Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

Our book was one of four finalists, including colleague Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward’s awesome book, “Social Change Anytime, Anywhere.” My family is sponsoring Keo Savon, who we met this summer in Cambodia. As many readers of this blog know, my Dad, Earl Kanter , passed away in June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by The Inadvertent Gardener. Holly Ross welcomed everyone and thanked the event sponsors who made it possible for 50 NTC Scholarships. Oakland’s Extra Action Marching Band lead the way into the ballroom with clinging, clanging, trumpets, drums, flag waving, and dancers who danced their hair off.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Set a fundraising goal to sponsor a nail color on National Nail Polish Day (June 1) in the spirit of Movember. Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. Invite your supporters to share their cutest feline photos. Bike-a-Thon.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

If your organization has a fiscal sponsor, you are not eligible for Facebook Payments, which is necessary to receive your donations as a direct deposit. Tell the story with photos or a video. Photos do not need to be professionally shot and the video does not need to be professionally filmed and edited.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Between donations, sponsors, and bids so far in the auction, we're just about $2000 shy of our $10k goal. Photos are samples of just samples of previous work. Thank you to everyone who who has bid so far in our online auction to benefit the 11NTC SCholarship campaign. We're almost there! >

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, given LinkedIn’s emphasis on business and professional networking, it may be most appropriate to highlight corporate sponsors, board members, or companies who offer employee matching on that platform. During the pandemic, savvy fundraisers seem to have rediscovered the phone in particular.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support. Mention the donor in emails directly about the event they sponsored. This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. Photo and Bio. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Recruit two new sponsors for our signature event by Aug. Or it can be a professionally written story that reads like a feature in a magazine and includes professional quality video and photos. Do you have compelling photos and videos? Here is a sample checklist: Set marketing goals, Thursday, May 19. Capture your stories!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. A process like this can ensure that lots of different ideas are included but that the competition can stay true to it’s purpose or the goals of the sponsoring organization. (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!). Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

One of the best parts of No Shave November is that it’s inherently virtual: your participants take part by individually participating, then sharing photos and making donations. To help mitigate costs, ask local businesses if they’d be willing to sponsor your event.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The Beacon Lounge will be our home-base, and here are some of the fun things they have planned to make it your home-base, too: Daily Events in the Lounge include: Breakfast from 9-11: Get your morning buzz on with coffee and food sponsored by The Colorado Health Foundation. Sketchnotes by Mike Rhode.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. Partnerships – We partnered with as many groups and sponsors as we could. I caught up with Rob Wu, co-founder of CauseVox , the platform used to support this fundraising effort, to learn more about the process and campaign.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Test 3-4 new Facebook Ads: Test different ad types (promoted post, sponsored story, etc.), Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. It will also provide you with a sample chart of accounts of my design and one called the "Unified Chart of Accounts," which was created by a number of major nonprofit support organizations. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Photo by Jonny Goldstein. s weekly sampling of the best of the web videosphere. Morimoto in this sponsored web video series. Some rights reserved. Here's two of my favorite video bloggers! Jonny Goldstein has been exploring the medium of social media talk shows and Steve Garfield will his guest. Vlog Soup -Steve???s Iron Chef???

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

If your organization has corporate or major sponsors that are interested in donating a matching gift for a certain time period and/or up to a certain dollar value, it’s easy to add this in on Classy’s backend. Don’t be shy to include a photo or video as well. They are powerful to use year-round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Recommend by LG Davitian : See Sample Policies in Appendix. Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing and other forms of online dialogue (unless posted by authorized Easter Seals personnel) are individual interactions, not corporate communications. Updates from Twitter: Ckreutz points to his del.icio.us Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. You can also take photos and share videos on social media to make this more of a community event.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

photo c/o JD Lasica. The doGooder awards sponsored by see3 and YouTube presented at NTC celebrates the best in cause video over the course of the year. Just be sure to join NTEN CEO Amy Sample Ward and Membership Director Megan Keane for a webinar on February 26 to learn how to get the most from your first NTC experience!

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Sample Ideas for a Doctors’ Day Program: Simple website for Doctors Day: a place to make donations and send notes. Luncheon/Doctor’s Day Party/Other special event sponsored by grateful patients. Letters to patients asking for their stories, including a sample. Build a Physician Committee to design the program and give input.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From your logo and campaign hashtag, to sample posts and scripts, to printable materials and essential language about your campaign, the toolkit distills all the insights you have as a fundraiser into one easy-to-find resource. Working with Sponsors. There are almost endless ways to recognize your sponsors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

I've included a sampling below, and hope that you'll add other events in the comments. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Instead of asking people to help you reach your arbitrary goal of $10,000, tell them that for $77.80, they can sponsor a child in your program for a year and you have 150 kids who need to be sponsored. You can use the Giving Tuesday logo if you want, but stick with your own photos. See the difference?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Below is a sample email I sent to our captains, complete with a template they could use to motivate and equip their team members. “Hi With the help of the organization’s communication team, we crafted several sample posts for Facebook and Instagram that our fundraisers could copy and paste as their own. Get social! Sincerely, Thomas S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. We also had a Christmas tradition where instead of giving each other gifts, we sponsored a family and bought them presents instead.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

Cisco sponsored the project and provided the hardware for the network. If you’re curious to learn more about what we covered in this session, check out the amazing notes that Amy Sample Ward covered live and posted on her blog. Photo Credits: SteveLavo (Flickr).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Reach out to potential sponsors. Let’s take a quick look at some of the major social media platforms: Facebook: On Facebook, not only can you share videos, photos, and written updates, you can also create groups dedicated to your cause, events, or volunteer program. Reach out to potential sponsors. Find more major gifts.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Ask your congregants to help sponsor the trip you’re taking by donating pre-determined amounts associated with the number of miles you’ll be traveling. Chains like Chipotle, Target, and other major retailers regularly sponsor “spirit nights” for schools, wherein a percentage of their sales is donated to the featured school.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Use this short section to thank local businesses, sponsors, media, scout troops, etc., Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Meaningful numbers will show the donor you’re doing your job and that builds trust which is the backbone of donor-based fundraising. Thanks to you.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Pivot this to virtual by having each participant upload a photo or live stream themselves walking their “at-home” runway. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets. With a pet photo contest, ask supporters to submit photos of their furry friends beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I quickly took photos and did a fast video of him explaining it. Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk did plan and execute one hell of a surprise party! Joe Solomon Danielle Brigida Britt Bravo Steve Bridger Rebecca Krause Hardie Rosetta Thurman Mark Horvath. Amy Sample Ward wrote a reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. 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. This is just a sampling.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So on a very simple level, I’m sure most of us have seen a 360 photo on Facebook. It’s not focused on this perfect, beautiful photo of you that’s completely filtered. And then does your audience mainly like photo, or video or, text? I’m going to show you some sample social media posts.

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