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Record-breaking donations on Give to the Max Day in Minnesota

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1. Hi Dana, congrats on another successful Giving Day in Minnesota. The basics of it include strong media relations efforts, a media trade program, strategic communications through our own robust channels and active outreach to organizations. The goal was to establish some brand awareness across Minnesota.

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24 hours, millions of dollars, thousands of nonprofits—What gives in Minnesota?

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The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Good luck and Go Minnesota! Our goal in this 3 rd year is to raise millions of dollars for thousands of Minnesota nonprofits in one day. So what gives in Minnesota? Jeff Achen gives us the inside view.

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3 Nonprofit Social Media Challenges, And How To Overcome Them

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Image courtesy of University of Minnesota. Too many social media channels. Each one of these very different social media channels has the potential to help your nonprofit achieve its mission. Use a social dashboard to consolidate your social media channels into one place and manage from that central nexus.

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Digital Natives Speak from Minnesota Conference, I Twitter, Twitterverse Responds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had the honor of delivering the keynote this morning at the Message + Medium + Mission Conference in Minnesota. A few minutes before speaking I remembered a Minnesota story about my early years as a executive director for a small organization and using social networking to get Garrison Keillor as our celebrity for a fundraiser.

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Go Minnesota! This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org. We invited you to be part of the Great Minnesota Give Together.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

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These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

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Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day.

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