Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Consider this your primer for establishing and building your organization’s digital presence. Why You Need Both Earned and Paid Media Using owned media to promote a fundraising campaign will only get you so far. A new campaign may motivate them to give again, but fishing from the same pool over and over will limit your success.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Similarly, all text-to-give campaigns are a form of mobile giving, but not all mobile giving involves texts. Whether youre hosting a live social media event or a text-to-give campaign, the steps for getting started with mobile giving remain essentially the same. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Do the same with a list of donors who contribute through workplace giving programs like United Way or the Combined Federal Campaign. your neighbors. your family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So, I’m so excited to host this guest post from By Mayur Patel , vice president of Strategy and Assessment at Knight Foundation, and Anna Dilernia , Strategy and Assessment Assistant at Knight Foundation that shares solid information for those nonprofits who will launch a Giving Tuesday Campaign. Engage Online and Excite Offline.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Customize your donation page to your organizations needs to build familiarity and trust among your supporters. For example, check out how the ASPCA donation page highlights the impact of giving $150: With these strategies, you can build an online donation page that both inspires your donors and serves your organizations goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The Obama campaign, for one. My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Download Your Fundraising Planning Guide and Calendar Template: Fundraising calendars are designed to outline donor correspondence, campaign timelines, special events , benchmark dates, and other noteworthy occurrences that your fundraising team will be engaged in over the course of the year. Always focus on what works best for you.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. For some recent thoughts and best practices on community building, check out: How our tools define “Community&#.

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

Integrate with offline campaigns. Your direct marketing and other offline marketing campaigns can help support your online campaigns, too. Whether it’s to build a new playground in the park, or to end hunger in another country, a petition is one of the most shareable things online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

There is no doubt that social media, no matter the platform, remains a powerful way for people to build communities and connect with the causes and nonprofits they care about. When raising money online (or offline) you must be able to succinctly answer this question for your potential donors: Why this? 2) Make it urgent.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation. In short, you need to build a CAMPAIGN. What IS an Online Fundraising Campaign?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. Baby Boomers are also more likely to engage in offline giving, such as writing checks or attending fundraising events.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

What Is a Capital Campaign? If you’ve spent any time in the fundraising world, you’ve probably heard the phrase “capital campaign” before. This guide will introduce you to the concept and walk you through the process of planning and executing your own capital campaign. So let’s start with the basics: what is a capital campaign?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

To get started preparing for the most wonderful time of the year for nonprofits and charities, ensure you’ve covered your year-end fundraising basics with this year-end fundraising campaign timeline. Suggestion: Pre-Year End Fundraising Thank You Campaign . By November 1st : Set Goals And Make A Plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide. 3 Goals for 2011.

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NetWits

AUGUST 8, 2011

Locate the need – Where are the specific gaps that you need to fill and can build a case for support around? Meet your new Aunt Mabels – In your event or campaign planning, make sure that you’re spending time with your leaders or influencers (ie through a team captain training or a volunteer/group meeting). Register Now !

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Motivate Participants and Fundraisers with Powerful Email Campaigns. In this session you’ll learn how to build email campaigns and create messages that get read and inspire participants to take action. Join us and get new ideas for connecting Facebook®, Twitter®, YouTube®, email and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. and Romina Oliverio's Youth Campaigners in Toronto.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. Well, we could build that too if we had their budget.”. Era of Increased Activism and Grassroots Campaigning.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. million global views.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Why Nonprofits Love It: Extended digital exposure builds even more value into sponsorship packages , making it easier for businesses to justify their support. Any printed pieces can use a QR code that drives offline traffic to the event site.

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2024

That’s why we started this series—the building blocks of a digital advocacy campaign—so you can be successful in your digital advocacy efforts. Let’s dive into how we can build these authentic relationships. Relationship-building starts with knowing your audience, as this informs both what you say and how you say it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Campaign URL Builder :: ga-dev-tools.web.app/ga4/campaign-url-builder. Websites & Email. Loomly :: loomly.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’m passionate about changing the world through community building because it is only by empowering and supporting communities to form, to network and collaborate, and to make real change that we can truly change things. We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

When it comes to managing or building communities, online or on the ground, the work can seem overwhelming and sometimes even never-ending. If creating content is an essential part of your campaign, make sure you provide options for someone that wants to give you, for example, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

On & Offline Engagement. But the action, the real social change, is offline. First, ensuring that there are opportunities to engage and participate both on and offline (especially in the promoting and sharing) can increase participation and ultimately feet in the streets. Online is great for organizing.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Fuel efforts or campaigns – target energy and capacity to promote and drive local impact. FourSquare. Meetup Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Evan Bailyn, an author who writes about what makes content go viral, said: “I read the critical responses and found no convincing reasons to disregard the campaign. The Kony campaign is actually bigger than even its highly noble mission. The victims are Ugandan children. The issue is complex.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. Away from Revolut’s playbook, Fernandes says the Tanzanian fintech will be building out infrastructure to enable money transfers from Africa to the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Topic : Keynote; Technology and Community – Strategic Options for Building Movements. Description : Try as we might to do everything ourselves, our campaigns, our programs, and our missions rely on the community for success. Engaging our community, online and offline, can generate the momentum we need to build a movement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I drive the strategy for day to day and our campaigns and every now and then, team members that ‘get’ our messaging will hop in and send out a tweet or two. Dupe: Our organization has literally just started tracking ROI for using these tools by way of campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

—– Lately, I’m thinking about the topic of cross-platform community building. Whether you are working on a campaign, a program or a service; whether it is online or offline (though I would argue it should probably touch both!); Temporary versus Permanent Networks. And engagement requires people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When you are building ties between nodes in a network or connections between peers, you need to build in networking time. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? Content Curation on Twitter.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 14, 2025

Whether youre a small nonprofit or a large organization with a national or even global reach, SMS messaging can elevate your fundraising strategy, help build deeper donor relationships , and increase the ROI of your online and offline campaigns. Campaign update s. Build an integrated SMS strategy We Can Help!

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2012

The trick, then, is to take that click, that first sign of interest, and find ways to build on it. You'll learn: How to transform online engagement into offline action. > You'll learn: How to transform online engagement into offline action. How to develop an integrated campaign plan for managing supporter involvement.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Tips to grow your list: Short sign-up forms – you just need their email, ultimately, and you can start building out their profile of what actions they take and how they engage. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile.

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