Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Mobile has put a whole new spin on fundraising, connecting with donors, and kick-off campaigns. As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest mobile fundraising apps. Mobile Fundraising Tools. These mobile tools help you fundraise on-the-go.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

However, and unfortunately, the importance of using a visually appealing, perfectly-square avatar consistently on all social networking sites to build a powerful, recognizable online brand has yet to make its way into the communications and fundraising plans of many nonprofits. Water.org. Survival International. Nature Conservancy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Over the past few years, several web portals have started bringing disintermediation, the power of shared action and collective intelligence, and fundraising opportunities to the nonprofit sector. Kiva is probably the best-known example.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. The increase in use of mobile devices has led us to a place where mobile fundraising can no longer be ignored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Completion of Fundraising Campaigns or Big Project: Did your organization just complete a successful fundraising campaign or maybe you just launched a new web presence or database. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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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 6, 2010

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. After reading it, I did a book giveaway on my blog asking readers to suggest ways they might apply the ideas in the book.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

– Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "According to the study, “women at every income level give to charity more often than men do. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost! What’s more, at almost every income level, the amount women gave exceeded that of men in comparable circumstances.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Kiva :: Download. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Mobile Websites Smartphone Apps Text Alerts iPhone Apps Smartphones Apps. App Name: KivaAlerts. Updated: May 6, 2009. KivaAlerts is a super quick App that allows you to check the latest loan requests on Kiva.org. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The upcoming roster of courses include these instructors teaching on the following topics: Jessica Jackley (co-founder of Kiva) on social entrepreneurship. Dr. Thomas Wolf, founding director of New England Foundation for the Arts, on fundraising and connecting with donors. Other Fundraising Tips and Tools via TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. told me early on that one of the reasons Kiva works is that you see the exact goat herder you’re helping with your loan (not to mention read his story and look at his pictures). If you keep this fact in your fundraising strategy, it’ll save you a lot of heartache later on.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

NetSuite's integrated, cloud-based business tools can help enhance fundraising at your nonprofit or charity. Other nonprofits, including Good360, Kiva, and the San Francisco SPCA, have all adopted NetSuite. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, NetSuite. How Does It Work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. Questions to ponder.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Create a folder structure that categorizes your daily fundraising responsibilities. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. How Does It Work? See these examples of what nonprofits can do with Box.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

It was a broad gathering including everyone from consultants to students to startups – and nonprofits ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area focused Stride Center to the global fundraising platform Kiva.org. The day-long conference was also tweeted by many attendees, capturing quotes, tips, and useful resources.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Kiva breaks it. People to people fundraising breaks it. presidential election are giving us a whole new glimpse of the multi-channel communication and fundraising industrial complex in action. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? So, let's get out the nonprofit vote for panels at SXSW! Submitted by Gradon Tripp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Project Baobob , an organization that provides free education in business skills for Kenyan youth, and Kiva , a web-based organization that allows individuals, like you and me, to make microloans (rather than a donation) to individuals via the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. So, let's get out the nonprofit vote for panels at SXSW! Submitted by Gradon Tripp.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Fundraise, grant, spend – it’s not efficient. What can we do with groups like Kiva? Early stage ideas need early stage risk capital and there’s a gap in providing that. Something to show that a really good radical idea has a good chance. We also have to find new sustainable ways to fund projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Social Media Seth Godin points to Mark Rovner's insightful post about the current state of fundraising. fundraising, and direct mail is dying. via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

In the nonprofit sector, we have micro-fundraising (giving small amounts of money on social networks like Twitter). Allison mentions a few more like mico-finance like Kiva's small loans to entrepreneurs here and abroad. . On the tools side, we have micro formats, micro blogging, micro media, and more. In a session at the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Permal Shah of Kiva.Org talked about the importance of linking with stories and building bridge between the donor and the results. Permal’s comment made me think about some of my first experiments in social fundraising, where I raised money for the Sharing Foundation to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Bay Area readers: You can hear Pim and the co-founder of Kiva, Matt Flannery, talk about Fundraising for Nonprofits with the Social Web tomorrow, December 12th, at NetSquared's Net Tuesday. For more details go to Menu for Hope. It's a great chance to have fun and do good this holiday season. 300 in San Francisco).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

" So, it comes as no surprise that every holiday season the magazine chooses nonprofit partners and runs a fundraising/subscription campaign. Kiva connects individuals with unique small businesses in the developing world, and helps to orchestrate a one-on-one micro-loan. Here's how it works.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Submitted by Gradon Tripp. By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

And it might be inciting new forms from familiar ones—new roles for community foundations or new services from donor advised fund vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

  He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.     For my part, I'm loaning $25 to Prom Pha l, a Cambodian woman, via Kiva.  .   His goal was to inspire other people, just like him, to be the generation that helps end extreme poverty. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. And speaking of celebrities and fundraising , Frogloop, tells us how to leverage them to raise more dollars for nonprofits. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools."

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

They are thinking beyond fundraising to service delivery, health care, and many other segments of community activity for which they are responsible. In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

The most dramatic moment of the conference had nothing to do with charity fundraising. It covered many examples of how people were using Facebook for online activism as well as how nonprofits were using it for fundraising. Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote. She also included some practical advice.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) nonprofits in 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

When Oxfam contacted Rowse they said that Blogging for Chickens was, "one of the more interesting fundraisers that they’ve seen." Kiva : Kiva is a nonprofit that allows individuals like you and me to make loans through PayPal to entrepreneurs who are working their way out of poverty. People connecting."

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