Query: Social Network fundraising

title: Fundraising in the Digital Era: Legitimacy, Social Network, and Political Ties Matter in China
abstract: Development in information technology enables nonprofit organizations to reach more potential donors in a fast and affordable way. To help nonprofits form evidence based strategies that suit the digital era, we conducted a study on a random sample of 400 Chinese foundations, investigating to what extent organizational legitimacy, network, and political ties influence their ability to attract donation. Results show that in terms of legitimacy, comparing to the past, organizations need to disclose additional information beyond what is required by the government to foster a trusting relationship. In terms of network, online networking can not only bring in online donations but also potentially increase offline donations. In terms of political ties, implicit political ties are beneficial to the organization, whereas explicit political ties may have negative influences.

title: Do social network crowds help fundraising campaigns? Effects of social influence on crowdfunding performance
abstract: The fundraising of crowdfunding campaigns is potentially influenced by the founder's digital reputation and project sharing cascades via social networks. Our paper empirically examines the effects of this social influence on crowdfunding performance, specifically looking at Jingdong Crowdfunding and Weibo in China. Our results show that the social influence of the founder's digital reputation in terms of the number of followers and identity status, as well as of project sharing cascades are positively associated with crowdfunding performance. We also find a quadratic effect of social network post volume, which positively impacts crowdfunding performance under a certain threshold and negatively affects it above that threshold. Additionally, we further analyze the impact of social influence on the number of funders and low sum funders respectively and find social influence tends to bring more social network crowds to engage in crowdfunding who are more likely to contribute a small amount. Our study demonstrates that the social network integration of crowdfunding can leverage crowdfunding performance.

title: FUNDoggy: Using gamification and social network services to create a mobile fundraising application for helping shelter dogs

title: Success in an Online Giving Day: The Role of Social Media in Fundraising
abstract: Social media platforms offer nonprofits considerable potential for crafting, supporting, and executing successful fundraising campaigns. How impactful are attempts by these organizations to utilize social media to support fundraising activities associated with online Giving Days? We address this question by testing a number of hypotheses of the effectiveness of using Facebook for fundraising purposes by all 704 nonprofits participating in Omaha Gives 2015. Using linked administrative and social media data, we find that fundraising success as measured by the number of donors and value of donations is positively associated with a nonprofit's Facebook network size (number of likes) activity (number of posts) and audience engagement (number of shares) as well as net effects of organizational factors including budget size, age, and program service area. These results provide important new empirical insights into the relationship between social media utilization and fundraising success of nonprofits.

title: Complex Project to Develop Real Tools for Identifying and Countering Terrorism: Real time Early Detection and Alert System for Online Terrorist Content Based on Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Complex Event Processing
abstract: In the last decades, the importance of social media has increased extremely with the creation of new communication channels and even changing the way people are communicating. These trends came along with the disadvantage of allowing a new scenario where messages containing valuable data about critical threats like terrorism and criminal activity are ignored, due to the sheer inability to process much less analyze the vast amount of available data. Terrorism has a very real and direct impact on basic human rights of victims, such as the right to life, liberty and physical integrity, often with devastating consequences. In this context, the RED Alert project was designed to build a complete software toolkit to support LEAs in the fight against the use of social media by terrorist organizations for conducting online propaganda, fundraising, recruitment and mobilization of members, planning and coordination of actions, as well as data manipulation and misinformation. The project aims to cover a wide range of social media channels used by terrorist groups to disseminate their content which will be analysed by the RED Alert solution to support LEAs to take coordinated action in real time but having as a primordial condition preserving the privacy of citizens.

title: Analysis of public discourse on heart transplantation in Japan using social network service data
abstract: The clarification of public concerns regarding heart transplantation is important for improving low organ donation rates in Japan. In the present study, we used the Twitter data of 4986 tweets (between August 2015 and January 2016) and 1429 tweets (between April 2016 and May 2016) to analyze public discourse on heart transplantation in Japan and identify the reasons for low organ donation rates. We manually categorized all tweets relevant to heart transplantation into nine categories and counted the number of tweets in each category per month. During the study period, the most popular category of tweets was related to the media, followed by money (tweets questioning or even criticizing the high price of fundraising goals to go overseas for heart transplantations) while some tweets were misconceptions. We also conducted a sentiment analysis, which revealed that the most popular negative tweets were related to money, while the most positive tweets were related to reports on the favorable outcomes of recipients. Our results suggest that listening to concerns, providing correct information (particularly for some misconceptions) and emphasizing the outcomes of recipients will facilitate an increase in the number of people contemplating heart transplantation and organ donation.

title: Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing
abstract: This chapter posits social network analysis as a means to making links between terrorism and organized crime more apparent. Drawing on evidence from select Hezbollah and Al Shabaab financing networks, it shows the relative autonomy local operators enjoy in using pornography, contraband cigarettes, immigration fraud and credit card fraud to raise funds. That network's structure shows that Hezbollah is no less a terrorist organization than an organized crime syndicate: Transnational Organized Crime nodes are typically connected to many other nodes in the network. Hezbollah's fundraising networks allow such connectivity because of the group's typically high levels of mutual trust and familial relationships. This creates a vulnerability that can be exploited by law enforcement and intelligence organizations.

title: Disaster fundraising via social media: A case study of non resident nepalese community in Australia
abstract: This study explores the role of social media for fundraising by people in a foreign country, in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake in 2015. The Nepalese community in Victoria (and other parts of Australia) geared up almost instantly through Facebook to disseminate critical information and coordinate relief fundraising. Within two days of the earthquake, nearly 7000 people joined the Facebook page 'Victorians Stand Together for Nepal' Content analysis of the Facebook page reveals that social media can be successfully used to drive fundraising in a disaster situation, particularly in geographically distributed populations. The page inspired thousands of people in Australia to donate over half a million dollars. Regular emotional pictorial posts on the page encouraged donations and a social network effect was evident. It was found that the Facebook page's focus on transparency, engagement, acknowledgement, encouragement and motivation were vital elements to the steady fundraising efforts

title: The Influence of Social Percolation in Improving Fundraising Strategies of Charity Organizations
abstract: This paper aims to take a deeper look into the influence that social network factors, specifically word of mouth, have on donations decisions. It assumes that people tend to take donation decisions more often when there is some "social pressure" towards them, rather that when they are faced with the same case that requires donation, but privately. The whole study is going to be conducted in the focus of the social percolation theory. A survey is conducted to test the hypothesis. The group participating in the study is presented with a specific case which requires donation. In addition to the statistical analysis, two computer simulated models describing the percolation also took place. This study is expected to be of help, based on an innovative technology, to all the donations initiators including private and public charity institutions. The percolation perspective will give them indications in improving the procedure, convincing people donate. Furthermore, the simulation tool offers early (weak) signals if the donation theme will percolate through the special interest community by exceeding the probability threshold.

title: The Social Network Effect
abstract: Social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Crowdrise offer new ways for nonprofits to engage the community in fundraising efforts. This study employs data from Facebook Causes to examine the nature and determinants of charitable giving in social networking environments. Our findings suggest donations on these sites are not driven by the same factors as in "off line" settings. Instead, a social network effect takes precedence over traditional economic explanations. Facebook donors do not seem to care about efficiency ratios, their donations are typically small, and fundraising success is related not to the organization's financial capacity but to its "Web capacity." Moreover, online donors are prone to contribute to certain categories of causes more than others, especially those related to health. Given the growth in social media driven fundraising and the increase in crowdfunding, slacktivism, impulse donating, and other new practices this entails these findings carry notable theoretical and practical implications.