Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#. But, what still really stands out for me, is the addition of the cause-advocacy appeal once the meme hit the English translation. What struck me about this original message was the lack of connection to a cause.

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Candid

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Why support for boys and men is needed Advocacy for boys and men is often met with dismissive responses that downplay or minimize their challenges. Photo credit: American Institute for Boys and Men The post Rising together: Supporting boys, men, and all communities appeared first on Candid insights. We canand mustdo both.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Ensure the color palette, photo elements, and graphics contribute to your story. Ask reactive donors to join your advocacy network, share across their network, or volunteer. The language of your online donation forms, scripting, print materials, and any other content should center this language. Dont let your brand be an afterthought.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

In practice, for every five status updates, posts, or tweets, four should be related to storytelling (through blogs, website articles, video, photos, stats, and quotes), while only one should be a direct ask such as a marketing or fundraising pitch. Visually compelling photos uploaded to Twitter double retweet rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. That said, in addition to posting a thank you message and photo, your nonprofits could also post a link to an opt-in for your fundraisers to capture their contact information.

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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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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Eighty-eight percent of consumers (aka your potential donors) trust word-of-mouth advocacy from friends and family. Photo credit: Fauxels via Pexels The post Beyond fundraising: How building community strengthens nonprofit sustainability appeared first on Candid insights. What better way to break through all the digital noise?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. Check it out and submit a photo yourself! Doing Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Posts can be as little as 250 words with a featured image or as long as a 5,000-word photo essay. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog. Reading and seeing (include photos and videos!) The concept that a new blog post must be published daily is definitely a relic of the past.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Gen Z sees social media as a platform for self-expression and advocacy. Photo credit: SolStock via Getty Images The post How social sharing sparks generational generosity for nonprofits appeared first on Candid insights. About half of Gen Z respondents share fundraisers or causes they support at least once a week.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Apple is delaying its child protection features announced last month , including a controversial feature that would scan users’ photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), following intense criticism that the changes could diminish user privacy. Apple delays controversial child protection features | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. A heavily commented photo will show up in people’s news feeds (because of all the activity), which can really help promote the message. Sample Communications Really Help.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

"We invite you to cast your vote to help pick this year's winner of the second annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The most successful fundraising campaigns, advocacy efforts, and even personal experiences center on one person, one animal, one story, especially when trying to support a huge, faceless issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

With Crowdfunding, your supporters can share your small dollar donation request with their friends and family through their very own donation page, featuring their photo, personal message to donors, and a goal thermometer. 9) Ask donors to simply share your social media posts and emails.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Event participation: Acknowledge their involvement in past events, volunteer efforts, or advocacy work to deepen their connection to your mission. Humanize donors impact further by including direct quotes from Maria and her photo. Ensure you have a signed photo release to obtain consent and respect privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

Saudatu Mahdi, she is as mentioned, Head of Secretariat for LACVAW (Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women) and Secretary General of WRAPA (Women's Rights and Protection Alternative). It was an one pager, stating violence in Nigeria facts and showing very graphic photos of victims of violence.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

One organization sent me a follow-up advocacy email two days after their first one saying “With just 24 hours left to hit our goal of 40,000 action takers, I wanted to be sure you saw our email from Monday.” A week later, the second email featured a cat and sheep, with a different header photo, subject line and messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. You did just post that photo and it went viral by itself? What happened?

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Care2

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The campaign was activated with the stars changing their profile pictures to photos of their supported Dalit, and over three days, their status updates were suddenly very different: A group of uppercaste men came to our house and beat us because my brother went near the well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. For example, all clusters associated with formal education or advocacy. The next step was to look for patterns as a group.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

With a successful photo-essay or multimedia piece, organizations can attract partners, appeal to donors and grantmakers, influence policymakers, and perhaps most importantly, drive a movement. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos.

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Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

SAGE (Advocacy and Services for LGBTQ+ Elders) is the only national organization dedicated to addressing issues related to LGBTQ+ people and aging. Photo credit: SAGE The post Using data to make LGBTQ+ elders and their needs visible appeared first on Candid insights. Direct services. Technical assistance.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We need to make the case for advocacy It’s encouraging to see that people trust nonprofits to mend social divides and improve key issues. Yet, there is significantly less trust in the sector when it comes to advocacy-related work. Stronger relationships lead to greater trust in nonprofits Trust is a verb.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Photo by Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images. As congressional leaders have worked to finalize this package over the last few weeks, a coalition of tech trade groups and advocacy organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Association urged lawmakers to refuse inclusion of these measures. Congress’ $2.3

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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. Photo credit: Jacob Wackerhausen via Getty Images The post What does a good donor experience look like? appeared first on Candid insights.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Create a compelling report and show off your organization’s influence by leveraging exciting headlines, bright graphics, and photos. Try including photos of your members volunteering, pictures from your annual conference, or images of your latest advocacy project.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Is retweeting an officer’s photo cyber harassment? A New Jersey police department is pursuing cyber harassment charges against five people in connection with a protest photo uploaded to Twitter in June. In an attempt to identify a specific police officer who was befriending someone harassing me, I uploaded a photo.”

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge. The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal ban on robocalls to cellphones from 1991, and it struck down a provision that exempted government-debt collectors. Americans passionately disagree about many things,” reads the majority opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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