Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Tweetsgiving is 48-hour event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change. Other goodies will also be raffled off to raise money for Epic Change at the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . is a site that helps young peole and their families easily donate to charities while learning more about the organizations. Tips To Encourage Your Child's Philanthropy 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

When he discovered that the library had no books and with school just starting, Rajen arranged for a donation to supplement what the director had purchased with her own salary. The kids were thrilled with the donation. Others may donate. Rajen is also looking at other needs for the home. I got to observe the director in action.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

In the aftermath of that quake, as well as flooding in Pakistan, fires in Israel, flooding in South and Central America, and countless other incidents, technology played a critical and often-life-saving role, and remains at the center of the ongoing advocacy and long-term rebuilding work in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Adam Zand who I first met at Boston Social Media Breakfast event last holiday season where we helped leverage a donation for the local Food Bank. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. This is just a sampling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. Jen Lemen and Mom2Amara graciously donated t-shirts and I got three business cards from tech companies with an offer of t-shirts. The last leg of the campaign was raised primarily on Twitter. A nice win win for both of us.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

September to December is a great time to raise money. Hype Services, Like Services Some organizations who provide a service see a huge spike in online giving around the High Holidays (think of tickets to services for college students or the planting of a tree in Israel ). spin on the tradition of sending New Year cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? Giving 3 million people a platform to discuss something they're passionate about and raise awareness -- whether or not it leads to money donated -- points to Facebook's potential as a powerful social tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Last year, I raised the money on my blog. So, it took 24 hours, 53 people donating small amounts to change a young woman's life. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. My family has sponsored her college costs for her freshman and sophomore years.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The text in the ad invites you to make a donation by text messaging a number. You can see the process of the donation in this animation , just click Send SMS. " Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. Still, its engaging! Thanks for the info.

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JULY 18, 2007

The text in the ad invites you to make a donation by text messaging a number. You can see the process of the donation in this animation , just click Send SMS. " Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. Still, its engaging! Thanks for the info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

The challenge involves dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head or donating to the ALS Association , with a social media component. It sounds counter intuitive to ask people to donate $100 to ALS or make this goofy video and share on social. million in donations since July 29, compared with $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Molson launched a campaign to replace the public funding with private sector donations, starting with its own $20K donation. Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. I literally gasped!

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