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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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How to Utilize Digital Marketing for Fundraising Event Engagement Online

Qgiv

Types of advertising can include a combination of any of the following: Social media marketing and news feed ads Search engine marketing ads (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) Create and manage a donation page on your website, or through an organization like Qgiv , that directs donors to give at specific amounts. Social media contests.

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Wired Wealthy, Budha and Freud.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We So, the reminder and more data about ways to connect and cultivate your middle and major donors online is a good one. The Wired Wealthy. We raised $53,000, plus we got a $50,000 prize).

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The Yin and Yang of Building Email Lists

Connection Cafe

But recent changes by email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook now makes this ancient idea incredibly relevant today. This led to acquisition tactics like iPad giveaway contests, buying lists and hiding unsubscribe buttons and practices of “email blasts”. That’s ok, not every relationship works out.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Donor Blog condenses it into two ways ! Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. You can submit something here. Details are here. Vote for the Best Nonprofit Video ! Here's a few: Web 3.0:

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I took photos of my daughter wearing the t-shirts with thank you notes for each of the donors. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. A year later, I competed in the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Contest, coming in first place.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

NPTech Contests and Awards. The DoGooder Awards recognize exceptional use of video to promote good causes and are sponsored by YouTube and TechSoup donor partner, Cisco. It has since become the most powerful communication medium and some say, economic engine in history, now reaching over two and a half billion people now.

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