While social media is a great asset for connecting and sharing with your contacts, it’s not always the most effective when it comes to garnering donations for your nonprofit. Find out how you can use social media to help guide your donors down the road to giving.
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4 Facebook apps to raise funds for your cause
Facebook recently recommended four fundraising applications that keep fundraising inside of Facebook. What’s great about these applications is that they leverage the strength of Facebook by encouraging donors to share your fundraiser with others, see friends who have also donated, and make fundraising transactions more frictionless.
GoodTwo: Give something back to your donors
Online deal offered to donors through GoodTwo by Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. Discover an easy way to fundraise by rewarding your donors with online deals Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, social enterprises, businesses, brands, educators, community organizations, fundraising professionals, individuals. Guest post by Kristen Elworthy Director of Marketing & Publicity, GoodTwo It’s a […]
SMS fundraising campaign for breast cancer
Given the visible success of the Haiti text-to-give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in an organization’s fundraising bag, if it isn’t already. This week I heard about Drew Olanoff’s latest fundraising campaign, a text-to-give strategy on behalf of Boarding for Breast Cancer. Here’s how it works: Every time someone texts “tp4bc” to 60611, the […]
Text a few dollars to support Haiti
Use the power of the social Web to make an impact The earthquake that shook Haiti last week demolished and devastated the entire nation. Looking at pictures online, reading testimonials of survivors and following the developments in the rescue and emergency response teams, I felt, like many of you, overwhelming sadness. Mere weeks after completing […]