Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. ” we all know that is not the case.

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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. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. 2) Explore YouTube Giving Tools. . nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. What this means?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Whether bringing clean drinking water to a third world country, or making it easier for other nonprofits to utilize technology, there is nothing more central to a nonprofit than its mission. However, without charitable contributions being made, the nonprofit sector would crumble. 2013 at a glance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Instagram has a couple of marketing benefits. It’s a great branding tool because it can engage audiences, creative instimacy, and appeals to the emotions. Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. Ten Inspiring Nonprofits (2012) on Instagram by Mashable. How to Use Instagram.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? The key is using stories to get people’s attention on social media channels. Social media by itself is not a very effective channel for direct fundraising. I firmly believe in the latter. 1) Always showcase your impact.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Given the rapid growth in grassroots advocacy initiatives at organizations large and small, we’ve been talking a lot in our office about the opportunities nonprofits have to drive new types of engagement through advocacy and what makes an organization effective. Since 2013, NPCA has experienced…. 124% growth in sustainer donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Holly published the 2013 version back in December, but you can never have too much of a good and incredibly useful resource!!! And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog. The LightBox Collaborative 2013 Editorial Calendar is here!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Fortunately, TechSoup’s generous donors offer the following range of tools to create powerful digital stories. Then check out these tips from nonprofit, Center for Urban Pedagogy. Then tools like GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar from Citrix Online let you share your desktop and collaborate with your creative team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

Note from Beth: Like many colleagues who are nonprofit technology capacity builders, we often get asked the question, “What’s hot? 7 Nonprofit Videos on Vine byGuest Post by Madeleine Hammond. What’s not? What’s the new cool thing?” What’s the latest impact of new technologies on society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. million for nonprofits guest post by Jessica Hodder. million for 520 South Florida nonprofits, with a total of 19,245 gifts. Collaboration among nonprofits is key; Miami Arts Brigade was a huge testament to that.

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NetWits

APRIL 13, 2013

If you’re at The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference we’d love for you to join us > [link]. Does social media work as a direct response fundraising channel? Based on research we’ve done it doesn’t look like many nonprofits are raising significant amounts of money (i.e. >$10k) Why, why not?

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. Not a board meeting goes by where one of my board members doesn’t tell me about some cool new social media tool they are using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar. Great idea!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2014

There''s no shortage of technology options available to nonprofits today for fundraising. Which web communication channels are the most effective? A tried and true way to start: talk to your peers in the nonprofit sector, and learn from their experiences! Fundraisers believe in technology, but often lack it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Colleague Miriam Brousseau tagged me and several other “close professional ties” asking us for resources on nonprofits and content strategy. I asked Miriam if she would summarize what she learned about nonprofits and content strategy in a guest post and here it is. Nonprofit tech and communications specialist Ash Shepard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Earlier this month, when Instagram announced its user community had grown to more than 400 million, it reminded me that I needed to update my curated collection of Instagram for Nonprofit resources. It’s a great branding tool because it can engage audiences, creative intimacy, and appeals to the emotions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2014

Loyalty, donation levels, and fundraising performances is just some of the data unveiled in Blackbaud''s 2013 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising study. The study looked at peer-to-peer giving across 39 organizations over the last 3 years (from 2011 to 2013). Email marketing is still a very effective fundraising tool for participants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements. M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. Idealware's Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide is a good place to make your basecamp. If so, these types of comments probably sound familiar: “Are we on Tumblr?”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following article originally appeared in The NonProfit Times Live from bbcon newsletter. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s Create a movement by giving supporters the tools to spread your message. Tailor content specifically for each social media channel as each one has its own tone, terminology, etc. So, don’t do it.

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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. But if you are working with a network of similar nonprofits, doing a more formal benchmarking study can offer a lot of benefits.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

Peer to peer fundraising events like runs, walks and rides have become a staple for nonprofit fundraisers, and often bring in more revenue than any other fundraising campaign throughout the year. What are you doing to ensure your fundraisers have the tools they need to be multi-channel in their outreach efforts?

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. For all the details on how to make this work for your nonprofit, read on below in this week’s guest blog post on text messaging. billion in 2013 and are expected to reach 5.07 billion by 2019.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The following article originally appeared in The NonProfit Times Live from bbcon newsletter. Speaking during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md., Find out which channels drive conversions, not just traffic, and invest in them. To subscribe to a future newsletter, visit [link].

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Speaking of fundraising, ever ask the question, "Why is our nonprofit not raising more money on social media?" Alia with Sea Change Strategies reminds you not to forget that "social media is an engagement channel" and encourages you to change the question to "what kind of relationships are we nurturing there?" on Wednesday, July 24.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

NetSquared Local is TechSoup's volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. Philadelphia's Net Tuesday livestreamed a talk by Amy Sample Ward on building a multi-channel campaign. Abbotsford, Canada offered an introduction to crowdfunding for nonprofits. Charity & Nonprofit Analytics Meetup: Email.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2015

We hear so much about the importance of sending multi-channel campaigns and integrating direct mail, email, social and website messaging. And I see more nonprofits doing this the past few years. Where I see nonprofits often still coming up short, though, is measuring multi-channel results, especially beyond email conversions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. For instance, an organization can use easily use their headquarters as their studio.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

During my 14 years of working in the nonprofit industry, specifically a Private College Prep Catholic High School, I have found that it tends to be a slightly fragile technical community due to its very nature. Many times it’s the nonprofit leaders who are responsible for promoting or stifling change. Leveraging the web matters.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Nonprofits can learn from email campaigns corporate marketers are sending. While nonprofits often personalize direct mail campaigns—based on giving history, interests and past actions—that approach isn’t always carried over to their email campaigns. Should nonprofits follow suit and test these elements? Simple enough?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity. Nonprofits pay a 2.5% How it works for nonprofits: This makes your content gathering easy. Foursquare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. We all know that email (the original online social medium since 1979) is the main driver of value for multi-channel marketing for nonprofits. Figuring out "the Facebook" We've all heard this line: Facebook is huge and nonprofits can't afford to ignore it.

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