NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

Flickr photo: kenteeegardin What do many nonprofits have in common? Fundraising. Whether you’re sending supplies, trying to launch a new campaign, or need to hire your first social media manager, you need money. Oh, and they are offering a free summer school for e-marketing and fundraising! Have more news to share?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

While listening to Kimberly Wilson''s Tranquility du Jour podcast interview with fundraising and philanthropic consultant, Lauren Brownstein on Saturday, the quote above really resonated with me. Each year, Lauren picks three causes that are a priority for her, and gives money and time to them. What really excites me? Not at this time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

It makes me feel like I’m giving of myself and still giving “something” But, one thing I’ve learned through the process is that I actually end up spending at least as much money and certainly a ton of time putting those gifts together. Photo: Flickr gazeronly. Supporting real impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

Online Fundraiser's Checklist – "FREE DOWNLOAD: The Online Fundraiser's Checklist. How Do You Ensure Fundraising Success This Year? Take advantage of Network for Good's handy new eGuide, The Online Fundraiser's Checklist, to ensure you don't miss a thing." Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. The last thing people from Staten Island or New Jersey needed last week was an ill-timed fundraising ask. Don’t use the crisis as an opportunity to do general fundraising for your organization (unless you have a particularly relevant mission). Be specific. Partner up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2008

When you're in charge of your office's fundraiser, you've got two goals to meet: 1. Raise the amount of money you've been assigned. The United Way of Will County has a long list of office fundraising ideas including: • Auction off an executive doing the winner's job for one hour. Not make your co-workers dread the sight of you.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated. And the press scorned the fundraising effort.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

According to a study by Blackbaud , NTEN and Common Knowledge, over 92% of nonprofit organizations have a presence on at least one social networking site, but most raise very little money through their social activity. Yet despite the lack of wide spread fundraising success, social media is clearly a hot topic in the nonprofit space.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Flickr Photo: Mez Love You may have heard by now that we're raising money for scholarships to the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference.Last year was the first time we ran the campaign, and while we met our goal, it was a stretch, and we almost burnt ourselves out. It's the same in online fundraising for specific campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2011

Flickr Photo by Soyignatus. Millennials don’t just want to write a check to your organization – they want to combine their personal passions and interests and engage others in your mission. Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches? Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Putting relationship fundraising into action and measuring emotions is Craig Linton’s passion for 2013. A no marketing, no money, no mission wake-up call is Elaine Fogel’s dream. The February Carnival is hosted by bow-tied fundraiser Marc Pitman. Words to live by! budget). .

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

With that in mind I’m sure you’d like to make sure you’re focusing your efforts in the right direction in order to achieve the best possible return on the investment of your time and money. Do you run fundraising events? Let’s take a look at three big focus areas that you should be paying attention to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. You can learn by watching what they do and ultimately mimic them in your own communications and fundraising campaigns to tap into that success. WWF Mobile.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2011

Flickr: lamantin If you hold an event and nobody comes, what happens to all the cupcakes? An in-person event can be a powerful tool both to spread awareness and raise money for your cause. The tenets of social commerce and social fundraising. > Learn more and register today. But that may just be me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Use Bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

For example, in her post, Here’s a good fundraising appeal: I gave on Katya's Nonprofit Blog , Katya Andresen shares 5 reasons she liked the appeal she received from Imagination Stage. The tangible sense of where the money goes 4. Flickr photo credit: Happy Happy Cookie uploaded by CarbonNYC/David Goehring. The gratitude 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

"    She invited me to contribute one sentence for a social media fundraising project she's leading to support female entrepreneurs in the Philippines. The money Jasmin will raised will be used to help 15 to 30 entrepreneurial poor (mainly women) to form a Trust Bank. . 

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

The Crowdfunding Industry Report that finds that crowdfunding is an effective way of raising money and is expected to grow substantially. Teespring is a TechSoup donor partner that hosts a crowdsource funding website where charities can post fundraising campaigns using custom-branded apparel and products as gifts for donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. And for that event, Facebook Causes helped us raise the most money we’ve ever raised on social media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. recordings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. One strategy might be cultivating relationships with freelance fundraisers and activists.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr photo: shareski How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? If you thought you spent money fast in iTunes, wait until you see how you burn through money you never have to see anymore. Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Flickr photo by Beth. Click to see the larger image.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations."

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. In 2010, she published her short book and ebook, Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign. By Jamie Millard and Lori L. and on and on.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Flickr: theirhistory Summer sun and vacation days haven''t slowed down the NTEN community! Henry Timms, founder of #GivingTuesday, and Christine Schaefer, VP of Community and Marketing at Salsa Labs , will teach you how to boost your fundraising through this movement in the upcoming webinar, #GivingTuesday in July: Get Ready for December Now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. Designate a cheer leader.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. What is the checklist?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it.

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