Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Send A Postcard from the Hunger site As we approach the annual Thanksgiving feast , there are more than 850 million people in the world who go hungry. In developing countries, nearly 11 million children die every year from preventable and treatable, with 60% of these deaths from hunger and malnutrition. Miss it and they???ll

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Their network reaches children, seniors, and families no matter where they live or spend time. Charity Navigator has awarded Feeding America a four-star rating for ten consecutive years. More than 98% of all donations go directly to feeding programs for people facing hunger. They seek “an America where no one is hungry.”

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APRIL 29, 2021

The work of the organization was recently recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and bettering conditions for peace by preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war . Shriners Hospital for Children. Charity Navigator. Foundations, Public Charities, Grantmaking. Cleveland Clinic.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together. November 20, 2021 is Family Volunteer Day – a global day of service that celebrates the power of families who work together to support their communities and neighborhoods.

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JUNE 7, 2023

When supporters donate to a charity, it’s because they firmly believe in that cause and want to see the organization succeed. For example, Save the Children ’s donation form incorporates urgency into its appeal with the following statement: Right now, children are growing up against the backdrop of hunger, conflict, and natural disasters.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

The World Hunger Relief Project is actively engaging in a social fundraising giving day on World Food Day this October 16 to get 10,000 people to raise $200,000. To give you an idea of how that plays out here: Just $10 feeds children. Twice as likely to take part in events like charity walk. We aim to encourage this activity.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. See, for example, the music education charity Little Kids Rock, as it appears on each of the "Star Alliance" sites: GuideStar (see left hand column). Charity Navigator (see the Reviews tab). GlobalGiving (see bottom right column).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. They do this by mobilizing children, teens, and adults volunteers who, package the meals. I learned about this charity from Jennifer J. What about you?

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2014

Caravan Studios offers one of those different perspectives, and though still in its start-up phase, it has already delivered two apps: SafeNight for crowdfunding emergency shelter and Range for connecting underprivileged children with meals when school is out. Range App: Feeding Children. Tell Us Your Woes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The envelope they received included five one dollar bills, a receipt, and charity request letter. The request was to donate to Save the Children. She asked 121 students to fill out a short survey in exchange for five dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In The 100 organizations are now participating in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. Co-Disruptor: Benevity.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Winner: Children International. Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Winner: National Relief Charities. Honorable Mention: CauseForce and Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger. Created a wall of 5,000 signers' photos. Constituent Empowerment.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether the use of stories or data will create a more compelling year-end appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, Should nonprofits appeal to reason or emotion in their appeals? READER: What do you mean?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. Komen for the Cure race.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, in the charity context, the most straightforward way to think about this is how can we love the people who need our help? When your child is diagnosed with leprosy, other moms think that you and your children are cursed. . Yes, it is vital to me that children with the effects of leprosy feel God’s love.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. Amazon has made it easier for consumers to give presents to children in need by simply saying, “ Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm. Look out world!

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So, for example, some of you may have heard of Charity Water. Charity Water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. For Charity Water, they can say every single day, “Are we bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries?

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

Consider this fact: unless the world tackles inequity today, 167 million children will live in extreme poverty by 2030. Enter, International Day of Charity. Through their 2017 Offering of Letters, their focus is on urging Congress to make funding decisions that put our country and the world on track to ending hunger by 2030.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Dolores McDonagh of Charity Dynamics write on npEngage about the Top 3 Roadblocks to Event Registration. If you’re a fan of the trilogy, you’ll understand: 5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games. Oftentimes, registration rates suffer because of the process itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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