Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. The Mobile Web will rule by 2014.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

2014 will be an exciting year for nonprofit technology. Numerous communications and fundraising trends are on the verge of going mainstream and nonprofits committed to early adoption have a number of new tools and strategies to pioneer this year. 1) Mass Adoption of Responsive and Flat Design. 3) Live Reporting During TV Events.

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TechImpact

MARCH 17, 2014

These ten statistics about nonprofit technology, fundraising, and social media offers us insights into the effectiveness of our strategies, and can help us redesign strategies in the future. of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013. of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Check out these cool stats in an infographic from Nonprofit Hub with stats from 2013 Nonprofit eBenchmarks Study. A monthly donor giving $19 per month with donate more in a year than a donor who gives one $60 donation. 89% of donations come from 1x donors. Monthly increased by 43% from 2012 to 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. In 2013, I am focused on changing that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. They use their creative impulses to come up with innovative mobile and social media campaigns for their own nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2013

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

My e-newsletter is by far the driving force behind Nonprofit Tech 2.0. And even though a recent report pointed out that email open and donor response are dropping in the nonprofit sector, I can’t help but wonder if current (yet old) e-newsletter design trends have a lot to do with the results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2013

Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2012

With smartphones now outselling PCs and tablet sales surpassing even the most conservative of estimates, the majority of your nonprofit’s supporters will likely be browsing your website on mobile devices by 2013 – and unfortunately most nonprofits are not prepared for this dramatic shift in Web communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2013

Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2014

Spring is report season in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits that have not yet adopted a mobile-first approach to online communications and fundraising can use the new data to help convince executive staff and board that a new mobile-compatible website should be high on their priority list. a nonprofit raises $17. with Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2013

Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Described simply, donors can sign up for a Google Wallet account , enter and save their credit card information, and then donate to any nonprofit (or purchase from any online store) that has a Google Wallet merchant account with only two clicks of a mouse (or two taps on a tablet). Think about that for a minute. Not anymore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 24, 2014

With #GivingTuesday only a few weeks away, chances are good your nonprofit is thinking about one thing, and one thing only. It’s true, the holiday season is the season of giving and that holds true in the nonprofit sector. of the overall charitable giving in 2013, and that number is only expected to increase in 2014.

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TechImpact

JUNE 10, 2014

Social media, mobile technology, and fundraising are unequivocally attached at the hip in contemporary nonprofit marketing. Their combined capacity to connect donors to nonprofits worthy of help is shaping an all new way fundraising. a nonprofit raises $17. Monthly donors give 42% more in one-year than?one-time

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

in 2013, and online donations grew by an astonishing 14%. This increased comfort level of online consumers spending can be attributed to a variety of factors; an increased comfort level with spending money online, and the online giving process being streamlined by nonprofits to name a few. Overall charitable giving grew by 4.9%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Believe it or not, young donors are not the only ones that want to access nonprofit websites on their phone. will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Photographs and infographics that speak volumes without text tell your nonprofit’s story for you. Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. Powerful pictures.

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2013

That''s what we found when we, with Avectra , surveyed nonprofit professionals earlier this spring via an online survey. 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Management Study: A Graphic Report from NTEN. And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference. kanter A real family philanthropy manager/donor, a real wish to wear a cape & punch out dumb foundation, donor, nonprofit behavior.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!],

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. Two-thirds of donors who make gifts do no research before giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The amount of time that a nonprofit can invest in mobile and social media depends on capacity. Often small nonprofits try to be active on more than two social networks by sharing the responsibility among staff.

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Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2012

As you have probably experienced yourself, raising money for your nonprofit campaign on social media is like pulling teeth. According to the 2012 Nonprofit benchmark Social Network Benchmarking Report, 98% of nonprofits didn’t raise a dime on Facebook, which is second most trafficked site on the web in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Our longest-term donor, the Skoll Foundation , went so far as to introduce me to a DC-based advocacy firm. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” I was wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Frank Barry offers this guest post with some advice about how to succeed with nonprofit fundraising in 2013. 2 Strategies for Overcoming Common Fundraising Challenges All Nonprofits Face [Infographic] – Guest Post by Frank Barry. What challenges do nonprofits face? Greater scrutiny from donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . To understand where we are, including fundraisers and nonprofits, with donor data protection, we have to take a look at what happened in souring the public on the idea that privacy was dead.

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