Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2012

Karl, our IT Director, suggested one way he thought we could raise money for NTC scholarships. Obviously, our ideas alone are not going to raise enough money to send 50 nonprofits to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference – even if this one might get them to the 2014 conference. Watch the video, and donate to the campaign !

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

By implementing a web-based volunteer database , MANNA’s staff can focus on delivering more meals, managing more volunteers, and raising more funds without having to worry about where. Industry News Leadership Tech nonprofit npTech tech volunteer connect' Read more about MANNA’s tech success HERE.

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AFP Blog

MAY 4, 2009

Fund-Raising Software Company Expands Overseas - Philanthropy.com: "Largest U.S. Fund-Raising Software Company Expands OverseasIn its latest effort to expand its fund-raising services globally, the Charleston, S.C., Tags: NPtech. Largest U.S.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Everyone is out there looking for funding, especially around the holidays. So make your nonprofit stand out with an interesting way of raising money and awareness for your cause. Fundraising Mobile Social annual appeal CRM donation donors fundraising Giving Tuesday nonprofit npTech' Make Giving Fun.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

As Jordan Viator explains on the Connection Café blog: It’s no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. Give to the Scholarship Fund. That’s right. Donate Airline Miles.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money. Then and only then should a nonprofit or cause concern itself with number of donors and amount raised. #3

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AFP Blog

MARCH 10, 2009

This link provides easier access to the underlying stories.AFP > Resource Center | Resource tools > Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community: "Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community(March 9, 2009) This week AFP featured social networking/web 2.0 Here is our full coverage of the topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

" Facebook app causes raises $16m – "Causes, the popular Facebook charity application, has raised another $9 million in funding and introduced gift cards to let people donate online without using a credit card.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 1, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest Fundraising nptech Volunteers E-mail marketing Social networking Non-profit Communications training event management Membership management Donor management webinar social media.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2008

Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. This year, they’re trying something different — raising volunteers instead of cash. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Raffles are a time-honored way for small nonprofits, churches, clubs, schools, and other good causes to raise funds at the community level. offers UK nonprofits a fun, free, and easy way to raise funds through online raffles.( Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech. Now, Raffle.it read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?" NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The Case Foundation, Facebook Causes and PARADE Publications just launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a competition designed to raise both awareness and funds for charitable causes. Tags: Fundraising nptech Social networking Facebook. What I find most interesting is that the Challenge.( read more ).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We're going to raise another $10,000 (matched dollar for dollar by Convio) for the NTC scholarship campaign this year -- and send another 57 people down to Hot-lanta. . We can't do it without your help so join us: Give to the Scholarship Fund. Just click on the "Fund a Scholarship" button in the widget above, or go to [link].

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

I discovered NTEN and the nptech community about four years ago. Of course I cared about nptech, but I was new to town and wanted a way to find my place in the local community. This was a neat event where we attempted to raise money for local organizers which use tech in neat ways. I like cats AND I like nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. " Findhabeas. Paul Lamb might.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

One thing that is quite clear is that there is no need to create a new institution, or raise up a building with a splendid dome. (The What is needed is a consortium that can knit them together for this purpose, some funding, and some candidates. I believe that all of the necessary institutions exist already here in the Bay State.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. It shows that where we fail to engage donors, we also fail to raise funds.

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AFP Blog

JULY 23, 2008

Online Auctions Raise Big Bucks for Charity: "The Web has wrought a sea change in the way nonprofits raise funds through auctions. Tags: NPOnlineAuction NPtech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We just dedicated our first crowd-funding campaign, Bookshare for Veterans —part of the Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurs Challenge on CrowdRise—to this goal and are enhancing our outreach to veterans who need access to books and information. Not only does it raise risk capital for Benetech, but we also actually want the advice!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We're going to raise another $10,000 (matched dollar for dollar by Convio) for the NTC scholarship campaign this year -- and send another 57 people down to Hot-lanta. We can't do it without your help so join us: Give to the Scholarship Fund. Just click on the "Fund a Scholarship" button in the widget above, or go to [link].

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

If you''re going to be in the Portland, OR area for DrupalCon next week, consider kicking off the event with ThinkShout by raising a pint for a great cause at the Drupal DoGooders Happy Hour for Aaron Winborn. Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S. and James L. Happy Friday! Anything we missed?

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . They collectively raised over $4000 online in one day for her cause. Members are in bold.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

These events create new and exciting opportunities for organizations to not only raise more money, but engage constituents in deeper, more meaningful relationships. Returning Participants : Returning participants continue to raise more than new participants. Do you have a program to recruit and cultivate Team Captains?

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Building community takes many forms and is done for many different reasons: to raise money, pass legislation, connect with like-minded people, have fun, learn new things. 13ntc Change Management community building digital team strategies Leadership nptech Organizational Culture Social Media Staffing Strategy Communications'

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy platform reveals the state of nonprofit technology funding in a critical area in some detail. democracy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Maybe it's a special performance or dinner, perhaps it's the personal story someone delivers one-on-one during a fund-raising drive or just the simple pleasure that comes from visiting an exhibit, park or recreational area operated by a nonprofit organization. Nonprofits work hard to to create the inspiration to give.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. Then after the project is funded, the money goes to TechBridge to implement and complete the work. an hour, would raise $20,000 dollars in one year.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

Each year, you help us raise $10,000 , generously matched dollar for dollar by Convio. Each week of the campaign, we'll share a new video with you, chronicling the NTEN staff efforts to raise those scholarship funds. Long-time members know that we try to entertain you along the way , and this year is no exception.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2009

So, inspired by a little tweet from Beth Kanter , we're excited to announce a special fundraising drive to bring more folks to the NTC: we're going to raise $10,000 for an NTC Scholarship fund by February 28. We're going to need your help to do it: Give to the Scholarship Fund. Tags: NPTech 09NTC.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

How To Raise More Money With Email: A Step-by-Step Guide to Increasing Opens, Clicks, and Donations CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $69. How Even Small Nonprofits Can Raise Big Gifts CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $77. Community of Practice: Chat with Anne Kreamer NTEN / Community of Practice: Women in NPTECH / Fee: Free.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Some donors have a solid relationship with an organization where they choose to donate funds year after year. Whether you're hosting a walk-a-thon, charity auction, or soliciting online donations for an annual fund drive, the success of your fundraising campaign lies in the success of each of the individual participants.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. Show how much money is being raised! The Evolution of NPTech. Organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can’t not raise funds. Are we afraid of actually raising more money? . Mal Warwick has been raising money professionally since 1979. Tags: mal warwick NPTech NTEN Planning Fundraising. An economic downturn does not justify throwing out what has worked in the past. Cut costs with a scalpel, not an ax.

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