Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

That's why I'm taking the pledge to end hunger because if we all do a little bit - it can go a long way. PledgeToEndHunger.com , a website designed to shine a bright light on the very real problem of childhood hunger in America. To become a Champion, all you need to do is: Sign the Hunger Pledge. And You can too!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Aradium :: facebook.com/aradium. Dipity :: dipity.com. Easelly :: easel.ly.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

For example, DoNotPay , a legal services chatbot designed to challenge parking tickets and navigate small claims courts, faced criticism for potentially oversimplifying legal issues and providing inaccurate advice. The bots never interact with people seeking out advice from the helpline and the organization did not reduce headcount.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether you’re a small nonprofit or a large organization, these fundraising tools are designed to make your next campaign your best one yet! Plus, it adds an interactive, dynamic element to your campaign, making fundraising feel more impactful and engaging! Get started for free today!

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Whether it’s a “We’re Open” sign or social media graphics, practically all for-profit businesses and nonprofits alike use at least one type of graphic design. Graphic design is the key to making your nonprofit’s valuable information approachable, engaging, and highly digestible. What are Types of Graphic Design for Nonprofits?

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

When designing your donation page, think about donor experience. BONUS: Add Pledge Donations To Increase Gift Size. CauseVox lets you offer your donors the chance to Pledge Now, Pay Later. With CauseVox, you can add pledge donations directly to your donation page. Let donors increase their gift size with pledge donations!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Your Perception of Your Donors I’m sure you can remember an interaction that felt purely transactional. No emotion, no humanity to the interaction, just an exchange of currency, goods, and services. Every interaction with donors communicates how your organization views them and their gifts. I know I have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. He agreed to write this guest post on the topic.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Big Local was designed from the outset to be radically different from other funding programmes. A User-Led Approach to Grant Management System Design. We designed a solution with and for its day-to-day users (a user-centred design approach). Three key decisions made Local Trust’s new approach to tech successful: 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

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. Campaigns were designed with the community and required the community’s engagement to implement.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

How CauseVox Contributed CauseVox incorporated public-facing features like the donation cart , search and filter functions, organization page showcase, countdown clock, donation counter, leaderboards, power hours, and fundraising pages with diverse payment methods, including mobile wallets and pledges.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Text-to-give (also known as text-to-pledge or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising in which donors give by sending a keyword to a text fundraising phone number. Pledges and automated pledge reminders to ensure donors fulfill their giving intentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

” But you might want a little friction as you try to interact with all these changes.” The good news is that Facebook’s new design is based on better data visualization. what does that do to the ladder of engagement ? The bad news is that all that data is probably better for Facebook’s advertisers than for you.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Use interactions stored in your database – like registration for an event, response to a petition, or engagement with an email – to identify relevant communications and giving opportunities. Update your welcome series and existing emails to entice readers to click by linking to longer content, using video, quizzes, surveys, and pledges.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our Donation Carts now offer an interactive online shopping experience where donors can effortlessly browse and add various causes—programs, projects, and peer-to-peer pages—to their basket and checkout in a single transaction. It’s a versatile tool designed to amplify donor support for any occasion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate. Text4Baby :- National mobile health campaign, interactive and somewhat customized SMS messages. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Lots more resources on responsive web design: - [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

It even gets its own designated spot in the Timeline and displays a running list of what the user is listening to. I can envision apps that promote online campaigns, encourage people to interact with the organization in a certain way, encourage specific actions, track activity, and/or to raise brand awareness.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2014

From donors to volunteers, members to alumni, donations to events, mailings to campaigns, this cloud-based donor management software helps you track all of the details about your constituents and their interactions with your nonprofit. Use groups to designate the primary connection constituents have to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Each participant organization designed and launched a measurement action learning project that used measurement to improve results for networked approaches and social media.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

You may be planning a prospecting campaign, which involves sending direct mail to people who have never given or interacted with your organization. What type of design do you envision? Or a special design? Envelope design can yield a better response, depending on your organization and audience. Take into account: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. In fact, the second person Harrison hired was a designer. The nonprofit’s web design is pixel-perfect and its printed materials are stunning.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Text-to-give software allows you to register for a dedicated text-to-give number (or shortcode) and promote the designated keywords associated with your cause. Check out these text fundraising platforms to find the best solution for your organization: Qgiv Handbid Give Lively Snowball Tatango GiveWP Pledge Tithe.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Donors can pledge as little as $.01

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

Each profile shows the donation history of each donor, their contact and demographic information, and each interaction they’ve had with your organization in the past (emails opened, calls-to-action taken, events attended, etc.). Constituent timeline. How does donor management software make this possible? QuickBooks.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Pledges: How many people do you want to pledge a donation to the cause? Ex: (“We’ve raised $5,000 so far to provide meals to 5 families for one month”) Go live on Instagram and Facebook to interact with your donors Use Instagram reels and Facebook stories to do shoutouts and updates.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

A CRM is a system that manages and optimizes information related to current or prospective clients or donors, including contact information, interactions, personal and behavioral data, and communications. Data from the inbound-outbound interaction in the nonprofit CRM can guide fundraisers to identify likely supporters for a new campaign.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Technology should never replace human interaction. Plus, you’ll get smart reports, a timeline of individual constituents, access to email distribution designed to increase retention and printed direct mail pieces. One database manages your supporter relationships and their gifts, pledges and payments. BatchBook .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2024

Bloomerang was designed by fundraising experts who understand the importance of donor retention for sustainable organizational growth. What we love about Bonfire Don’t have a graphic designer on staff? Not a problem when you use Bonfire to design your apparel. Pricing Verified nonprofits have processing fees of 3.5%.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At events, you can advertise your text fundraising keyword around the venue for your donors to make a donation or pledge to donate. Text fundraising : Send outbound texts to supporters, gather pledges, send donation reminders, and build segmented donor lists for personalized communication.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 6, 2024

3 Strategies for Elementary Schools Fun & Interactive: Think themed carnivals, read-a-thons (with sponsorships!), Peer-to-Peer: Encourage students to collect pledges for completing a fun challenge, like jumping rope or building a tower. Challenges: Short attention spans, parental involvement. or character visits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

One example of Narrow AI that most of us interact with everyday and where you can see many nonprofit examples is “Conversational AI.” I’ve been tracking nonprofits design and deploy chat bots for a few years now as the pace of broader adoption of chat bots has accelerated. Nonprofit Chat Bots.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Their interactive and well-designed fundraising website made it easy for their nearly 6000 donors to support multiple nonprofits in one seamless transaction. By utilizing CauseVox’s design editor , they tailored their fundraising page to make their campaign visually appealing.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

As engagement in DEI work deepens, it becomes clear that well-intentioned pledges of commitment to incorporate core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are not enough. Are projects being designed in such a way that those who contribute to defining the issues are also responsible for the proposed solutions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? An individual "contributed" 35 lbs of Tyson food just by signing an online pledge to take a meaningful action to help end childhood hunger in America. Metrics for Success - Primary: # of people signing the pledge.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

These digital interactions are not only easy to implement but also help to maintain that ongoing dialogue with your donors. A seamless, well-designed, and easy-to-navigate site can make all the difference when engaging these mid-level donors.

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