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10 Threads & X Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There is no data to provide benchmarks for the optimal number of times to post to Threads on a weekly basis, but through experimentation, Nonprofit Tech for Good has settled on posting every other day. Hashtags don’t work on Threads, but similar to hashtags, on Threads they are called tags. You can add polls to post.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them.

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6 Signs Your Nonprofit Needs a New Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Having access to Google Analytics for your website is key to getting to the roots of the problem. For example, if you’re hoping that a lot of people find your nonprofit through search engines, a minimal number of visitors from organic search can signal a problem with the search-friendliness of your website and content. Give it a try!

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

And if you don’t have a budget , that’s an even bigger problem!). Organizations that overspend on fundraising are often working inefficiently, spending on fundraising strategies that are not getting results. Overspending on fundraising is NOT the problem I see most often in small nonprofits, though. Sometimes that’s ok.

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Building on last year’s session, we were pleased that this year we had the opportunity to introduce the “crowdsourcing” experiment to collectively solve our nonprofit technology problems." But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. What does social media success look like, anyway?"

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9 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices You Should Be Using Today

Connection Cafe

Working with participants goes beyond just getting them to sign up as fundraisers for your campaign and giving them some tools. Some things to consider: What mission-critical problem does your campaign solve (why should someone donate)? Acknowledge your sponsors. Communicate with participants. Build camaraderie.

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Socially Responsible Schwag As Metaphor for SoCap09

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder.

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