Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

My first introduction to her book was from Lucy Bernholz and shortly after that James Wu from the Acumen Fund gave me a copy of and this profile in the Economist. The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here. Do you think these are worthwhile pursuits for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. 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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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