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11 Nonprofits That Excel at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hint, hint. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) :: unicef.org. A hundred nonprofits could have easily made the list, but I’ll tell you this: If I couldn’t find links to their social networking communities on their website’s homepage, then the nonprofit wasn’t even considered. CARE :: care.org.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). 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.

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How Donorbox powers these nonprofits’ fundraising

Socialbrite

While they all have different hints and tactics for success, there is one thing they all share in common: They’ve incorporated donation software into their arsenal. Here are some of the campaigns run with Donorbox: Some of the kids helped through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project.

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What Should You Say to Get People to Donate

Get Fully Funded

For example: “Please give today, because children are waiting for help learning to read” shows WHY they should give today. Even if you hint strongly that you’d like people to make a donation, if you don’t come right out and ask, people may not get it. This transition word helps you explain things. Mistake #4: Not asking.

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Show Your Mama Some Love (or Facebook Like)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. And, if anyone in my house is reading this blog, this would make a terrific mother's day gift - hint - hint.).

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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

CauseVox

If you think your supporters will be interested in this type of event, work with a local golf course on pricing and dates (hint: most are very comfortable working with charities to run tournaments). Louis (hint: this is a great place to use CauseVox’s peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities).

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Why Is Pharoth Wearing a Foo Camp T-Shirt? (Hint Citizen Agency)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

so genersously that I had to pay for an extra suitcase to carry over all the t-shirts that were donated) and had enough extras to bring to the children in the orphanage. People responded generously. (so One of the most generous t-shirt donations came from Citizen Agency from Tara Hunt and Chris Messina packed up a big box with coveted Web2.0

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