Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Fox has shown interest in doing NFT tie-ins before, but this one leans on a community aspect that we’ve seen other NFT projects use (sometimes to great success , other times to disaster ). Fox also seems like it wants this project to become more of A Thing than the collectibles released by other TV shows.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. The more you learn about disaster preparedness, the more badges and points you can earn to become the ultimate San Francisco hero. Gamify Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

There's information about heat safety, pet first aid, and disaster planning. They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. Two pet owners will receive a free copy of the Dog First Aid guide and DVD.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Disaster Response. International Disaster Community of Practice. Public Social Media Platform for International Disaster Response. Vote for this Idea].

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Sports tricks contest. Virtual holiday lights tour and contest. Emergency campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Other instances where text-to-give is an ideal option include giving days, disaster relief, and weekly church giving. Ambassador fundraising mobilizes your loyal supporters to conduct their own personal fundraising in the form of contests, challenges, campaigns, and more for your event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Electronic rights firms like the EFF , meanwhile, have called such technology “a privacy disaster waiting to happen.”. What we try to counsel, encourage or strong arm clients into doing is, ‘hey, before the robots show up, we need to have an intro, the robot’s coming, a robot lunch, cake, robot naming contest.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! The question is "When is video a good. choice and when it is not. And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Friendly Competition: Incorporating contests, leaderboards, and milestones in your campaign can foster a sense of competition, motivating fundraisers to reach higher goals and surpass their expectations. The flexibility of these campaigns allows nonprofits to tailor their fundraising efforts to their specific needs.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

The more detail you include in your fundraising plan template, the easier fundraising will be throughout the year because you’ll always know what to do next with no more guessing or DIY disasters. You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests.

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For example, say someone wanted to find information on how to donate blood following a natural disaster. That’s an organization that has been active for almost 150 years, and in that time they have become one of the world’s foremost authorities on natural disaster response and blood donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2024

a community project, medical expenses, disaster relief). You can create videos to share with your audiences for many reasons, but when the goal is to drive donations, there are a few things you want to include in your video. Identify what you’re raising funds for (e.g., Comment “donate” and we’ll send our donation form to your DMs!”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. Even when it’s kind of a disaster, I try to be methodical about it instead of just ranting. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Such foundations do not exist to give emergency aid during crises arising from war or natural disaster; instead, their purpose is to attack social and scientific problems at the root, a process that sometimes requires substantial allocations of grant money over 5, 10 or even 20 years. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Because the international community and media have failed to respond to this environmental disaster, they are bringing the campaign to the Social Web.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. It also focused the experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Whether you think that''s incredible or a disaster depends on your point of view. Terms like "inclusive," which have become commonplace in the field, are still highly contested when put into action. Our greatest champions and our loudest critics agree: our museum has become an inclusive community gathering place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

I have not come across too many organizations using Slideshare for fundraising , although I’ve seen a few breath taking decks created by “free agent&# fundraisers for disaster relief efforts over the years. National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare for its presentations, but also to promote the winners of their photo contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why Causecast is a Fundraising Game Changer: Workplace giving platforms like Causecast are one-stop portals where employees can donate, request matching gifts, quickly respond to disasters and tragedies and launch crowdfunding and social media campaigns. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Co-Disruptor: Dodge Dart Registry.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

emergency supplies for a disaster relief organization to distribute or a rescue pets complex veterinary procedures at an animal shelter). Run various types of contests, whether you ask supporters to vote on their favorite pet photo or new t-shirt design submitted by other donors.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Of course: AIs, like humans, can behave irrationally and exactly what rationality consists in is itself contested. But I think these are fairly non-central as well. ^ But the basic thrust of the instrumental convergence concern comes specifically from AIs for whom, in some sense, problematic forms of power-seeking make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

She was the recent winner of my son's Green Geek Charity Contest and we contributed a small amount to the charity of her choice, SOS Children's Villages. Joan sent us a note tonight thanking us, but also letting us know of a terrible natural disaster in her country: Hey Harry and Beth, I just celebrated my 26th birthday today!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

We see this a lot after natural disasters when hundreds of thousands of people need aid. Harness the power of overcoming difficulty by : Holding challenging fundraising events that require some effort, like walk-a-thons, contests, or races. People care about things they have to work for. Having plenty of volunteer opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

A recent example is the Humane Society's Spa Day Photo Contest which raised over $600,000. The next wave of experiments have taken their cues from the nonprofit sector and incorporated contests and competitions as well as getting influencers to leverage their networks in the hopes of unleashing a groundswell.

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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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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Activities range from direct messaging, sending virtual gifts and tips, watching live videos of people in your feed, joining adult chat rooms that can get very niche, or entering photo contests. AdultFriendFinder is like a PornHub that you can interact with.

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