Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Amy Sample Ward. Here's my contest. The way you do it is to start with the intervention - in this case - social media - and trace it backwards to your proposed social outcome, behavior change, or action as a result of communication. Tags: contest. They asked me to participate along with several colleagues. Fine Blog .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Sign up for the event or learn more here.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. Can you do it?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

We heard from 209 nonprofit staff, consultants, and the people who love us–and some of the results suprised us. " Direct Energy | Direct Energy Contest | Reduce Your Use for GoodReduce Your Use – "Nonprofits, you know it: small changes can make a big difference.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

The premise of the game, as you may recall, was a competition between the members of two families to see which family could more quickly and accurately guess the results of survey questions. by both the contestants and the survey respondents. The show’s success was no doubt derived from the often outrageous answers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

." 1 vote can equal $1 million « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog – "Today is the first day people can vote in the final round of the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. Between now and January 22, people who add the application can vote up to five times for five individual charities.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Slightly more than a third (34%) gave as a result of a workplace fundraising 52% drive. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. A friend or peer endorsement compelled 52% to give, while a nudge from a family member prompted 42% to give.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

When done well, the results are impressive. Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Provide samples of everything. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Drag and Drop for Visually Stunning Results. website along with a contest aimed at new and nontechnical users. Then choose your own data or use sample data sets SAP has provided, visualize or solve a problem by plugging data into the software, and share your creation in a video, blog, or email. The screenshots don't lie.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. Like all fundraising strategies, a passive approach will not get results. A gift of $5 today could lead to a gift of $100 or $1,000 next time.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

" GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. NTEN rockstar (and official NTENny) Amy Sample Ward has a guest post about 5 steps to social media strategy success for nonprofits. . You can start here and read their " 5 DIY Video Tips."

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Set up a #GivingTuesday fundraiser resource page with fundraising tips and sample content to post to their Facebook and Twitter pages throughout the day of the campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. Meyer Memorial Trust is a private independent foundation resulting from Fred G. We want Oregonians to get engaged with us.”. the retail enterprise.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

For example, what are some of the best export settings with respect to frame rate, compression, resolution dimensions sample rates, etc? I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests. I have used Youtube in some of my projects and so far I seen great results.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

For example, what are some of the best export settings with respect to frame rate, compression, resolution dimensions sample rates, etc? I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests. I have used Youtube in some of my projects and so far I seen great results.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The most successful social media presences (nonprofit and otherwise) are in fact the result of a strong nonprofit social media plan! Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. JUST for fun! Call to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are a few of our favorites, taken from our list of over 100 fundraising event ideas : Races Trivia nights Fashion shows Gift basket auctions Afternoon tea events Concerts Dance offs Cooking contests Rummage sales Car washes Crafting classes. Videos get results, too. Next, consider the format of your event. in 2019 to $108.62

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. in these feelings and in these results. The results we’re seeing are amazing. You can choose Sandy. It is wild.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

” So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. in these feelings and in these results. The results we’re seeing are amazing. It is wild.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So nine, “How will you measure results?” But there’s also another way stories are also reporting results. Andy: So anyway, as a result of that, there is a tracking form. ” So I think there’s essentially two ways. Most people think of numbers. We served 8,800 meals this week.

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