Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

PFLAG is the first and largest national chapter-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. The PFLAG network consists of more than 400 chapters, which crosses nearly all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes How to Mobilize a Movement: 6 Tech Strategies for Supporter Advocacy We know your journey is sprinkled with dreams of making a huge difference, as well as the occasional sleepless night, wondering how you can mobilize a movement with the resources you have. Sounds like a dream?

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

If you do online advocacy work, you probably know about Social Actions. Tags: Advocacy christine egger NPTech NTEN Program. If you're interested in data, and making sure that data can move freely around the web in the nonprofit space, then you definitely know Social Actions. Let's make sure we keep the data flowing!

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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. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. A co-branded advocacy road trip could help you realize the seed of a larger partnership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

The full-day conference is all about practical tips and tools for fundraising, marketing and advocacy. A book party for book editor and former Craigslist Foundation executive director Darian Rodriguez Heyman, “ Nonprofit Management 101 ,” will follow the conference at 5:30-8:30 pm. (I was lucky enough to one of 50 chapter contributors.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Finally, make it mandatory that the subscriber enter his their zip code only if your organization plans on doing advocacy campaigns via e-mail or group text messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. ” There is an entire chapter devoted to the limits on nonprofit organizations’ political activities as we know that 501c3 organizations are strictly prohibited from intervening or participating in political campaigns. How do the [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Source: Hot Button Studio. Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile. Change.org :: change.org. Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

You may be facing the challenge of how to realign your digital strategy and modernize your technology while juggling many other shifting priorities in operations, advocacy, or programs. The ALS Association had a national website and individual sites for each regional chapter. You’re not alone. So where do you start?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Leverage Nimble AMS Chapters. The Summer product release boosted the Nimble AMS Chapters functionality , allowing staff to easily transfer membership for chapter members. With a user-friendly wizard, your staff can have increased chapter management functionality, reducing implementation costs. Goodbye cart, hello revenue!

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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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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Members are increasingly distrustful of government and jaded about advocacy, leading to less engagement in advocacy and government affairs. Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters. How is declining trust affecting your association?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

So, be sure to regularly retweet partners, chapters, staff, activists, donors, and sponsors. For example, @nonprofitorgs/lists : Customized for small nonprofits on a limited budget, the Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits webinar highlights current trends in using social media for fundraising, advocacy, and storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com. Government.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

In the nonprofit advocacy world, we’re used to having to fire people up. As the idea of a school walkout and the March for our Lives took shape, advocacy organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety offered to help with logistics and planning , but the students themselves still led the work. Let the grassroots be grassroots!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. However, as part of a sector they have an advocacy voice in policy circles. So, sector is important for policy advocacy. Today, in less than a generation, the idea of a nonprofit sector is common. The point is that the term is new, and sectorness is likewise fairly new.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

2009 Year-End Fundraising Guide – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – “Is your nonprofit sending out 8-10 online fundraising appeals this holiday season? The analysis is approached from a user’s perspective, and highlights the types of problems consumers frequently encounter with the service.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: WomenRising’s mission is to assist women and their families to achieve self-sufficiency and live safe, productive, and fulfilling lives, through social services, economic development, and advocacy services. Impacting: Social services. Headquarters in: Jersey City, NJ. How To Support WomenRising. Learn more about WomenRising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2009

When starting your nonprofit, advocacy group, or other civic organizations, there may not be a budget to pay for website development – or even hosting services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Simply plug in your nonprofits’s website URL and you can seen cached versions of your site going back to 1996. Meetup :: meetup.com. TweepsMap :: tweepsmap.com.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

She’s the development director at a local chapter of a large, nationwide nonprofit organization. Like many nonprofits, her chapter hadn’t met its annual fundraising targets for the past couple of years. My friend and colleague Meghan was upset. Individual giving was down, and so were major gifts. Our conversation continued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The offers chapters on how to design and build a network, including a special chapter for funders as well as a rich selection of resources. What patterns can social media use reveal that provide strategic insight for network? Assessment: How will the network monitor its condition and performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. They provide professional networking, professional development, leadership development and advocacy. I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. EPIP stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

I was honored to be among the stellar list of contributors ( I wrote a chapter on web design ). See the full announcement below: Is your nonprofit interested in using social media for fundraising, marketing, and advocacy? The next stop is Chicago next Tuesday, September 27, and we have the secret $20 discount code!

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

He is an active member of the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and serves as Co-Chair of the Web, Tech & Social Media track for Fund Raising Day in New York and also serves as Board Member for the Direct Marketing Fundraising Association.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Purpose: Fundraising, education, advocacy. A frequent speaker at national events who also donates his time to serve on several nonprofit advisory boards, Casey contributed a chapter to "Do Your Giving While You Are Living" and recently won the "35 Under 35" award for top entrepreneurs in greater D.C. Save the Bay: Battle for the Bay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

There are, however, other equally important aspects that are often missed in the numbers alone, including the fundamental changes that a leader, organization, or community experiences through their involvement in organizing and advocacy.”

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Care2

JULY 26, 2011

For online marketing around advocacy or fundraising, the ZMOT could be the potential new user taking the time to read the “About&# page of an organization-- or seeing how many “likes&# it has on Facebook -- before signing a petition. What should non-profit online marketers do about their organization’s Zero Moment of Truth?

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sgEngage

JUNE 3, 2024

Although not ready or able yet to make a monetary donation, many 20-somethings are eager to support your cause through advocacy, social influence, and volunteering. Today, chapters nationwide provide care packages to more than 300 hospitalized children every day. “My A Gen Zer himself, Ray Mohler Jr.,

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Since 2017, Forum One has served as a long-term digital transformation and support partner to the Alliance for Justice , a national coalition of advocacy organizations dedicated to ensuring equal justice in a diverse society.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. TweepsMap :: tweepsmap.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

This module started with an overview of the concepts in Chapter 2 of the Networked Nonprofit , Understanding Networks. There are different “social media mindsets&# – two distinct approaches — activist or revolutionary organizations and civil society organizations that may use social media for advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

He uses Twitter to curate information related to his organization’s mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions. Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders that use Twitter.

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