Fundraising 2.0: A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook
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Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy September 30, 2008 Slide #1 of 16 Seattle Net Tueday—Fundraising 2.0: A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook Fun draising 2.0 A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook Using an Old Skool ™ Tool: Cause-Related Marketing Jonathon D. Colman Associate Director, Digital Marketing The Nature Conservancy [email protected] 206/343.4345 x368
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Fundraising 2.0: A presentation on how nonprofits, associations and other organization can raise more money for their cause on Facebook by following a new model of cause-related marketing that promises greater results for less staff time. If high ROI is what you're after in your fundraising efforts on Facebook, view this presentation and learn how The Nature Conservancy quickly became the 3rd highest-performing nonprofit on all of Facebook in terms of funds raised. You can learn more about Jonathon Colman at http://www.jonathoncolman.org/
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Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
September 30, 2008
Slide #1 of 16
Seattle Net Tueday—Fundraising 2.0: A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook
Fundraising 2.0A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook Using an Old Skool™ Tool: Cause-Related Marketing
Jonathon D. ColmanAssociate Director, Digital MarketingThe Nature [email protected]/343.4345 x368
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
September 30, 2008
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Seattle Net Tueday—Fundraising 2.0: A New Model for Fundraising on Facebook
About Facebook.com
• 4th most-visited site on the Web [COMSCORE]
• Over 100 million registered users, over 250k+ daily growth [FACEBOOK]
• Fastest-growing demographic: users 25+ years of age [FACEBOOK]
• Over 24,000 third-party applications built on open API platform [FACEBOOK]
• 35MM+ unique visitors/month, only 37% from U.S. [COMPETE, ALEXA]
• 65% of visitors are “addicts” returning daily [QUANTCAST]
• Visitors are more female, more affluent than Internet avg. [QUANTCAST]
• Referred 14,384 visitors to nature.org for FY2008
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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About (Lil) Green Patch
• Created in January 2008 after Facebook opened its platform to
external application developers
• One of a very few initial applications focusing on either the
environment or social change
• Value proposal is that users can “fight global warming… together
we can make a difference!”
• Communications to users and initial landing page are structured
for strong, viral growth
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Note strong value proposition and mention ofthe Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Users of (Lil) Green Patch can make a difference for nature by taking a simple action… and without spending any money
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Users given cues to keep participating in the game, which both create community and drive advertising impressions
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Soon after its introduction, (Lil) Green Patch became one of the most popular apps on Facebook and still is today
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Not just a game, but a business: around one million peopleuse (Lil) Green Patch every single day
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Key demographic points: users tend to be female, well-connected, use media-centric apps, and are out of college
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Estimates state that (Lil) Green Patch’s users could bedriving up to $165,000 in advertising revenue each month
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Causes on Facebook
• Third-party application developed on Facebook’s open platform by
Project Agape, launched in May 2007
• Allows American and Canadian 501(c)(3)s and political campaigns
to recruit supporters and fundraise directly on Facebook
• Raised $2.5MM for 20,000 charities in first year of operation
(average of $125/charity)
• Online donations conducted securely through Network For Good
• 26.2MM total installs, 262K daily active users (1%)
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(Lil) Green Patch has donated over $67,000 to the Conservancy, making us the 3rd highest performing nonprofit on Facebook
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(Lil) Green Patch has also attracted thousands of new users to join the Conservancy’s cause, increasing our reach and impact
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The Results
• (Lil) Green Patch’s support for the Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre
program will help us to preserve over 59MM square feet of rainforest in Costa Rica
• Since February 2008, (Lil) Green Patch has donated over $67,000 to the Conservancy on Facebook (593x above average donations)
• (Lil) Green Patch’s promotion of the Conservancy’s Cause has
helped us in recruiting nearly 26,000 new Cause members
• The Wall Street Journal profiled The Nature Conservancy and (Lil)
Green Patch as a way for new donors to get involved with charities
Jonathon D. Colman: Associate Director, Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy
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Jonathon D. ColmanAssociate Director, Digital MarketingThe Nature [email protected]/343.4345 x368
Follow me on Twitter!twitter.com/jcolman/
All plant characters and illustrations © (Lil) Green Patch
