Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month. The campaign has been profiled on this blog since it started. And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. It's become an annual holiday tradition for Beth's Blog. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org On November 16, 2011, more than $13.4 million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. And, a record 47,534 … [Read more...]
A Networked Fundraiser: charity:water Waterforward
How WaterForward works. from charity: water on Vimeo. charity:water continues to break new ground and be an innovator in the online fundraising space. Its newest online fundraiser, Waterforward, is based on a simple question: What if the billion social media users in the world collectively chipped in a few dollars and helped solve the "wicked" problem for the billion people around the world who don't have clean water? I first heard about this unique fundraiser when I interviewed … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World
That's one of my favorite photos from Beirut, taken in March, 2011 during E-Mediat Train-the-Trainers intensive workshop that kicked off the 18-month capacity building project for NGOs in the Arab World about using social media to realize civil society goals. I'm sitting next to my colleague, Lena, a master trainer from Yemen - engaging in a some shoulder to shoulder learning. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle … [Read more...]
#12DaysOfGiving Charity Project
"One person can make a difference, and every person should try." ~ John F. Kennedy It's been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college. Ever since, I've continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia. I've donated my share of the royalties from my book, The Networked Nonprofit, and feel proud that its been able … [Read more...]
Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?
Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network. It is a great technique to keep up with your field. I've been teaching content curation workshops this year and will teach it in the Middle East at the E-Mediat conference in March, 2012 (more about that in a later post). If that … [Read more...]
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