , both online and offline. On the flip side, if I understand what I’ll get out of the event I may want to attend even if I don’t have any particular connection to your cause. Power-Up Your Events With CauseVox.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

There are many proven practices and strategies for engaging with communities and building up participation, whether around an event, a campaign, or a cause. One way to work on supporting your community to not need you managing the program, platform, or whatever else is to encourage interaction without you. Go Where the People Are.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

We looked at mobile tools for fundraising as well as apps that incorporate some sort of fundraising into their platform. Charity Fundraising Agent (Android, iPhone) helps you keep track of your fundraising campaigns by monitoring both online and offline donations. Mobile Fundraising Tools. to your phone or tablet.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

CauseVox is an online platform for creating fundraising and crowdfunding sites. Donation pages also come with social media tools built in for sharing across Twitter, Facebook, and more. You can also accept offline donations via a manual donation page. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, CauseVox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Meet Claire.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

This GreenLiving article asks, “Have Facebook, Twitter and Web 2.0 Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). But what are you doing on Facebook? It’s not going to work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The discussion featured guest speakers Jen Burton , community director at Causes ; Tom Dawkins , co-founder of StartSomeGood ; and Miles Orkin , national director for mobile and web at the American Cancer Society. Causes' fundraising platform allows nonprofits to tell their story and engage donors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

How do you talk about the enslavement of 30 million people in just 140 characters or in a simple Facebook post? Because their goal is to end human trafficking, they go beyond supporting survivors to also target the root causes of exploitation. " Different audiences and different social media platforms demand different messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I heard about it because it turned up in one of my friends activity feeds on Facebook. As many of you know, I'm more of a dog person than a cat person, but I thought this was a great example of encouraging deeper engagement with a cause, disease education, and online fundraising. to the Susan G. What's makes this interesting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

My daughter, Sara, was so taken with Laura that she took the copy of the book that Laura gave her to school the next day to share with her friends in 5th grade. Thankfully, Sara or anyone else for that matter – doesn’t need to be famous to be successful raising money for a cause. have a personal connection to the cause; 2.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. For the donation information, I pulled an excel spreadsheet from Razoo platform and analyzed donation amounts, sources, and weak/strong ties. Fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

we20 wants to inspire people, online, to get together, offline, to talk about ideas to improve our lives and our world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be spreading their message and mobilizing people into action both on and offline. In this case, we20 started a Facebook group to keep everyone together and communicate with each other.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2017

The fastest growing age cohort on Facebook is 65+. 62% of online adults 65+ now use Facebook. And yes, you should post regular updates to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels. This could include providing a platform for them to create their own peer-to-peer fundraising page. Older donors are online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience.

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