Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the midst of changing technology and trends , one of the best ways to boost awareness for your cause, deepen donor relationships, and increase reach (and proceeds) for your mission is peer-to-peer fundraising. The best part is that peer-to-peer fundraising scales effectively for nonprofits. In fact, more than 27 percent of U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Be to search for your nonprofit to know how and where your brand is buzzing in the blogosphere!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Here are three kinds of fundraising events that work for most nonprofits and how to choose the right one for you. You already know that every dollar counts in your nonprofit. So, what’s the RIGHT event for your nonprofit?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2013

View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with an introduction to the Mobile Web and its rapidly increasing role in nonprofit communications and fundraising. Related Links: On-Demand: Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Webinar Series for Nonprofits. Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Webinars'

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

Among the thousands of nonprofits that use CauseVox, we’re always amazed at the impact each organization makes everyday. It may sound strange but Cylinda and many other nonprofit professionals swear by it: the #1 fundraising hack is to grow your email list. A great way to grow your email list is through social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Sprout Social.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Facebook is hardly a new platform for nonprofit organizations to interact with supporters. This trend first emerged in 2015, starting with general fundraisers and later, Facebook Birthday Fundraisers. According to GoodUnited , these fundraisers have since raised billions for nonprofit organizations. Let’s dive in.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Does senior leadership at your organization ask “why can’t we raise money on social media? Comparing your nonprofit to a Presidential campaign is ridiculous. Second, the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on social media. 63% of nonprofits say social media is not Executive Management''s priority.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of a well-crafted fundraising development plan. Whether you’re creating a new plan or adapting an existing one to address new trends and unprecedented events – a common occurrence in recent years – it’s important to remember that fundraising plans are dynamic.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 29, 2021

the 2020 – 2021 State of Salesforce in the Nonprofit Sector?Report Good outlined how nonprofit organizations are currently harnessing the power of Salesforce?technology?and for our nonprofit clients.? in the nonprofit sector today.? Report , Cloud for?Good technology?and and best practices we can expect to see?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s the holiday season — people are in good spirits and wanting to give out of sheer generosity or to offset their annual taxes and the most savvy nonprofits stand to gain the most by capitalizing on online giving trends. Stupid Cancer encouraged their community to share their own stories on social media.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s a surprising truth for a lot of nonprofit organizations: the donate button on your website is a really big deal! A nonprofit donation page that’s slow, clunky, and complicated simply doesn’t deliver the results that branded, embedded donation pages do. Nonprofit organizations fail at caring for their donors. Bottom line?

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BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2017

As New York’s leading personalized nonprofit board matching service, we spend a lot of time working with nonprofit boards to help them craft their nonprofit’s give/get policy – or how much board members should be asked to annually generate for the boards on which they serve. How does a Phased In Give/Get work.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

One of the most pervasive problems in the nonprofit sector is getting your board to be more engaged , and more specifically, to increase board fundraising. That’s why many nonprofits are looking for options to engage board members in fundraising without requiring them to directly solicit people for money.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The nonprofit fundraising numbers make a compelling case for a strong end-of-year effort. To take advantage of these powerful giving trends, preparation is key to ensure your organization secures meaningful results when competing with organizations across cause areas that are making a similar appeal.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s the holiday season and people are in good spirits and wanting to give out of sheer generosity or to offset their annual taxes and the most savvy nonprofits stand to gain the most by capitalizing on online giving trends. Make it easy for them with a toolkit of suggested messages and templates for social media.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

A matching grant pledge prior to the big day encouraged supporters to dig deep, resulting in a 40% revenue increase compared to the previous year’s total by the time the day drew to a close. Those results should give pause to anyone convinced that email is losing sway to text messaging, social media, or other channels. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday making too much noise. GivingTuesday trended for over 10 hours straight in the United States (9:30 am – 7:30 pm). Online , nearly 3,500 Social Media Ambassadors have pledged to support #GivingTuesday.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. Apple is a major donor with a pledge of $100 million.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . If your nonprofit organization or charity would normally host a holiday fundraiser in-person, then you might consider moving to a virtual fundraising event online. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Several of her regular readers including Deb Roby have pledged to match her donations to The Bay Area food bank.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2020

As a general trend over the past several years, public schools have seen repeated budget cuts at the federal, state and local levels. For instance, organizing a walk-a-thon involves deciding on logistics, pledge collection and boosting excitement throughout your community. Nonetheless, school needs are as great as ever. Best of luck!

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2013

But what kind of a direct impact do these “social actions” really have especially for nonprofits? These are the types of questions we hope to see answered in the upcoming video benchmark study for nonprofits being conducted by Edelman, See3 Communications, and YouTube. And according the Nonprofit Times, about 3.5M

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of Artificial Intelligence to better understand what nonprofits need to know about artificial intelligence to future proof their programs, marketing, and fundraising strategies? Nonprofit Chat Bots.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That means nonprofits need to continue to be flexible and think on their feet. Your nonprofit would then be responsible for promoting the event and recruiting teams. Or, plan your own trivia night where your nonprofit is responsible for hosting and recruiting. Oak Hill School of California Trivia Night Fundraiser. Bowl-a-Thon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

The current state of public gatherings has only accelerated this trend. You could even make a film or documentary about the core purpose of your organization as a nonprofit. On the biographical portion of your nonprofit’s webpage, you may hide a riddle that leads participants to your online store’s product page and so on.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . If your nonprofit organization or charity would normally host a holiday fundraiser in-person, then you might consider moving to a virtual fundraising event online. .

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The hash tag #askacurator became a top trending topic on Twitter on the day of the event. Ask a Curator attracted a large number of questions on a whole range of subjects, the event hashtag became the number 1 trending topic on Twitter and was featured in press around the world. What were some of the outcomes of the #askacurator event?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

There is little debate that online communication, fundraising, and advocacy have become important parts of the modern nonprofit's fundraising and marketing mix. Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some. Muslim relations. " A key message was.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward. They will work to involve the nonprofit community and cultivate creative and innovative ideas in their category.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

nonprofits on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. Let’s continue the trend of YoY Giving Tuesday growth ! Is your campaign simply about raising money, or are there actions you want your supporters to take like donate clothing, sign a petition, or make a pledge? Blackbaud processed more than $47.7 People are motivated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

But it is also theme of a panel that I’m moderating at the Innogive Conference on Monday, April 2 that will focus on how this trend is and will continue to impact nonprofits’ communication strategies. She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. What are the best practices?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some. Muslim relations. " A key message was.

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