Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Her team at Cause Fokus uses empathy-based marketing to turn passive audiences into loyal advocates. Individual giving has seen a steep decline, with donors becoming more selective about the causes they support. In this environment, building a community of loyal advocates for your cause is more important than ever before.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Research shows the impact of prioritizing grassroots engagement and localized impact on nonprofit sustainability. Consider creating ambassador programs where passionate supporters can share your cause with their networks. Eighty-eight percent of consumers (aka your potential donors) trust word-of-mouth advocacy from friends and family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

March is not only great for basketball, but is also good for nonprofit research studies about digital strategies and launches of new data tools. So if you like looking at and thinking about data and love to get your hands dirty with a data jujitsu, here’s a couple of goodies for you. RESEARCH STUDIES.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And, as we learn more, we’re discovering that these applications are remarkable research assistants, too. Starting with a general research prompt, “Highlight the top four to five giving campaigns nonprofits have created in the past three to five years. Before the challenge, the ALS Association received $6 million yearly for research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

According to HubSpot Research , Linked Pages that have 100 followers or more earn a median of two clicks on the first two posts that a nonprofit shares on LinkedIn per week. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Veterans Advocacy Tableau User Group is a community-led initiative for prior and current military service members, family, and advocates to share their stories, support veteran causes, and learn Tableau. How did the Veterans Advocacy TUG get started? What are some examples of the group’s advocacy? Ateken Abla.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Veterans Advocacy Tableau User Group is a community-led initiative for prior and current military service members, family, and advocates to share their stories, support veteran causes, and learn Tableau. How did the Veterans Advocacy TUG get started? What are some examples of the group’s advocacy? Ateken Abla.

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NetWits

JUNE 30, 2011

Romance me a bit, tell me some stories, and get me fired up about the cause. For example, if I’ve indicated an interest in cancer research, failing to customize my appeal communications around an urgent need for cancer research funding.” – Mike Snusz. “ You are sending your appeal at the wrong time.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

Join Derrick Feldmann, co-author of the new book Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement , to discuss how Millennials are transforming philanthropy and engagement with social issues. How Millennials are Changing Social Causes Thursday, 6/13 at 2pm ET. Care2 Webinars Marketing Research webinars'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. Donors, especially millennial donors, are motivated by specific issues and causes and typically do not have allegiance to specific organizations. How do you overcome inertia?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I’ve seen firsthand what a seamless donor experience can deliver—increased donations, higher retention rates, stronger loyalty, and advocacy. According to The Social State of Giving , half of Gen Z shares causes or fundraisers weekly, over half of Millennials share monthly, and more than half of Gen X shares occasionally.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our research shows that 91% of giving circle members reported making additional non-monetary contributions of their time, talent, and ties to their giving circle. Members can engage at whatever level they feel comfortablefrom attending monthly meetings to leading policy research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Recently, I've been getting a question like that goes something like this, "All this social media stuff is great if you're fund raising or selling something or running a grassroots advocacy campaign, but what if you're focusing on carefully vetted scientific research or want to impact policy?

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Video: Online Advocacy Trends Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 6th, 2011 The recordings from Blackbaud and Care2′s Advocacy Live 2011 event are now online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Everything we do online (our website, email program, advertising, social) is tied to our goals of advocacy and fundraising, or some other kind of lead generation. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book Book Tour?. ?Book

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Issue Advocacy *. These joint partnerships work together to advance public awareness for an issue or cause. Project Manager. Create Etc. Confederations *.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Fortunately, research is weighing in with some great information that gives us insight into our social donors and potentials. You can now identify your most “social” constituents, and when you know that you are in position to develop mutually beneficial relationships with them that are productive and respect their advocacy of your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The Pay to Play schemes are what cause so much breeding, abuse and then abandonment, but the people paying for these photo ops and play sessions don’t know what they are supporting. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Our videos enable us to educate the public while entertaining them. Anything else? Book Tour ? ?

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

history, and they are establishing their giving practices, with more than half budgeting to donate to causes annually. Gen Z, with their unparalleled digital fluency and passion for social causes, is leveraging these skills to create meaningful impact and change. Half of Gen Z shares causes or fundraisers at least once a week.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Available government resources are tied to the same macro-economic trends that cause an increase in service demand. willing to reimburse—even when the agency is the cause of the cash flow. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Stay up to date with current advocacy trends.

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2024

Fostering Authentic Relationships With and Amongst Your Audience Digital advocacy is critical to moving missions forward, creating systemic change, educating your base, and mobilizing leaders who are loyal to your organization and committed to the larger movement in which you operate. This is especially true during an election year.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2025

While some organizations like food banks may struggle to offer online opportunities, otherssuch as literacy programs that deliver tutoring sessions over Zoom, or advocacy networks that leverage volunteers to facilitate or monitor group forumsare finding new ways to involve virtual volunteers. Photo credit: Courtesy of Dorothy A.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 10, 2024

This is underscored by the 84% of them who support charitable causes in some way and the 59% who do so through donations. This next generation is reshaping the giving landscape in ways predictably reflective of their status as digital natives while rallying around priority causes like social justice and climate change.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We hear this question a lot as the agency’s Advocacy and Campaigns team. There are many ways to define advocacy (more often than not, this evolves the more entrenched you are in the work). But here at Media Cause, we believe, at its core, advocacy is all about shifting the balance of power. . This effort resulted in 3.7

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

That’s one question posed by a new study, Beyond The Cause: The Art and Science of Advocacy, and the conclusion is, well, inconclusive. : Bright+3 – "Should nonprofits engage in political activity on issues that broadly impact the nonprofit sector? " Where do you get your news?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Change.org :: change.org.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Together, we aimed to answer several key questions, including: How have individual and institutional giving patterns varied across different cause areas and geographic regions? Of the 16 research questions our research teams identified, we were able to fully address four and partially answer six.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Diverse Goals. Raising funds.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Identify Your Own Story .

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This research, potentially the first study of its kind, investigates the level of data work within philanthropic foundations to provide a snapshot of the current level of maturity and commitment around data-related matters. Views on Offshore Wind in New England by the Barr Foundation and Hart Research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Like breaking news, cause awareness and giving day tweets have a short news cycle in the here and now that Twitter users respond to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy as shifting the balance of power. Effective advocacy, which leads to systemic and cultural change, starts with the stories we tell—and believe—about our own experiences, community, and world. Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal?

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In today’s digital world, your nonprofit must have a high-quality website to successfully raise awareness for your cause, secure support, and drive your mission forward. In no time, you’ll have a website that reflects your cause, inspires engagement, and helps you reach your digital strategy goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This process isnt magicits built on hours of research and conversations with hundreds of sector leaders, with an eye on sector shifts. In another example, the American Cancer Society used AI to examine GoFundMe campaigns and found that over one-third of fundraising stories explicitly described financial hardships caused by medical issues.

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