ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Advertising fundraising events, posting educational videos, or creating engagement posts are all positive forms of communication that stakeholders can get involved with, opening the door for collaboration. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Use social media for positive engagement.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Understanding it and employing it is essential to creating responsible fundraising messaging. Listen to the TrueSense webcast: Ethical Storytelling in Fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

of total nonprofit fundraising. Online giving is therefore smaller and popular, but not targeted by fundraisers. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. The average 2019 online charity donation was $148 , yet online giving represented just 8.7%

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

When it comes to fundraising, we all know that there is no “one size fits all” solution, schedule or strategy. Each nonprofit has to consider its donor profile, budget, programming, specific needs and other factors that lead to the investment that makes fundraising as successful as possible. You’re a fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. Because many nonprofits rely on galas for the bulk of their annual fundraising (networking! How could we create fully-remote fundraising events that people would WANT to attend at home? fancy food! silent auctions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. How are you experimenting and learning about how to integrate social media into your fundraising and membership strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While my in-box filled up with many GivingTuesday requests from nonprofits that I support, I was struck by the creativity of how each organization incorporated giving Tuesday into fundraising or donor recognition campaigns. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

If you’re like a lot of our clients, you’re starting to work on (or at least think about) your year-end fundraising appeals. When it comes to developing messaging for a fundraising appeal, I’m asked one question more than any other: How do I get started? happen if you don’t hit your fundraising targets? excerpt from.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Give your supporters resources like The Top 3 Things to Do After Making A Fundraising Page that gives step by step instruction on the best way to get your message out. Take notes, whip something thoughtful up and send it to them along with a link to a quick, easy fundraising page. Annual Fund Fundraising Arts & Cultural museum'

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And this is just the type of professional development opportunity that I believe innovators in our field should be seeking out – more participatory convenings that bring together leaders outside your field of practice, rather than those with industry-specific content packed into a one-or-two-day meeting of the usual suspects.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. YouTube tutorials — YouTube offers special features just for nonprofits , including the ability to add fundraising links to your videos. Crossplatform and Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and Information.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Fundraising. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Rate each session from 1 (low) to 5 stars. Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. Leadership. Voting will be open through September 30th. My sessions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

I spoke about free agent fundraisers and the networked nonprofit. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. The main room had a cat walk because of a fashion show from Jedidiah USA later in the evening. It was the first time I ever gave a talk on a cat walk stage.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The homepage has three prominent options: sponsor a water project (which involves making donations of $6,000 - $20,000) start a fundraising campaign learn about the water crisis It''s no accident that only one of these three is a "learn" box. Fundraisers often say that "it''s an honor to be asked." This can sound disingenuous.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This action generates more discussion on the social issue and can lead to deeper actions such as peer fundraising or participatory behavior in events. This is important for long term social issue adoption and for the individual to do more than just act impulsively.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Do you hope to fundraise or garner more support by measuring? The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time. Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is where you link challenge to engagement through the use of participatory language that: helps individual supporters imagine themselves as part of the solution to the problem; underscores how they are joining others in a cause worth fighting for. Creating an “Opportunity” Narrative for Supporters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Personally, I’ve learned to work in whole new worlds, from fundraising to management to community development. It is incredibly rewarding work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz. She’s been a regular commenter on this blog. She’s been a regular commenter on this blog. Her book is perfect for small nonprofits who are looking for practical and tactical tips and wisdom in developing a fundraising plan. Zilch by Nancy Lublin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” There was a shift in the way they work, they had to be more transparent, with everyday fundraisers reports on numbers and people who were doing the challenge. This “Dr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Seattle, Washington: Creating Videos to Inspire Fundraising and Engagement. Kampala, Uganda: Introduction to Online Fundraising. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Sunday, April 9, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking. I'm a donor and let me tell you why. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. I know, I know. All the diligent boys and girls have already lined up incredible internships, summer jobs, and contracts with the circus.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2017

At our core, we are participatory government and our Representatives and Senators need to know what their constituents think about the issues on which they vote. This provision would give a charitable tax deduction to all taxpayers regardless of their itemization status. Follow your representatives on social media.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising, and marketing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We also discussed personal fundraising and another excellent question. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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