Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

The Kony story resonates because it’s the story of an identifible individual doing bodily harm to children. Mary Joyce points out that the film comes off as racist: Invisible Children has no Africans on its board of directors and collects money for itself rather than for Ugandan organizations. ( source ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara. It was an inspirational talk that spoke to my inner philanthropists and hopefully awakened the urge to give in my children! Last week, I attended Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen ‘s Giving 2.0 The book’s message is simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

There is “Bayanihan’ Spirit” or the Flippino word for community which includes lots grassroots fundraising through smaller nonprofits (offline and online ) and the church. CharityNavigator has also published its list of charities raising money for Philippines along with their ratings.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. Consider tying your giving day in with your end of the year giving.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. As nonprofits continue to navigate a challenging economic climate, GivingTuesday continues to play a unique role that is special to the nonprofit sector. Who Is Giving? They hit their goal of collecting 150 coats.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

As nonprofit professionals, most of us are already in the business of people, whether we’re building houses, raising money, educating children or another noble pursuit. Let the brand you’ve created for yourself inform every decision you make, online and offline. This is good news!

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2013

Gen X and Gen Y are more likely to support children’s charities. However, it’s worth noting that that majority of money raised by nonprofits today is still through offline channels like Direct Mail. It’s important to note the following data emerged across the generations.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way. The articles in that (free) series present a clear, step-by-step plan you can use to raise more money during the final weeks of the year.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In fact, reaching out to your community offline can help you stand out from the hundreds of digital-only marketing campaigns your donors receive. Emails and social media posts are some of the most common ways nonprofits interact with their supporters. But that doesn’t mean analog channels aren’t valuable!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. Don't measure success of mobile Apps just by the £s raised.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

So while the developed world spends on a new party outfit or the latest toys for their children, a small portion of that can go to feed. Participating nonprofits are restricted from promoting the program by email and other offline marketing channels. attempt to alter shopping behavior. Tried and True Concept. More From TechSoup.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Remember, campaigns that raise funds for regular expenses and general needs usually don’t work on crowdfunding platforms, because people don’t see a measurable outcome. Invites to your organization, volunteer programs, communications with children or seniors your nonprofit is supporting can be great reward ideas for your fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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MAY 25, 2022

marital status, number of children in their household). You may then choose to orient a fundraising campaign around raising a large number of small gifts, rather than a few major donations, to appeal to that cohort that may not yet have as much disposable income as its older counterparts. Cost Per Dollar Raised. Income level.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It's fun to play with, engaging for constituents and has helped us raise 28% more funds online since this time last year. Offline activities. We recently had a competition for community members to watch a preview of a new movie along with our Kids Cafe children. Geographic location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. I guess I'm a change blogger too. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

mostly offline and email) Yesterday, I had to chance to show her some online social networks like Twitter and Facebook as well as some tools like video blogging. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Organizing Offline and Online. There is also the importance of offline/online connection that can't be ignored. According to Deborah Suh, executive director, "Whether we win the next round (we get $100,000 or $1 million), this has been a great way to raise our social networking presence." Here's where you can go vote !

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." As of this writing, 3 PM on November 16th PST, she has raised 44% of her goal, and she started the campaign ten days ago!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The landscape has changed dramatically for the nonprofit, charity, and voluntary sector in the UK and I heard people across the country raise the question many times and with many different intentions, asking if there were simply “too many” organizations. The more is raised, the more impact they can make. There’s no limit to either.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. How did they do it?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts. You’ll find plenty of pictures of children whose dreams have come true thanks to this nonprofit. 45 million was raised by nonprofits through Facebook fundraisers on Giving Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

It is being rolled out en masse to children on platforms such as OpenAi, Bing, Snapchat, Bard, TikTok, and more by the day. They essentially released an unregulated autonomous school bus that is now driving our children. AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

Not only did they raise their initial $220K goal to $300K, they surpassed that stretch goal by an additional $30K. If you’re looking to fill a funding gap, raise money for an unexpected emergency, or get an innovative idea off the ground, crowdfunding is another viable strategy. And guess what?! Crowdfund To Fill A Gap.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. First of all, these children have taught themselves.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. They have children, they’re doing all of this. I worked with a organization that they worked with abused children. They have families, they have children, they have this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! All of which deeply resonated with my own thinking, writing, and doing about small actions for social change.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Tracking offline and online behaviors in a single database is either a reality or an imminent goal for every nonprofit I’ve worked with. Figure 3: ALS Association Community of Hope P2P Fundraising page showing dollars raised. Invisible Children also had great success storytelling via video with their Kony 2012 campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In August, I did a little fundraising experiment that involved Twitter and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. blogs to raise money for charity? Do your homework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. But I also connect with some of the same people through other online communities (and offline). So, I twetted it.

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