Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Teens As Free Agents. One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! ” Philantroteens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Here’s a great example: “Did you know that 1 in 4 teens in the U.S. You can use it to introduce your GivingTuesday campaign and share what type of tangible impact a donor’s gift will make. Even negative statistics can make a statement that inspires people to be generous on GivingTuesday. Solving this problem costs only $.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

For instance, say your organization has an incredible grant writer, an excellent executive director, a communicative and empathetic major gift officer, and very capable fundraisers. You may provide an overall fundraising goal for your fundraisers and major gift officer to work on together. Donor-centric stewardship. Online fundraising.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

These steps make up the path organizations usually follow as they’re trying to encourage one-time donors to get more involved with their organization—like volunteering, creating a recurring donation, or increasing their financial support—sometimes up to the point of making a major gift or bequest.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Recurring gift drive. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits. Recurring gifts can keep supporters more invested in your mission. Steven Shattuck, Bloomerang’s Chief Engagement Officer , found that when donors give a recurring gift their retention rate increases to 90%. Matching gifts.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Either way, this site provides a go-to place for prospects to learn about the campaign, its goals, and the potential impact of a gift. Leverage these amazing stories on your peer-to-peer campaign website to further inspire gifts. Churches and other faith-based organizations can even use Givi to accept regular gifts like tithes.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

In an effort to encourage a larger number of people to make gifts to your capital campaign, consider a Friends Asking Friends page to purchase bricks, tiles or a commemorative item. High Schools projects, teens wanting to be active, bake sales, and birthday wishes are only a few ways you can leverage Friends Asking Friends.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? Fast forward to 2017.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. Katie had also been born with a cleft lip. She was self-conscious, rarely making eye contact with anyone.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A 40% increase in gift size. SVP Waterloo Region celebrated the day by launching SVP Teens, a group aimed not only at rallying youth, empowering them to “address problems facing their community” and teaching “them the importance and value of strategic and engaged philanthropy. Activity in 40 countries. 2 billion+ media impressions.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? This is an appropriate place to state that your organization does not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Does the parent have to accompany them? Is proof of age required?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Make sure your creative includes all of the following: Images: Timely and relevant; telling the narrative of the individual instead of the crowd; featuring faces of real people who are seeking opportunity (the empowerment the gifts are directed toward). Video: Content that focuses on the individual, not the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

After gifting a copy of Y our Network Is Your Net Worth to every 11 th grader, students rotated table-to-table, in fifteen minute intervals, meeting a variety of mentors; including filmmakers, the CEO of Surf Air, the man behind Movember (a mustache growing charity campaign), a jeweler, an advertising executive and more.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Think about all the teens that need community service hours!) Volunteers tend to fall into one of two categories: key volunteers, who envision and plan the event, and episodic volunteers, who do the day-of work or small tasks around the office. They may help with tasks such as distributing water bottles or helping at registration.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

In our Navigating the Unknown report , we compared in-person events with virtual fundraising events and found that in-person fundraising earned a larger number of gifts, but virtual attendees gave in higher dollar amounts. Why are hybrid events important to youth organizations?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. If you are a public foundation, the correct subtype to choose is most likely Gifts, Grants, or Loans to Other Organizations or Fundraising. The donation of GoToMeeting has enabled us to meet on a regular basis, keeping communication an important aspect of running our agency. Executive Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Qwerty Monsters are teens, age 13-17, who have gone mad for texting on their mobile phones. Are larger gift amounts soon to follow? Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics. Qwerty Monsters. View more presentations from Kyoo Slides. Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Take a look at how Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte puts this practice into place with their photo of a young teen purchasing baby supplies in anticipation of the birth of his daughter, who inspired him to graduate high school and pursue a college degree. Instead of simply posting “Donate now!”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

There were several events where we received gifts across that full range. We empowered a teen intern to make a video featuring MAH visitors to generate support for the project (shown at the top of this post). Most involved a fundraising ask, but we always made sure to welcome donors giving $1 as well as those giving $10,000.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. The greatest gift you can give me is your thoughtful comments. I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Clients can receive incentives for responding to case managers and organizations' requests in the form of digital gift cards. Find out more @ CareerHubUS and the CareerHub website.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

So, your message must paint a clear picture so the donor easily understands the impact their gift will make. Your tax-deductible gift will be used as efficiently as possible to save more animals. Do you help families, single mothers, abandoned pets, or teens with big dreams? Your message should also be short. Example 2: .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. Here are some examples: For a soup kitchen: Give the gift of a hot meal, compassion, and support, all for just $6.85. For a shelter: Your gift of $19.03 For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Inevitably, these are the people museums are going to want to attract to join the board and make major gifts. By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion on gift-giving, flowers, and chocolate on Valentine’s Day 2017. Toys for Tots does an amazing job of capitalizing on the toy purchasing to give deserving kids gifts. Think about the way gift wrappers work with department stores, while flowers might not need a gift wrap, there are ways to add value to get donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun. Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I also gave them some Traveling Postcards as gifts and I know that in that moment the girls, who lived high in the jungle in a remote part of Costa Rica, understood that they were a part of a larger community who cares about the health and well being of all women. It is a great way to make a personal connection by giving a gift of love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

  In partnership with Girls Court and The Surfrider Foundation's O'ahu Chapter , Derosier started The Spirit Sessions, a six-week program aimed to help at-risk teens redirect their lives in a positive way through surfing and other ocean-related activities.   How did you get interested in surfing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA). Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). For people who you know can’t afford a large gift, make a more targeted ask that makes it easier to give. Your generous gift provides role models, health education, life skills, and linkages to health services to young people in Africa at a critical point in their lives.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Give Families the Gift of a Place to Call Home. Many supporters will check out your organization online before making a gift. Giving Days are a GREAT way to engage major donors by asking them to provide a matching gift. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance. A Bench is Not a Bed

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Connect the story to the larger problem your donor will help solve with their gift. How did your donors help them? Show what changed. How is the character’s life different now? Don’t forget the narrative. This is a great place to use your Core Number. Download this infographic to make sure you collect and use the 7 basic story elements.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates. When people share their opinions publicly, they give institutions a gift—an opportunity to listen in. I was going to write to my community.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 23, 2023

Visitors can choose whether they are a parent, teen, educator, alum, or supporter. For example, your online donation page should include a variety of donation options for different audience needs, such as monthly giving options, pledges, and matching gift information.

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