Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Social media sites are for relationship building. For example: 4) Begin cultivating your new donor prospects. For example, a donor journey “Welcome Series” email: 6) Continue to engage non-donors. The techniques are the same; it is just the medium that is different. Far too often, I see groups that end here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

At another workshop I did for a different organization, the staff came up with the idea of using technology to help support and sustain a culture of resilience and build relationships with remote staff. Their idea was to have virtual pizza parties using Zoom and simultaneous pizza delivery at the different sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

By Chuck Spidell , founder of ILLUSIO and a WordPress Strategist committed to helping nonprofits get their websites unstuck and moving forward. Once inside your site, a hacker can delete pages, plugins, and themes without anyone knowing. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site? Steal personal data from users.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Read on for proven techniques and technolog ies that will help you boost your non-dues revenue in no time. . It helps smooth out the bumps in the financial road. . Bringing in non-dues revenue helps you maintain your budget during these times while allowing you to provide your members with continued value. .

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders. And practice, practice, practice!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, I have a daily reflection ritual of walking a few miles a day to think away from screens. My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why we’ve compiled three essential tips to help your team prepare for AI fundraising : 1. Fraud detection: Machine learning algorithms can analyze transactional data, donor behavior, and historical records to identify suspicious activities and flag fraudulent donations , helping protect your organization.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

We’ve featured their work too many times to count (here and here and here, for example), and John has generously guest-presented a number of times on MotivateMonday. As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Do yourself a favor and subscribe. Sign up for SOFII’s emails.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. What are you planning to do to help alleviate the conflict and help the hero overcome the problem?

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

We wrote this article because our very own site is in a visual crisis as we transition to AI-based images. For example, “a woman”, “a sunset over the ocean”, “a glass vase with flowers”. For example, “serene”, “futuristic”, “minimalist”, “grainy”. For example, “a woman gazing out a window at a sunset over the ocean”.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Additionally, write search engine optimized blog content to drive traffic to your site. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

This also helps you to find event planning tools that make sense for that goal. . For example, if the goal of your next event is to get more leads , you would need to implement a lead capture strategy. A webpage can also help you start planting seeds and increasing value as soon as visitors land on the site.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, helps increase traffic to your nonprofit’s website. By using the right SEO techniques your website will rise in search engine rankings and receive more traffic. Support from an SEO consultant can help bring more relevant, engaged traffic to your website. A basic understanding of SEO.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Thankfully, there is actually another way (a great way) for you to help a charity you love —you can fundraise for them ! Here are 5 ideas to help get you started raising money for charity. “Here are 5 ideas to help get you started raising money for charity.” ” tweet this. ” tweet this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Or, a guide to before/after maps so you could see how visualizing your network helped you improve strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And that means you can start using those funds almost as soon as they’re donated to help your organization reach its goals. For example, if you’re running a virtual fundraising event for shelter animals, you could make your keyword SAVEDOGS. There are many ways you can use text-to-give to improve your fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. For example, with board thing, we all have control over organizing and taking notes on the “sticky notes” – and was interesting to see our emergent collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re unsure of where to start when it comes to taking advantage of this giving day, we’ve got good news: We compiled these Giving Tuesday resources to help you prepare for fundraising through the end of the year. Here are some of our favorite campaign ideas to help you along the way. Campaigns & Ideas. Social Media Post Ideas.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You can watch the webinar anytime for more details, and please get in touch for more guidance—we are ready and able to help. GA4 is designed to be far less reliant on cookies, using AI and data modeling to help fill the gaps in data caused by privacy restrictions. Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

While some people might have no problem at all using sites that are properly accessible, much of the internet is impossible to use for some people. It helps you do better as an organization. For example, in the United States alone, 70% of websites do not function properly with screen readers. Why is web accessibility important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. Put it on a social site so all members of your team can add and access (a google document works great for this). Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Good preparation up front helps to ensure good results. You’ll create tools to help narrow the field to the best match for you. This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I happened to stumble upon this funny tweet from Billboard that asks its Twitter followers to tweet with the hashtag #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong and gave the example “I kissed a squirrel and I liked it.” 2. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. This helps the interpreters prep.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

The goals you set will help you plan the rest of your campaign: The channels you use for appeals, decisions about your event, and even the types of stories you’ll tell your donors will hinge on the goals you’ve set for your campaign. You’ll see that we noted a few non-financial goals in our examples. You can help!

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 19, 2021

For example, an online academic event might have a scholastic virtual booth exhibit where scholars could attend and connect with book publishers to get discounts on newly released books or connect with sales representatives to publish an upcoming text. Luckily, there are techniques to increase virtual exhibitor booth visits !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. Planning for the overall conference agenda, design of specific sessions, or other ways? Here’s a few examples I’ve seen lately. Where is it most useful?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 21, 2021

The details will depend on your unique funnel for your hybrid event , but there are tools and techniques that can be implemented to help you operationalize this. . For example, if you want them to interact with the kiosks or trade show booths, promote these features when they arrive at the event. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

They help bring back these lost leads. Both these methods help you target and market to people who have already entered your buying cycle. But they are different techniques. And overlapping techniques. So you show them online ads on other sites that they visit. Let us explain this to you with a simple example.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. This helps show the mission’s importance. Helping real people should be the star. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I used David Hood as an example. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Example: Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Take the above example from charity:water for World Water Day. I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. OPM gives you the big picture view of your online presence efforts, allowing you to gain a new perspective on which practices best fit your business and help it to expand.

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