Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader? This post covers the benefits and provides some ways to effectively cultivate thought leadership through social channels. On social channels, people don’t have to interact with you to develop an opinion of you as a person based on reading your social stream.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

For the past 25 years, Carousel Ranch has made it their mission to improve the lives of children and young adults through equestrian therapy and vocational training. We sat down with Carousel Ranch’s Associate Executive Director, Taylor Adachi, to hear about their best fundraising practices and success using CauseVox.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

An email may be signed by an organization’s president or development director. Source: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. A parent can speak powerfully—which is to say, authentically—about issues affecting children. Gwen is the Creative Director here at M+R. Right Channel. That speaker may be a specific person.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Zynga asked FarmVille players to help by buying an exclusive Daikon crop that they could grow on their farm, from which 100% of the proceeds would go to Japan’s Save the Children Earthquake Emergency Fund. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days. But is this enough?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Instead of doubling down on one singular channel or communication strategy, Pencils of Promise diversifies its engagement strategy to match the diversity of its constituency. Learn More About C.J.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 14, 2021

You can offer an ambassador the chance to be Executive-Director-for-a-Day and post a Facebook Live from your office or at the site of one of your programs. If you have 10 ambassadors posting about your organization on their social media channels over the course of one week in December, you will get a great result.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Besty Woods from the The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio were the lucky winners. We (marketing and development) already knew the power of viral marketing through Twitter, FB and You Tube, but we had to back it up w/ research to prove it to our directors and senior management team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

While many of the challenges for embracing a networked mindset and implementing a digital strategy that makes use of social media channels are similar for US nonprofits, there were some unique differences. The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2015

The main focus of PewDiePie’s videos is his commentary and reactions to various video games as he plays, captured on video and shared on his YouTube Channel. PewDiePie’s channel is the most subscribed channel on YouTube,and reaches over 34.8 Currently, the PewDiePie channel has received over 8 billion video views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. My co-presenter was the talented Bryce Skolfield , Director of Communications and Public Policy at the Children's Council of San Francisco.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

For some volunteers, a personal “thank you” from the Executive Director is all they need. If your organization works with children, you can recruit children to draw pictures for your cards. There’s a whole playlist on our YouTube channel of sample videos waiting to spark your creativity. This is the same idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements. Involve the entire team in the fundraising effort – everyone from the cleaner to the director should be involved in giving and raising funds for the campaign. 78% attend fundraising events.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Your mailed welcome kit could contain: A holiday-themed letter from the Executive Director, signed and with a short, handwritten personal note, such as: We thank you for choosing to give to our organization! If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. Happy holidays to you and your loved ones! .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 2, 2022

Club staff and leaders can channel and focus their time on driving real impact and engagement with the young people who need them the most.” . “It will streamline their efforts. – Lorraine Orr, Chief Operating Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of America .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2014

Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Humane Society of the United States. I tracked down Carie Lewis Carlson, Deputy Director, Online Communications for the Humane Society of the United States to learn a little bit more about Ellen’s generosity. Ellen will divide up the money between St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2015

Perhaps you can relate to this chart from Gerard Matthews , Communications Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. Are you an one-person communications department? As a one-person communications department, your workload, which includes doing the social media, is always increasing.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

For example, when I worked as director of development and marketing at Jewish Family and Children’s Services, I was looking for ways to expand awareness and build our mailing list. And the outside world, including the board of directors, loved it. . And once you take the first step, commit to seeing it through to its conclusion.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

These campaigns rely heavily on networking, so your organization and anyone participating in the campaign should use these channels to your advantage. . is a Marketing Director at. The great thing about peer-to-peer campaigns is that they naturally lend themselves to social media. About the Authors. Wendy Levine and Craig Grella.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

When a nonprofit empowers “insiders” to become champions for its programs, it can be one of the best ways to take advantage of social channels. It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Joaquin currently serves on TechSoup Global's board of directors. Erinn Andrews. Erinn Andrews. Her work reaches a community of more than 5,000 nonprofit professionals each month.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And since these are channels that are really important to so many nonprofits, I’d love to get your take on things. So , have the executive director come out and say, we are not quitting Facebook because of X, Y, Z. I will continue to use that phrase and, because there’s so much more than just social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are experts in using social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns. They are also experts in repurposing content for different channels. By Donna Norton, Senior Director, MomsRising. Donna Norton: Donna Norton is Senior Director at MomsRising. You’ll learn lots.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. Offer to dunk your executive director or board chair if you raise a certain amount of money through the event! Spring clothing swap.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

Your website is a communications channel, and therefore it's also a critical part of your organization's overall plan to achieve its mission. Your website has many audiences: constituents, potential donors and funders, your board of directors, media representatives, staff and volunteers, and many others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Last week, we had the final session of the “ Social Media Lab ,&# a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program , that was launched a few months ago. They discovered that Twitter has value as a listening channel to support their overall communications strategy.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

By Jocelyn Harmon, Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Unless you've been living under a barrel, you know the demographics of the U.S. Latino and Asian populations are expected to nearly triple, and the children of immigrants will become more prominent. are changing. I encourage you to read the entire article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month. GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. Pepsi decided to give away their Super Bowl ad budget and instead give away $1.3

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Director of Idealware. Ushahidi allows you to gather data using SMS and other channels. For example, The Reach School educates children on the autism spectrum, and they use iPads to show videos, provide students with hands-on learning games, and as a reward for good behavior. So what does that mean for your organization?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Parents fixate on trying to understand their children’s generation in order to better engage and motivate them. Tell me a Development Director, Executive Director, or Board Member, that wouldn’t love to see a few gifts of $145 from 25 year olds? Take parents, for example. charities annually. 90% are on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

Check out what The University of Minnesota has done with its YouTube channel. If you’re an alumnus or general supporter, no matter what it is you like about the U of MN, you can probably find it on their YouTube channel and share it with your friends. The good, the bad, and the ugly – nothing is concealed.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We see online fundraisers using social media channels to augment -- or in some cases replace -- what they have done in the past with email. Meredith Campbell, Director of Fundraising & Marketing for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation of Australia, thinks so. Is it effective?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2017

Jennifer Grantham , Senior Director of Annual Giving at San Diego Humane Society, outlines the story and the key components to their incredible success below. School children made special gift packages of dog treats and delivered them to the Yorkies. Professional groomers donated hours to bathe and remove gobs of matted fur.

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JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. open rate with their email communications, a 7.6% click-through rate, and a 30% increase in regional usage of ESP.

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M+R

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the funds we raise from a pool of global donors, the IRC delivers lasting impact by providing health care, helping children learn, empowering individuals and communities to become self-reliant, and always seeking to address the inequalities facing women and girls. Scale performance campaigns across channels.

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