Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

To celebrate, rather than eat cake, I’m fundraising for the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN). Please consider donating to the fundraiser with colleague Cindy Leonard. Ensure a diverse range of organizations can attend the NTC through scholarships. Today is my birthday!

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Although devastated by the loss of the NTC Scholarship bake sale cookies, the NTEN staff was quick to come up with other fundraising ideas. Karl, our IT Director, suggested one way he thought we could raise money for NTC scholarships. Watch the video, and donate to the campaign !

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

What: Nonprofit fundraising and marketing conference. Who attends : Professional fundraisers, nonprofit communications teams, and tons of vendors. Who attends : Professional fundraisers, nonprofit communications teams, and tons of vendors. Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). ANA DC Nonprofit Conference .

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I keep coming back to those words lately as I contemplate how the communications and fundraising landscape has shifted over the last decade. That's the topic Sarah Durham, Principal at Big Duck , is going to tackle in her 2010 NTC session, " Brandraising Online: One Organization, Many Channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. The photo above a recent NTC. Donor Perfect is matching the next $3,000 that is donated). Can you spot me?

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MARCH 4, 2011

Penguin Day Details: Date: March 20, 2011, 10 am - 4 pm Location: Josephine Butler Center, 2437 15th Street Northwest, Washington, Hashtag: #penguinday Get more information Register now Penguin Day is coming to Washington DC on Sunday, March 20, right after the NTC. Pre-NTC Events Well, it isn't really a bonus, as it's always part of the NTC!

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MARCH 17, 2011

The 11th NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference), a three-day gathering in Washington, DC starts today. Every year NTC brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and discuss nonprofit technology, strategy, leadership, and communications. Million Donors Uncovered and Interpreted.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Instead of running throughout the entire conference – and competing with everything else on the agenda – the Science Fair takes place only on the first day of the NTC; it's the sole focus of the conference at that time. In celebration of our 40th birthday on April 1, 2012, CDS Global is bringing the party to NTC 2012! CDS Global.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. For example, what happens when you tie your Facebook posts to your online fundraising appeals? The Overachiever's Guide to Online Fundraising: 9 Steps To Raise More Money This Year It's never too early to start preparing for end-of year fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Thank you not the last touch.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

This week, our members are hosting conferences, requesting session proposals, writing for the Huffington Post, and using video to fundraise! If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, you should check out the WVDO’s Regional Fundraising Conference. It’s weeks like this that warm our nptechie hearts. Have more news to share?

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Voolla turns volunteer skills into money for charities. Coming to NTC was inspiring, as I could connect with others who also wanted to bring more technology to the fight for a better world! At NTC, we were able to connect with potential partners interested in embedding our program into their offerings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. The photo above is from last year’s NTC. Can you spot me? I’m the fourth one from the right.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The best part of the NTC ? And when you donate you'll get a vote - a vote on which pop song the NTEN staff will rewrite and perform at the NTC. This week, Brendan learned that as good an idea as it may seem, you just can't raise money in World of Warcraft. THE PEOPLE! It's the diversity of our community that makes us strong.

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MARCH 18, 2011

Social media fundraising is driven by a combination of relationships and immediacy. Your gala event is a culmination of a year or more of relationship building, multi-channel outreach and face-to-face interaction, just like a social media fundraising campaign. Social media doesn't raise money, people raise money."

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NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Matching Funds Thanks to the generosity of Jon Biedermann , a long-time NTEN Member and Vice President of Fundraising Products at DonorPerfect, we ran a very successful 48-hour matching fund drive last week. 2015 nten challenge Fundraising ntenchallenge' Jon offered to match donations up to $2,500 but only for a quick 48 hours.

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MARCH 28, 2011

Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too!

