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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GiveMN 2012 by the Numbers by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist. For “giving days”—which are becoming increasingly popular all over the country—social networking and digital communication such as email and blogging are key to driving big results. Check it out: Click for our full Give to the Max Day 2012 results.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is the change that will result? The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. What is the definition of success? Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday.

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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. So why is this buzzword suddenly all over the place in the nonprofit world?

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. What resonated with the crowd (based on a quick sample of tweets), was the idea of using a failfest to share what didn’t work and look at ways to improve results. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. @ kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/.

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2 Strategies for Overcoming Common Fundraising Challenges All Nonprofits Face [Infographic]

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are two simple ideas I’d like you to think about as you close out 2012. Oh, and those who implement multi-channel fundraising strategies that take online donors to offline channels see up to 3X better fundraising results. Check out the full 2012 State of the Nonprofit Industry INFOGRAPHIC. Frank Barry is a Sr.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

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Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While giving related to Hurricane Sandy may boost total fundraising in 2012 it is unlikely to change fundraising results for most nonprofits. The good news is that in the first half of 2012, new donor numbers are on the rise with almost every sector experiencing some degree of growth. billion in revenue. No more guessing.

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