Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2012

Shel Israel describes social or goodwill fundraising (individual raising money and giving to causes) as the “ cult of generosity ” – I would like to call “ Individual Social Responsibility ” – like there is “Corporate Social Responsibility,” it is also important for individuals to be generous. Flickr Photo by Time Anchor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2012

. ~ Pinterest: One Nonprofit's Story , Susan's Site • Marc van Gurp highlighted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Israel's "Pinsulin" campaign. Pinsulin: repin for those who pin 12 times a day , osocio • Christine Sculati created four Pinterest Boards to raise awareness about the California State Parks crisis. ~

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APRIL 7, 2022

i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). Texas Women’s Foundation promotes women’s philanthropy and raises money to support community programs that help women and girls realize their full potential. Areas served: US and Israel.

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MARCH 5, 2021

i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). Texas Women’s Foundation promotes women’s philanthropy and raises money to support community programs that help women and girls realize their full potential. Areas served: US and Israel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. I'll be using those to raise money for Leng Sopharath's senior college tuition. And Congrats to Shel Israel on the launch of his book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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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. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2015

A good playbook incorporates lessons learned, case studies, resources, checklists, and other useful materials for other organizations that want to improve their practice or adopt it. It can help raise the practice in a field quickly and for individual organizations it can be a huge time saver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here’s what I learned: Karen learned about the importance of self-care as part of her organization’s work on issues of women’s empowerment and women’s equality in Eastern Europe and Israel. Says Karen, “It is much better to do a walk and talk with a donor than meet in a coffee shop.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

In the aftermath of that quake, as well as flooding in Pakistan, fires in Israel, flooding in South and Central America, and countless other incidents, technology played a critical and often-life-saving role, and remains at the center of the ongoing advocacy and long-term rebuilding work in Haiti.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Following the success of the Penguin of the Month program, we raised the bar higher to engage with our online followers from around the world by giving them the opportunity to vote for their favourite with our Penguin of the Year. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

Along with the much needed rain coats, I wanted to give them something fun. The kids were thrilled with the donation. The young person on the left shouted out “Thank You Madame” upon receiving the gift. Others may donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? Giving 3 million people a platform to discuss something they're passionate about and raise awareness -- whether or not it leads to money donated -- points to Facebook's potential as a powerful social tool.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

September to December is a great time to raise money. Hype Services, Like Services Some organizations who provide a service see a huge spike in online giving around the High Holidays (think of tickets to services for college students or the planting of a tree in Israel ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. And, since I raised an additional $15 over goal, I used that money to purchase a t-shirt from the donor who put the campaign over the top! The last leg of the campaign was raised primarily on Twitter. A nice win win for both of us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Last year, I raised the money on my blog. My fourth personal fundraising campaign was to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. which manages the program. My family has sponsored her college costs for her freshman and sophomore years.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He was born and raised in New York City. His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. Daniel Ben-Horin’s life has been well documented. His last name means “Son of Freedom” in Hebrew.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

" Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. Furthermore, this idea has successfully removed a classic obstacle from the way: the confirmation SMS, along with the full plate and the boys’ smile is somewhat reassuring, as for where your money really goes."

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JULY 18, 2007

" Unfortunately I couldnt find any information on how much money was raised with this campaign. I see its in Israel. Furthermore, this idea has successfully removed a classic obstacle from the way: the confirmation SMS, along with the full plate and the boys’ smile is somewhat reassuring, as for where your money really goes."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

But according to news reports , it has increased awareness and dollars raised for ALS research. It sounds counter intuitive to ask people to donate $100 to ALS or make this goofy video and share on social. The association reports $15.6 million in donations since July 29, compared with $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. . How does the ongoing affinity/relationship building online and offline impact amounts raised?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Here’s an example of a successful print campaign where every aspect reinforced the key messages: The New Israel Fund (NIF) was embarking on a $40M Legacy campaign in honor of their 40 th anniversary. NIF is dedicated to ensuring ALL citizens of Israel — Arabs and Jews alike — have equal rights in a shared society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. 600 people attended and they raised $25,000 for the Food Bank. I literally gasped! Shel defines it elegantly as “Generosity attached to a branding strategy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

" Offering direct support to dissidents goes beyond this kind of slacktivism, according to Ben-Horin: "That's sharply raising the ante from the volunteer’s perspective. The piece criticizes Human Rights Watch for supporting open society activists, particularly "those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state."

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

All I could do was raise an eyebrow. So the cover photo had 35 people from many different countries: Israel, Peru, the Philippines, China, Guatemala. Interesting: Mark has had a reputation and been caricatured, but he''s actually pretty social. At one point we took a walk. Jose, where are you from?" Seems like a simple question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area.

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