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Figure out where you are spending your money and time Take the list above and break it into a new table. Review each of the items for how much money, support time, and planning time spent on them (monthly and/or annually). Do we have the right tools to fundraise? This should be a simple one page document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Nonprofits: Before you send your next appeal, before you drive donors to your website and before you launch your year-end plans, you absolutely must set aside time to put yourself in your donor’s shoes to guarantee that your fundraising strategy will inspire them to give more. October 24th is that day.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 4, 2018

Our friends at Bloomerang recently launched BloomCon, a unique one-day conference for fundraisers and consultants. With over 130 educational sessions spanning three days, there is no shortage of learning to be had at NTC 2018. International Fundraising Conference. Take a look! February 26 (Phoenix) & May 21 (Baltimore).

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

Every year I look forward to one very special conference - the NTC conference organized by the awesome NTEN team. Then there is the fantastic sessions discussing the best tools nonprofits should use to build websites and online campaigns focused on engagement and raising lots of money. NTC Beer: Wednesday, March 12th 7PM to 9PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

How does/that leverage into fundraising? short code fundraising??? ??? Some money for Katrina came in this way. Also mentioned that selling ring tones is a way to raise money. even though we find them annoying, they can make money.??? on your site and expect to raise money. Right now, not much going in US.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC, had a lot to offer for the nonprofits in attendance, and TechSoup was no exception. This is just a sample of the secrets MacLaughlin revealed during his NTC session. There Are New Rules to Email Fundraising. More from NTC. Champions at All Levels.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

As you must know by now, we're raising money to fund up to 57 scholarships to this year's conference. Tags: scholarship NPTech Fundraising NTEN 09NTC. We're less than $1,500 from our $10,000 goal -- but our campaign ends tomorrow! You can help put us over the top. book, Managing Technology. to Meet your Mission ! It's pretty hilarious.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

One thing often forgotten when organizations build social networks and make plans to "use" these networks (be it for advocacy, for fundraising, or just to drive traffic to their website -- maybe the most common if least helpful use of the network) is the first word: Social Think about your own, personal, use of Facebook and Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2015

NTC is the largest technology conference for nonprofits and this week I am heading there for the first time ever. For the past 6 years my entire focus has been on online fundraising and marketing, so NTC is my mecca. Email EQ for Fundraising & Engagement. What is the Future of Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers." He spoke about how the demographics of wealth has changed and fundraisers need to pay increasing attention to individual donors.

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APRIL 4, 2011

"It’s global connective tissue", said Stacey Monk, co-founder of Epic Change , who was part of the panel Up Close and Personal: How Storytelling Builds Movements at NTC along with Mark Horvath of Invisible People , Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love, Little Hearts , and moderated by Avi Kaplan of Rad Campaign.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Data''s New Clothes Speaker: Greg Schneider, Information Systems Director, National Institute on Money in State Politics. Can''t be there at NTC in person? What data are you wearing and what is it showing?

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Everyaction

APRIL 17, 2018

Our team was on hand to chat with the many nonprofit techies who stopped by, eager to mention their own experience using EveryAction to raise more money and maximize their nonprofit’s impact. Panel Praise: Raise More Money and Make it Home to Dinner on Time. Fortunately, we snapped a picture of our booth before the crowds assembled.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes?

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MARCH 19, 2010

Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes?

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Create an NTEN Auction Item In each of the last two years, with generous matching support from Convio , we've raised $20,000 to send over 100 people from small nonprofits to the NTC for the best learning and networking opportunity of their careers!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

We're still committed to sending as many people as possible to the NTC , so feel free to add to the tally and make a donation today. We'll keep sending more people as we raise more money -- we're just going to take a break from all that tweeting! Tags: 10NTC NPTech Fundraising. Exciting, right? UX Interactive. Jordan Viator.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising& Grants.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Why I’m excited: This diverse panel includes experience in the nonprofit industry, law, social media, fundraising and communications. Key Takeaways: Why it’s important to understand and engage with Millenials (Age 13-35), and how to use technology to engage them with regards to volunteering, fundraising, and more. See you there?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). Spending money on change is horrifying. The way I saw it, if we were going to make this kind of leap, now was the time to do it when we were still small. 'Fraid not.

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