TechImpact

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Try putting a call to action right up front, “Sign our petition to stop world hunger”, or “Donate $5 to Habitat for Humanity so we can build more homes!” Learn the impact of their donation. A good way to find out what any audience segments wants to read, is by experimenting! See success stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). 18% of donors worldwide have donated to a charitable organization directly through Facebook. 11) Donors are very involved with their favorite causes and charitable organizations offline.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Hands-on volunteering days Nothing beats the power of getting ones hands dirty for a good cause. Pair food drives with storytelling sessions where students learn about local hunger challenges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

Americans donate nearly $300 billion annually to more than 1.2 Most donors believe that they are giving to worthwhile causes, but few conduct the necessary research to determine how effectively an organization uses donations to accomplish its mission. This is why due diligence is so important before making a donation.

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NetWits

JUNE 30, 2011

Romance me a bit, tell me some stories, and get me fired up about the cause. For example, if your appeal encourages me to help stop bullying in schools, ensure the linked donation form also includes a one-line quote regarding stopping bullying in schools. Lack of Social Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Send A Postcard from the Hunger site As we approach the annual Thanksgiving feast , there are more than 850 million people in the world who go hungry. In developing countries, nearly 11 million children die every year from preventable and treatable, with 60% of these deaths from hunger and malnutrition. Miss it and they???ll

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

1) From the outside, it appears that NGOs in Kenya do not have access to the traditional fundraising services that are so common here in the United States, such as a “Donate” page for processing credit cards and PayPal accounts. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

But a new survey of more than 6,500 people ages 20 to 35 shows they are inclined to give—and are more than willing to ask their friends and relatives to do the same—when they feel passionately about a cause. They work in tandem with a nationwide network of member food banks in the fight to end hunger.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her. How can you break through the noise? Partners in Health: Fanta’s Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. I grew up at the Jersey Shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

The younger kids are asked to bring an item in that is donated to a local community group in need. For October, the school is requesting donations of canned food for the local food pantry. " Hunger is not only local issue, but also a global one. obesity and chronic hunger and malnutrition. I signed up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2012

The To Mama With Love site encourages visitors, without any written instructions, to click locations on the map, read through the user-created word, photo, and video dedications to moms (or, “heartspaces”), and engage with others’ stories by sharing or donating. Data for Reporting. Organizations are also sharing data in many ways.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Some examples of powerful action verbs include: Help Save Change Beat Donate 6. Emphasize Charity Giving is the reason for the season, which makes the end of the year the most popular time for charitable donations. For example, if your organization focuses on hunger and food insecurity, you may consider Help take a bite out of hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Scott Henderson I was supposed to be leading a workshop at the Cause Marketing Forum on Social Media and Cause Marketing at the end of the month. I decided to do an interview with Scott to learn more about what he is learning about Social Media and Cause-Related Marketing. 1) Who are you?

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

Yet, by definition, true movements are more than a catchy phrase to solicit donations or promote an event. For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality. If you want to go far, go together.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Below are some recent examples I found of proceeds from songs, or CDs benefiting a cause or nonprofit. Putamayo World Music donates to a range of nonprofits. Proceeds from SERVE3: The Hard Rock Benefit Album will benefit WHY (World Hunger Year). It also raised money for famine relief in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

No purchase is required at any store, and karma points can be redeemed nine predefined good causes. both are on board) then turn the karmas into real dollar donations to those causes. are examples of the causes. Once you’ve collected enough karmas you can donate them to a variety of causes.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Fans’ obsession with the Hunger Games saga isn’t by chance. As a Hunger Games fanatic (if Disney creates a Panem-based theme park, I’ll be first in line to visit the Capitol), I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits can learn from the phenomenon and generate this type of dedicated following. Hunger Games Lesson 3: Precision Matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000. Michelle mentioned that this was their largest online donation action from a sponsor, but they had tested the idea with several smaller sponsors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

But giving, isn’t just about making a donation or volunteering your time. He created his own nonprofit and program called “” Brae’s Brown Bags ” to help fight against hunger, probably making him one of the youngest nonprofit CEOs and founders. Look out world! What could be better than that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The total number of donations reported is approaching 4 million, a 45-percent jump compared to 2017, marking the most successful year yet in terms of giving. Facebook and PayPal together offered a $7 million match for Giving Tuesday donations and saw that match gobbled up “within seconds” after 8 a.m.

