Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Show some love in the next fews at To Mama With Love , a creative social fundraiser that leverages the emotional connection we feel with our own mothers or our own pride of being a mom. Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change , says forget spending money on stuff to celebrate your mom on Mother’s Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Go participate and if you happen to be the winner, go donate the money to Stacey Monk’s, founder of epic change, new amazing project, LaLaLove. Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

It's all of those things, but it's also something else: a real-time fundraising tool! Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. These examples show just some of the ways Twitter can enable real-time fundraising.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. As people become digitally connected, they gain access fundraise from empathetic individuals around the world. Blockchain to combat corruption.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman building a school in the African nation of Tanzania. Happy Tweetsgiving!But

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money. Built around Thanksgiving, the idea was for Twitterers to tweet (post) something they are grateful for, and at the same time post a link to Tweetsgiving where a donation could be made to build a classroom in Tanzania. The goal was $10,000.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Using the Web and Internet. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. But as the story behind Tweetsgiving demonstrates, the real focus is not to raise money but to share gratitude all across the web. Tags: Video fundraising youtube storytelling social media web 2.0 Any questions? Write in the comments below.

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. The American Red Cross reached tons of people on Twitter and Facebook after the tragic earthquake hit Haiti and raised a historical amount of money via texting to donate campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. All Flora said she needed was enough money to buy a 50 kg. For example, VEF gave a $100 grant to Flora Khaombi who was struggling to provide food, clothing, healthcare and education for her two grown daughters and her grandchildren.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

” Mpesa works on really basic phones and allows users to deposit money, and most importantly to transfer money using SMS (texting) to other users. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate.

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