Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I found the Chicago Symphony's Fan Page and the Charlie Vernon Fan Club group. I started my job at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly three years ago, after an internship at a non-profit and a temporary stint at a PR agency dedicated to the arts. I was trying to make two points during the workshop. Tell me about you and your job.

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JUNE 22, 2021

million peer-to-peer volunteers raised over $1.3 Some of their participants raised over $10,000 in their house party. John Center even added a competitive element— the party with the most guests and the party that raises the most money will win special recognition in St. John Center media throughout the year. Movie nights.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger. She has a BS in Business Administration in Marketing and Advertising from Marquette University, and lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

His stance raises the question: Does being committed to social change require making one less comfortable or resisting being “too comfortable?". She previously served as Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona; she also worked as Community Liaison for Drew University’s Center for Civic Engagement in Madison, New Jersey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I believe, and I hope, the survey results will raise more questions than answers. Dutch native Marc van Bree is a public relations practitioner in Chicago with more than 5 years of experience communicating—on and offline—in the nonprofit environment.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They did this as a demonstration project by publicizing last year's #GivingTuesday together. After college, my daughter and I took our bags to the big windy city, Chicago, where the nonprofit tech space was absolutely shaping into this magnet of energy and do-goodness. Louis; Huntsville, Alabama; and Orlando.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. Here is what he learned.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If studies are correct and people fear snakes, public speaking and asking for money more than anything else, this campaign has all but the snakes! Students build off the work of alumni going back to the 1980’s raiseing funds to attend the national conference in January each year. Want to help this year''s NMI students get to Chicago?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

” Christine Bork, Chicago-based chief development and communications officer for CureSearch for Children’s Cancer in Bethesda, Md. The appeal raised $75,000, setting a baseline for what the Zoo expects will be significant increases in future years. “Meet your donors where they are,” she says. .”

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2015

Share stories privately before going public with them. Explaining why you need a recurring gift and what impact it will have is crucial to raising support. She holds an MBA from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and a B.S.B.A People remember thank yous, especially if they’re personalized and inventive.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Here’s an example from a small local event: We posted this story to the “Trib Local” (a Chicago Tribune local news blog). That would have been the end of the story, except the University of Maryland Cancer Center that produced the half marathon worked with the owner to tell Dozer’s story and gain priceless publicity for the event.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. General / @southwestfdns.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2016

If you have no idea what I mean by that, you’re clearly not a product of the Chicago Public Schools.). In fact, Network for Good noted in its “20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats” last fall that according to Boomerang, “88% of dollars raised comes from 12% of an organization’s donors.”

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2012

This topic came up earlier this month at the Run Walk Ride Roundtable discussions in Chicago. If publically displaying a photo of your board members next to their fundraising totals doesn’t motivate them to fundraise, I’m not sure what will. Check out our whitepaper on How to Raise More Money with IFEs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

I was born and raised in suburban Chicago to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. Most of my extended family immigrated to Chicago Chinatown and have called it home for the past 50 years. Kaitlin was born and raised in Chicago with parents who immigrated from Hong Kong. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A PBD fundraiser or public media professional looking for the inside scoop To Register: [link] FFE Summit Cabo San Lucas January 22-25, 2024 Hosted by the Foundation for Fraternal Excellence, Summit gives foundation executives, board members, and alliance partners an opportunity to spend time with each other.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

" - from Gordon Dymowski, summarizing Kerry Obrist's Chicago Net Tuesday Presentation - here. Using tools like the WAVE toolbar can help raise awareness about where the barriers are." " - from Gordon Dymowski, summarizing Kerry Obrist's Chicago Net Tuesday Presentation - here.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For example, if a group raises $1,000 for a project that builds community power—like a mutual aid group, a skillshare, a giving circle, a timebank, or a tool library—who is going to hold onto the money that was raised? We asked ourselves: is there another way? Exit to community is part of an emerging ecosystem in the United States.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Museum staffers are constantly taking on more work, and getting praised for it, but not given raises. John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading. But those jobs aren’t the only ones that expect more for less.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Yet, even after four years of general public awareness, there are still many misunderstandings about how podcasting can be used by individuals and organizations. From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But before we get to far here’s a simple way to think about task-based fundraising contest: Instead of asking participants to raise a [insert $ amount here] ask them to complete a series of tasks that will lead to them raising more money. donations of $60 each resulting in $450 raised in a single day. .

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

If Tom Moore, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, can walk 100 laps around his backyard and raise $39 million for front line workers , you can organize a virtual fundraiser too! 100% of the $1.75M in proceeds they raised went to Feeding America. Though we can’t promise $39 million). Virtual Poker. Have a virtual poker night!

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But don’t do that right now because Sherry QT is joining us from beautiful Chicago, the city of my birth. But hey, we all want to raise more money, and that’s what we’re here to talk about. The second struggle was his team had historically raised mostly. How’s it going, Sherry? You doing okay? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well. With a rooftop garden there is an integrated roof garden, and there is also the raised bed rooftop gardens. One of the things that has inspired us is the city of Chicago and the city of New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. A couple things to know about working in the public schools. public school volunteer education donation

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

At this historical moment Cole’s joke about the protests to promote his clothing line turned out to be a costly one publicity wise, though as Christopher Penn points out - the Kenneth Cole stock did just fine – which is what really matters at the end of the day. The tasteless ads bombed and the social media mob formed again.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Her research has been featured in tons of magazines and publications and is all over the place delivering those findings, but was again gracious enough to carve out an hour to share all that with us. So this is the first one, how can you raise more money more sustainably? And that is how this way of raising money can be done.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Through her bird drawings, Bouler raised over $200,000 for wildlife recovery services. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He was born and raised in New York City. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. among many other publications. Daniel Ben-Horin’s life has been well documented. By then he had moved to the Bay Area.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

Promoting Transparency: What it Felt Like to Write a Book on a Wiki I wrote the first three drafts of the book--every word--on a public wiki. Occasionally, I'd write a really rough first draft of a section that was overly personal or inappropriately opinionated, and I thought twice about doing so in a public venue.

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