Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recently, Brock Warner (Senior Manager, Fundraising at War Child) and I hosted a webinar regarding end of year fundraising for nonprofits —the things we need to stop doing and things we should be doing instead. In terms of fundraising, print newsletters don’t tend to directly raise much money (though I’m sure there are exceptions).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're just doing a general fundraising campaign, Razoo or CauseVox might be the way to go. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. CauseVox is a fundraising platform and isn't project based like Kickstarter or Teespring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2012

One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia. ” It connects a stethoscope hardware device to a mobile phone and the user is able to transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service, reproducing the diagnostic capability of a trained medical doctor.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundraising Nonprofit Email Benchmarks You Need to Know 14 min read Read Now Use Newsletters to Build Connections The primary goal of your newsletter will be to educate your readers about your community and how your organization is working to make the world a better place. Some of these events may be good fundraising opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Put simply, it’s their drive to be the “cool” parent (I’ll spare my mother any personal embarrassment by recounting childhood anecdotes about that very drive). 98% use their cell phone as their primary phone. Parents fixate on trying to understand their children’s generation in order to better engage and motivate them.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2014

Put simply, it’s their drive to be the “cool” parent (I’ll spare my mother any personal embarrassment by recounting childhood anecdotes about that very drive). 98% use their cell phone as their primary phone. Parents fixate on trying to understand their children’s generation in order to better engage and motivate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Given the economy and its impact on nonprofits and fundraising , it got me thinking that making charitable giving a habit beyond the holidays is a good thing. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. May: When I think of May, I think of Mother's Day. in honor of his late mother.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So, if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, here are some of the challenges that you’re probably dealing with right now. Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Phone calls can feel a bit intrusive to me. There we go.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So, if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, here are some of the challenges that you’re probably dealing with right now. Like a lot of the stresses and fears we have, especially around fundraising, have really become magnified over the past year or so. Phone calls can feel a bit intrusive to me. There we go.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

If your organization supports families impacted by childhood cancer, figure out who the healthcare journalists are in your market. If you have a phone number, you should call, but only if you are pitching a strong story that might be of interest to the journalist. And it should be part of your annual fundraising plan.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 28, 2021

Fera-Schanes joined Cloud for Good at the Nonprofit Summit to detail the organization’s challenges and ultimate triumphs: over 55K phone calls, emails, and live chats come into AKC every single month; the need for a new streamlined and automated process to accommodate over 70 customer service representatives was apparent.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We live in a world of smart phones, emails, text messages, Zoom, and LinkedIn. Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. Your board secre­tary writes fundraising invitations. If you’re like most Americans, it’s probably been a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Unfortunately, I had to cancel and asked Scott Henderson if he'd do on my behalf. I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. For two weeks, she leveraged every single phone number and email she had to get the word out.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

She’s a former ED, she’s a former fundraiser. We’re told that our volunteer boards should do the fundraising as though it’s this separate thing that’s not really connected to the rest of the nonprofit. You should fundraise really, it’s fantastic. . I see that a lot. They have to feed.

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