Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Sprout Social. By Sacha Evans.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Hundreds of commenters pledged to buy the book and attend her next signing. On social media, the sob story has become a go-to strategy for struggling artists chasing virality. “‘My parent did this thing but nobody came to see’ is always a marketing gimmick.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

The money they’ve pledged, in context, looks an awful lot like pocket change. Apple theoretically could have made its $100 million pledge back in less than a day. million would be the biggest pledge from big tech companies to date, that’s like if a middle-class American worker made a one-time donation of $92.55.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Built for publishers that produce a lot of content, Action Button is a widget that features “Donate” buttons (as well as Tweet, Call, Pledge buttons) directly inside trending articles published by their partners. For your reference, here are the fundraising tools featured in 2019 , 2017 , 2016 , and 2015.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2014

Guilty Pledgers is a mobile app launched by Spotify that enables users to create fundraising parties where guests can pledge money to add their favorite songs to the party playlist. Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media' Guilty Pledgers. guiltypledgers.com. Ink to the People. inktothepeople.com. Cause Direct.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Let’s dive into five ways that nonprofits can diversify funding in 2023: Monthly Giving and Pledges. 1) Monthly Giving and Pledges. There are two types of recurring giving: Monthly Giving Programs and Donation Pledges. What are Donation Pledges? Pledges are similar to monthly giving programs with some slight differences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Donors can pledge as little as $.01

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

The timing coincides with the President’s remarks in Arlington, but one minute of silence can be pledged at any time, really. Here’s an example of a Senator showing his support for veterans through participation in the #gosilent pledge: Tracking silence.

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Qgiv

MARCH 22, 2023

A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. As your organization or participants meet those goals, donors increase their pledged donation. Create your pledge drive plan The first step to host a pledge drive is to create your plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

On social media and the news. They answer questions, make requested lists, and, if you ask, will write a letter, blog post, or social media captions. Using them, you can build email campaigns, create social media posts, repurpose content, summarize text, and even generate images. At the dog park.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Social Media: To effectively promote your monthly giving program on social media, you’ll need to create a series of promo graphics that are properly sized for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ). Compare that to 36% that said social media and 19% that said print.

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CauseVox

JULY 13, 2021

You’ve probably heard of a donation pledge if you’ve been in fundraising for any amount of time. A donation pledge is when a supporter promises to give a certain amount of money in a set time frame. Why Ask For Donation Pledges? So what is the benefit of a pledge over a donation? Increase Gift Sizes. It’s All Automatic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

Participants promote their involvement (and ask for donations) through social media. Since p2p fundraising is conducted online using social media, a peer-to-peer fundraising platform will not only help you run a p2p campaign effectively, it’ll also help you and your staff be more efficient.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A collection of economic and media trends and stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. JustCoz.org is a platform that enables charities, nonprofits, and NGOs to increase their social media reach by way of tweet and status update donations. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Be Informed. Cultivation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Samsung pledged to contribute up to $100,000 through this social action challenge, providing a donation of $5 to the Dan Marino Foundation each time someone pledged their support of autism awareness by sharing an infographic with their Facebook friends or sending a tweet with the hashtag, #teamautism. It’s a cycle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Otherwise, nonprofits who already have websites can use Flavors to create landing pages for social media and fundraising campaigns as needed. Donors can pledge as little as $.01

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

Social media matters here, too. You’ve been told over and over about the importance of nonprofit social media marketing, but measuring ROI can be difficult. Try starting a petition, pledge, or call-to-action that helps a greater good connected with your nonprofit. Ask for non-financial support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A collection of economic and media trends and stats.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Whether youre hosting a live social media event or a text-to-give campaign, the steps for getting started with mobile giving remain essentially the same. Gather pledges and send automated reminders to collect pledged donations. How does mobile giving work? Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kindful allows users to create visually engaging peer-to-peer campaigns that integrate with your website, social media, and email marketing. Individual pledge commitments or reports on pledged revenue by date, campaign, or program can be tracked easily. 5) Neon :: neoncrm.com.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 18, 2014

The goal: get donations from 430 donors in 24 hours, hopefully totaling $43,000 in pledges from alumni. Steven Shattuck, VP of Marketing at Bloomerang says that the three keys to Wabash College’s success were social media integration, urgency and challenges. Each group pledged $43,000 for their initial benchmarks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Each month, DollarPerMonth.org selects three charities for its members (who have pledged to donate a minimum of $1 per month) to vote on. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Then, either choose the winners yourself or ask people to vote over social media. Set up a social media page where people may submit their costumes and offer a prize for the best-dressed at the party. You can also take photos and share videos on social media to make this more of a community event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2013

Next the webinar covers in-detail how to launch a new responsively designed website (or mobilize your current website), a texting campaign, and then moves on to explore current trends mobile fundraising, such as text-to-give, text-to-pledge, mobile wallets, and NFC technology. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 9, 2022

Did you know that 84% of fundraising pledges are fulfilled and that the average mobile donation pledge for fundraising events is $167 ? These are only a few of the statistics that show how effective pledge fundraising can be for nonprofits. What is pledge fundraising? How can I use pledge fundraising in 2022?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Knowing basic HTML or using a tool like Live Writer to generate HtML can transform a nonprofit’s ROI (Return on Investment) from using social media. Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Major crypto gifts haven’t slowed down, with multi-million dollar pledges happening in December and January so far. A single donor donated $56 million worth of Bitcoin to 60 nonprofits at the start of 2018 – on Reddit! The number of nonprofits accepting cryptocurrency doubled in 2019. Myth 2: Cryptocurrencies aren’t regulated enough.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

The technology could identify someone just from a photo and put names to faces through its trove of 3 billion images scraped from social media sites — often against the platforms’ rules. However, the ICE contract would appear to comply with Clearview’s earlier pledge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2021

Social media platform Parler was all but wiped off the internet last week, but on Sunday, showed some signs of life. We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media,” the message reads, pledging to “welcome all of you back soon.”.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Do Not Forget About Social Media. The donors you are trying to reach may not be in the office, but they’re most certainly still on their smartphones checking their social media. Do not waste a potential donor’s time with words that add fluff and no meat to your message.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2025

Interested : They actively choose to learn morevisiting your site, following you on social media, or signing up for your email list. Programmatic, Display, Search, YouTube) Organic social media posting Digital Goal – ATTRACT: Introduce more of your priority audiences to your mission and impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2016

Create online petitions and pledges. Create and upload a compelling e-newsletter subscribe graphic (600 × 600 pixels) to social networks with a link to your e-newsletter subscribe page to better grab the attention of your followers and thus increase your opt-in rate. Host free webinars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

YouTube will show matching pledges from individuals and brands within a Fundraiser. Community Fundraisers appear on all participating creators’ videos at the same time and reflect the collective amount of money raised together. Campaign Matching. The feature is scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks. Super Chat for Good.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

At the same time, they’ll solicit donations and pledges from their networks of family and friends for each service project they complete or hour of volunteer service they complete. Then, have your participants set up their own individual fundraising pages and advertise the campaign on their social media networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jolkona partnered with the Seattle International Foundation (SIF), which pledged to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. Starting July 26th, Groupon Seattle’s G-Team allowed subscribers to join Jolkona and SIF in making an investment in women’s leadership by pledging support in increments of $10.

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