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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. In its infancy, texting was how people communicated with close friends and family members, not businesses and organizations. Yet, some nonprofits are still hesitant to communicate that way.

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Raise More By Avoiding “One Size Fits All” Email Appeals

NetWits

Several of our Blackbaud nonprofit customers have recently had incredible success using a personalized approach to email: 1) An animal rights organization doubled click-through rates by personalizing an event email invitation with: The last year people attended. How much the event raised that year. Including last year’s gift amount.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action.

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Dial 988 – Why Nonprofits Will Be Using It

Whole Whale

since 2008, with 44,000 Americans losing their lives through suicide in 2020, which was just two years ago. The number of suicides also worsened with the advent of the COVID-19, which caused an increase in depression, which led to an increase in the number of people with suicidal thoughts.

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What’s the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What will it take to get the climate some attention? We know that people would much rather look at pictures of cute dogs than think about downers like climate change. org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. What will it take to get the climate some attention?

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How Nonprofits Can Jump on the Bitcoin Bandwagon

NonProfit Hub

Its popularity increased as younger generations, who grew up through the 2008 financial crisis, recognized that our financial system needed big changes. . With major companies like JP Morgan, Facebook and now Walmart creating their own cryptocurrencies, people are more interested in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies than ever before ?

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Guest Post: Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Indeed, my great, great grandfather Thomas Stehle came to this country as a gunsmith in the 1840s, so I understand how deeply rooted guns are for many people.