Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. He plans to use the grant to create a training program to teach homeless people to use social media tools to tell their own story. Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. Ramos-Fermin offers these tips for organizations who want to use Creative Suite to design a project of their own: read more.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She is an expert in developing and teaching practical, ready-made tools that inspire people to take action. Lori shares easy-to-implement strategies and tools that will inspire even the most weary or overworked nonprofit staff or board. And counting. Joyaux has founded two organizations, and serves regularly on boards.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. To host a virtual peer-to-peer event successfully, you’re going to need the right tools and resources at your disposal.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Provide numerous ideas, but do emphasize the most efficient methods such as sending email through a tool like everdayhero. Hold fundraising lunches/seminars/receptions to teach them how to fundraise.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. For New Heights to realize its dream of fair and equal education, it must use remote work tools to connect with students directly in their homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. First start off with who is everyone using these tools outside of the organization and is interested. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2009

You can't beat video for pulling at your heartstrings, which is why it can be a powerful tool for organizations with the time, money and skills to post videos on a regular basis. While preparing to teach a social media webinar recently, I discovered quite a few environmental/green nonprofits that have YouTube channels.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Of course, a client or member’s first-person account of change is also a terrific educational tool. Some boards create team-based contests to see who can bring the most guests to the annual event, while others are lucky enough to have recruited a candidate who keeps the group laughing regularly. The big picture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. 15) Brand design contests. 5) Online classes.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hybrid: A hybrid auction takes the tools used in the virtual environment and brings them to the physical world. You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse.

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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. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Learn How You Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools to Tell Stories. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next? Great question.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that? What’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. After the winter has come, the grasshopper finds itself starving and after asking the ant for food is punished for its idleness.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. I created a version to teach folks about creative commons licensing. As you know, I do a fair amount of listening, so when I using monitoring tools I can see exactly who is using my content and in what context. What are your concerns?

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

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!" Great work. October 7, 2008 | Paul Greenberg Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Not the ones with the fake contests and contrived conflicts, but the ones that pit you against the weather, the wildlife, and the natural environment. It’s just the contestants against the hard, cruel world, and it either brings out the best or the worst in people. Want to learn more about successful grant management?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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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. I worry that I am so scattered across these tools that I am not present enough on any one of them. Current Usage. communications strategy.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets. With a pet photo contest, ask supporters to submit photos of their furry friends beforehand.

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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. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." Freecharity.org.uk Paul Lamb might.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? The change taking place with technology isn’t simply about operational efficiencies.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Rewards can come in many different forms, but most sites have had success with rewarding participation through recognition and acknowledgement, as well as through more overt measures like contests and prizes. Even better. User adoption is a tricky beast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. For teaching and learning. That's what I use and why I use it).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? 10 Cindy Leonard 09.26.07

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

Systems that hold student information should be HIPAA, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), and OneRoster 1.1 Teach your team to review unexpected emails carefully, not to click links or attachments, and to check the sender’s email address for errors. Review software vendor agreements carefully.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can up the ante by building your party around a costume contest and encouraging attendees to get sponsorships for their participation. Find Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Solution Neon Fundraise is a powerful fundraising platform that comes with an unrivaled set of peer-to-peer fundraising tools.

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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. . We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. Other in-world possibilities include things like virtual one-on-one counseling, conferences, protests, benefit concerts, education centers, contests ???

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

For another entertainment option, try partnering with local dance studios or connecting with local dance teachers to see if they’d be willing to lend their time to teach your fundraisers some simple choreography or basic dance lessons. Gamification tools are also a great feature to add to your checklist.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Do you have members who need help familiarizing themselves with Zoom, Slack, and other now-must-have office tools? Or, with renewed interest in old school hobbies like gardening, breadmaking, and woodworking, do you have members who could donate their time to teach these skills? Or a baking contest? A 50/50 raffle.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

Systems that hold student information should be HIPAA, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), and OneRoster 1.1 Teach your team to review unexpected emails carefully, not to click links or attachments, and to check the sender’s email address for errors. Review software vendor agreements carefully.

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