Comments on: Tu Diabetes Fundraises with YouTube, do you?

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:16:33 +0000

Thanks for providing such a great example, Manny!

Meghan- You raise a great point! Obviously, you show the pros to going with the other services. What do you think the cons may be? Have you gotten any feedback about your use of videos or video platforms that you didn’t expect? Thanks for sharing your story with us here!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:18:24 +0000

Hey Amy, Great post.
I work at United Way of Mass Bay (http://supportunitedway.org) We do a lot of fundraising through the workplace and one of the things we’ve noticed is that a number of companies have restrictions that block youtube and any embedded videos from youtube. So we’ve had to think about that before embedding any videos. We tend to use Vimeo, Dogooder, or our own internal player to post videos. Some of the lesser known services are actually better because they haven’t made any blocked lists yet. Just thought I’d bring it up for those nonprofits who are trying to develop corporate partnerships.

Thanks!

By: Manny Hernandez

Manny Hernandez — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:48:49 +0000

Thank you for sharing with your readers our approach to fundraising through online videos. We hope this will help other nonprofits!