Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

The world’s largest association in advancing philanthropy is probably the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in the US. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

JustGiving.com , a UK fundraising website, incorporates GlobalGiving’s UK-eligible project portfolio. allows users to fundraise in honor of a special occasion with charitable wedding registries and birthday fundraising pages. Q: How have companies used GlobalGiving’s Charity API? API For Celebrations. API For E-Commerce.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there is a need to set standards and expectations. Nonprofit crowdfunding is changing the landscape in online fundraising. If you’ve fundraised online before, ask yourself a few questions to get a baseline of what is achievable.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

According to the report published by the Columbia Social Work Review, adopting the right technology can help nonprofits achieve better results in their core functions such as fundraising, service delivery, communication, training and education.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

JustGiving.com , a UK fundraising website, incorporates GlobalGiving’s UK-eligible project portfolio. allowed users to fundraise in honor of a special occasion with charitable wedding registries and birthday fundraising pages. A: It’s always better to show, rather than tell. API For Celebrations. API For E-Commerce.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Have they discovered Japan's mobile phone novels fad ? A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. Mouse pointer track. We're not too sure how to feel about hipster puppies.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

When the earthquake hit Japan in March, nonprofits of all sizes, budgets, and national reputations put up Fundraising Projects on Causes. This is a trend we see frequently: small, unsexy, or unknown nonprofits are having significant fundraising success and larger, better-known nonprofits are wondering why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. He isn't the first potential donor to tell me that.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S. have further validated the effectiveness of text-to-give fundraising. give fundraising for everyday use, versus only for emergency or disaster relief. or www.mobilegiving.ca (Canada) today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Geoff Livingston talks Decentralized Grass Roots Fundraising in a Digital World. More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe. Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. The easier the transaction, the less tied that donor may feel to the organization. Can you move a $5 donor up the ladder of engagement? Will s/he even remember donating? Are you ready for it?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Creating Videos to Inspire Fundraising and Engagement. Tokyo, Japan: #NPOxIT最前線2017 - 米国テクノロジーカンファレンス参加報告­ - 第13回 NPOxIT Meetup - 情報共有・学び・交流会. Kampala, Uganda: Introduction to Online Fundraising. Durham, NC: What You Want to Know from NTC. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He lives in Japan. He was the second person to donate to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share and add my learnings here. Meet Michael Pick. Donate now.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2011

Is your organization working to ready itself to respond to the needs caused by the earthquake in Japan? Download and put our " Be Prepared When Your Mission Calls " rapid response fundraising guide to work for you. Author: Kent Gilliam. Convio wants to help you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s a good number, but that leaves 53% of nonprofits worldwide that haven’t yet come to the understanding that Facebook can be a colossal waste of time if you are not following these best practices and at least occasionally purchasing Facebook Ads for special fundraising and advocacy campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

6 I surmise from the report that this generosity was in response to basic human needs existing in developing countries and not as much by the natural disasters of prior years (Japan being an exception). “This tracks with data from Giving USA, which reported an increase of 3.8% in overall U.S. giving and a 15.3% REMITTANCES (U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Define, Measure, and Achieve Fundraising Success. Tokyo, Japan: #社会課題に向き合うwebデザイナーが­増えている!? Jasper, Indiana: NetSquared Meet and Greet: #Tech4Good in Jasper-Dubois. Wednesday, March 22, 2017. San Francisco, California. Code for America Civic Hack Night. SF Online Community Meetup. Saturday, March 25, 2017.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

I was talking about this yesterday with a group of fundraising professionals--non-museum folk--and one man told me about visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium with his four-year-old. People of all ages are sensitive to the messages that design sends. Have you made a decision with surprising consequences?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

I’ve been following the fundraising response to Japan very closely and so I was very pleased to be able to sit down with Katie Beth DeSchepper of StrategicOne earlier today. For example, they’re seeing the pictures of what’s going on in Japan – it’s on their mind all the time.

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See3

MAY 12, 2007

I have never written an article in The Japan Times, though I have written articles on politics, fundraising and web marketing. Luckily, my own ranking is moving up due to writing for onPhilanthropy.com, a newsletter and blogs following the world of philanthropy and fundraising. Don’t worry, I am not an anti-Semite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Laura was anonymous with her project for a year until she held a reveal party and fundraiser in July of 2010. I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. Since then, her project has been featured on CNN, Glamour.com, Fox News, and The Huffington Post. About how many agents do you have? I have over 1500 all over the world.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19

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Care2

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Only 1 in 10 gifts were given to the 9/11 disaster online vs. 1 in 3 gifts were given online/mobile to the Japan earthquake disaster. There has been a 61% increase in people who have given online between 2001 and 2011. In the 10 years of doing good online, people have gone from asking, "what's social media?"

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” And a peer-to-peer fundraising. And then, you know, you can send the links of what you need of the fundraiser you have and personalize each message, right? Is it fundraising? ” Right?

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