Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

If you want to be able to add “Donate Now&# buttons, e-Newsletter and text alert sign-up boxes, and/or call-to-action images to your social media profiles, you need to know HTML. I launched this blog in September 2009. Launch a blog. I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter. Post Calls to Action. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. >> Understanding the data and where the nonprofit industry is headed can be useful, but without action it’s purely academic. Online giving up 13% year-over-year *. 54% of the organizations experienced results at or above this growth rate.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Bravo, Elana and the rest of the Wellstone Action crew! All rights reserved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I believe this so much in fact, that I started a Page called “ Call to Action: Launch an Ads Grants Program for Nonprofits “ Hope you become a Fan – er “Like&# it. A lot of nonprofits will now have to update their website, e-mail newsletters, and most costly, their print materials. 2) From my e-mail newsletter.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Social actions wants you to tap their API. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. But where's the TARP of nonprofit funding? You could win cash monies!

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Other interesting findings include: For email newsletters, open rates and click-through rates fell slightly (1-2%) in 2008, though the changes were not strictly statistically significant. Emails sent to activists who had recently taken action on a given issue received 3x the response rate of regular full-list actions.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Other interesting findings include: For email newsletters, open rates and click-through rates fell slightly (1-2%) in 2008, though the changes were not strictly statistically significant. Emails sent to activists who had recently taken action on a given issue received 3x the response rate of regular full-list actions.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

To avoid stakeholder resistance, or action caused by dissatisfaction by organizations’ responsiveness to stakeholders, nonprofits must actively pursue opportunities to gain the trust of their donor base (Meiksins, 2014). Donor Communication. Ethics and Accountability for Nonprofits.” National Council of Nonprofits. Giving Statistics.”

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Do you know the average click-through and open rates on action alerts and fundraising appeals across the nonprofit sector? Online fundraising grew 14% from 2009 to 2010. However, it’s important to note that the 2010 fundraising response rate was actually 0.08% and fell 19% on average from 2009 to 2010. Online Fundraising.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. The author updated this article in September 2009 as part of Mozilla Service Week. and Canada. and Canada.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. The details of your emails are critical.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I hope that you all — on the nonprofit and smaller provider side are continuing to chime in now, with blog posts and reponses (send 150 words to us at bonnie [at] nten dot org for inclusion in the newsletter and the Open API Roundup on the blogs. at 9:16 am OK, cool, that makes sense. Thanks much for getting this going.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

An obvious place to sign up for an email newsletter. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Evaluating Your Website’s Effectiveness. Dedicate at least one section of your homepage to the latest news, call-to-action, or other piece of current information that will appeal to your target audiences, and update it regularly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 8, 2009

If you win, you get: two tickets to the Inaugural Ceremony & the Hawaii Inaugural Ball three-nights hotel stay airfare for you and a guest to the Nation’s Capitol a Flip video camera The last day to apply is 3pm EST on January 12, 2009. You can keep up with Case Foundation news through their blog Let's Talk , or newsletter.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Their campaigns numbers went up in both instances without much effort, confirming the idea that organizations really should be spending that extra effort when creating their newsletters or action campaigns. Some of these were: Online fundraising grew in 2009 as compared to 2008 but the average gift size was smaller.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

Main | Advocacy Online Unveils Social Networking Platform in Toronto » Thursday Jun 11 2009 Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:58AM | by Allyson Kapin Your nonprofit spends time and money growing your online list. Take another action? June 11, 2009 | Tara Great list of tips!

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Care2

JUNE 16, 2009

» Monday Jun 15 2009 Converting New Activists into Donors Monday, June 15, 2009 at 05:05PM | by Allyson Kapin Last week Frogloop talked with Madeline Stanionis and Jenn Smith of Watershed about their top 5 tips for engaging new activists who recently signed up for a nonprofit’s email list. All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2011

I could finally figure out quickly and easily who had actually shown up before to phone bank, so I could start with that list to fill up the slots when urgent legislative action called for mobilization. In fact, a 2009 study indicated that on average, volunteers donate 10 times more money to charity than people who don’t volunteer.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. Create an internal social media site and take action when unflattering posts appear. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy Social Media Communications. Know the Risks.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy. Have you mitigated your privacy risks? Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com).

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. April 27 , 2009 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 5. Burks | Mercy Corps Communications Track - Franciscan B Action is at the heart of what our organizations do. Without further ado here are my favorites. Better Online Storytelling Designed by Roger O.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what youre up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. The details of your emails are critical.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

With the recent calamity in Haiti, the NPOs and NGOs that comprise the disaster relief/response sector have jumped into action, mobilizing their staff, volunteers, and equipment to help those affected. The image above is an example from the Sumatra earthquake response of 2009. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) What content does the best?

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. You can also use social networking sites as a teaser to promote your campaigns with links back to your action pages.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? 60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. Next seminar from Baruch College will focus on ‘going mobile’ on November 12, 2009. Farra Trompeter, Big Duck. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. You can read all the details here. ]. People want to talk to other people.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

This is certainly due to the fact that every action on Facebook can spawn an email notification. Send these via some sort of email newsletter software such as MailChimp, VerticalResponse, or Constant Contact so that you can monitor each message's click-through performance and make improvements based on message testing.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2009

60) Search « Washington Post: Fundraising Via Email Is Way More Effective than via Social Networks | Main | Punching Up Your Action Alerts and Online Fundraising Appeals » Tuesday Apr 21 2009 Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 11:22PM | by Clinton OBrien 1.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And once member lists, actions and events, emails and documents are collected and stored by an online service, outdated electronic privacy law is failing to keep this information safe from inappropriate access and potential misuse. Tags: Advocacy Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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