Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. ” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Look no further than the Ice Bucket Challenge , which raised over $200 million worldwide last summer.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. An App To End World Hunger?

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JUNE 7, 2023

Foundations. Foundations typically donate grants to similar nonprofits in order to help them further their mission. When supporters donate to a charity, it’s because they firmly believe in that cause and want to see the organization succeed. Usually, your nonprofit will need to reapply for these grants each year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Take for example, the Columbus Foundation's recently launhced Match Day 2.0 , a giving stimulus plan created to matching gifts to PowerPhilanthropy organizations and raise $1 million in 48 hours to support local needs in their community. The problems of scarcity inspire creative action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. Additionally, the Advisory Board will donate $1 million to the nominated charities of its choice.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The Boomer Esiason Foundation raised thousands of dollars for cystic fibrosis research by working with corporate sponsors who donated five dollars for every tweet or Foursquare check-in charity supporters made that used the hashtag "#tackleCF." The campaign.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Winner: National Relief Charities. They promoted the campaign through social media sites and raised $300k online within two months. Honorable Mention: CauseForce and Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger. Winner: United Nations Foundation. Honorable Mention: ASPCA - raised $7 million online from about 700,000 subscribers.

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sgEngage

MAY 8, 2023

Understanding Grants for Nonprofit Organizations Foundations gave almost $91 billion in grants in 2021. If this is your first time applying for a nonprofit grant, expect to spend up to 50 hours gathering information for and submitting a foundation grant application. According to the U.S. billion in grants in 2021.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Email List Growth Honorable Mention: HSUS - Humane Society of the United States Winner: National Relief Charities Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks. Komen for the Cure race.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Last year, Facebook and the Gates Foundation offered $2 million match that was also reached quickly according to the Nonprofit Times. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. It also raised money for famine relief in Africa. raises money for Amnesty's Darfur work. Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th to raise money for Red Hot , an organization, "dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture."

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

And the very foundation of philanthropic psychology is that it explores how we can love people in the same way that we love ourselves. Now, in the charity context, the most straightforward way to think about this is how can we love the people who need our help? So this is the first one, how can you raise more money more sustainably?

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JULY 19, 2022

The CDC Foundation shared in our joint success story their journey from a donor database of 42,000 donors to over 150,000 in just a few months, and individual giving increased by 2,403%. Specifically, cures for diseases, hunger, and local community needs. Sensing an impending recession. Selective Giving. from 2019 to 2021.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Dolores McDonagh of Charity Dynamics write on npEngage about the Top 3 Roadblocks to Event Registration. It’s preached that in order to successfully raise funds you must truly know your supporters- your people. People give to people.

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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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