Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Raising funds. org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. Any help i can get on that front is always welcome, welcome, welcome!

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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. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action. happens, I observe day laborers.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. JO: In Momentum , you claim that online organizing will never take the place of offline organizing. How can offline and online approaches coexist? The immigration rallies were a perfect example of this. For instance, in L.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

it's been in churches, immigrant communities, and many other places offline for years. You've taken the model one step further in that you are now in the position of providing stewardship of the donated funds (being transparent about how they are being used, spent and reported on) as well as providing social service delivery.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They want to invest more time, more resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

So, I extended the campaign so we could send another young student, Chanphearon, to college. These individuals know the power of personal fundraising offline. " I thought it would take two weeks to raise the $1,000 to send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to college. In less than a week, we're 2/3 towards that goal!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. UPDATE: Anything over the $1,000 will support the Sharing Foundation's general fund to provide scholarships for college students in the program who don't have individual sponsors.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? Multichannel donors are worth more than three times more than online-only or offline only donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Given that so many of our state’s residents are minor children, you’d think we would apply the ideal of “life elevated” to health care and education funding. Utah is dead last in the nation for education funding per pupil. Sadly, this is not the case. Voices for Utah Children recently helped host a conference on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

If we really want social media tools to be integrated into our work, we need to figure out new ways to fund staffing for them. The key to our success is integrating offline and online organizing relationships. Social media tools allow FIRM to strengthen a network for immigrant justice, and to further our organizing goals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

It was faster and greater than any such social fundraising campaign in the number of donors, from all walks of life—from President Bush, Bill Gates, media personalities and CEOs to teachers, students and more. Before last summer’s #IceBucketChallenge, awareness for ALS was relatively limited to families and friends of those affected.

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