Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I just entered you, dear readers, in the Be A Better Inspiration Contest over at Yahoo. So now, if you can vote for the story and we win, we get a crack at raising some more money for the Sharing Foundation. The contest is about telling a story about someone's good deed on behalf of an nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. Here's how it works: Yahoo! Send poor Cambodian to school, provide employment for young women in Cambodia, and help the Sharing Foundation raise additional dollars to help address poverty in Cambodia.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wendy worked at USA Today and Yahoo in their early years. In parallel to her main career, she has for many years consulted to start-ups and social enterprises to build strategy, professional leadership, and fund-raising capacity. Wendy started a jellybean business during university.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He is also a member of the all-volunteer workforce at NeighborShare, a new nonprofit raising funds for di-rect community needs. Wendy worked at USA Today and Yahoo in their early years. Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He is also a member of the all-volunteer workforce at NeighborShare, a new nonprofit raising funds for di-rect community needs. Wendy worked at USA Today and Yahoo in their early years. Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Considering the major benefits that corporate partnerships can offer, your nonprofit needs a defined strategy to raise more from corporate philanthropy and build stronger relationships with businesses. Later on, we’ll cover a few strategies to help raise more from corporate giving.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

When this came to light, Yahoo was in the midst of negotiations to sell the company to Verizon. Instead, during a sensitive time, Yahoo found itself publicly announcing that it had been hacked—the largest in history—by a “state-sponsored actor.” In that case, they probably should not be in operation anyway. . and abroad.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Yahoo faced a similar panic among Delicious users when the news leaked that Delicious would be closing and Yahoo lost its chance to explain the transition and where the service was heading to users on it’s own terms.

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JULY 12, 2021

Nearly three out of four young adults are willing to raise money on behalf of an organization that matters to them. 88% of dollars raised comes from 12% of an organization’s donors. For every 1,000 website visitors, a nonprofit raises $612. Yahoo users give an average of $120 per donation. and 11:00 p.m.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

A profile that is 100 percent completed makes a strong first impression upon LinkedIn members and anyone who might be searching for you in Google or Yahoo! There are also a wide variety of groups related to nonprofit professional networking, job seeking, fund-raising, communications, and philanthropy.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Types of advertising can include a combination of any of the following: Social media marketing and news feed ads Search engine marketing ads (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) Encourage your donors to engage in a virtual 5K or a challenge like No Shave November , or the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for a critical cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do. Its seven other backers include Yahoo!, The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Every major email reader (Outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc) can handle images just fine. First , make sure you are using an emarketing tool that allows you to track all of the basic email statistics (open rates, clicks, actions taken, money raised, etc). Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I did want to report on how we're beginning to put the generous dollars you all contributed (matched by Yahoo) to work. As many of you know, the Sharing Foundation won the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest at the end of 2006. The blog campaign raised $49,000 which was matched by Yahoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. We need just a few minutes of your time and a few dollars before December 31, 2006 Here's how it works: Yahoo! If our campaign has the most individual donors, Yahoo will match what we raise.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

billion online searches a day are only attributed to one search engine, not accounting for Bing, Yahoo!, Don’t miss out on key opportunities to be found online, raise funds and garner support for your cause or mission. That’s roughly three. queries per minute, and more than 3.5. And that’s just Google – 3.5

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

This is not a new concept, of course: eScrip , iGive , and Yahoo’s goodsearch goodshop are just a few examples of similar programs that work across many different merchants. So while the developed world spends on a new party outfit or the latest toys for their children, a small portion of that can go to feed. Tried and True Concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

via Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog Network for Good today launches their charity badges with some great support from Yahoo! The main incentive for me to set this up was that you can also create it through Yahoo!???s s web site. Great publicity! One thing I forgot to add. this is a beta release.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The larger the donor file, the greater the number of dollars raised. The Chronicle of Philanthropy article, More People See Charities’ Emails After Groups Pare Address Lists , highlighted the growing trend of “gray-listing” by large ISPs such as Google and Yahoo. As fundraisers, we put a lot of stock into email housefiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