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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. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We will empower our supporters to be champions of our cause through engagement and through our volunteer opportunities. We will demonstrate the real-world impact of donations and gifts to create trust and confidence among our community.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I just gave $25 to a person I don’t even know, for a Dance-A-Thon fundraiser supporting a cause I don’t even care about. But to be honest, I didn’t care much about that cause, either. Giving time and money to causes I wouldn’t ordinarily invest in. It’s not that people didn’t give to the causes they first identified – some did.

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Care2

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The World Hunger Relief Project is actively engaging in a social fundraising giving day on World Food Day this October 16 to get 10,000 people to raise $200,000. World Food Day's philanthropic goal encourages people to participate in small acts like a social share or a $10 or $25 donation. These small acts do make a big difference.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There, they welcome local hunters to donate specific, legally tagged, wild game meat, including deer, and they’ve designed an FDA-approved butchering process to package the meat for community members who select that food option. More than 98% of all donations go directly to feeding programs for people facing hunger.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2013

Want to increase support for your cause? While you''re at it, take a look at your donation page. DonationPay suggests some best practices for optimizing your donation page to increase your fundraising dollars. We loved reading this Points of Light blog post from an inspiring fourth grader who describes his work to fight hunger.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Kraft Heinz’s Rise Against Hunger Partnership. Several years ago, Kraft Heinz began a digital giving campaign called Huddle to Fight Hunger. The campaign donated a meal’s worth of money to food banks every time someone liked their Facebook page, combining philanthropy with social media marketing and brand awareness.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Some organizations’ causes don’t attract donations as much as solving world hunger or helping abused animals, but it doesn’t mean they’re any less important. If your nonprofit has a niche cause and you’ve been struggling to find new supporters, these tips could help. Instead, be yourself and own your cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 23, 2011

However, it's a fact that not every do-gooder cause I come across is actually accomplishing what it claims. That element is the spirit of volunteerism — what we, as participants in these causes, gain from our endeavors. Does he really comprehend what hunger or suffering means? Business is business, nonprofit or otherwise.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Fundraising is a year-round concern for nonprofit organizations, delivering the critical donations and contributions they need to keep their operations running. These hardships make it even more challenging for nonprofits to conduct successful fundraising and encourage donors to give more to their cause. Foundations.

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Classy

APRIL 7, 2021

A virtual event for fundraising is your opportunity to introduce your cause directly to a worldwide audience of donors, as long as you have a solid plan to attract them. We only expect that statistic to rise as organizations see their donation volume grow right alongside their geographic footprint.

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Achieve

MAY 13, 2014

When we first decided to address the issue of hunger in America through the development of a donation-based cafe model, there were many who told us that as a publicly traded company, it didn’t make “business sense” for Panera to devote time and resources to building a non-profit enterprise. By Kate Antonacci, Panera Bread.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Let’s assume your organization’s mission is to address a really big problem — say eliminating hunger in the United States. As a potential donor, what’s the point of making a donation if you don’t feel like your donation will make a dent in the problem it is meant to address? Allow me to give you an example. Problem solved?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some send one big appeal to fund their annual campaign, while others ask for donations at multiple points throughout the year. Maybe you find yourself planning a fundraising event you hold every year that causes lots of stress but barely pays for itself. Asking people to donate to a food pantry to feed 7,000 families is overwhelming.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It has become a fairly common factoid that around 60% of new donors only give once to that cause—however, showing love to your donors can be one of the driving factors behind donor retention. When you boil it down, nonprofit organizations are here for one thing: benefiting their cause. Duh, right? Say thanks—and say thanks often.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So when it comes to inspiring your donors to support your cause, you might consider creating a nonprofit explainer video for your organization. How familiar or comfortable are they with the causes or issues you address? Wondering what might work best to showcase your cause? What are nonprofit explainer videos?

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