Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences. © — PA Breast Cancer Coalition. Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort. Tags: Fundraising Guest Post. Utilize YouTube Annotations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. Organization(s) : Macmillan Cancer Support. From these examples, we’ve seen how mobile technology can be used to: Raise Awareness. Tags: guest blogging mobile social media. Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool. Integrated Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Twestival teams around the world are encouraged to think of other ways they can contribute to their selected cause; provide social media training, arrange for a local company to donate products and services, or leverage Twestival to strategize and create awareness. . Tags: fundraising2.0 So, can we have a Twestival every week?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

The May holiday might call to mind breast cancer awareness or newer contenders like #EveryMotherCounts. Capitalizing on both the holiday and baseball season, Father’s Day is dominated with messages of prostate cancer from the MLB. Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4 million people who now write on the wall about their experiences with cancer, donate money to the Arkansas Children's Hospital, and post pictures on the cause. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. So, Michelle started a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. . Stacey is doing this with gratitude, Drew is doing it by blame (blaming his cancer).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, if you’re raising money for breast cancer, you’re most likely going to have a large push for donations during Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. Any way you can tag team awareness efforts and get free media attention is always something worth exploring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Alex is a great example of a change blogger. What's that? I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

This article will list the top 5 stickers your nonprofit should use to engage with your supporters, build awareness, raise funds, and more. #1: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network) uses the Countdown sticker AND the Poll sticker in the above screenshot to get followers engaged in their upcoming event. . #4: There are over.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

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. My point here isn’t to devalue cancer awareness, but to show that more awareness is needed for diseases like ALS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. American Cancer Society ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

The panelists or poets include Danielle Brigida (NWF), Wendy Harman (Red Cross), David Neff (American Cancer Society) and Carie Lewis , Humane Society of the US. Tags: sxsw. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

You can expect to spend a year or more planning and executing a competitive event, but the rewards can be huge, as demonstrated by the success of the Colon Cancer Alliances’ “Undy 5000” event. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. In 2009, the event was in five cities, and raised nearly $600,000.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It helps build stronger connections within your community, increasing both awareness and support for your cause. Some other examples of similar campaigns include Movember , a global movement where men grow mustaches throughout November to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer, and believe it or not, #GivingTuesday.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re surely aware that Facebook fundraising is quite different from the digital efforts you conduct on other platforms. If a donor tags your organization in a fundraiser after they’ve given to it, make sure to respond and thank them for their support. Respond to comments on fundraisers.

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Neon CRM

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As a nonprofit, you can equip your fundraisers to share social media posts on their accounts to raise awareness (and more funds) within their network. Expand Reach with Tags, Comments, and Shares One advantage of social media is the ability to quickly reach a lot of people by posting shareable content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. ve also been interested in watching what the American Cancer Society has done with its virtual walk-a-thon in Second Life.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

Keep in mind that our organization speaks to a smaller population than your average disease support/awareness group since we specifically focus on advocacy and patient education. And never mind the fact that the average age of the colon cancer patient tends to be well outside the typical Facebook target group.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

Keep in mind that our organization speaks to a smaller population than your average disease support/awareness group since we specifically focus on advocacy and patient education. And never mind the fact that the average age of the colon cancer patient tends to be well outside the typical Facebook target group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

He, of course, was very aware of the launch of iPad and wanted one. (Me This online event allows you to create your own virtual bike and race through the California landscape using your story to invite more people to join us in the fight against cancer. (BTW, Tags: mobile. So after a good report card, I acquired an iPad.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They become more aware of global economies, of how our global economy impacts other countries, the opening of how we become more aware of our actions and how they impact others. They traveled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). offer reliable situational awareness. . Has tagging and category capability so media can subscribe to only what they’re interested in receiving. Tags: socialmediametrics ROI. Tis a test and nothing more!'. set audience. picked tools.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Tags: Global Health. Roundtable meetings are becoming a way of life in Seattle these days. Seattle Children's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

It did not spread until Pete Frates , the former captain of Boston College’s baseball team, repurposed the meme by challenging Steve Gleason to throw a bucket of ice over his head to raise awareness for ALS. This network map illustrates how the challenge spread from celebrity to celebrity by who they tagged. Blue it Up (Lung cancer).

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