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Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations

VQ Strategies

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Could there ever be a time when our organizations need to be more adaptable than now?

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Blog Action Day 2009: Creating Actions for Everyone on Climate Change

Amy Sample Ward

Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. I asked the organization what they were doing next Saturday for the Day of Climate Action. At the time of this posting, there are already 9,340 blogs contributing to Climate Change conversations today in 150 countries. I said, “really?

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Facebook is Great, but Does it Really Work for Fundraising?

NetWits

That got me thinking more about how we, in the non-profit space, should look to learn from examples, trends and best practices found outside of our sector. Affiliate programs, organic search traffic and even offline advertising scored higher than social. So here’s another great bit of learning for us.

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2009 Member Appreciation: Mission Video Webinar Contest Winners!

NTEN

For those of you who missed it, last week we held a Member Appreciation Webinar with Basho Mosko from the Flip Video Spotlight Program and Michael Hoffman from See3 Communications about how to create an introductory video for your organization. . Barbara posted the Parks Climate Change: North Cascades 2009 video. The winners are.

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