Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company. Here are a few examples of what purpose-driven companies do that set them apart. CVS realized that tobacco didn’t align with its purpose: “helping people on their path to better health.” What’s next?

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? In this case, the photo draws you in, and when you click through to the website , you can read full length stories and see great photos of children who have been helped by the organization. Check out this example from Denver Rescue Mission.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If a lot of sources about that topic exist, that doesn’t mean you don’t have new things to contribute, but it helps to know what’s out there. For example, if you were writing a post on how to keep dogs cool in the summer, you could reference a dog popsicle recipe on your blog, providing a direct link to that page.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I can’t help to think we share the blame. In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Register here. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Communities of Impact program, generously supported by Microsoft, combines NTEN’s strengths in community building and education delivery to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofit organizations while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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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. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

The annual conference helps inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their work. This year’s conference, “The Future We Make” had four themes – strategic philanthropy, modern day slavery, agriculture and nutrition, and education, learning, and employment. . Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I’ve been a huge fan of Crisis Text Line since it launched back in August, 2013. Over 13 million text messages have been exchanged via Crisis Text Line since its launch in August 2013, qualifying this as the nation’s largest open set of crisis data. I’m pretty darn excited that we’re making it happen.”

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here is an example from one of my nonprofit client’s websites. In the example to the right, taken from 2018 data, you can see the top five categories that Google assigns to the visitors of this website. How might this knowledge help guide us in the types of content we produce? What does the data show?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Sean Horrigan is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub, and a marketing/PR consultant with a track record of helping clients grow and prosper through consistent media coverage, strategic social media campaigns, killer copy and better branding. _. When a company sponsors an event, they want to measure their return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

They’ve just published this terrific, free e-book with lots of tips and planning templates to help your organization decide whether to participate. million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. Jamie is an expert in online engagement and giving, inspiring Millennial donors, and the force behind BMore Gives More, the movement to raise $5.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. .” Getting fresh air and walking helps people digest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. We identified several great examples of nonprofit using social media data for decision-making, mostly to support communications strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

I’ll hear comments like, “Hey Anthony, why doesn’t Tech Impact have a Pinterest page?” “Wouldn’t it be great if Tech Impact had a Tumblr on bad nonprofit technology?” “Why aren’t we using Instagram for pictures of the nonprofits we’ve helped?”. 79% of LinkedIn’s users, for example, are 35 or older and have high paying jobs.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I occasionally help out with RFPs. An exception is a start-up vendor that is so new that they really don’t have a release history, other measures must be taken to validate such companies.) As an example, Release Notes are provided to you by a vendor in December, 2015 with history that ends in 2013.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. We created this guide to help you build just that. Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Goals + objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

As a long time reader of Beth’s blog, I am very excited by the release of Beth’s new book, Measuring the Networked Non-Profit. For inspiring examples we need only look at Doug Ulman, Melinda Gates, and Beth herself, each of who provides the shoulders on which others stand to reach greater levels of social impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. The anecdotal stories are compelling: benefits overwhelmingly outweigh the costs in the usual cherry-picked examples. The garden program leaders are therefore collecting deeper data to measure the real impact of the gardens.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Here are some ways you can do this for your nonprofit organization: Take a look at your fundraising efforts so far, measuring your fiscal year results over the previous fiscal year. For example, you could look at evaluating the following: How many newly identified mid-level and major gift prospects have come to the forefront?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

He has helped raised over a billion dollars for his clients around the world. The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. For example, giving support for advocacy organizations in the U.S. social media), is undervalued if measured by transaction metrics, as opposed to by engagement. A recent study says no. Fundraising'

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. For example, you want to raise money to build a school in 6 months, so you create a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising a certain dollar amount within that time.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. For example, you want to raise money to build a school in 6 months, so you create a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising a certain dollar amount within that time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. He called them “Consequential Strangers,” and they can help you out. Jim Canales (@jcanales) April 5, 2013. Weak ties bring in new thinking, ideas, and resources.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

The post-march narrative is all about organized action, with dozens of new initiatives emerging to help facilitate sustained political engagement. Check out The Adventure Project’s Giving Calculator as a great example of how to help donors start changing their behavior. More sophisticated corporate giving.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Helps data integrity (verify mailing address; find out interests). #3 For example, if you know I’m interested in lung cancer issues, send me a lung cancer project or research to fund. Building in targeting capabilities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We took a year off of C3 in 2013 and reconsidered our goals for the group. For example: We recruited people in an invite-only format, with very strict quotas for different kinds of creative leaders in the County. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. The Mobile Work Exchange has a handy benefits calculator where you can quantify how much telework can help your particular organization. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael DeLong, TechSoup Global's Online Community Manager, says: Does your overflowing plate of nonprofit communications work include a heaping helping of social media? Simply Measured touts. Well, speaking of Idealware, it’s a big help here. That's how it works! ” “What are we doing with Pinterest?”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wearables have been around a long time; an example would be hearing aids or the Sony Walkman. Another example is the Philips Lifeline gadget from late night TV commercial fame in which an elderly person wears a monitor that calls 911 if they fall down. Where Wearables Came From. Google Glass was launched 18 months ago.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

But with the technological innovation happening all around us, it’s important to consider whether your nonprofit is taking advantage of the solutions that can ultimately help power your mission forward. The 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#14NTC) kicking off this Thursday is the premier event to help you answer that question.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Josh: I was recently inspired by Kickstarter’s 2013 Year in Review , and I’ve had a lot of ideas related to their design. I also read up on a lot of web design blogs, which explain the things you might already be seeing but help identify what’s working and what’s not. WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO FEEL CREATIVE? Smashing Magazine.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. Five years ago an organization asked me for help in overhauling their donor communications to: improve retention, increase revenue and grow their ranks. I’d stay that’s pretty stinky, wouldn’t you?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Particularly when it comes to a project like Loyalty Lab, whose goal is to encourage repeat and meaningful participation, game design techniques can help visitors feel a sense of measurable purpose and mastery as they deepen their engagement with the museum. Our goal was to help people see the museum as a Friday night habit.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. For example, 65% of charities still do not pre-select a mid-range gift on their donation forms even though the data shows this approach performs better. Choose wisely.

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