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Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month. And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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A shared WordPress framework cuts costs for MENTOR and affiliates

The Nerdy NonProfit

The ArcStone team originally sat down with MENTOR MN (formerly the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota – MPMN) at the beginning of 2016. At the time, MPMN was just starting to think about a website redesign; their current platform was simply outdated and wasn’t serving their audience effectively. The End Result.

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Empowering Faith-Based Organizations With Innovative Donor Management

Bloomerang

Thomas More Catholic Newman Center, the Catholic campus ministry at Minnesota State University, Mankato, needed a solution that offered mobility to support the spiritual development of approximately 4,000 college students during a critical transitional time of their lives.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

T he Minnesota Council of Nonprofits found that 50% of about 300 nonprofits surveyed said they've struggled to hire new employees, while 40% are dealing with significant staff turnover. Chatbots are the fastest growing use of smart tech by organizations and many platforms exist to build them without knowing how to write computer code.

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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Social media specific webinars. Incentivize video creation and video sharing.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day.

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