Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

Their model is to charge 30-40% of their patients enough to pay for their costs as well as the rest of the patients, as well as something extra (which generates funds for capital expansion). Aravind doesn't like to borrow money, and start-up costs are either drawn from earnings or grants. This was Dr V's retirement project!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Leaderboards show your top fundraising teams or individual fundraisers based on how much money they’ve raised. They’re great opportunities to raise funds for your cause. More importantly, you’ll need to advertise the event so that supporters get hyped about wanting to attend. Leaderboards. Going digital.

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

Donors want to know where their money is going and why it’s important for them to give. Watsi’s Universal Fund gives donors the opportunity to fund a new patient each month by setting up a recurring monthly gift. You create hype around them. Offer them lower options because you know that over time it will add up to more.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Add in the cost of the cybersecurity insurance your board is likely to insist you purchase to avoid such a catastrophic unexpected outlay of money. As the scale of nonprofit losses from hacking becomes clear, #cybersecurity finally gets the attention & funding it needs. Reach and Usefulness of Social Media Plateaus.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And more bids often means more money raised! While it won’t always result in you raising more money, working with corporate sponsors can cut event costs and make your event more profitable. If you open or close the bidding on certain items too early or too late, your organization could leave money on the table.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2014

You approach that person and ask them if they’d like to contribute money toward your NPO’s mission. The same applies to asking for funds on social media. But what you really mean is that you want to be able to raise the most funds. Get the hype out there and direct them to your social pages. What gives? So let’s back up.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2014

You approach that person and ask them if they’d like to contribute money toward your NPO’s mission. The same applies to asking for funds on social media. But what you really mean is that you want to be able to raise the most funds. Get the hype out there and direct them to your social pages. What gives? So let’s back up.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

This Wall Street Journal post discusses how John Arnold a former natural-gas trader at Enron and hedge fund founder is giving away his $4 billion fortune through a new “Moneyball” approach to giving. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype. We discovered that fundraising is the biggest hurdle, but our respondents nevertheless cited many successes in their efforts to raise money online, and we found more than a few stellar examples. What we learned: a snapshot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They don’t raise an exceptional amount of money. They combine putting and chipping contests with silent and live auctions, dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity to win a ton of fun prizes, all while raising money for their mission. Step 3: Engage the Hype Machine. And, when I say “hype machine,” I mean it.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Like Facebook Charitable Giving Tools, nonprofits are not raising much money via “Donate” stickers and “Donate” buttons in livestreams on Instagram (according to the Open Data Project ). Sell more t-shirts on Instagram and Facebook through two-tap, in-app shopping and make more money, but not receive shopper data?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

With the whole world’s focus on giving this November 30th, don’t miss this perfect opportunity to raise funds for projects and spread awareness about your nonprofit’s critical mission. And remember, hashtag #GivingTuesday in your posts to get in on the hype! How to get the most out of this year’s #GivingTuesday. Start early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I have my own history with Beth, last year she was trying to canvas money using Twitter to put a Cambodian girl through school. " As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale. I had some money in my account. 4) PayPal was an enabler.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. We’re not talking about a list of 500 or 5,000 people who may or may not have given you money. Even email is falling off.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But before we get to far here’s a simple way to think about task-based fundraising contest: Instead of asking participants to raise a [insert $ amount here] ask them to complete a series of tasks that will lead to them raising more money. Get a large number of participants to send out fundraising emails, and the money will follow.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2019

They’ll be sure to make your next money-raising endeavor stand out. Most of the funds were raised from team entry fees (use your discretion here: you don’t want to deter people from playing, but you’re still trying to raise money, after all). Trust us, the money will add up more quickly than you think.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising is the process of raising funds from supporters via the internet, usually using an online donation page. You might decide to allocate $10,000 for the necessary software and infrastructure to raise that funding. These funds can be used for specific campaign purposes. What is online fundraising?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

She said it can happen in one of two ways—either the organization is small enough that no one will notice, or has a director with such strong vision they can charm and fund the pants off of a new idea. Have you gotten any negative feedback about it being too superficial or hyped for a research program? I don’t think it’s a lot of hype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Was it all hype? . This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Don't have your first interaction be a request for money. We're still in the early stages of social media as in the early days of the web and online fundraising , so, we are in the "it's hype, and not going to last" phase. Focus on engagement and relationship building all the time.

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