Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He was born and raised in New York City. His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. They understand that the same people do bad things and good things and that we may agree on Cause A and disagree on Cause B. A negative trend is the silo-ization of social causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. Here's an example.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

" Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. 60) Search « Is It Worth It? It also seems that the ad changed for everyone looking at it so long as one text message was sent. Still, its engaging! September 9, 2008 | Andrea Hill Interesting project.

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Care2

JULY 18, 2007

" Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. 60) Search « Is It Worth It? It also seems that the ad changed for everyone looking at it so long as one text message was sent. Still, its engaging! September 9, 2008 | Andrea Hill Interesting project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

But according to news reports , it has increased awareness and dollars raised for ALS research. She challenged her friends to donate to ALS and to match their donation to another cause saying “Let’s spread good intentions, but wisely.” The association reports $15.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. TwitCause, a service not unlike the popular fundraising application Causes on Facebook, only built on top of Twitter has been implementing some new interesting twists on click fundraising on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. 600 people attended and they raised $25,000 for the Food Bank. A Hybrid of Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. See Cause Marketing Forum for more).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause. Keyes is not controversy averse, though.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area.

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