A profile that is 100 percent completed makes a strong first impression upon LinkedIn members and anyone who might be searching for you in Google or Yahoo! There are also a wide variety of groups related to nonprofit professional networking, job seeking, fund-raising, communications, and philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

If your campaign has the most individual donors, Yahoo will match what we raise. Is there a better $10 gift? Simply click on the orange donate button on the charity badge located in the side bar or right below. So, why not help us today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We We raised $53,000, plus we got a $50,000 prize). The connection between these two items are two people, Mark Rovner and Katya Andresen. The Wired Wealthy. Do you think the $53,000 came from $10 gifts?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) The opportunity for great success in these social media waters is there for your taking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. The Summit, hosted by coalition partner Yahoo! The 18Seconds.org website, built by Yahoo! I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. They invite you to join coalition, which we will formally launch February 22.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

I voted for the Red Cross in honor my colleague Wendy Harman) Ever since the first online competition launched in December 2006 by Network for Good and Yahoo (ahem, I came in first for my charity, the Sharing Foundation ), online contests have been a popular way for corporations, Web 2.0 This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

I know the badge says I've Raised $49537 from 745 Donations! We now await the results of the Network for Good/Yahoo Challenge. I woke up this morning and I'm sitting here utterly speechless and with tears of joy!! Everyone's generosity is very heart warming and wonderful!! Thank you so much for contributing to the campaign.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Twitter's technical staff was only 10 percent women, and Facebook and Yahoo's was at 15 percent. You can raise awareness by sharing the news using the hashtag #TechHire on social media and following @WhiteHouseOSTP on Twitter. Caucasians made up 60 percent of computer science degree recipients.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander. It's the Key" on the back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

I shared some learnings from the recent America's Giving Challenge Campaign which raised a total of $93,000 (included the $50K prize) from 1829 donors (1650 official count on 1/31 at 3 PM EST) in 50 days. This social media for the nonprofit sector panel also included David Wilcox of Desigining for a Civil Society and Nick Booth from Podnosh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

One thing led to another, he ended up being the star of our benefit in Filene's basement, which was aired on National Public Radio and raised $50K! The title reminded of a post over at the Yahoo Blog, titled " Fundraising Meets Social Media " Allison's post looks at the Six Degrees from Network for Good. Is that Web2.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2011

Take Gmail or Yahoo mail on the other hand. Scenario 2: HR Victory Your HR director is stressed because finance just told him this will have to be year three without staff raises. But…have you ever tried to access your Outlook via webmail? It’s kinda ugly and clunky. It’s web-based.also known as “in the cloud.”

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APRIL 16, 2009

Did you raise as much revenue as you planned? Monitoring hard bounce rate is useful as it helps to spot strategic problems like email signup forms that allow visitors to enter invalid email addresses or an issue with a particular ISP such as AOL, Earthlink, Google, MSN, Yahoo, or others. Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

In one year, with about eight people, no budget and two main events, we've raised over $275k. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? Tell me about your thesis. How will your thesis inform you work in June? What influences you in the actions you take?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

You can subscribe to the Yahoo Pipe. Peter Deitz has been working tirelessly on his personal fundraising campaign to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 featured projects. Sort of like a Social Media Amish Barn Raising? You can find the complete conference agenda here. Find out more here. The conference tag is n2y2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. s about more than raising money. whether you???re Build off your existing brand. All about the Forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s now a felony in all 50 states But this case brought dogfighting into the spotlight and raised awareness to people that may have never heard of it before. trackable Raise awareness ??? WHY THIS CAMPAIGN What Vick did was a horrible thing, and dogfighting is a dispicable crime. That way can recoup the $ spent and justify time spent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

In November 2006, WhatGoesAround.org announced that it would merge with NetworkforGood , the online giving portal that AOL, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems launched together in 2001. The world of group fundraising websites has already witnessed its first round of consolidation. His deadline is Jan 10th, so check it out! His campaign video is here.

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