Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2025

Whole Whale created the Funnel of Engagement to help orgs like you better map the typical journey a supporter takes from being Aware of your organization to becoming Committed to your cause. Engaged : They take meaningful action with your orgdonating, volunteering, attending events, or joining a campaign. Committed : They stick around.

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Digital Strategy Marketing Nonprofit 52

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Communicating with the crowd and the community are very different but can both be really valuable for the success of your campaign or call to action. The core elements in both crowd and community engagement are time, action, and people. But a passive action can be attractive to the crowd if it is simple and consistent.

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Community Difference Case Study Slides 276

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Write a minimum of five call-to-action and 10 stats posts/tweets with sources in advance that can be easily copied-and-pasted during the event. org , bsr17.org org , bsr18.org. Your event hashtag should be used in every tweet, post, and graphic leading up to the event, during the event, and after the event.

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Conference Report Social Media Nonprofit 229

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Predictive analytics for targeted campaigns: AI can predict future supporter behaviors by analyzing past actions. This predictive capability can help organizations identify supporters most likely to engage with content, respond to specific calls to action, or make donations.

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Mobile Trend Social Media Donation 313

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

List three calls-to-action (donate, share on social media, become a monthly donor, sign a petition, etc.). org, WWD2018.org, org, WWD2019.org. Most trusted domains by donors : org (72%),edu (7%), and.ngo (6%),com (5%),net (1%). Create a landing page on your website , a microsite , or use a fundraising platform.

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Awareness Causes Campaign Giving 201

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Joe Solomon has a post over at Netsquared called " Social Media Powered Hope " and reports: Yesterday, the first ever hashtag made it into the center of the UN climate negotiations , #WeStandwithTuvalu (a Pacific island nation) -- an action that was coordinated by SMS inside the conference in Copenhagen.

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Offline Action Maldives Web 93

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Instead, it’s a tool for informing actions that advance funders’ institutional goals around diversity, equity, and inclusion—and thereby reducing funding disparities. The post Lessons learned: Using demographic data to move from intention to action appeared first on Candid Blog. No one wants to collect data for data’s sake.

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Demographics Lesson Action Data 116

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action. org before?

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Community Build Technology Action 220

Care2

MARCH 20, 2011

org for winning the 2011 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. org 's simultaneous event in 181 countries, to fight global warming which CNN called "the largest day of political action in the planet's history." Huge congrats to Phil Aroneanu of 350.org

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Org Impact Award NTC 63

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

An additional gift of up $3,500 (US) worth of Cisco products to help each winning org harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve. The medium educates, inspires, and moves people to action. Tell your friends at other orgs to submit as well!

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Video Contest Nonprofit Org 156

Whole Whale

APRIL 1, 2025

How and where did they first learn about your org? Where to begin: Think about how you are converting attention into action. Consider where your supporters are spending the most time learning more about you – are you offering calls to action there that allow you to further build a relationship with them?

Strategy 52

Strategy Fundraising Guide Nonprofit 52

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

By Judi Sohn, Outgoing VP of Operations, Fight Colorectal Cancer Fight Colorectal Cancer: > 6 year-old Org > 6 Full-time Staff > $1.1 Map out on paper (or use OmniGraffle or Visio like I did) how each of your audiences move through your organization, from first contact to the desired action they should take.

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Org Leadership Technology Organization 77

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The post Fundraising Apps: 25+ Tools To Help Your Org Raise More appeared first on Bloomerang. Polling capabilities enable quick decision-making between and leading up to meetings. Creating a Monthly Giving Program: Tips for Nonprofits.

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Org Fundraising Tools Help 105

Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibbon , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Org Green Skype New York City 54

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Some of the key attributes that you may want to include: a welcome page/message that highlights who you are and the calls to action – remember that it’s more important for people to take the action related to your campaign than it is to only join your page/group. org but I know there are lots of great examples out there.

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Romania Campaign Facebook NGO 178

NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

For more examples, actionable tips, and our top three recommendations for making stories work for you, read the full report and join our live webinar on May 5 at 2 p.m. Recognize that these stories aren't enough to compel someone to give. In the story that gets people to give, the donor — not the organization — is the hero.

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Story Org Work Data 98

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways. With a new impact page, a way to send photo updates to donors, and the marketing muscle of Karma Store , GETSET-GO will continue to put technology in action.

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Lesotho Action Technology Cambodia 63

NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

This allowed them to analyze beyond follower counts and get into actions. It was a revealing exercise talking to the five orgs. All five had universal behaviors that were exhibited in their ability to sustain communities for the long term: Measurement drives knowledge about how the community interacts.

