Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” The first step is identify what impact might look like as this post explains. “I I still don’t know if it had any impact at all.”.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

They need to feel like a part of your team and believe they are key in helping you impact more lives. Your thank-you message should be more specific to your mission and be more impact-focused. Which sounds better? Thank you for your support.” …plus the standard default language. See the hero language?

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APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. This story should be short and to the point. Infuse your letter with language that acknowledges this meaning.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

What tropes or story elements might reinforce harmful stereotypes or otherwise be problematic? Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers. Q: How does it sound? The story you are telling, the argument you are making, the phrasing you have chosen all make perfect sense.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

There are a number of ways you can tell your supporters “Thanks” on Thanksgiving , including: Social Media Email blast Direct mail The goal of this engagement touchpoint is to show your donors, volunteers, board members, and other stakeholders how vital they are to your organization and equate their commitment with impact.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. They speak to supporters with authenticity and display your story in a way that easily grabs the viewer’s heart. I don’t like the way I sound or look on camera.” How did the support impact their lives?After

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Language and conversations that reflect the learner’s experience. Are they going to encounter accents, different languages, or unique dialects that are different from those in their home country? Characters that look and sound like the people the learner will encounter.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Do collaborate with others—and share how they’ve impacted your work. . When in doubt, look for opportunities to use donor-centric language. That doesn’t sound very authentic, does it? . One way to avoid this is to tell someone’s story as they would want it told.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

For our Giving Tuesday campaign in 2015, our focus was impact via scholarships. We created a short gift agreement or funding agreement with matching money language included. Tell your story : The only way to make your Giving Tuesday campaign successful is to get the word out. Our biggest takeaway: make it all connect. .

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Because of the unique factors that come into play with each and every project, the Media Cause creative team uses several different approaches to help explore, establish, and implement a common visual language with our clients and development teams: m oodboards, style tiles, style guides, and stylescapes. . Moodboards. Style tiles.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts? Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Almost never, right?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ask: Send a personalized request for support that acknowledges the donor’s past gifts and shares the impact their donation will make. Showing impact numbers and, more importantly, stories keep donors informed and engaged. That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it? So engage your donors by speaking like a person.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. This built on NMAAHC’s core design system and utilized design, illustration, motion graphics and more to engage NMAAHC’s audience and create a visual language that could excite and inspire event attendees.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’ve found that highly tailored content targeted at your most valuable donors can have a big impact. Communicating stories and opportunities to engage in ways that deepen your relationship with your supporters is a critical strategy for any mid-level donor program, and digital can support that. Cultivate and engage.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. You can make your request for donations about the impact your nonprofit is trying to make, which just makes fundraising easier. As long as you’re giving donors a great experience ( thanking them well , communicating consistently, telling heartwarming stories, etc.),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

Everyone is talking about the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can streamline the process of creating articles, stories, or posts. It sometimes sounds as though tools like ChatGPT or Gemini could entirely replace humans in writing website content. Every organization has a gold mine of stories — what is the founding story?

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

But what I haven’t seen written about as as often—or maybe I’m just not looking in the right places—are stories about the little, delightful, unexpected things that changed us in 2020. . Oftentimes, stories of distant wars and suffering can glaze over the humanity and real human stories that still exist.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

That insecurity can lead to a variety of problems as these vulnerable girls make decisions that will impact the rest of their lives. Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. Your list might look something like this: Andrea’s success story.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. Watch her recent webinar, 6 Types of Stories You Should Be Telling on Social Media. Or even the next six months if the year sounds overwhelming! Summarize it! They don’t!

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

The mere wording of a subject line or call to action in an email can have a significant impact on how recipients will respond. “We The length of an email, the frequency with which you send out emails, and the time of day or day of the week an email gets sent can also impact these metrics. Actual revenue generated is another datapoint.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Low on long-term impact. At the same time, it sounded like something that wasn''t just for us. Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Using this data, your organization can determine which metrics are best for measuring your social impact and illustrating all of your work’s tangible achievements. But to clearly convey your impact on your community, your nonprofit needs to put its findings into context. Pairing data with impactful visuals. Let’s get started!

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MARCH 21, 2022

Major donors make a major impact on your nonprofit, but it can be a bit scary to ask major donors for a donation. They may tell you a story about a Development Director who was super nervous or a friend who asked for a big gift on the golf course. What do you believe would make the biggest impact on those we serve?”.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2017

2030 may sound like a far-off date, but it’s closer than you might think. As more and more individuals and organizations recognize a shared commitment to achieving the SDGs, it will be crucial that each participant across the spectrum of social good speaks the same language. Share your impact story.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They recruited some of their strongest supporters to act as “AuSM Champions” and run peer-to-peer fundraising pages, then invite all their friends to a livestream event full of cooking demonstrations, personal stories, and drawings. Colleen also made sure to create a robust template for her fundraisers with boilerplate language and images.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 27, 2021

If even a few months of cash reserves sounds insurmountable, take a breath. If that number sounds too steep, start with 5 percent or even 3 percent, with a plan to increase the percentage over time. Incorporate this language into your talks with people who are already engaged and donating, and watch what happens.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? The work we need to do can’t get done if burnout is taking over and those impacted in the foster care system feel that.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. You know, impact is always good for year end. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? What is impact? So we have several different topics today and the four.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. If you think EI is a soft skill, one of those activities that requires maximum effort for minimum results, these statistics tell a different story. I take that back.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2015

Tailored to the person you’re talking to, your response probably sounds something like: “We educate and empower people who lack resources and opportunities….”. Whenever you have an opportunity to tell your organization’s story, you should focus less on what the organization does and more on what you and your colleagues believe.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

User research” sounds much more cold and robotic than it should. Our “Wardrobe” campaign on Instagram Stories. Along with the imagery, the copy subverts the comfort of digital commerce with disturbing reinterpretations of consumer language (i.e.“Half Our “Casualties of War” campaign on Instagram Stories.

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MAY 16, 2022

Other organizations bring in $3,000 to $5,000 each month to support their operations and make a bigger impact in communities. . Here’s a story of my own about that. As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Very good question.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2014

A few of the letters include language I haven’t heard since my high school economics class. And then there was the solicitation signed by the CEO of the organization which insinuated that only a gift to his organization would make a difference this year and that no organization, anywhere, has the kind of “impact” his does.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts. Number 1, if this sounds like you, put a 1 in the chat. If that sounds like you, put it in the chat. So I want this to be interactive.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

It is the glue that ensures a site's design, content, and code work together in harmony to express the entirety of an organization's mission, strategy, activities, and impact. These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. Again, sounds exciting, but how does it actually work? Putting It to Work.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Giving your association’s stories their 15 minutes of fame has never been easier. Video has an immediacy and impact that consistently outpaces other mediums. At the time, those ideas sounded like a tall order. Why would you release a great story in just one format when it can be told on so many venues in different ways?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact. Examples from Haiti.

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