Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Time will tell, but the contest has given us a jump start on our social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day is to get 35,000 people to support their favorite regional charity, raising more than $3 million in donations and grants in just 24 hours! I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Learn how Summit Assistance Dogs and Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ran massively successful virtual fundraising events : Tip: Schedule a demo with our team on how you can quickly start a campaign site for your virtual fundraising event. Jackbox is a great option for online games. Live-Streaming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. I donated $50 to the winner's charity. What was my birthday Wish At Age 6 ? Monday, January 11th is my 53rd Birthday! I hope you'll join the fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. . x (Total Retweets).

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OneCause

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We’ll cover seven of the most popular charity golf outing games: The Pink Ball. To ensure you can plan for the right amount of materials and staff to pull off the charity golf outing games your donors are excited about, include registration for these games in your registration form. Longest Marshmallow Drive. Closest to the Pin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. Amazon has made it easier for consumers to give presents to children in need by simply saying, “ Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

We need to be in the top four charities that get the most unique donors in order to win the $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Essentially, I am asking YOU for $10 (USD) to help children in Cambodia. I am just one woman along with many other generous people who want to make a difference in the lives of Cambodian children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. I’m known to care about charity. He brought together his three passions: I’m known to get tattoos.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Over $1,640,000 in gifts were given this year, and over $177,000,000 was raised online for charities and nonprofits. Individuals reflected on why they gave to a certain nonprofit organization and then shared these personal stories in a contest form on the #GivingTuesday website. Photos, especially those of young children.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

These apps have the power to help nonprofits and charities reach a whole new audience and raise awareness about their mission. As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore how charities and nonprofits are using gamification. Gamify Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

As many of you know, the Sharing Foundation won the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest at the end of 2006. I wrote quite a bit about TSF's sewing program and how the sewing girls in this program (like Sina ) make the uniforms for poor and disadvantaged children.

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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. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s not enough to say you want to make sure children don’t go hungry. You want to provide X number of meals to X number of children for X amount of time. You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests. What specifically are you doing to accomplish your mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more. The charity that I was raising money for built its preschool building with $35,000 in quarters raised from school children in schools throughout Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Host a watching party for major games at a bar where the tips and certain drinks go to the charity. You can use your health apps to track miles, or partner with an app like Charity Miles.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We are just weeks away from Tableau Conference and the ultimate visualization showdown —Iron Viz 2021—where three fierce contestants will take the virtual stage for an intense lightning round of live viz-tastic storytelling. . As a finalist, you will receive money to donate to your favorite charity. Ateken Abla. October 21, 2021.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We are just weeks away from Tableau Conference and the ultimate visualization showdown —Iron Viz 2021—where three fierce contestants will take the virtual stage for an intense lightning round of live viz-tastic storytelling. . As a finalist, you will receive money to donate to your favorite charity. Ateken Abla. October 21, 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Jennifer Paterson Dempsy, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada Just recently I asked for help within my social network at Twitter to spread the word about something I am very passionate about, Braille Literacy.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

It will be easier to ask many times if your site is focused on the topic of philanthropy or related to the mission of the charity you are raising funds to support. With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2014

Caravan Studios offers one of those different perspectives, and though still in its start-up phase, it has already delivered two apps: SafeNight for crowdfunding emergency shelter and Range for connecting underprivileged children with meals when school is out. The contest sought solutions to support and empower trafficking survivors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. He is a TEDx speaker and has previously won the Toastmasters UK & Ireland International Speech Contest. Simon offers consultancy to some of the biggest and smallest charities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

David also sent me an email summarizing responses from another UK Charity list. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. including videos from children and parents [link] Christian Aid???audio Anyway, last words.to MUST WORK ON PRESENTATION SLIDES. Here and here ). it.org.uk ???real???

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Step 2: Decide What Type of Charity Event to Hold This step demonstrates the difference between a simple task and an easy one. Competition: This is an event where you gather participants to compete against each other in some sort of contest. It could be a charity 5k, a pie-eating contest, or a battle of the bands.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Social media fundraising refers to the practice of leveraging social media platforms to raise funds for various causes, including charities, nonprofit organizations, and personal projects. 3 social media fundraising ideas Nonprofit Social Media Strategy Workbook What is social media fundraising?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets. With a pet photo contest, ask supporters to submit photos of their furry friends beforehand.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

NPTech Contests and Awards. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations. They apparently accept nominations from anywhere in the world.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

John Haydon is one of the most sought-after digital marketing experts for nonprofits and charities. charity: water. Tyler Riewer is the Brand Content Lead at charity: water in New York City. And creative problem solving (from puzzles and caption contests to improve and every episode of MacGyver ever). Derrick Feldmann.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

Less than two hours ago, Chase Community Giving made the much anticipated announcement of the lucky winner of $1 million dollars and five finalists each receiving $100,000 on its contest Fan Page. It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea. and Sdfj Dfsjlfkddjf. Change.org reported.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ? Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Add charity rating graphics. ? Offer contests that reward fundraisers who raise the most funds during the campaign. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Harry's last green tip introduced the Charity Contest that allowed readers to submit a comment that included a suggestion about how to save energy or be green and the name of a charity. The winner would be the topic of Harry's video and we'd donate $20 the winner's choice of charity. Here's the screencast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Experiment with online contests to build your email list. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Add charity rating graphics. Add charity rating graphics. Integrate mobile and social media into online contests.

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