NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twitter offers countless benefits for nonprofits. Read on for seven best practices to adopt to market on Twitter successfully. However, to enjoy these benefits, you must create a strategy that considers the unique features and qualities of this platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sharing your text-to-donate keyword and shortcode on social media helps brand your campaign and allows donors to easily give from their mobile devices, which is where most people view social media. 2) Text-to-Donate on Twitter. Social media algorithms notice that and it will weaken your post’s reach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For nonprofits to succeed on social media, they have to be good at social media and that requires a clear understanding of how, when, and why individuals engage with nonprofits on social media. It was the final presentation of the social media strategies webinar. Embrace social media fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At the core of the project is the Global NGO Technology Survey and the data below is based on the survey responses of 1,160 nonprofits worldwide that use social media. 1) 87% of nonprofits worldwide use social media. Of those that use social media: 97% use Facebook Pages – up from 84% in 2019. 17%: Twitter. 17%: Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this age of Google Ad Grants and inexpensive Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter targeted advertising, one can drive traffic from what is a primary relationship-building platform to an organization’s website or to a lead or landing page. Social media sites are for relationship building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Check out these social media post templates for ideas of post themes and content format for your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds. Use social media as an opportunity to encourage supporters to come with a crew. . By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect. We hope to see you there!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

For every share on social media, a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign raises an average of $13USD ( CrowdRise ). Social Media Stats. 29% of online donors say that social media is the communication tool that most inspires them to give [email 27%, website, 18%, print, 12%, TV ad 6%] ( Global Trends in Giving Report ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

In fact, according to Nielson , 92% of people claim they trust personal recommendations and other earned media, while just over half trust messages found on a company’s website or sent via email. These are your social media ambassadors. . Social media aims to connect people with people. 1) Determine your social media objectives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Now entering its sixth year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media. Optional: List three additional calls-to-action (share on social media, become a monthly donor, become a #GivingTuesday Ambassador, etc.). Social Media: Prepare in advance a month-long campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising program covers the fundamentals of social media marketing and fundraising for nonprofits. To claim your certificate: View all four webinars (7 hours of training) Request your certificate via email from Heather Mansfield.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

That said, below are 12 stats to consider and research further about online fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. 32% of NGOs worldwide have a written social media strategy and 34% have paid for advertising on social media. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Online donations accounted for 7.2%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media changes so frequently that unless your NGO has a full-time social media manager who has the time to consistently research and adopt emerging trends, odds are your NGO is using social media in ways that are no longer effective. It was the final presentation of the social media excellence webinar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 6, 2022

Our Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising covers the fundamentals of launching and maintaining a social media marketing and fundraising strategy for your nonprofit. Participants will learn how to use Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to engage and inspire supporters and donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2019

GivingTuesday leverages social media and a broad network of nonprofits, schools, businesses, and individuals to ignite a movement and global call to action to give. Please RSVP for the #GivingTuesday Twitter Takeover on Facebook to let us know that you’ll be joining us on June 4th. History of GivingTuesday. Thank you!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2022

LinkedIn and Twitter have unique roles in your nonprofit’s social media strategy. LinkedIn is ideal for connecting with sponsors, funders, and thought leaders while Twitter is a fast-moving community built upon real-time news and information sharing. How to use LinkedIn to empower your staff as thought leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Videos with Mobile In Mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 12, 2022

Social media tools and trends are always evolving, and to be successful on social media, nonprofits need to embrace a strategy of flexibility and early adoption. This 90-minute webinar will summarize emerging trends in social media and they impact nonprofit digital communications and fundraising.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it is expanding its private information policy to include pictures and video. The social media platform already prohibits tweets that dox individuals or contain hateful messages. Its new rules will ban users from posting any media of private individuals without their consent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. In addition to overall giving increasing these next two months, the number of your donors giving online and via social media channels is growing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. 1) Set up and prioritize LinkedIn Pages in your social media strategy. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. LinkedIn Pages.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

As the invasion of Ukraine enters its third day, Russia has blocked access to Twitter in an apparent effort to stifle the flow of information, according to a report from the internet monitoring group NetBlocks. Russians are still able to access Twitter through VPN services, but direct connections are restricted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. One of these is being hatched by Gabor Cselle , a repeat founder who wants to build what he described to me as “a new Twitter.” And also what works, and what does not.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Twitter declined to share deal terms. Explore , of course, is Twitter’s “news” section, where top stories across categories are aggregated alongside trending topics.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since Twitter’s new ownership took over in late October, the social media platform has experienced a significant decline in its userbase—a loss of over 1.3 Candid’s Twitter account alone has lost over 1,000 followers in the same period, and we expect to see this negative trend continue. million active users in one week.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Tweet may have been deleted On X, Altman posted, "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 Altman's quip about buying Twitter was a not-so-subtle jab at Musk. Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022. Musk's purchase price for the company was well beyond what the social media platform was worth.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But as the conflict intensifies, many researchers sharing this primary material taken from social media — commonly known as open-source intelligence or OSINT — have found their Twitter accounts unexpectedly suspended. Twitter needs to do something against these locks now. Illustration by Alex Castro.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

Some subscribers to your email list will visit your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile or Facebook Page to retweet or share a story or call-to-action that is featured in your e-newsletter or fundraising appeal. 4) Create social media graphics for reports and fundraising events. 7) Add a hashtag to your Twitter and Instagram bios.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 10, 2025

After DownDetector reported that tens of thousands of users globally experienced repeated X (formerly Twitter) outages, Elon Musk confirmed the issues are due to an ongoing cyberattack on the platform. There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk wrote on X. "We

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want," Altman wrote on the social media platform Musk owns. no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 When asked for comment, an OpenAI spokesperson pointed Engadget to an X post from CEO Sam Altman. "No

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Stay up to date with the latest in the Musk-Twitter saga On Thursday, April 14th, Elon Musk announced an offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 The latest news: Twitter’s board adopts “poison pill” to thwart Musk’s takeover bid. The day after Musk announced his proposal to buy Twitter, the company’s board responded with a poison pill.

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Digital Trends

MAY 11, 2022

Prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk and Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey had a little chat about a particular Twitter feature on Wednesday night.

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The MatrixFiles

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m part of the Mission Matters author network and they’ve been hosting discussions about different business topics on Twitter Spaces. What is Twitter Spaces? Twitter Spaces are live, audio-only conversations that happen in Twitter. So how do you get started with Twitter Spaces?

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TechSpot

APRIL 30, 2023

Jack Dorsey's decentralized social media platform was established in 2019 as a Twitter-funded project designed to establish a decentralized social media standard. Bluesky's original goal was to create and bring Twitter onto a new, decentralized platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit Tech for Good launched in 2005 as a Myspace page and in the 18 years since we’ve been through multiple early adoption phases of new social media — first Facebook and Twitter and then on to LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Traditional marketing and fundraising threads are not getting much traction.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

In early 2024, Ben Collins was contemplating the future of the media businessand his place in it. It hadnt helped that in December 2022 NBC News had suspended Collins from the Elon Musk beat following his highly critical coverage of the gazillionaires acquisition of Twitter. The media landscape looked bleak.

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Candid

AUGUST 4, 2022

There’s a fair amount of debate among social media managers about how much you post on different platforms. At Candid, we are consistently experimenting with our social media outreach, tracking the data along the way to make sure our methods are data-driven. Yes, posting more on Twitter leads to higher engagement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

X, the app formerly known as Twitter, has shut down the Circles feature, which allowed users to post to a small, exclusive audience. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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