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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. There are three obvious and often forgotten tricks to having a successful fundraising event. Do not only ask once and in one way; people might not be able to donate money but they might be to give their time.

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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Putting relationship fundraising into action and measuring emotions is Craig Linton’s passion for 2013. A no marketing, no money, no mission wake-up call is Elaine Fogel’s dream. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. Words to live by! budget). .

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Ruby Sinreich Sets Up Facebook Fan Club: Hurry 1 hr 45 mins left to donate $10

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ruby saw this photo mashup that Dave McClure did and created a Facebook Grou p to help me! Love the update, "If Beth hasn't asked for money, you don't have a pulse." " Meanwhile, Sarah Dopp takes my tweets about sleep deprivation and junk food and turns them into a fundraising pitch.

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. My conclusion was that we're still in the early stages of Facebook Apps for good and that we'll see better results through effective collaborations between nonprofit fundraisers and application developers.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Openly sharing strategies and what worked and didn’t work can help save time, money, and a lot of wasted efforts at reinventing the wheel. Don’t create a strategy or even expect to use Twitter for the actions.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? Submitted by Ramya Raghavan. Definitely.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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)