Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0 Since then the Foundation has ventured out to many of the social sites, spreading awareness about our cause and connecting with supporters.

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MAY 3, 2021

When they sponsor your event, the local community sees their name and their commitment to philanthropy. In addition, many sponsors don’t see as much value in having their logo shared digitally: being face to face with potential clients is more of a premium. But you can also get creative about sharing sponsor information.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Share your service hero story. It might be featured during a week of volunteer and service related television programming happening October 19-25th as part of the Entertainment Industry Foundation's iParticipate initiative. Check it out at www.beextra.org/widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Incentivize video creation and video sharing.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) And, is there a way to get the folks who gave with the urgency of this campaign to have a deeper engagement with the Sharing Foundation? Would love your thoughts on all of this in another post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

Peter Deitz, of Social Actions , is an expert on micro philanthropy and social fundraising. He also shares that he wants to create a social fundraising wizard Currently, I am building an automated wizard. Nancy White has shared some manual examples. Contest ends on January 31st at 3:00 PM EST. Photo by Dunechaser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Roger Carr at the Everyday Giving Blog responded to my reflections about networked fundraising , particularly my concern about donor fatique and potentially annoying blog readers here when I'm raising money for the Sharing Foundation. That person obviously doesn't share your same values.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 at NWF, listening has been the foundation of our social media movement, we are nothing unless someone thinks we are something. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. industry benchmarks.

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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 article goes on to quote Jean Case "Philanthropy shouldn't be defined as a bunch of rich people writing checks," she told the New York Times.

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MARCH 12, 2008

The New York Times Magazine on Sunday was all about philanthropy. Some highlights: For a long time, philanthropy was mostly ignored by social scientists. percent from the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s, according to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Here’s what you need to read: What Makes People Give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? to support the Sharing Foundation. Why? Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Communication is a foundational element of any successful nonprofit strategic plan. For example, you might: Share blog post links and teasers on your social media pages. Online contests or challenges. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Five Hot Conversations. NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. But we have one thing working in our corner.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Communication is a foundational element of. When you pursue a multichannel strategy, you can share email content on your social media pages, social media posts within your weekly email newsletters and multimedia content across all platforms. . Online contests or challenges. multichannel strategy. . Recommit to personalization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Note from Beth: Over the last year, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting Giving Days throughout the year. Participants are learning and sharing best practices. This post was cross-posted on the Knight Foundation blog here.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Communication is a foundational element of any successful nonprofit strategic plan. When you pursue a multichannel strategy, you can share email content on your social media pages, social media posts within your weekly email newsletters and multimedia content across all platforms. Online contests or challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

There is a tradition of micro-philanthropy here, although it isn't necessarily taken online. I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. He made a donation to the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? Do you have a foundation background? During my 17 + years in the financial services world I was always engaged in "philanthropy" as a volunteer in many "do gooder" opportunities. I am a corporate refugee. What is your job at Global Giving?

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JANUARY 14, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. So I’m going to stop sharing. I’m going to turn off my screen share here, and we’ll let you bring up those beautiful slides.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. So I’m going to stop sharing. I’m going to turn off my screen share here, and we’ll let you bring up those beautiful slides. Mallory: Amazing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment UN Foundation Web Team Blog [.] Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Right now, though, we want to share the 21 other fresh ideas that were pitched. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Nonprofits and charitable foundations witness similar disparities when it comes to the health, economic security, and well-being of historically marginalized communities. Because nonprofits and charitable foundations also frequently apply a race-conscious lens, they girded themselves for a potentially devastating case outcome.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

I’m going to stop sharing my slides here. We’re not the only people, sort of, in this virtual space today who have something to share. They’re likely to, and this is common in all philanthropy, right, you’re more likely to give your time or money if you’re asked by a peer. Take it away.

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