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20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Overall, the stats indicate a continued upward trend in philanthropy worldwide, a steady increase in online fundraising, and mounting evidence that as the use of social media grows, so does online giving. In 2014, 1.4 billion people worldwide donated money to nonprofit organizations. Source: Money for Good. Source: OnGood. Source: MasterCard.

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Twitter Stats You Need To Know and Tips to Get More Clicks

Care2

33,000 : tweets per second in Japan during New Years. 80 percent : users on mobile in the UK and Japan. Note, these statistics were provided by Twitter executives. 400 million : tweets per day. 200 million : monthly active users of the services on a 30-day basis. 100 million : that figure a year ago.

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Trends in technology change quickly. It’s important to reflect the trends of how your consumers are talking to each other and make sure that you stay relevant. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How about Facebook friends in India? Probably not.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities. Journalists look for stories that follow a broader trend or that are in their beat. Tragedy - In Breaking Bad, Walter White dives into the world of making meth. Your campaign or cause has to be newsworthy.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Solving real-world issues in a virtual world environment is a growing trend, present in initiatives such as Zynga’s in-game Japan Earthquake Relief efforts as well as games like America 2049 , Ecotopia and others. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Who Says Email’s Dead?

Care2

In Europe, mobile email users grew 55% and in Japan 53%. According to a new comScore study on U.S. consumers', the number of users accessing email via their mobile devices has been growing ever year. In 2010 mobile email grew by 36% in the US.

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Community Is Better than Cute Cats: How to Raise Money for Your Unsexy, but Important, Cause

NTEN

When the earthquake hit Japan in March, nonprofits of all sizes, budgets, and national reputations put up Fundraising Projects on Causes. This is a trend we see frequently: small, unsexy, or unknown nonprofits are having significant fundraising success and larger, better-known nonprofits are wondering why.

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