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 ). More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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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. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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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. . These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Definitely.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What do you need other than money? How do we change the different ways we distribute money? Fundraise, grant, spend – it’s not efficient. What can we do with groups like Kiva? What we should be doing is appreciating that and design systems that take into consideration the ways humans work. What’s next?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

All Flora said she needed was enough money to buy a 50 kg. 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. bag of maize for resale.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Submitted by Ted Fickes. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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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.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. The most dramatic moment of the conference had nothing to do with charity fundraising. Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Like I said, we have more money, we vote more, we are engaged more in volunteerism. I think a lot of people think that if you talk to women, all you have to do is show the cute little fuzzy puppy in the corner and they'll give money. My woman fundraiser, who's a strong feminist, said to me, "Oh, I don't bother with women donors."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

--Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives. Give blood.

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