Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. According to our survey, 41 percent of respondents said they “like” GiveMN or their favorite nonprofit or school on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Crowdsource content and give your members a reason to show off to one another by creating contests. As an alternative, create a "freshman lounge" where new members can go to easily find information they need and others who can help them. One tool worth using is Facebook, which allows for geo-targeted posts.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Every organization (and by that I mean the dedicated staff) that runs some version of a peer-to-peer fundraising event wants to help their participants be better fundraisers. Helping an existing participant achieve greater results is easier than finding new participants and turning them into superstars. And for good reason.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). … Read More

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. You can add these into your virtual fundraising campaign site on CauseVox as an offline donation to showcase fundraising progress! Virtual Gala Fundraiser. Live-Streaming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. 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. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. 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. How did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. They want to connect.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. 13,000 installs of the facebook app, and $600,000 raised. Discussion: How have you reiterated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. In the Assessment and Reflection Report, the authors bring other good lessons and note that “Some like Atlas Corps recruited 150 ‘Campaign Captains’ before the contest started.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

online giving increased from $400 million in 2018 to $511 million and that total online and offline giving reached $1.97 Additionally, zoos or aquariums can host contests over social media for followers to name a new animal. The results are in – and this year was the biggest # GivingTuesday yet! GivingTuesday Data Collaborative?reports

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

So they have contests. Ninety-two percent of word of mouth happens offline. So make sure the online supports the offline and vise versa. Many will help you shift your perspective towards supporting your users needs, what good marketers do already. Other questions will help you get your organization on board.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

In April, they took advantage of national press about an Egyptian Cobra that went missing at their reptile house (and was later recovered) by holding a naming contest for her. Mobilized thousands of constituents who, in conjunction with lobbying efforts, helped to secure the attention and support of elected officials.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Here are a few content ideas to help bring your supporters into the conversation: . Online contests or challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Allow email subscription ( Feedburner or Feedblitz will help you do this). If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Place an AddThis or ShareThis button on the top of the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. This helps spark peer conversations and indeed a quick check of the chat transcript shows it to be case. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Expo Ignite!

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Here are a few content ideas to help bring your supporters into the conversation: Blog posts. Online contests or challenges.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

All we needed to say was I heard they were using facebook; or my son has a YouTube account so I’ll have him set up ours. But, it was without much of the real documentation needed to help others – whether in our organization or not – navigate similar areas. If facebook was blocked, then start working on facebook at home.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. Q: What books do you recommend to help us get acquainted and use social media? Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Here's my roundup of Twitter advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. I took photos of my daughter wearing the t-shirts with thank you notes for each of the donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2018

While a large number of nonprofit organizations have turned to the online environment to seek help, a lot of them still encounter problems with communicating to their right audience. You also need to share real stories about your nonprofit’s efforts that will help you raise awareness. This will motivate others to support your cause.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Understanding the psychology behind giving can help you understand the donor’s motivation, which will help you plan your next campaign, your next fundraising event, or your next face-to-face ask. Some give because they want to help others. If someone donates through your Facebook link, thank the person publicly if possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger bots without any coding experience. Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger chatbots without any coding experience. You can user applets created by others or create your own for sites such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger chatbots without any coding experience. You can user applets created by others or create your own for sites such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. Paper :: iTunes.

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