Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Take a Balanced Approach With Your Revenue Streams and Include Digital Fundraising. The key is to find ways to engage with off-site participants so that they feel like they are part of the event. Action Item: How balanced are your revenue streams? Fundraising event alternatives. Everyone has agreed.”.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Each fundraiser’s site features a personal appeal and social sharing buttons, which are great ways to spread the word about the campaign. You can add these into your virtual fundraising campaign site on CauseVox as an offline donation to showcase fundraising progress! Live-Streaming. Virtual Gala Fundraiser. Games Tournament.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

This includes time spent scrolling through social media, checking emails, watching shows and movies on streaming services, and more. Make sure your website can resize to fit the user’s screen so they won’t need to zoom in to browse the site. Are you taking advantage of this time your customers spend on their phones and computers?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Do you only need a simple, one-angle video stream, or are you opting for a system of cameras streaming from different angles for a dynamic, in-the-room experience? Make sure you have sound equipment that easily hooks into your stream to minimize technical sound issues. Build an auction website or webpage.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For fundraising teams, strategically leveraging workplace giving programs can unlock new revenue streams, strengthen donor relationships, and maximize the impact of their campaigns. When it comes to driving workplace giving, equipping your site with the right information can go a long way. Let’s dive in with our first recommendation.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For instance, if your website has many images, make sure to also include some sort of text or audio alternative for those who might be visually impaired. With traditional fundraising events on a pause, virtual alternatives have proven to be successful alternatives for many organizations. Virtual fundraising event. Best of luck!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

If you’ve created a Facebook group and/or set up a streaming service event participants can watch activities unfold from, send them that information. You can use Facebook Live (or other streaming services like Twitch ) to showcase different activities. Online shopping makes for a great alternative to a typical supply drive.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Neglecting site design. Facebook: With live streaming and story capabilities, Facebook is ideal for spreading the word about your upcoming fundraisers and events. Neglecting site design. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? . That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. Either can be accomplished in a fully digital environment.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Get a whole bunch of ducks, find a location with a small stream or pool.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

By building a base of small donors, you will create a revenue stream that is way way way more resilient than one built on a few big donors. You’re not only tapping into a new revenue stream, but you’re also building relationships with movers and shakers in your community who can introduce you to other philanthropists in their networks.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Building Council makes sure that LEED brings in multiple streams of revenue. Consumer Reports: The Ad-Free Site That Rigorously Tests and Reviews Big Buys So You Don’t Have to Waste the Time. Trust sells, especially when the alternative is losing your money, losing time, and growing frustrated.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

However, a few accessibility design best practices you might miss are: Alternative text and transcripts. Providing alternative text and video transcripts can help these visitors engage with your content. When you design a usable website, you’ll likely include many accessible features without realizing it at first. Color contrast.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Follow accessibility guidelines such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background colors, adding alternative text to images, putting captions on videos, and making it possible to navigate the site with keyboard controls. This way, site visitors can access your donation form from any page in just one click.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. There are sites like this popping up all over the country, and some of the same young, creative, civically-minded people who might typically work in museums or libraries are the ones in charge.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 12, 2021

Some key features: Events and Virtual Events – industry-leading and fully customizable, embedded live stream, event registrations, immersive guest experiences . Paypal Alternatives for Nonprofits: 11 Tools to Raise More. Some key features: Create beautiful online donation sites with an easy-to-use fundraising website builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But in these tough economic times, new advances in technology are making virtual events an interesting and compelling alternative to the traditional in-person conference. In the past month, we shared some of our biggest takeaways and lessons learned through a four-part blog series on the Case Foundation site.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Live-streaming to keep in touch with supporters. If you’re considering live-streaming content to your supporters, check out this re:Charity article to learn more about the software necessary to do so. . Try hosting a fundraising event centered around social media by live-streaming regularly with your supporters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

Roughly 21% of this came from gifts, donations, and grants, while 79% came from fees, contracts, and other revenue streams. Over 80% of all adults under 50 use social networking sites of some kind. Provide information about alternate methods of donating. trillion in total revenue for the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

We’ve added suggestions for sustainable alternatives to items on the Seafood Watch “Avoid” list, and have highlighted a list of “Super Green” seafood that is heart-healthy, low in contaminants, and caught or farmed in ways that are good for the oceans. What is your overall communication strategy for Seafood Watch?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Use the communication streams that your supporters use the most, including: . Alternatively, you could put together a donor appreciation event that focuses more on thanking and recognizing donors and less on fundraising. . A common mistake is putting too much information on your site. Text messages . Segment donors.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

An in-app feedback channel will help prevent negative user reviews because it gives users an easy alternative to leaving low star ratings out of frustration. Send information about your app’s launch to popular app review sites and any other publications that you think are relevant. Communicate with your nonprofit’s team. Ask for help.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Plan ahead and try out new techniques for online engagement, but don't be afraid to switch direction mid-stream. Make the event site a community rather than a conference program.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Live streaming is one of the fastest growing categories of video marketing , with 63% of people ages 18-34 watching it regularly. Additional Facebook Live resources: Facebook Live Video: The Complete Guide to Live-Streaming. With this information, you serve Facebook ads to people who visit your site. Be registered with the IRS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

Brainstorming thoughts - Wouldn't it be great if there was one web site or number to call for identifying that you're OK, and that your family could connect with. Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

The answer is in the valley, where the streams and rivers run. Some people see these sites today and do not know they resulted from mining. ROCK AND DIRT ARE NOT NECESSARILY WASTE IN THE EPA CLASSIC SENSE Much has been made of the controversy over filling streams. Streams are not lost forever. It is a big mess.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

If you own a small business, you significantly limit your market if you don't have a Web site. If you don't want your news "pre-chewed"; by large corporations, your only alternative is the Internet. Watch the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program web site for more information. Net Neutrality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. What a great example of leaving breadcrumbs across social media sites to enhance findability. My only quibble is that the advice, "Second Life is here, now - use it," does not recognize the existence of various alternatives, a number of which were mentioned by several panelists.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Get to know the alternative and “emerging” news outlets and most influential bloggers (known as “influencers”) in your area. Your story could go further than you think, as reporters for established news outlets may be scanning the community sites for newsworthy stories. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To change it to a virtual format, you would announce the winners during a live stream, and then arrange for the winners to get their prizes later. As a virtual alternative , have each of your congregants set up a personal fundraising webpage. When We Were Young” guessing game.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

You need to capture the consumer with your free content and then extract value through alternate channels. Content is just so much stuff - as in "We need a stream of content for our website." Laura is not creating media, as David suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. ads, products, services, memberships, etc.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Pivot this to virtual by having each participant upload a photo or live stream themselves walking their “at-home” runway. They can then vote for their favorite by donating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Before running off to create “Facebook&# content, it requires a mind shift. 2-4 hours per week.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

“Your outreach should not be limited to social networks created especially for Boomers, sites like Eons or Grandparents.com ," Reece says. Another 2008 market research study conducted by NPD Group showed that 61 percent of Boomer Internet users had visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video (e.g.,

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Depending on your costs and the needs of the community, classes can be an important revenue stream while also operating as the tip of your new donor acquisition spear. Similar to health clinics, providing a site to host the workshop is great, but sponsorship and general support help too.

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