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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

" Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Can I be honest? To truly raise your nonprofit’s profile (aka increase brand awareness), grow your constituency, and raise even more money in 2011 and beyond, organizations need to also focus on innovating."

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#OceanLoveEarl: RIP Earl Kanter, MD – 12/23/21 – 6/23/13

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To honor my Dad’s memory and his love of the ocean, I am raising money for Surfrider Foundation in his memory to support their ocean conservation efforts. He was an early adopter of SKYPE. Participants, who were in the 60s and 70s were protesting they were “too old,” when my Dad’s SKYPE profile showed up on the screen.

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How do networks sustain themselves (financially)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). tools that facilitate this.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money.

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Curating Content: How to Leverage Stories from Your Community

Connection Cafe

There’s one common theme that we see in all of them, and in our own community, too: the incredible stories of the people who are fundraising on your behalf, or even working within your organization. You know that they’re not in it for the money, or the recognition — their reasons for giving their all are personal, meaningful, and powerful.

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Top Tips for Volunteer Recruitment During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Long-term support is crucial for driving your organization’s mission— the longer that a volunteer is with you, the more driven they are to accomplish your main goals and give to your cause (whether that’s in time or money). Online fundraising.