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A case study on social media efforts of nonprofit Charity: water

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Social Media Case Study – Charity: Water

Mayank Dhingra

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What is Charity: Water ?

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Charity: water is a charity started by Scott Harrison of New York that provides clean water to save lives in poor countries.

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Charity: water has successfully raised $10 million (most of that last year alone) from 50,000 individual donors, thereby providing clean water to nearly one million people in Africa and Asia.

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Using Social Media to be more

effective the Charity: water way

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Creating Relationships

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Relationships are the key currency for

nonprofits and social media is a

great way to build and maintain

good relationships.

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Charity: water (CW) is using social media tools

like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to connect

with people who share the same concerns as

them. CW adds value by sharing relevant

information and content with their friends/followers

on these social platforms.

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Maintaining Transparency

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For nonprofits to scale beyond a level, transparency is very important and to some extent the rate of their growth also depends on how transparent they are.

In this sense too, social media and nonprofits are made for each other.

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Charity: water shows donors the specific impact of

their contributions. They post photos and G.P.S.

coordinates so that donors can look up their

(Charity: water grants naming rights to wells) wells

on Google Earth.

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Come September and they will have a new

web site that will match even the smallest

donation to a particular project that can be

tracked online.

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Experimenting with new things:

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During Twestival

(meetup for twitter users in twitter lingo),

charity: water raised $250,000

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Viral video campaigns by charity: water are also a hit among its supporters and play a significant role in motivating people to contribute

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High Stakeholder Involvement

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When was the last time you were asked to

by a charity to engage in conversation?

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Hmm...Almost, Never ?

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But with Charity: water you can get involved• By watching four daily short videos of the drilling as

charity: water goes from village to village drilling wells.

• By following the drilling updates via twitter • By asking questions of the local drilling team via

email or twitter. Also, The local charity: water drill team answers the top five questions on video

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It isn’t surprising that not all nonprofits use

social media and most that use aren’t half

as good as they could be.

The reasons for the same vary from

apprehensions about social media to lack of

a coherent social media strategy.

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If you are a nonprofit you too can learn a

thing or two from Charity: water and use social media to be more effective

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Thank You !!

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Got a question ?

write to dhingra.mayank@gmail.com

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Connect With Me

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