Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

Last year we shared how the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) used Teespring to exceed their fundraising goals with a few clicks of a button. Last year our ‘Go gold with kids for cancer’ campaign was a really successful campaign because it had such a clear statement that reflected with people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about. Read our blog post to find out more about how videos can be powerful fundraising tools. The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” Read our blog post, How to Ask for Donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

In Darah’s words: I basically started the site in November as a combination of social media interests and helping others in their fight vs cancer. The sponsor would be committed to pay the charity at the conclusion of the day. Since, we have let the sponsor choose whoever they would like as a cancer charity.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For instance, family members of someone who died from lung cancer might donate to your nonprofit if your mission is to fund lung cancer research. You can also ask if the family would like to share information about their loved one via social media posts, emails, or blog post updates from your nonprofit.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Example: Immerse yourself in a magical night of charity. You may request that guests wear certain colors for awareness like “pink” for breast cancer awareness. The post Crafting the Perfect Gala Invitation appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

I got to hear Scott Dunlap who is VP, Emerging Opportunities/New Ventures at PayPal deliver a great talk that offers some persona for different actors in your nonprofits network and how they influence, activate, or raise awareness for your cause through social channels. He was asked to donate to cancer charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Movember, a fundraiser and awareness raising campaign for prostrate and testicular cancer where men grow mustaches on their faces and raise money for cancer charities, also encourages the use of selfies as part its community engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Why not send a virtual gift that sends a donation to support breast cancer research or some other cause?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. The New Cancer Research UK Smartphone Game. A New Tech Blog: Re/code. Re/code is a new incarnation of the recently failed AllthingsD tech blog.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

I’ve seen a lot of articles and blog posts about the #icebucketchallenge. If you asked the same group if they’d heard of cancer, I’m willing to bet they’d all say yes. I’m also willing to bet that those same people either know a cancer survivor or someone who lost the fight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. Make sure to read the full recap on the TechSoup blog.). Over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. You wouldn’t know it, but charity: water had very little Twitter presence before Twestival, compared to the way they use it now. So, can we have a Twestival every week? In my opinion, no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Movember is a "moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health.” This blog post is about my month long experience of raising awareness & money for men's health, as I grew my Mo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2016

Raising general awareness for your cause. As a result, your P2P campaign will grow your presence in these targets, and your awareness will eventually spill into new targets. The Boston Marathon — Supporters of an organization can pledge to raise a certain amount of money, in order to run the race in the name of a charity.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Part of a personal fundraising page for the Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation ‘s Gold Gala 2021. ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation hosted a raffle sub-event to raise additional funds. That means you need to make sure that your community is aware of your event. Give supporters PPE (Personal Philanthropy Equipment).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

You’re probably already aware that Facebook Live lets any nonprofit live-stream fundraising events , breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. For example, Stand Up To Cancer broadcasted news about a high school raised money during a “Sports Day For Charity” Don’t ask people to “Donate”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million charities in the United States alone and around 10 million worldwide. The American Cancer Society: When prospects explore ways to give on the ACS website, they see a clear statement about what they can expect for their donation. Your gift means we can continue to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

They used twitter to drive comments to the blog - each comment would generated 100 pound donation. expert, launches The Heart Kids Tweet-A-Thon On September 12, he spent 24 hours tweeting about his cause to help raise awareness and donations. His Tweet-a-thon raised over $5,000 for his charity on Twitter.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

international, and worldwide holidays as well as cause days and awareness events like Women’s Equality Day (August 26), Suicide Prevention Month (September) and Giving Tuesday (December 3) that are relevant to a wide range of nonprofits. The Neon One 2024 nonprofit calendar highlights U.S., How Can I Download the Calendar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This got me curious about the young people blogging about education or doing projects. Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

So, now we are seeing an emerging practice that for lack of a better phrase, I’m calling “Charity Jacking.” Charity Jacking is imitating a successful fundraising campaign theme or idea that has become popular and instead of encouraging donations to the original charity, redirecting donations to another cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Add a place on your site for bloggers to submit work and spread the word with blogs who focus on blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

It was then that I first worked with partners like (RED) that were just starting to use Facebook to build awareness around their various campaigns and initiatives. Today, nearly 25% of all charity donations on JustGiving’s website come through individuals that discover JustGiving charity projects on Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

Or a breast cancer survivor who was pregnant when diagnosed, and she received care thanks to a grant provided to the hospital by Susan G. Tatiana Morand, Content and SEO manager at Wild Apricot, recently wrote for the Venngage blog. For example, if I were a charity for type 1 diabetes, I would create pages for “What is type 1 diabetes?”,

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Grows Awareness Organically. Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks + using incentives to drive up donations. DIY Fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Grows Awareness Organically. Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks, creating a sense of urgency, and using incentives to drive up donations.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Grows Awareness Organically. Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks, creating a sense of urgency, and using incentives to drive up donations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Trending viral challenges – Virtual trends like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge or the “Tom Holland” handstand t-shirt challenge are extremely popular ways to not only raise awareness of an issue but also bring in needed funds. This is only for the brave at heart but is also a great way to raise awareness of your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Launch a blog inside your website. ? Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. ? Add an e-newsletter subscription form to your home page and every page of your website and blog. ? Select a website and blog analytics service. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Launch a blog inside your website. Prominently feature a “Donate” button and social network icons on your home page and every page of your website and blog. □ Add an e-newsletter subscription form to your home page and every page of your website and blog. □ Select a website and blog analytics service. □

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