Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Working with NGOs, thought leaders, and policymakers in DC for the last decade, she specializes in getting people to care about complex issues that might otherwise get ignored. Her team at Cause Fokus uses empathy-based marketing to turn passive audiences into loyal advocates. Make eye contact with your audience. Say their name.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Larger audiences : Virtual platforms can accommodate hundreds or even thousands of attendees, increasing the number of potential donors and supporters. Since everyone needed to interact through video chat or Zoom calls in 2020, virtual fatigue set in and people became reluctant about attending virtual galas. Live and Silent Auctions.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One critical success factor in planning an engaging auction is securing high-quality, unique items that appeal to your target audience. To help you get started, this guide will discuss four proven tips for procuring auction prizes your audience will want to bid on while sticking to your event budget.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A well-designed website can work wonders for your nonprofit in spreading awareness of your mission and converting first-time visitors into loyal, active supporters. Your nonprofit likely has one or two main colors to incorporate into all of your design work, as well as some secondary shades to add visual variety. Color palette.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Understanding audience needs is the core of good design. For mission-driven organizations in particular, forging deep connections with audiences is paramount. The questions we hear often are about how organizations can identify and adapt designs to meet the evolving needs of their audiences and ensure that the mission resonates deeply.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Please cite sources.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. For instance, if audience engagement is a priority, prompts related to chatbot interactions and personalized messaging are key. Output as a table.”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 18, 2025

Understand your mission and audience The first step is to know your WHY, that is, your mission. Next, determine your WHOyour target audience. Most nonprofits have multiple key audiences, each with different needs, motivations, and ways they engage with your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Understand Your Audience. How long someone has been supporting your event, how they prefer to be contacted, and the content they’re most likely to interact with are just a few examples of how data helps you reach your supporters where they are. Even a spreadsheet is better than taking a guess and hoping for the best.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 12, 2020

You don’t want to bore your audience right from the start of your relationship. In other words, you should communicate to each audience group – including donors, members, volunteers, event attendees, and subscribers – in a way that is relevant to them. This is the first step in creating strong, steady audience engagement.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

2) The bots will be our BFFs freeing us from a multitude of mundane tasks to work at a higher level. You can view technology as a threat, or you can welcome it as a bridge that connects, empowers, and humanizes interactions. Social media platforms and mobile apps facilitate real-time interactions, keeping members informed and involved.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

These events can incorporate donation prompts, live chats, and real-time impact updates, creating an interactive experience for supporters. Cross-Platform Opportunities Online fundraising offers the ability to engage and re-engage supporters across various platforms, maximizing reach and interaction.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Museums and cultural organizations, like the family of Smithsonian institutions and others we’re fortunate to work with at Forum One, have a wealth of opportunities when it comes to digital engagement. Driving and sitting across all these types of in-person and online interactions are digital marketing, social media, and advertising.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And in order to tell stories effectively you need to understand who your audience is. Segmentation through demographics like age, location and interests are also helpful ways to understand your donors and create stories that will resonate with the different types of target audiences.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Remote work was one of those unsettling tests. We must stop the punch-clock mentality and the belief that if we let staff out of our sight, they’re going to be doing anything other than working. The traditional workplace reality is you’re lucky if you get up to five hours of productive work from each employee every day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

By Lyn Chamberlin , President at Lyn Chamberlin Leadership – an award-winning nonprofit brand strategist who works with organizations and successful women to create transformative brand narratives. Openly sharing stories about your work, outcomes, and financial stewardship fosters trust and demonstrates accountability.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Brand awareness: Marketers consistently say that email marketing is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness and connect with current and prospective audience members. Email marketing allows your organization to tell its story to your target audience and increase awareness of your mission in the community.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In fact, a community needs organizations working together to ensure a healthy support system for all. You may find that it’s in your best interest to work together on a year-end fundraising campaign. Similarly, working with businesses for your end-of-year giving campaign can open doors to new audiences and resources.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Despite what you might hear, direct mail still reigns over email, but results will always vary by audience, for example, current donors vs. a cold list and audience size. Here are several examples to help you: Add this phrase somewhere in your appeal: “Your gift will not only help this project, but all our work at X.”

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Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Which Event Formats Work Best? Tips for How to Choose To maximize attendance and engagement at your next nonprofit event, you need to choose the best event format for your audience. Find out whether your audience prefers to gather in person or engage in the comfort of their own homes. How do your attendees engage best?

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2025

I get to partner with nonprofit teams that are full of dedicated, smart, and hard-working people. Maybe this shouldnt come as a surprise: Our post-pandemic world is full of social, governmental, and economic concerns that have an impact on our outreach and fundraising work. Segment your audience : Not all donors are the same.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

Gamers, some with enormous fan bases in the tens of millions, host live streams where they play video games and interact with their audience as a tool to raise money for nonprofits. Other virtual assistants are working toward providing this feature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. , Test both!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

That’s because a digital strategy can truly transform every aspect of your organization’s work – from marketing to events. The good news is that once you embrace digital donor engagement tools, most of the grunt work – like donation forms and gift acknowledgements – is done for you through automation. Stay in touch with some facetime.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s dive in and explore how creating donor personas can help us engage and resonate with our target audience better, so that in turn, we can create more impact in our areas of work. It’s like getting to know a friend – the better we understand them, the more meaningful and authentic our interactions become.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Events, social media, and marketing are only small links in a much bigger chain of interactions with supporters.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

But how do we put the human touch into interactions in a virtual landscape that doesn’t provide emotional cues? Member community and customer relationships Build trust and create meaningful connections by demonstrating that you are knowledgeable about audience preferences. Customer experience turns the tables.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

It can help you reach a younger audience but also to strengthen the relationship with your existing supporters. 2) Think of your audience – who do you really want to target? A good way to improve your social media fundraising success is to be clear on your target audience. 3) Pick the right platforms.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Erica Kruse, Director of Education, American Society of Neuroradiology, turned to Attendee Interactive for help.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. Over the past three years,orgSource has been working with the PCI team on several significant projects,” Kevin said. It is a work in progress.” On a recent Association 4.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Having a content calendar that everyone can access, will not only show the rest of your team what you’re working on but also give them the opportunity to contribute. You can set up the posting times by looking at your analytics to see which are the best times to reach your audience. Be ready to change what doesn’t work.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It’s as if you’re a magnet for selfless, hard-working, passionate, I-don’t-care-how-many-hats-I-have-to-wear kind of people. If that’s how an organization operates, then it’s fair to deduce that they value constituent interactions more highly than, say, completing contact reports. Coordinate an upcoming event? You got it. Absolutely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

With more than 150 countries joining, and more than 14 billion impressions on social channels every year, it’s the perfect opportunity to tell your story to a global audience of people interested in making a difference through the power of social media. #GivingTuesday is the biggest generosity movement in history. 1) Define your narrative.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. In the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

By Gary Wohlfeill , Director of Marketing at CrowdRise , who works with partners to develop highly engaging fundraising campaigns and leads the marketing team in developing the CrowdRise brand. On the flip side, if they bought a ticket and then receive a message about buying another ticket, this won’t resonate with the audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Technology can now imitate many aspects of in-person events, from chat functions that mimic group conversations to interactive games and events through a screen. When he’s not managing a fundraising event you can find him at the gym or working on side projects at home in Palo Alto, CA. 3) Hybrid fundraisers. 4) Live auctions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Does it seem like everyone you know is raving about a new tool that’s revolutionizing the way employees in all industries are doing their work? While this tool is a valuable asset for nonprofits, it shouldn’t be seen as a substitute for human interaction.

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