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Rwanda Girls Initiative’s Back to School Celebration
Last night, the Communiqué PR team attended a “back to school” celebration in support of the Rwanda Girls Initiative (RGI), a not-for-profit organization formed with the goal of opening a girls’ secondary school in Rwanda. The school is now open, in its third academic year, and its first class will graduate on October 4, 2013. We were first introduced to [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, INDUSTRY, News, Non-profit, Our Results
Fundraising With Social Media: Causes.com
I’m checked in at Starbucks, video chatting with my uncle in England, scanning pictures from this week’s Seahawks game and rescuing dogs from Hurricane Irene all at the same time from my Facebook account. What’s next, Facebook – foot rubs? While Facebook may not be coming out with foot rubs anytime soon, one thing that recently caught my attention was [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR
Marketplace Money Focuses on Social Media and Donations to Charities
The other day I was listening to KUOW and heard a story about how social media is impacting donations to charities. Given our work with a variety of nonprofits and my past writing on the topic, I quickly reached over to turn up the volume on my radio. (My past blog posts include “Tools for Fundraising” published on Sept. 15, [...]
Filed under: Non-profit, Social media, Strategy
Tools for Fundraising
In June 2010, I wrote about how nonprofit organizations are using social media to achieve their fundraising goals. Today, I want to expand on this topic by sharing an article on Mashable that provides a list of 10 tools that make it easier for people and organizations to raise money. I found this article to be informative and helpful in [...]
Filed under: Consumer, Non-profit, Social media
Social Media and Fundraising
A number of people have recently asked me about social media and its relation to fundraising. Some of the questions we have been asked include: How can we leverage social media to raise money for our nonprofit organization? Will our online or social media fundraising activities cannibalize our traditional fundraising activities? How do we set up a social media campaign [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Non-profit, Social media
Using Twitter and Facebook to Fundraise for the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden
With more than 25 million users worldwide Twitter has become a powerful medium for both businesses and consumers to connect. Similarly, Facebook, with more than 200 million users, has redefined the way we communicate. Communiqué PR recognizes the major potential these two social mediums possess and has decided to launch its first campaign centered around raising $230,000 - through both [...]
Filed under: Non-profit, Social media