Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

An excellent example is last year’s “ Thank You from all of us from Ocean Conservancy ” video: 2) Add social networking pitches to your landing page. Your donors are your most committed supporters and very likely to also follow you on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr, etc.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Created in November of 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement to inspire generosity around the world. If you participated in GivingTuesday last year, analyze the data you gathered to help you plan for this year. A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. If your nonprofit is already on Google+, then the best practices below are meant to help you better learn how to tap into and inspire the Google+ community.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

We use this analogy to help students remember that when interacting and communicating with others, there is much underneath the surface that remains to be discovered through conversation and engagement. In our experience, effective engagement and monitoring of social media in this way can help reveal the “hidden” 90%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

However, this type of community giving (known as Harambee in Kiswahili) usually goes towards individuals rather than organisations, common examples include medical bills, funeral costs & weddings. Matt first learned about crowdfunding when he was raising funds to volunteer in Southeast Asia in 2012. 78% attend fundraising events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "" Apply today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I happened to stumble upon this funny tweet from Billboard that asks its Twitter followers to tweet with the hashtag #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong and gave the example “I kissed a squirrel and I liked it.” To share on Twitter? Engage around questions that are relevant, fun, nostalgic or evoke emotions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

" In addition, we'll be blogging here, tweeting updates on Twitter , and posting updates to Facebook , so stalk us for links to golden nuggets of tech wisdom. Come to our session to learn more about this cool cloud platform, how nonprofits can think about Azure in their work, and see great examples of Azure at work for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. The event also had a hashtag which makes it easy for those on Twitter to find and connect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. Either way, Save the Children UK’s page is a great example of a custom Google+ banner: 4. “Circling” on Google+ is equivlent to following on Twitter or liking on Facebook.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, when a consumer of the ice-cream brand Wilcoxson's asked, on Wilcoxson’s Facebook page, if the gelatin in their cookies and cream ice-cream contained pork, their CEO responded on Facebook with “we don’t deliver outside of Montana and certainly not in Pakistan.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

According to our webinar presenters, nonprofits are already using super-short videos in the following ways (scroll on down for examples): Thank you videos. You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. The company was founded in June 2012 and was acquired by Twitter later that year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. So, when setting up your Google Profile be sure to use you real first name and last name (not first name “Amnesty” and last name “International,” for example). For example, my Google+ vanity URL is gplus.to/heathermansfield.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life! Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. How does Giving Tuesday help nonprofits? Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies. Lesson #3: Ask partners and allies for help in disseminating your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Shim shared a case study at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference on how his organization uses social media to communicate with youth participants in the Pathways to Education program. He also began using Facebook (and later Twitter) as a way to listen to and better understand his students' concerns and interests.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

There are some easy things that can be accomplished to coach your fundraisers , therefore making sure they have the information they need to enhance their fundraising experience: Email Helpful Tips. Enhance your communication plan with helpful tips on how to use those fundraising tools you are providing them. Lead By Example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. followers on Twitter and nearly 10k followers on Instagram. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Measurement is a comparative science, so you have to compare that number to something you done in the past or to peer organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In the spirit of helping others, Amazon recently announced a new option for gift giving that benefits nonprofits and charities. Selling more online than its next 12 biggest competitors combined (see the Wall Street Journal story), this online giant took home $61 billion in online sales in 2012. attempt to alter shopping behavior.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Before 2012, NEXT Worldwide mission trip participants conducted their fundraising through a combination of leading their supporters to an online designation form and by sending offline checks to their mission leaders. While NEXT Worldwide has created a successful peer-to-peer fundraising program, Janet always sees opportunity for improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

I also think that 2012 will be the year of content curation. What’s the context that you an share to help your audience understand it better. So, with a little help from my colleagues on making video skype interviews, I reached out master curator Jan Gordon. and others help you do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Snap a picture on your phone or camera and upload it to the Case Foundation Facebook page , or through another online photo-sharing service (Instagram, TwitPic, yFrog), and share on Twitter with the hashtag #GoodSpotting. Many in the nonprofit social media community are helping Stacey reach her goal.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. Quinn also discussed how mobile technologies can help you have conversations with your constituents in interesting ways. For example, Blue Ocean Institute's FishPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

As you might expect, the 16-hour program covered all the basics of social media: from how and why to write a social media plan, to a review of the major social media tools, including LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook and WordPress. It wasn’t rocket science, but a moment of peace helped me see a new way to solve the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Here's a few examples. Gallaga cites a specific example of giving money to DonorsChoose.org, a company that connects students and teachers to people who would like to donate. He was able to see the real people helped. No more is it the volumes of people helped, but the real lives changed. Interesting twist on "impact."

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Using each to its fullest potential takes work—it’s time-consuming to write a lot of new content for your blog, but it starts to feel redundant if you post the same information there as on your Facebook page or Twitter feed.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

In our 2012 Global Cloud Survey we found that only 12 percent of respondents, mostly from larger organizations, are using cloud-based client relationship management (CRM) database services like Salesforce for Nonprofits , or Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Facebook and Twitter are changing the way we live and work. Constituent Overlap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. Your People Are Talking.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2013

In fact, they may outperform new participants by over 6x according to Blackbaud’s 2012 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Benchmark Study. Success in retaining good participants will make your job easier next year; this effort now will help ensure continued growth of your event fundraising program year-over-year. Related Articles.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. Here’s an example from a small local event: We posted this story to the “Trib Local” (a Chicago Tribune local news blog). Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Digital listening just gives you a new set of tools and processes to help confront hard strategic questions. It isn’t just that you can now reach large audiences without the help of the mainstream media (that’s technically true, but generally overstated.). The Media Theory of Movement Power. pages 5-11 of chapter 1).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He has helped raised over a billion dollars for his clients. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%. Twitter use increased by 20% since 2010 to 47%.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

From the annual fund to major gift solicitation, there is heavy lifting to do at every step of the process and any help you can get – especially in volunteer form – ultimately makes your efforts more fruitful. Author: Guest Blogger. Fundraising is hard work. A smart online strategy is the way to deliver both.

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