NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Check out this great compilation of '' Must-Read Online Fundraising, Social Media and Mobile Communications Reports for Nonprofits '', assembled by Tech for Good. A list of 20 Insightful Nonprofit Technology and Social Media Stats was compiled by Tech Impact , featuring findings from TechSoup and Artez Interactive , to name just a few.

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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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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Using a mix of social media and email communications, more than 9.4 John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. John Center media throughout the year. million peer-to-peer volunteers raised over $1.3 BONUS – See this idea in action! Movie nights.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Game 52

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. Contrary to popular belief, successful social media accounts are not run off-the-cuff! She wants me to PLAN?

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Social Media Structure Media Social 124

Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Without a dedicated online strategy or a social media presence, many potential donors will view your organization as out of touch. Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine recently hosted a social media and email campaign called “Be a Helper.” Contestants lasted as long as 70 hours before MrBeast decided to end the competition himself!

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Virtual Ideas Guide Fundraising 69

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. You can even write encouraging comments on these posts while the campaign is running or give social media shoutouts to supporters who are pulling in lots of donations. Plan a social media campaign.

Campaign 98

Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Use your most powerful images to create galleries that you can post to your website or social media channels. Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. SlideRocket : Use SlideRocket to organize photos into captivating slideshows.

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Digital Story Adobe Tools 55

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You want to help the homeless? It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. Kayla is a Project Specialist at the ASU Lodestar Center, and you can catch her regularly updating the Center's social media accounts and managing this blog.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The second best opportunity is to invite the media to attend your event and cover it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

She was the recent winner of my son's Green Geek Charity Contest and we contributed a small amount to the charity of her choice, SOS Children's Villages. On a sadder note my country was just swept by a cyclone last week-end and this time it is my turn to use your tips on fundraising and social media to help the people back home.

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Madagascar Disaster Green Help 50

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Kampala, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Check out Train for Humanity that weaves together getting fit, social media, and raising funds for charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did !

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Start a Social Media Outreach Campaign. Social Media Support. Photo Contest. Craft social media messages (for each platform) to promote the campaign. Social Media Outreach Campaign. Specifically, social media will become your best friend for Giving Tuesday ideas. Launch an Email Marketing Campaign.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 105

Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. a) In General.

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Sponsor Map San Francisco Community 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

Homeless Nonprofit via Brent Gaylor: "We have a site that is currently in beta [link]. contest with cash prizes. A few folks responded to my query of the vlogging community , a community that hopes to spread vlogging far and wide. Jumpstart Theatre (via Michael Verdi of [link] ). editing equipment.

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Vlog Georgia Drupal Seattle 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. From a presentation by www.jamkit.com Pre and post-election blog by homeless writer as campaign tactic [link] Greenpeace Ocean Defenders campaign ???weblogdirect

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Hype Nptech Wiki Slides 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. For instance, fundraisers can post on social media that if they raise $100 they’ll do the fire ramen challenge.

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

Puerto Rico 96

Puerto Rico West Virginia Ideas Fort Worth 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change.

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Reflection Sample Script Map 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. The session outline is as follows: Introduction. Another example.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Our focus on new media in the digital period also meant that we started to forget about the technology tools we already had in our organization: the hardware, software, databases, servers. We went from technology belonging to the IT staff, to new media belonging to the young intern, web savvy communications officer, and so on.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Qgiv

MAY 18, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently held their virtual house parties fundraiser, which was a huge success! Social media is also extremely important when creating engaging virtual fundraisers. For a house party, you might send out goodie boxes that include props like fun hats, glasses, feather boas, etc.

Organization 52

Organization Fundraising Virtual Instructional 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

With a small staff, big hearts, and the right mix of singles, bunts and a few homeruns, MLF continues to raise more funds, increase its volunteer base of more than 12,000 and accomplish its mission of providing food, clothing, dignity, and housing to the homeless and indigent working poor. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

Homeless 20

Homeless Social Media Mobile Austin 20

Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

With a small staff and the right mix of singles, bunts and a few homeruns, MLF continues to raise more funds, increase its volunteer base of more than 12,000 and accomplish its mission of providing food, clothing, dignity, and housing to the homeless and indigent working poor. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

Homeless 20

Homeless Social Media Mobile Austin 20

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). Provoking thought and invoking emotion contributes to link earning, but you can take it one step further and give people inclusion into an exciting event like fundraising, raising awareness, or a contest.

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Charity Method Build Meme 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Over the past year, large corporate brands have embraced Facebook apps from companies like Wildfire (purchased by Google), Buddy Media , (now part of Salesforce) and WooBox, for things like coupons, sweepstakes, and contests. Others have spent tens of thousands of dollars to build custom Facebook apps from scratch.

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Facebook Results Help Cancer 113

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For instance, they may give to the homeless shelter because they feel bad for people who don’t have homes or because it feels good to help someone in need or because their favorite uncle was homeless for a while or because of all those reasons! There have been a lot of studies about this phenomenon recently in relation to social media.

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Hints People Giving Donation 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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