Why People Give & How to Leverage Social Media for Fundraising
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Katya Andresen, COO , Network for Good Learn the truth about why people give and how some surprising insights about our brains might change the way you approach raising money via social networking. Gain five practical new approaches to apply in your work to advance social good.
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Why People Give & How to Leverage Social Media for Fundraising
- 1. The The Mirror Neuronand the Sea Monkey: The Truth about Why People Give and What It Means to Social Media Fundraising
- 6. Photo: By Darren Whiteside
- 7. There are no exceptions to the rule that you must awaken the heart to arouse the mind.
- 8. The Truths and Their Consequences
- 9. 1. Giving is emotional.
- 10. The more emotional, the more money
- 11. The martyrdom effect Howtocopewithpain.org
- 12. The Takeaway:Your social media presence MUST have a pulse. No one wants to be friends with a building on Facebook.
- 13. 2. Giving is personal.
- 15. Photo Credit: YouGetThePicture, Flickr
- 18. The Takeaway: Build a network of close ties. Relatable people No statistics Friends to friends
- 19. 3. You can’t change #1 or #2. If you try, prepare to raise less.
- 20. Is this ethical?
- 21. The Takeaway:Your technology must be about people and how they connect. No bonds = no money.
- 22. 4. Giving makes people happy.
- 23. Recurring giving makes people VERY happy.
- 24. “Most fundraisers probably don’t think of themselves in the businessof selling happiness to donors, but that is ... their job.”M.A. Strahilevitz
- 25. The Takeaway:Use social media to create emotional ROI.
- 26. 5. Giving is social.
- 27. The last person gave…
- 28. Not so fast… $2.9 million $5 million $100 million All my money
- 29. The Takeaway:Friends to friends is powerful. So use social proof.
- 30. OK, that’s nice.But what does this all look like in practice?
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- 35. This presentation in a tweet
- 36. Katya Andresen, COO Network for Good www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com Twitter: @katyaN4G
Editor's Notes
- Billions spent trying to understand consumers every yearTrillions spent trying to influence them
- The job of marketing is getting really hard.
- In two ways - Talk about beings that have a heartbeat, and be human yourself.
- Giving makes people happy.Happy people give more.That makes them happier.Which makes them give more.
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- Goal? 100K from 1000 people. More than 50 teams signed up for the seven-week contest, which encouraged individuals to contribute via social networking tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, through a collaboration with Causes.com. Teams competed for prizes throughout the contest. The grand prizes were naming rights to two prominent spaces at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, currently under construction in Mission Bay. Number of donations was the key – not dollars.
- At Christmas 2008, I was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma bone cancer. It was not the best Christmas present for a 10 year old boy! Although since then I have been blessed with many silver linings in life. I am a former cancer patient at UCSF Children's hospital. I am now in remission. I want to encourage every one to support the new children's hospital. These are the leaders in our medical community. They saved my life! And they are the nicest nurses, doctors , admin staff,researchers, student docs, janitors, food runners and food service staff. (Please forgive me if I left you out , there were so many great and friendly people at UCSF) Everyone I met made me feel like they genuinely cared about me, they knew my name and liked my cookies I baked for them every week. All I can say is, if you ever walk a day in my shoes you will be glad the UCSF has a new state of the art hospital to care for your child. Please support them.