Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

million. And critics, with a scarcity mindset, talk about slacktivism (“Not everyone who did the challenge donated or even mentioned ALS”) and fundraising cannibalism (“People won’t donate to other charities because they will be tapped out”). The numbers speak for themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

GamesThatGive is going to have a huge influence on the charitable giving space for a few reasons: 1) People are already playing casual games, in big numbers, and for long periods of time. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. The better you do at the games, and the longer that you play, the more you donate! The Wilderness Society.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. PIH’s website has an “Our Impact” page that highlights their positive influence around the world. Stories are windows into new worlds.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

One reason is that wacky and goofy fundraisers work. Social proof is peer pressure in a positive way, the positive influence created when people find out others are doing something – now, suddenly, everyone else wants to do that something too. Fundraising' But the evidence is to the contrary.

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