Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Children and youth – 10%. Twitter – 11%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. 4) 45% are Baby Boomers, 24% are Gen Xers, 19% are Millennials, 11% are Matures, and 1% are Gen Zers. Health and wellness (physical and mental) – 12%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is that Latinos are not online. We, too, are online, but the fiesta is at Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube' 8: International Women’s Day — #IntWomensDay or #IWD. 22: Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Everyaction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

DACA paved the way for these children of immigrants to obtain work authorization and relief from deportation, enabling them to go on to universities and build careers and families. Twitter | Facebook. The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog: We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business. Good wine has never been better!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

They hold summer camps for grieving children who have lost a parent, caregiver, sibling, or someone close to them, so they can form a community with other kids who have experienced such huge loss. Despite dealing with something so heavy as grieving children, its social media presence is 10/10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. One way to do that is to be innovative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Twitter App Looks Up Zip Code to Tweet Your Legislator. They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. You just type in your zip code , and their Twitter handles are displayed with buttons that allow you to easily Tweet them about not cutting Medicaid.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

Animals, children, and health & wellness are the most shared and talked about causes on social media. The number of followers nonprofits have on Twitter grew by 264% s in 2012. Using Twitter during fundraising events can result in 10X more. Your instincts have served you well. Source: Avectra. Source: Avectra.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Get Involved | Twitter | Facebook. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Since 1989, the Women’s Refugee Commission has been the leading expert on the needs of refugee women and children. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Stories from the Field | Twitter | Facebook. AIDS United.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

15% say Twitter. Across the ideological spectrum, children and youth is the cause most likely to inspire giving while peace and non-violence is the least likely to inspire giving. Specifically, Facebook (58%), Instagram (16%), and Twitter (13%). 2) The rise in online giving is directly correlated to the rise in social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 18, 2021

What do you want to teach your children and grandchildren? . One human services charity I know was approached by a donor wanting to give their city residence so the nonprofit could use it as a shelter for children with disabilities. The residence would house a maximum of four children at a tremendous annual operating cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. This foundation helps children at risk around the world.

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Candid

JULY 14, 2022

We partner with hundreds of reservation-based programs, improving quality of life for 250,000 Native elders, families, and children each year. . To learn more about Partnership With Native Americans, follow us on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram, and LinkedIn. . . Building relationships for smarter grantmaking .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2009

Couric wanted our help getting the word out about the issues being covered in CBS Reports' new series, Children of the Recession. According to Couric's post, Katie Couric's Notebook: Children of the Recession : "Since the recession began, more than one million children have lost health insurance as their parents lose their jobs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

Micro-blogging website Twitter has seen an upsurge in traffic from Hispanic and African-American audiences. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace. Related Links: Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Myspace and Twitter Accounts. Facebook war propagated by tech blogs and the media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Applying these techniques to social platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn for thought leadership, influence, and professional learning. The group was amazed that Save the Children responded to Erin’s comment. The group had just asked what happens when the CEO can’t respond immediately.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. Custom-designed Twitter and YouTube Channel backgrounds. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) :: unicef.org.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Long Island Children’s Museum has “Join Our Email List” at the top of their website. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Add it to your Facebook Apps.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

By now, most of you have a Facebook page and a Twitter account. At GUIDE Creative , we’re working with an organization called Kids and Cars on a national map that highlights incidents where children have been injured around vehicles. Here are two real solutions that get results. Social Media: Action Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Besty Woods from the The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio were the lucky winners. We (marketing and development) already knew the power of viral marketing through Twitter, FB and You Tube, but we had to back it up w/ research to prove it to our directors and senior management team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. For the last 4.5 Be creative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. Like Twitter, you have to post or share content frequently to get exposure in the feed since there is no Edgerank-like algorithm to filter out (boring) posts/tweets. Children’s National Medical Center. Acción contra el Hambre. Amazon CARES.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago. Facebook Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media Twitter' Free photo editing tools like PicMonkey and Photo Gallery enable your NGO to easily re-size and crop photos. TechSoup Global :: techsoupglobal.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

The work they have done with Mama Lucy has been incredible and the school is now serving over 400 children. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live. Use #tomamawithlove in Twitter. Just imagine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #WomensDay. 9: World Kidney Day — # WorldKidneyDay. 21: World Poetry Day — #WorldPoetryDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Joe Solomon set up a Facebook Group called Save the World With Twitter. Or rather, how do we measure the value and effectiveness of Twitter? and of course, we can track web site or blog referrals from Twitter (traffic) and possibly sign ups for an action. The Well That Twitter Built. Twitter for Fund Raising.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Will we see pre-university students connect their Twitter and Facebook feeds to LinkedIn? Perhaps those children who follow your organization’s group on LinkedIn will be a connection for not-so-distant future direct-support workers. Maybe they have the connections you need for your next gala.

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Twitter: @CoreResponse. All donations are currently being routed to provide immediate support, which is a natural extension of Hope for Haiti’s mission to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children. Twitter: @HopeforHaitiFL. Twitter: @TeamRubicon. Photo provided directly by the CORE team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Related Links: Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and Myspace Accounts. It’s these nonprofits that bravely took the leap: Muchos kudos to the Myspace pioneers. 10 Things Nonprofits May Not Know About Myspace (But I Wish They Did).

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Smile Train consistently shows the dramatic impact of its work via Twitter. Twitter’s 140 character limit doesn’t leave much room to tell a full story, so Smile Train posts links in some of their tweets. Twitter’s 140 character limit doesn’t leave much room to tell a full story, so Smile Train posts links in some of their tweets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). 20% say Instagram, and 13% say Twitter. 1) 54% of donors worldwide prefer to give online with a credit or debit card and 9% through PayPal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

If you know my work, you know I have a strong connection to Cambodia because I adopted two beautiful children from the country who are now teenagers. In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

You can ask your supporters to share their photos on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using a hashtag. Here's a good example: the Best Buddies Challenge promotes a hashtag for supporter-contributed photos during its annual bike ride in California to support families with children with intellectual disabilities. About the Author.

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