Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity. This began to change with the establishment in 2002 of the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation (SPF) whose all-volunteer effort raised over $1.5 Rather shop till your drop with a portion of the proceeds going to charity? Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" The summary: most big charities are based on direct mail. By the way, the NTC early bird deadline is fast approaching. fundraising, and direct mail is dying.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Submitted by Michael Smith. By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

This platform lets consumers promote the brands they like and SocialVibes donates money to charitable causes or as Read/Write Web defined as "is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity." " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

  He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.      Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.     He says it better in his own words: I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. The most dramatic moment of the conference had nothing to do with charity fundraising. Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote.

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JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. 2) No one knows with any degree of precision how much money is raised each year via direct mail. That the total funds raised by U.S. So I do know whereof I write.

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