Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. Social media has radically changed how people communicate, including their calls for help.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. It was not an easy road for Nancy. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman. It as a lucky thing they did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Cool Factor : Mobile as a fundraising channel. Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Organization(s) : Save the Children and Verizon Wireless.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

When there was a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, people made a conscious decision to give to causes that were there to help others in need. The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was an important tipping point as it was the first significant spike in online giving immediately following a disaster.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

This represents a 5% decline from 2008, but remains significantly higher than other fundraising channels. Online giving continues to be a tremendous growth opportunity for nonprofits, even those that have been doing it for several years. Average Online Gift Trends. The average online gift in 2009 was $144.72.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In emergencies, such as after natural disasters or during blackouts, ordinary mobile networks can’t be relied on to get important messages to affected regions. That in itself would have been a remarkable and useful capability to provide to governments and network providers. Image Credits: Lynk.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2014

During my 4 years at both the local and national level, I worked on several disaster operations— from the house fire in the middle of the night to some of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the US. What does disaster fundraising have to do with ALS? Many of ALS’s new donors won’t give again.

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Video owned by and featured on the ABC News Youtube channel. Team Rubicon mobilizes veterans to offer their services, skills, and expertise to people preparing for, responding to, or recovering from disasters. . Organizations Stepping In to Support Haiti Earthquake Victims. Team Rubicon.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

This represents a 5% decline from 2008, but remains significantly higher than other fundraising channels. Online giving continues to be a tremendous growth opportunity for nonprofits, even those that have been doing it for several years. Average Online Gift Trends. The average online gift in 2009 was $144.72.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2017

Episodic donors give to nonprofits in response to disasters and tragic events, viral campaigns, and in reaction to the latest headlines. When there was a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, people made a conscious decision to give to causes that were there to help others in need. The internet empowers online giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. She also gave an example of young patient activist, Sara Ringer , who has a passion for spreading awareness and accurate information about Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Even better, email fundraising has the highest return on investment than any other marketing channel with a $40 return for every dollar spent. A classic virtual fundraising option, email campaigns are an easy way to reach all of your donors. Social media campaigns. Emergency campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? So, you have to really think about, in an incident, what are the contingency plans if your normal communication channels aren’t working? Remote work. But what if those systems are down?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So I’m Kari, and my background is kind of a little bit different than Jackie’s, where I’m more of the communication side, so holistically, how do you communicate with your donors, and what is that specific offer or message, and which channels do you need to use to reach those people. So is it a back-to-school campaign?

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. People giving to natural disasters this fall is a bigger concern than election giving.”

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