Tag Archives: fundraising

Text message donations – lessons learnt

February 11, 2010 – 1:57 pm

The impressive text message donation response to the deadly Haiti earthquake disaster has resulted in fundraisers throughout the non-profit world analysing relief groups’ experience with mobiles.
To hear a good summary of lessons learnt, listen to the podcast released by The Chronicle of Philanthropy where Wendy Harman, social media manager at the American Red Cross, and Geoff [...]

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8/10 think social media can help not-for-profits

October 30, 2009 – 4:09 pm

According to a new US survey carried out by Cone, nearly eight in 10 people who use social media think the technology can help not-for-profit organizations raise awareness and funds for their causes.  The down side is that few still make actual donations using these tools: many respondents felt social media raised their awareness about [...]

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New Twitter Fundraising Tool Launched

August 10, 2009 – 11:53 am

Last week saw the launch of TwitCause, a new fundraising tool on Twitter.    TwitCause will support a new cause every Thursday,  followers can then show their support by retweeting the cause/non-for-profit, tweets will contain a link to a site through which people can donate using PayPal.  Followers will themsleves nominate and vote on non-for-profits they [...]

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M4ID to present at first IFC webinar

March 25, 2009 – 9:15 am

Resource Alliance is taking their successful International Fundraising Conference (IFC) online: IFC Online will be the world’s first global, virtual fundraising conference. Taking place completely over the internet, the event will deliver three days of live, interactive, workshops and plenaries to a world-wide audience of fundraisers.  The webinar taking place May 12-14, features prominent speakers [...]

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Reaching Government Donors through Social Media

March 20, 2009 – 8:44 am

Social media provides effective new channels and opportunities for donor government outreach and advocacy. We’re currently pulling together a brief for agencies to better understand the potential and help them strengthen their external relations through social media.  The  social media strategy should be four-pronged: 1) making current donor communication more effective and engaging 2) harnessing [...]

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What are you doing now?

March 10, 2009 – 11:34 am

Twitter, the micro-blogging site, asks the simple question: “What are you doing now?” This can be answered in real time (in less than 140 characters) using SMS, instant message or via a webpage, so users can keep in touch whenever, wherever. The concept is very simple and at first glance, Twitter can seem almost trivial. [...]

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