Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

But the free stuff and give-aways don't stop there: Don't forget to enter the blog contest to win yourself and your nonprofit organization 2 free seats for Common Ground , the new CRM from Convio -- which also comes with 10 free consulting hours courtesy of Causeway Interactive (for a total value of $4000). I think we can all relate!).

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Some of you may be familiar with the ongoing Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest from this year and the last. Maybe your donated products helped your nonprofit upgrade to a new donor-database, create an interactive and engaging Web site, or develop effective outreach materials that helped reach new supporters and increase your impact.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

There are only a couple more days to participate in our CRM and Consulting give-away contest, so don't forget to enter. While you're waiting to hear who wins on Friday, join us for the free-for-members webinar about working with your CRM: Get More From Your Database , today at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Sign up here!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Our focus on new media in the digital period also meant that we started to forget about the technology tools we already had in our organization: the hardware, software, databases, servers. There is no reason we should, as an entire sector, have to change the way we operate in order to use a database. Holistic Tactics.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 16, 2015

Promote an online contest such as a free giveaway where entrants must sign up using their email addresses. And be sure to promote the contest via social media channels as well. Target specific content to segments of your supporter or customer base by creating multiple email subscription types.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Organic posting, running contests, and incorporating social media marketing in emails are all great ways to get started on your branding journey. Run a contest! Contests are a great way for nonprofits to quickly extend visibility and get their audience involved and engaged. How to become an expert on social media branding.

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Greater Giving

MAY 14, 2024

Create Detailed Call Sheets For each contact, create a call sheet that includes: Name Spouse’s name (if applicable) Phone number Email address Number of years of donation Space for notes This is a perfect opportunity to update your database and remove outdated information. Send emails to those you couldn’t reach by phone as well.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Conduct audience research using your donor database to determine your supporters’ demographics and preferred communication platforms. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Rich Leigh , co-founder of blogger outreach database Bloggabase , has a split audience and uses email to reach both effectively. “As for offers and deals, we’re generally able to reach only about 1 to 5 percent of our target audience via social media, and so we use email to reach customers who aren’t regulars on Facebook.”.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To facilitate the use of that data, the city hosted a contest to motivate the development community to make use of more than 100 types of datasets it had released — everything from aerial photographs and business licenses to parking meter information, liquor license applications, and street-sweeping routes. Image 1 : Rocketclips, Inc.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Work with virtual auction software that allows you to easily manage an item database and compile a complete item catalog that can be shared with bidders. An Underlying CRM or Database Your nonprofit is likely already using a CRM or donor database solution to store, sort, and analyze your transaction and engagement data.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Dig deeper and that seemingly one-dimensional SMS becomes a truly interactive medium of push and pull to deliver information, tips, coupons, alerts and rewards, or engross consumers with karaoke, contests, surveys, and trivia. SMS performs better than its email marketing counterpart.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. Make sure to create a dev copy and avoid letting interns edit live databases. Expand this task to managing a public contest for supporters to email in pictures that volunteers can then clean up and put into the master library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

Social Actions will be launching the Change the Web contest next month where developers will create applications (of all kinds, not just for iPhones) using their database of 20,000 "social actions." Mike Dillon of Dillon Media suggested someone create a, "location-based event finder for donors, non-profits and entrepreneurs.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Contest. It’s an opportunity to show supporters that their donation went through and to provide additional opportunities to maximize contributions like with a matching gift database. . Is the transaction entered into your donor database automatically? Don’t let this information simply sit in your database.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 28, 2022

Build your donor database from online registrations. Some nonprofits have seen huge success incorporating audience reactions or contest submissions on the stream. For many virtual events, more guests means more eyes on the cause, and potentially even greater fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

During this hour, the Foundation Center's George Ford and Jake Garcia will take a look at how grant seekers can use the interactive maps and charts in Foundation Directory Online , the Foundation Center’s grant seeking database for nonprofits, to identify prospective funders. You can learn more about the Foundation Center.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Email marketing can be incredibly effective if you send the right message to the right donor by segmenting your database. It is a type of DIY crowdfunding that relies on supporters, volunteers, board members, friends, and family reaching out to their personal networks on behalf of your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

The morning started with strategy consults at the conference hotel where representatives from local organizations met individually with nonprofit technology experts and got advice on a wide range of topics, from online fundraising to databases. As part of the workshop, there was a contest to giveaway a video camera.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The golfer donor is a segment that nonprofits of all types and sizes want represented in their donor database. Consider devoting a specific part of the event to the VIP, such as a hole-in-one contest hosted by them or a signed raffle prize or auction item donated by them. Tap into your networks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

If a spreadsheet or database has ever made your eyes glaze over or your audience members slip into a haze, you're in for a real treat. So it saves users time because they won't need IT to help with a database every time and won't spend hours fine-tuning a spreadsheet. Save Time Right from the Start. Eastern time.

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Tableau

AUGUST 24, 2021

Get new users up and running in Tableau with sample data sets or pre-populated workbooks, distribute corporate data sources, create a workbook to highlight a specific part of the business, even use the space to bring teams together for fun viz challenges or contests—the options are endless!

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Conduct audience research using your donor database to determine your supporters’ demographics and preferred communication platforms. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Individuals who would like to volunteer can fill out a short form on the Feed a Need site to be entered into their, "Database of Awesome." I've never seen an online contest where the prize for the nonprofit is volunteer time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests. In the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Children of the Lodz Ghetto research project , participants work together with staff to do database research into the lives of thousands of Polish children during the Holocaust.

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Tableau

AUGUST 24, 2021

Get new users up and running in Tableau with sample data sets or pre-populated workbooks, distribute corporate data sources, create a workbook to highlight a specific part of the business, even use the space to bring teams together for fun viz challenges or contests—the options are endless!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Import Facebook donations to your donor database, noting that they gave to your Facebook fundraiser campaign. Even if you only have the donor’s name and not their email address, you should track them in your database in case they make another donation through another channel. Host polls and contests to engage your audience.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Can you make asking for donations fun by incorporating giving challenges and contests into your fundraiser? . Add these donors to your donor database. Think about how you can make the fundraising experience more enjoyable. Can you offer a fun event for supporters to take part in or fundraise for?

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

It will change the way that I move forward on a large web redesign and database integration project that I will be working on this year. Dan Roam was an unexpected value. I had no idea that I needed that presentation as much as I did. Missed Dan Roam's keynote? View the recording. The opening was.well, I lack words.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Conduct audience research using your donor database to determine your supporters’ demographics and preferred communication platforms. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You can also leverage your nonprofit’s databases to narrow down your search during your volunteer recruitment. To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. Then, have your current volunteers hang up the fliers in places they frequent or think might be popular with your future volunteers.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Go the extra mile with your appreciation efforts by reviewing your volunteer database to gather data on your top-performing volunteers. You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. It will help your organization retain high-performing volunteers. Volunteers can vote for their favorite option.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

New donor information flows into your donor database. Ensure your peer-to-peer platform integrates with your other nonprofit software , like your donor database and content management system. Take a look at how this integration can benefit your organization: Supporters create peer-to-peer fundraising pages on behalf of your nonprofit.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Their Healthy Schools Builder provides online school health training webinars, toolkits for implementing best practices, and a database of school health grants. Alliance for a Healthier Generation : The Alliance offers some pretty cool tools for parents, kids, and schools to promote healthy eating habits and exercise. " campaign.

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