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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Speak the Local Language. Local organizations provide this local face. We can speak the local language, understand the local culture. It’s hard enough to master one geography!

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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

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. In short, you need to build a CAMPAIGN. What IS an Online Fundraising Campaign? An online fundraising campaign is different than a simple online fundraiser.

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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. Does your community address local issues?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. It may have been a network of organizers in various towns or locations coordinating with each other and then operating locally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

First there was 10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. Users can also download stories for offline reading.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

7) Crowdfunding campaigns that benefit individuals are growing in popularity worldwide. 41% of donors to charitable organizations also donate to online crowdfunding campaigns that benefit individuals. 11) Donors are very involved with their favorite causes and charitable organizations offline. South America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Whether I’m talking about Community-Driven Social Impact or community organizing, whether it’s focused on a hyper-local community project or global-reaching movement building, it’s always the same for me: our goals need to be focused on a change, not on ensuring that we keep our jobs. Read the full article. ].

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! ’ In other words, if a large number of people in an area haven’t the access or the skills to use the internet – what are local public services doing to get this fixed?" Basic elements that should be considered in any campaign. What do you think?

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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.”. Era of Increased Activism and Grassroots Campaigning. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

These points and the full #4Change conversation are applicable to the Climate Change movement, but also to many social impact sectors and the campaigns reaching around the world. Lesson #3: Local vs Global. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. Examples of Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Using Wordle, nonprofits could generate word clouds that add some color and creativity to their online fundraising and outreach campaigns. If your nonprofit uses a particular hashtag in your Twitter campaigns on a regular basis, then signing up and registering that hashtag (before anyone else does) is highly recommended. Present.me.

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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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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. Many nonprofits target people in a defined area — their local community, county, or state.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns. What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. Your organization has goals, too. Remember the examples from before?

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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. And where is the local community in all of this? ” Is that that the story?)

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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. Donate $10 today to feed a local family. Campaign update s.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2013

From sharing ideas to sharing rides to the NTC, this is an extremely generous community and the 2012 Champions Campaign is yet one more example. When we launched the campaign, our goal was to reach a total of $30,000. Our board even matched your donations! See someone on the list below that you know?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

As such, platforms like Convertedin become essential because it caters to brands and businesses with one, some, or all of these objectives: drive personalized and scalable campaigns, convert customers, achieve measurable results and grow revenue. If you walk into IKEA and they take your phone number down.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Especially when you work really hard on an event or an online campaign and you don’t get the results you were hoping for. You should be sharing your nonprofit’s mission online and offline through your social media plan , donor newsletters, events, and other communications. And it’s frustrating. Others make it look so easy. Not hardly.

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Qgiv

MARCH 22, 2023

A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. For your organization to host a pledge drive, there are a few steps you should take to plan and execute your campaign. There are two types of pledges: flat or variable.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. The fundraising campaign that will probably never be replicated, the citizen engagement effort that relied on a whirlwind of perfect timing and serendipity. Thus, we entered the social period.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

As Mike Ghaffary at Yelp excellently articulated earlier this year, while some categories like electronics and media will be subsumed by e-commerce players, the vast majority of spend and categories will remain offline for the foreseeable future. Local mobile marketing. Prove you’re better than online.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

When we discuss peer-to-peer fundraising our focus often is on the online components; however, the offline activities surrounding our event allow us to improve relationships and connections with our supporters, thus potentially improving our online outcomes. Team RMHC runners cook brunch at a local chapter after a quick training run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Classy

JULY 9, 2021

If your nonprofit is looking to make a big investment in a particular project, you may have wondered if launching a capital campaign is the right path for you. Capital campaigns are time-limited efforts with a large fundraising goal for a specific need. Read Next: The 4 Phases of a Modern Capital Campaign.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Surrey, Canada: Fall Fundraising: Planning your Year-end Campaign. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Tuesday, September 17. See the full schedule.

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