CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

One classic example of this is breast cancer charities fundraising during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Every breast cancer charity should have October specifically marked on their fundraising calendar. Use this time for planning and campaign preparation. Always focus on what works best for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. It is everyone together that makes the difference. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Today’s blogging couldn’t be more different. Below are three examples from three different nonprofits: 1) e-Newsletter opt-in on the Marshall Project blog. Below are three examples from three different nonprofits: 1) e-Newsletter opt-in on the Marshall Project blog. Embed calls-to-action within your blog content.

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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. Donors may have a different outlook on donating to your fundraiser depending on the goal you choose. The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” Collettey’s Cookies. 2) Set the right goal amount.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 31, 2022

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time to recognize the importance of early detection, treatment advancements, and research. It’s also an opportunity to raise funds for breast cancer research through awareness events such as walks and runs.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

It is Different. I could literally see the American Cancer Society just across the street, but because they have not been added to FourSquare, the ACS didn’t show up in the Check-in search results. It doesn’t make a difference in searches on the website version of FourSquare, but it does in the iPhone App version!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Not that long ago, there were dozens of charity mobile phone donation programs vying for attention. One popular method of getting people to turn in their old phones has been to recycle them for charity. Phones 4 Charity. program provides collection boxes for schools, charities and churches and buys the collected phones.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

A study from the University of Notre Dame revealed that people are much less likely to donate to charities when using smartphones than when using computers. Providing different giving options encourages donors to give more than they might have otherwise. Researchers call this phenomenon the mobile giving gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

We have also started hosting local nonprofit meetups in different cities in the US to engage with nonprofit partners. You’ve had held different positions at Facebook, share an anecdote about an amazing experience you’ve had. I worked with a number of different clients, including nonprofit organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 60 years ago. Salesforce: You recently hit an incredible milestone of $2 billion in donations in the last fiscal year, a record for a single-mission charity. Treatments invented at St. Jude partner.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The following ideas are collected from events put on by top peer-to-peer fundraising organizations like the American Heart Association, Autism Speaks, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Susan G. These guidelines from Donna Wilkins at Charity Dynamics will help you determine how valuable a contest prize to offer.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. So what can charities do to embrace the future? Author: Julia Woodcock.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The goal of a large gala is different from a luncheon event, an online auction, or a bikeathon. Case study: The power of curating your events list Does curating a fundraising event really make a difference? It unites thousands of riders, volunteers, donors, and supporters worldwide into a collective fight against cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2012

According to studies by Chris Olivola “when people anticipate that they're going to have to suffer to raise money for a charity, then their willingness to contribute to that cause actually goes up.” For example, each walker in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer must commit to raising a minimum of $1800.

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sgEngage

JULY 27, 2021

In some cases, signature peer-to-peer events were replaced with multiple campaigns to encourage participation by fundraisers in different regions or with varying interests. During the pandemic, a new Guinness World Record for the most money raised by a charity walk (individual) was set by Captain Tom Moore who raised over $44.5

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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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Achieve

JANUARY 21, 2025

This level of specificity will help donors better understand the precise impact they can have on different campaigns. In the A/B testing process, you will create one version of your donation page with one photo style and another variation of the page that is identical but uses a different photo style. Spotlight popular giving amounts.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In another example, the American Cancer Society used AI to examine GoFundMe campaigns and found that over one-third of fundraising stories explicitly described financial hardships caused by medical issues. Its the difference between being constantly in reaction mode and confidently thriving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Here is a taste of five different lists I have built over the past few months. charity: water. Web + Social Media (excludes Charity Navigator Ratings). American Cancer Society. Web + Social Media + Charity Navigator Ratings (33.3% For a legend explaining how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Give a Virtual Gift on Facebook and Support Breast Cancer (or another charity) : Thinking about sending a virtual gift, maybe a teddy bear, flowers, hearts, or whatever? Why not send some geek love from NTEN ? Join the Red Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The chapter begins with the story of how I used Twitter in July 07 to raise money for the Cambodian bloggers conference, how Connie Reece raised thousands of dollars to support breast cancer, Stacey Monk's Tweetsgiving , Twestival , and the entrance of large nonprofits into the Twittersphere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

million charities and religious groups, according to Giving USA. The first step in choosing a charity is thinking about what you would like to accomplish. If the scope of your aspiration is local, find charities that are based in your neighborhood or city. Mandy Fricke. Community Manager. Nursing@Georgetown. Do your research.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 5, 2015

A few weeks ago, a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission alleged that four cancer charities had cheated people out of $187 million while spending extravagantly and frivolously. While not many people were donating money to FIFA, a lot were generously giving to the four sham cancer groups.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Games Done Quick’s (GDQ) next big speedrunning marathon for charity will kick off on August 16th at 11:30AM ET / 7:30AM PT on Twitch. This year’s summer GDQ will be a bit different than past years due to the pandemic: instead of taking place in a giant room filled with people, it will be entirely virtual. Image: Games Done Quick.

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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. View more presentations from Olaf Witkowski.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

Donating products to charities helps corporate bottom lines, reduces waste in landfills, and provides relief for people in need. With a record number of Americans living in poverty today, product donations allow people to use their limited resources to pay for food, health care, prescription drugs, utilities and other vital needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

In his keynote address for South by Southwest Interactive in 2011, Seth Priebatsch of SCVNGR demonstrated how game mechanics can motivate real-world action by distributing different-colored cards to the audience, giving them rules (no talking, no moving from your seat) then having them exchange cards until each row had the same color.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. The point is to see how far we can spread breast cancer awareness … and make the men wonder what’s up :) ". Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day?

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Leaders of Medway Hospital Charity in Gillingham, England, where such an event held is one of several adventure challenges they have planned for this spring and summer to support expansions and upgrades at the 588-bed hospital. During the past five years, the charity has raised the equivalent of $2.4

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Early access to charity races. Savory offers different perks for different giving levels to incentivize and thank donors accordingly. .

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CauseVox

MARCH 11, 2022

This means that decision making is quicker, without having to run it by different levels of management. Canine Cancer Alliance: Wag Love 2021). Canine Cancer Alliance: Wag Love 2021 – sponsorships). Another key advantage of a small nonprofit is less bureaucratic red tape. Need tips on hosting your next virtual walkathon?

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

I find that I am equally productive in both spaces with no transition ‘issues’ The only difference is my home office includes Max, our Blue Fronted Amazon, who always wants to chat! – Heather Butler , special events coordinator at Ronald McDonald House Charities NL. Foster Mindfulness. . Leave work at work!

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