Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008.

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Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. " In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. "Their money, our votes." The Chase Community Challenge started with an open nomination round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We were introduced to the crowd of over 2,000 nonprofit professionals gathered at the conference to network, learn, teach, and well, party too. The platform lets us set up own landing page and reach out to our networks customizing the ask. This year Facebook and PayPal offered $7 million in matching funds for the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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JULY 28, 2008

eJewish Philanthropy: "Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook aren’t just for college keg stand contest pictures anymore. Nonprofits are joining social network sites to connect with people, strengthen cause awareness and hopefully cultivate donors."

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AUGUST 21, 2009

I also celebrated my 40th birthday by setting up a Birthday Wish using the Causes application on Facebook, and raised $580 for Women for Women International with my Facebook pals. You can enter a contest to win a copy of Half the Sky on Kristof's blog, On the Ground ). women philanthropy education rights New York Times

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since both apps allow you to share your video creations on other sites (such as Twitter and Facebook), Instagram and Vine videos are a low-cost and low-tech way to create and share short videos with any audience. You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. Super-Short Video Examples. Storymakers 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data. She authors the award-winning Networked Nonprofit Books published by J.Wiley and published the The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout. He is also on the Board of Visitors for the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. This is a flawed assumption.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 14, 2009

You can also search for volunteer opportunities on VolunteerMatch , Idealist , Social Actions , Network for Good , 1-800 Volunteer.org , MLK.gov , servenet.org , Volunteer Solutions , and GuideStar. Vicki of Zazengo shared more ways to spread the word in her Social Actions blog post, Help Promote MLK Day on Facebook + Zazengo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Facebook Advertising for Nonprofits. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy. Check out the #Storymakers2017 page for all the details. Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Raise Funds on Facebook. Photo Contest. If you realize your communication strategy (which is a key component of any successful Giving Tuesday campaign) is what needs attention, the Nonprofit Communications Professionals Facebook group might help provide some insight and ideas. Accept Pledges. Fundraising Letters. Text-to-Give.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. Ariel Beery’s ideas are included on a blog I have been reading called The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. . Facebook and PayPal together offered a $7 million match for Giving Tuesday donations and saw that match gobbled up “within seconds” after 8 a.m. Lots of complaining from insiders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? During my 17 + years in the financial services world I was always engaged in "philanthropy" as a volunteer in many "do gooder" opportunities. I couldn't help but notice that you're a dog lover - I saw your dogbook on Facebook.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Carie opened with an intro to social media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? NPTech Contests and Awards.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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!" 60) Search « Patch-Through Call Services – Finally Ready for Prime Time?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? We do group coaching calls, and there’s a Facebook group where you can ask questions at any time. What are the thoughts and the beliefs that board members are holding about money, about philanthropy, about funders? You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

” So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? We do group coaching calls, and there’s a Facebook group where you can ask questions at any time. What are the thoughts and the beliefs that board members are holding about money, about philanthropy, about funders? You can choose Sandy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Cause marketing differs from corporate giving (philanthropy) as the latter generally involves a specific donation while cause marketing is a marketing relationship generally not based on a donation. (See Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine , titled " The Networked Nonprofit " and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. As June Holley, a thought leader in networks, would say, " Be Rhizomatic.". A Platform for Self-Organizing. Click at the Heartstrings.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

So some of the key characteristics of millennials, of this generation, and this comes from the Case Foundation, which is an organization that studies millennials in philanthropy, are that millennials see all assets as equal. And so they want that to be honored and reciprocated. Peer influence is key. That is very much true of millennials.

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