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Social Media Media Social Chapter 219

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Use and application of digital tools is a tactical concern– important, but not the endpoint. And so Gladwell creates a false distinction when he claims it is the nature of the tool that creates strong or weak ties.

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Social Media Offline Network Org 119

NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Blue” orgs get a small fraction of environment funding. At Upwell I wanted to hack the competitive dynamic, to disrupt the nonprofit communications “institutionitis” that keeps our heads down and focused on building our own email list, optimizing clicky action, and thinking of the people on our lists as statistics.

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Org Share Causes Data 59

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

org has a $35 default donation amount with a $10 option as the lowest amount. 9) Create a compelling, action-oriented “Thank You for Your donation” page. The Rainforest Alliance takes it a step further with $75 set as the default and a message of “Most people are giving $75 right now. Please give what you can.”

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Donation Practice Nonprofit Paypal 363

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2024

Examples of jargon include words like empower, enable, community-driven action, food insecure, change agent, stakeholder, alignment, integrated, leverage, and holistic. This is important to younger generations and probably everyone else your org interacts with. Professional jargon is like kryptonite to genuine communication.

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People Strategy Nonprofit Volunteer 239

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

what about calls to action that aren’t online? A campaign (in my definition) is anything that mobilizes action. ChristinasWorld : building a network of awareness is different from campaigning: 1) campaigning is about mobilizing action toward specific objectives . Good campaigns move away from awareness 2 spur action.

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Campaign Social Media Org Measure 108

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

org: giving new meaning to “new organizing&# | Working Wikily – This is a great case study about community organizing from the 350.org org campaign. "A org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. . "A Which are best/worst?

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Web Bookmarking Org San Francisco 114

NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In a wonderful slide presentation, " What Does The Data Say ", George Weiner, CTO, at DoSomething.Org reminds us that "all orgs need to look at the data you have available and make it actionable." Here's what you need to do.

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Data Organization Org Slides 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. org , 1Sky, and The Nature Conservancy. If you have a blog, I hope you will participate this year too.

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Action Org Conservancy Blogger 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Long-time supporters of both Komen and Planned Parenthood jumped into action. Jumping into action, Allison Fine , Beth Kanter , Stephanie Rudat , Lisa Colton , and Lucy Bernholz starting moving beyond the updates and long conversation threads and towards a collective call to action.

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Reflection Doc Lesson Campaign 150

NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

And, at an event, it is a means of taking action immediately. More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs. Other orgs will finally learn what I've known for 5 years: bring it in-house and don't silo your tech people, make one of them a c-suite leader. The hottest org in 2020?

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Technology Org Profit Nonprofit 98

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Watch this blog space for more examples of their work in action! Most calls, web chats, and text messages are from people looking for help meeting basic needs like housing, food, transportation, and health care. 211 can be accessed by phone or computer at 211.org. Celebrate National 211 Day 2023 with us!

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Celebrate National United States Org 130

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Image from Blog Action Day - their topic this year is also climate change!). Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action? How does the web change the way we organize for climate action?

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Social Media Twitter Media Change 117

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Green Social Media Mashup Org 102

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Some of the responses highlighted the need to understand what was currently working for the listserv conversations and what would be a valuable hook to move people to the forums, and especially who within the community (not the org) may be the most influential in a successful migration.

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Offline Community Online Listserv 129

M+R

JULY 6, 2023

It offers a solution for campaigns and orgs looking to post links and focus on rapid response and breaking news. Our recommendation: If your org or campaign has been struggling with the question of “What to do about Twitter,” it makes a lot of sense to try out Threads. We’re not trying to migrate to a new platform.

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Twitter Org Social Media Audience 105

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Somewhere in your reply device that invites the donor to select their gift amount, add the phrase to your call to action “and other places,” “and other projects,” or “and other work.” “I’ve heard we should first ask people to give, if not give, advocate for org, and lastly to volunteer for org.

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Question Fundraising Mail Org 123

.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

podcast Sharon Rice,org Source Director of Business Strategy , and I talked about these shifting dynamics. Motivation to inspire yourself and others to action—a critical component for any mission-driven organization. Thousands of dollars are spent on equipment and hours are devoted to strategizing how to grow those connections.

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Associations Skills Culture Leadership 221

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To help customers meet this requirement, Salesforce is now automatically enabling MFA for production orgs in several phases. With the Salesforce Winter ’24 update, MFA is auto-enabled for the third phase of orgs, and the final phase of MFA will occur with the Spring ’24 release.

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Phase Org Associations Method 141

Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibben , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Org Green Skype New York City 36