Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. How much good will is generated by those contributed and by the winners of the contest whose works will be posted on the Nature Conservancy’s FB and Tumblr.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Need some inspiration? Here’s a couple examples pulled from recent CauseVox campaigns. Source: Neverthirst, Workout For Water).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Men being trained to use Martus to enter testimonies.Our human rights team is active all over the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A compelling example good social media fundraising practice comes from WildlifeDirect, a nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya founded by Dr. Richard Leakey. According to Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director, their approach to fundraising was to build a worldwide online conservancy community. We treat our donors as partners in our programs.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. Take this compelling example of how deep engagement can lead to better results from Wildlife Direct.

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