NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

When traditional recruiting tactics start to return lackluster results, consider implementing these five creative and free approaches to attracting volunteers: Mine Your Social Network. Some possible remote volunteer jobs include writing newsletters, designing websites, consulting and even making small items that can be mailed in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Care2

MAY 25, 2012

For example, when the Center for Reproductive Rights was supporting the case against Texas's mandatory ultrasound law (which was a big news story), they launched a New Yorker Style Cartoon Caption Contest and asked people to submit a caption for the cartoon they designed about the outrageous law.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. It might not be money.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

To generate excitement for your virtual audience, consider pre-event contests, social media competitions, watch party gift boxes, and other pre-event activities as a way to get your virtual audience motivated. Your virtual event requires a professional IT team to ensure the presentation is always available to online attendees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. Many people love to eat, but many of us aren’t as close to being culinary experts as we would like to be. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

In today’s New York Times there is a story about how the venture capital community is heavily backing social networking sites that are reaching out to baby boomers. Social networking has so far focused mainly on businesspeople and young people because they are tech-savvy and are treasured by Madison Avenue.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

What actions do you want people to take? Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Respond to people who engage with you on social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I liked most about the conference was the diversity of people that attended. It was a great mix of races, genders, ages and because the conference was focused on organizing women online and off, there were techy and non-techy people present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Three years later, GoFundMe is still riding the wave of social good, online payments and social networks.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Both services are heavily used by people under 35, so if your organization wants to connect with younger audiences, these apps are a great way to do it. Like Instagram, the Vine app is designed to be very easy to use. Help , a nonprofit dedicated to helping other nonprofits tell their stories through film and video. Storymakers 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic mostly likely to make a donation online. Facebook describes itself as "a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

For “giving days”—which are becoming increasingly popular all over the country—social networking and digital communication such as email and blogging are key to driving big results. Youthprise, a youth-serving nonprofit and grantmaking organization put up $14,000 in prize grants for the contest.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only cost, as with many social campaigns, was staff time.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only cost, as with many social campaigns, was staff time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He also shares that he wants to create a social fundraising wizard Currently, I am building an automated wizard. that will assist in planning and implementing a peer-to-peer social change campaign. The wizard will recommend platforms to use and best practices for spreading the campaign through social networks.

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See3

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Do you see people as old or young or religious or rich? On the IdeaDrivenMarketing.com blog there is a post about a social networking/content sites for Baby Boomers called Eons.com. People are fundamentally aspiration in their decisions. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

As many of you know, I get REALLY excited about social networking. I've learned so much about MySpace and Facebook, and the people that use them. But it wasn't until a recent project that I really saw the potential and power that these networks have. So, we had to get people to join the group then vote for us.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. young people???,

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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See3

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

A kind of companion social network then tracks and rates how the people did in predicting the outcomes. And by making decisions you can feel empathy for the people in whose shoes you are walking. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

If a decent percentage of people who view a nonprofit video actually give, then we have a revolution on our hands. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Facebook has taught us that people will opt-in to support the cause far more than they will donate.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

If a decent percentage of people who view a nonprofit video actually give, then we have a revolution on our hands. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Facebook has taught us that people will opt-in to support the cause far more than they will donate.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Twitter is often thought of as the social media tool of choice for nonprofits hoping to garner votes for grant contests such as the Chase Giving and Pepsi Refresh Challenges. A more recent and timely example is EpicChange 's Mother's Day fundraising campaign. Tools such as HootSuite , CoTweet , or TweetDeck.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Schwartz wrote about an exceptional contest organized by the Knight Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. One exhibit designer told me, "we never seem to lack for good ideas.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Restricted : The donor specifically designates a gift to an identified project, purpose, capital need, or fund. Unrestricted : The donor does not designate where, when, and why you can use the funding. They do this through their social media connections, personal web pages, and community influence.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2012

Using contests and challenges to engage communities was the topic of the July 17 edition of the weekly CommBuild chat. The chat, facilitated by by TechSoup online community manager, Michael DeLong, included helpful advice learned by participants who have run contests. Why hold a contest or challenge? Promote, promote, promote!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did ! I opted for a 20 friends campaign, the largest number. Probably some glitch.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. Why people participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Loud cheers and happy dances from people who overwhelmed with email.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like. This is also a good place to get an education in how people are using images from your institution--both legally and illegally. Search for your institution on Yelp and TripAdvisor.

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