I've been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. I'm pleased to see that some of the skepticism and complaints have now morphed in to more capacity builders providing tips for nonprofits to take advantage of this national day of giving. Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of … [Read more...]
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Summer School: Test Drive: Using #GivingTuesday to Experiment with New Fundraising Strategies
How many of you who work for nonprofits are getting asked to "come up with an icebucket challenge" for your annual fundraising campaign? Or maybe it's caught your attention and you are more realistically asking, "What can we learn from the icebucket challenge apply to our year-end giving and integrating social media in fundraising?" Participating in a local or national giving day may help you work on that second question. Most giving days also provide lots of toolkits, webinars, and … [Read more...]
#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!
On Tuesday,Dec.3rd, the GivingTuesday logo was blazing in neon on Times Square. The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday is making too much noise. And indeed it did: The #GivingTuesday hashtag was used 269,000 times in the 24 hour December 3 period, (as well as 406,000 times in the last 7 days, and 514,000 times in the last 30 days). That’s an average of 11,208 tweets per hour, 186 times per minute. #GivingTuesday … [Read more...]
Happy #GivingTuesday! Help Me Support NTEN!
Happy #GivingTuesday! It is the official start of giving season and year-end campaigns. For the past three years, I've been a fundraising champion for NTEN, the premier organization for nonprofit techies. Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone. In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with … [Read more...]
Using Data To Make the Most of Your #GivingTuesday and Year-End Giving Campaign
Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST, I'm going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can sign up for the chat here. I've also joined a group of many awesome nonprofit techies who are serving as "Champions" and launching fundraisers to help NTEN reach its goal of $50,000. You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. NTEN offers nonprofit techies like me the opportunity to connect … [Read more...]
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