Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Want to Raise Money Online? Your Donors Don’t Live Only Online or Only Offline, So Why Do Your Communications? Pitman , author of the Ask Without Fear!

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Participants who used Twitter raised more money and reached more donors than non-Twitter users, tripled their personal fundraising goals, and raised nearly 10 times more online.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. This will help you raise more money and deal with list churn, which according to the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services can be almost 17% per year for nonprofits. Here are some key findings. No surprise here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Raise more money. Raise more money – Write posts that will guide and encourage people to give. Make it easy for people to give online and offline while also showing people how you are using their money. Raise more money – Use a tool that makes it simple for people to give online. Build loyalty.

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APRIL 1, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Want to Raise Money Online? Your Donors Don't Live Only Online or Only Offline, So Why Do Your Communications? Pitman , author of the Ask Without Fear! by Roger M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Check out the video. Negatively? Positively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Definitely.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

But in order to truly analyze the effectiveness of your program, you need to be able to go beyond how much a campaign raised and track where all that exciting activity came from. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN steve peretz Communications. www.mrss.com.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

But today’s “older” donors are gradually being replaced by the newer, younger donors of tomorrow – people who have grown up managing most of their lives online – and this includes getting involved with their favorite charities and donating money to the causes they believe in, online.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other citizens -– volunteers, by and large. Or was power based in the individual relationships offline and online, many of which continued to grow and strengthen after this day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Definitely.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Definitely.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

After all, we know that offline donors who are on our email list have a higher average gift. It's important to understand that we don't judge our Facebook efforts strictly by funds raised. We didn't know we would be making money there, but we knew it was important to have a presence where people might be looking for us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Share the story behind your brand Whether you are a large, established organization, or a small grassroots project, you are constantly asking your supporters to trust that you will use their money and time to do good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? He got a donate now button and raised $10,000. 1-5% are uber activists who raise the money. There are offline ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Today's challenging economic times mean a lot of nonprofits are looking for new ways to raise money. If your organization, like many others, has yet to experience strong results raising funds online, the coming year provides an ideal window to experiment with new approaches. have shopped online.

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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. I've heard Randi speak a couple of times, including this informative webinar hosted by NTEN. She also included some practical advice.

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MARCH 15, 2011

The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer who I've meet before face-to-face through attending NTEN NTC conferences, although we first encountered each other via leaving comments on each other's blogs. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. 2) No one knows with any degree of precision how much money is raised each year via direct mail. So I do know whereof I write. nonprofits in 2008.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 Billion. From periodic candidate updates and requests for time, money, and votes to virtual phone banks , national and local campaigns are finding new ways to mobilize a growing percentage the US's 277 million mobile users. Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world. More than $550,000 was raised last March.

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