Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. What is your job at Global Giving? What is your job at Global Giving? So I started working 3 days a week with them in 2003.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 24, 2024

Regardless of what type of back-to-school product you sell, it’s your job as a marketer to help potential customers wade through the never-ending options out there to find your company and make a purchase. This way, you’ll only send back-to-school communications to those who have students they need to make purchases for.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. To kick off our new success stories.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Nevertheless, participating in some (surely not all) of these contests will provide your staff members a focused opportunity to use social media to communicate with supporters.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteers do a fantastic job in helping your nonprofit turn its dreams for a better community into reality. You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. For school volunteers, you can gather thank-you notes from students and teachers. Volunteers can vote for their favorite option.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. In a 2019 paper , for example, Lu and two of his PhD students, Aditya Pakki and Qiushi Wu, presented a system (“Crix”) for detecting a certain class of bugs in OS kernels.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) Or a baking contest? The people who are paid staff often go above and beyond their job roles to keep the church running.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you partner with a tree farm or nursery, they may be able to arrange some delivery or pick-up services, so your job will mainly be marketing and selling trees. For a fun addition, ask students to bring sleeping bags and blankets to school with them. Students love seeing their teachers and principals outside of their comfort zone.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

You can read all the details on the contest and submit your idea here. link] October 10, 2008 | FChristie I think that this is a great contest. i impllemented in future means i will give name to this as SHOI abbrevated as student helping organization of india,which was run by the students,students are the main aspect for this.In

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

In private K–12 schools, foreign cybercriminals, school vendors, employees, and even students have perpetrated recent cyberattacks. Systems that hold student information should be HIPAA, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), and OneRoster 1.1 Each user’s login should only give them access to the information they need to do their job.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

Not only might they be willing to sponsor your event, they also could have students that would be interested in participating in your fundraiser and raising money for your organization. Run dance contests throughout your event so your fundraisers can show off their moves and win special prizes or swag.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

To add to the evening’s fun, have special contests, like one for the best pet and pet-parent look-alikes. Dance-a-thons fall right into college students’ wheelhouses. Reach out to the large network of supporters your school has between students, parents, alumni, staff and faculty. Dance-A-Thon. All-nighters?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Sarah is someone that I’ve been getting to know over the past couple of years, and actually, she was on a great panel of ours a few weeks ago, talking about maybe what to do if you find yourself getting laid off from your nonprofit job. So check that out. But she’s awesome. She’s got a master’s in nonprofit management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. Plug donor skills into the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

One test in particular focused on design and photography, using splash pages for a contest called “Dinner with Barack”. SamaUSA helps low-income learn the skills necessary to gain access to online jobs. The SamaUSA team sought feedback from the participants all along the way, including after the program as they looked for jobs.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be useful Create content that makes people better at doing what they do as it relates to their jobs or relationships. Giveaways and contests Contests and giveaways will drive action. Browse the titles of UpWorthy.com to see how they make ordinary posts into must-reads. What are some tips you can offer on a regular basis?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Despite the economic turbulence of the past year, I think it’s safe to say that many of us did not see the sudden full-on implosion of Silicon Valley Bank coming. Tiger Global leads $6.5M

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Be useful Create content that makes people better at doing what they do as it relates to their jobs or relationships. Giveaways and contests Contests and giveaways will drive action. Browse the titles of UpWorthy.com to see how they make ordinary posts into must-reads. What are some tips you can offer on a regular basis?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can up the ante by building your party around a costume contest and encouraging attendees to get sponsorships for their participation. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

And in Congress, we have a free throw shooting contest every year, and I hit 47 out of 50 free throws! Ma, I’m at a free throw shooting contest in the House of Representatives.” And I actually was doing a shooting contest with Enes Kanter of the Celtics two weeks ago. Do you want to give that directly to parents and students?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The president set a deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok by September 15th — that is, this coming Tuesday — and Mayer quit after fewer than 100 days on the job. Facebook launched new product called Campus, exclusively for college students. Microsoft said. I say open it up to everyone. Worked last time! Ashley Carman / The Verge ).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

From 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration provided jobs with stable wages for artists through the Federal Art Project. Pressure escalated in 1989 when conservative leaders contested two NEA-funded exhibitions featuring work by Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, which they deemed homoerotic and anti-Christian.

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