Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. A campaign to help people feel grateful would be a gain for these organizations and the cause.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 2022

Whether you’re focused on environmental defense, providing shelter for the homeless, or advocating for political change, you need a powerful base of support to push your nonprofit’s mission forward.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

They believe in innovating when it comes to tackling complex issues like homelessness, reading proficiency, and poverty. There were a couple of great wins from this cause marketing campaign! The post Bright Idea: Encourage Fundraisers to Get Creative With a Cause Marketing Campaign appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

#GivingTuesday invites donors, along with their family, friends, and colleagues to share about the causes they care about most as they switch their sights from holiday shopping to give back in a social and celebratory way. Pair the power of social media with a donor’s passion for your cause. Here’s what she recommends: #2.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The oldest of the Millennial Generation are in their mid-careers, and as this generation become more secure in their careers and have more disposable income, nonprofits need to understand how they relate to causes to better capture their resources. When people feel a sense of urgency, they are more prone to act on behalf of a cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. They are excited to support your organization and fundraise for the causes they care most about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’m supporting the organizations working on the front line and I’m doing the best I can to fight homelessness.&# Mark is an expert at using social media to connect his work on the ground with a broader network of people and organizations who share his goal. This year, he has a film crew following him creating a documentary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

The top five causes for women are children and youth (15%), animals and wildlife (13%), health and wellness (10%), human and social services (8%), and hunger and homelessness (8%) ( Global Trends in Giving Report ). Their top five causes are children and youth (16%), animals and wildlife (13%), health and wellness (9%), hunger and.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. Based on the survey results of 13,468 donors from 133 countries, the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report examines how donors prefer to give & engage with their favorite causes & charitable organizations.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Natural disasters rightfully take our focus when they hit, but that tends to pull focuses from the causes in our communities that rely on fundraising for general support. Brevard Homeless Coalition The lead agency for the Continuum of Care and management of homelessness in Brevard County.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Nonprofit professionals may not be asking for million-dollar investments from the likes of Mark Cuban, but they’re still on a mission to convince the community that their cause is worth something. If you can find that unoccupied niche for your cause, that’s great! If you turn your impact into narratives, it becomes real and palpable.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. It’s our own stories about the cause in which we’re fighting for that connect and bond people on a peer-to-peer level. And they certainly don’t want problems that seem insurmountable like sexual violence or homelessness.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I just gave $25 to a person I don’t even know, for a Dance-A-Thon fundraiser supporting a cause I don’t even care about. But to be honest, I didn’t care much about that cause, either. Giving time and money to causes I wouldn’t ordinarily invest in. It’s not that people didn’t give to the causes they first identified – some did.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. My colleagues and I randomly chose 200 U.S.-based

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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. Breaking: Record number of homeless people need help in Atlanta . Make sense?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

More specifically, if a homeless shelter agreed to provide 100 meals to clients for a donation of $1,000, once the 100 th meal is served the $1,000 would be automatically moved to the homeless shelter bank account. The transaction would then be recorded in a secure and immutable database.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

They understand the research showing consumers/people will buy more products, or even switch brands, if a brand supports a cause they care about. At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters.

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Qgiv

MAY 2, 2022

The Windermere Foundation is dedicated to supporting low-income and homeless families in their communities. This challenge means they’ll be able to provide millions in charitable contributions to other worthy causes benefiting low-income and homeless children and families in the states they serve. Who they are.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sponsored by Give Lively Increasingly, donors are turning to social media to find causes to support. Set Up a “Donate” Button on Facebook When one of Facebook’s billions of users searches for your nonprofit, you want to provide the easiest possible path for them to contribute to your cause. Imagery can help with this too.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Unfortunately, the causes of hunger are as complex and varied as the results. To date, Salesforce.org Impact Labs has rallied our community around housing and homelessness, equity in education, and climate justice to find ways technology can help amplify and expedite the vital work of those trying to eradicate these global problems.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ve heard that the power of storytelling is essential when it comes to educating people about your cause and converting people into supporters. Uncover the Benefits of Maps for Nonprofit Fundraising. It is often much more effective to use as few words as possible and let images tell the stories for us.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And these cohorts are tech savvy and socially conscious, with deep commitments to causes like welfare, healthcare, housing, and disaster relief. As these cohorts mobilize to support causes they believe in, they’re becoming highly-engaged advocates, sharing information on social media, and crowdfunding donations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. My first day on the job was to familiarize myself with the organization by learning about their history and development. The next big challenge was researching how to open an emergency youth shelter. I looked up shelters all over the U.S. and Canada.

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Candid

JULY 19, 2023

Responses about how it affected giving last year were mixed—with inflation causing some foundations to give more and others to give less. Source: Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, 2023 Twenty-one percent responded that inflation impacted their grantmaking decisions. We gave more especially to underserved and low-income populations.”

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Rewriting your mission statement to more accurately represent your work can help you build deeper and lasting connections with supporters because they can see the explicit impact you have on your cause. You are also more likely to attract dedicated donors to your cause because they know immediately where you focus your work.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The ACLU sent me this email the morning after Giving Tuesday to say they know a lot causes are vying for my attention and that it’s not too late to help them meet their match. Their second subject line: “What is doubled-up homelessness?” . You inspire me, Rachel . Flattery and personalization go a long way to boosting open rates! .

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Socialbrite

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Climate change, political gridlock, the pandemic, homelessness, war, wealth gaps, and racism are all around us, and they’re only getting worse as the days go by. That may even leave us feeling powerless, especially as we see the harm these crises cause to the world and the people around us. Then roll it out one step at a time.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

I would love to learn how you became interested in XYZ cause. Many donors are happy to talk at length about their reasons for supporting their favorite causes and organizations. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. Would you be available this week or next for a phone call?

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AFP Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Homeless people turned into walking wi-fi hotspots at $2 per 15 minutes at SXSW | Mail Online : A marketing stunt where homeless people were turned into walking internet hotspots with T-shirts proclaiming 'I'm a 4G hotspot' has caused outcry in Texas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). 9) Religious donors are more likely to give to charitable organizations that provide basic needs and support the causes of children and youth, health and wellness, and hunger and homelessness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I invited her to share her thoughts about cause fatigue and scaling as she launches the Twestival Local. Cause fatigue is something I think about daily; particularly going into our second Twestival this September. For me, Twestival is more than just about events in cities raising money for a cause.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Not only is asking for donations uncomfortable at times, but with SO many great causes out there to donate to, WHY would someone choose your cause? You’re not asking for money, you’re: Championing a cause you, and others, believe in. Donors give to causes that matter to them. More about that in a minute.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

They understand the research showing consumers/people will buy more products, or even switch brands, if a brand supports a cause they care about. At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2023

These systemic issues can lead to higher rates of mental health struggles, homelessness, and isolation within the LGBTQIA+ community. Fundraising and Donation Matching: Create targeted fundraising campaigns to generate financial support for LGBTQIA+ causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. His films have explored causes from human rights and curing cancer to animal welfare and religious coexistence. ” Enjoy.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

There are thousands of nonprofit organizations in the world covering innumerable causes. Nonprofit organizations are groups that work for a social cause, but they do so without making a profit. Nonprofits focus on a wide range of causes—charitable, humanitarian, educational, religious, environmental, political, and more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

She listed three types of content that editors find valuable: Content that includes what Fine referred to as a "come to Jesus moment": this type of content explains to people who aren't familiar with your cause why that cause is important, possibly through a moving anecdote.

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