Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2014

With more than 1 billion active users, Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt your nonprofit’s supporters use Facebook on a regular basis. Therefore, Facebook Pages should be your first priority and entry into social networking. Add an address to your page to add Facebook Location.

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Donorbox

AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s not a secret that if a nonprofit wants to be successful in today’s fast-changing and complex world, it has to be present and active on social media networks. And the most prominent social media platform, without a doubt, is Facebook. Facebook boasts over 2.89

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Social media has changed the marketing world, and Facebook Ads for nonprofits are an easy tool to increase your organization’s presence online. Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds. How do nonprofits use Facebook Ads?

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

The truth is that social fundraising has come a long way from the standard “Donate” button featured on profiles and Facebook fundraisers. Introduction to Facebook Challenges. Facebook Challenges are time-bound virtual peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that take place entirely through the social network. How to Host a Challenge.

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TechImpact

MARCH 14, 2014

Image courtesy of Inside Facebook. Facebook is 99% of the time a must have for your nonprofit. If your nonprofit doesn’t have a Facebook, check out this infographic and consider if it’s time to sign up and start engaging! Post shareable content Be active Post powerful messages Respond to followers. What’s not to like?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2013

That’s how I discovered three of the four functions below and when I give in-person trainings on Facebook and demonstrate these functions (with the exception of hashtags since the functionality was just launched last week), there are usually quite a few oohs, ahhs, and “I didn’t know that” in the room. Facebook'

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Across the world, 18% of donors have given through Facebook fundraising tools, with 88% of them indicating that they are likely to give through the platform in the future. Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

This prompt essentially asks users to opt-in and “allow” apps and websites to track their activity. Once the update goes live (currently projected for early Spring) this means an iPhone user with the update installed will open up an app like Facebook, for example, and see the following prompt: Source: Apple. How will iOS14.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2013

That’s how I discovered three of the four functions below and when I give in-person trainings on Facebook and demonstrate these functions (with the exception of hashtags since the functionality was just launched last week), there are usually quite a few oohs, ahhs, and “I didn’t know that” in the room.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2013

Hopefully your nonprofit has grown accustomed to the fact that Facebook is a constant work in progress. Before you fall behind, make sure that your nonprofit is current with these four recent Facebook upgrades: 1) Turn on “Similar Page Suggestions.” 4) Facebook Subscribers are now called “Followers.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Except for a short test in 2009 , your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans have never seen all your posts and as most of us have by now have realized, the percentage that do has gotten significantly smaller over time. According to Facebook Help: When you create a list, you’ll see the best posts from that list in your main News Feed.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Earlier this year, Facebook announced that since their introduction in 2016 they have raised over $5 billion through fundraisers on Facebook and Instagram. TikTok have also started championing nonprofits and introduced donation stickers similar to those already available on Facebook and Instagram.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine). — Facebook Pages include a reporting module called “Insights&# which enables Page admins to understand how to better use their Page to market their cause and organization. Subscribe to the RSS feed ›.

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

In my last session as part of the Schools out for Summer Series I took a deep dive into how Schools can get the most out of Facebook. — We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. But there is hope!!!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

A Few Words of Caution: Small to medium-sized nonprofits should take Facebook case studies and best practices based on the success of large nationally and internationally well-known nonprofits (with huge email lists and multiple communications and development staff) with a heavy dose of skepticism.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

That said, Facebook has made some recent upgrades – and more are coming – that nonprofits need to know about. If you find the changes confusing, my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps will discuss and demonstrate click-by-click these changes as well many others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

That said, in recent months Facebook has launched a slew of new features for Facebook Pages. The others will be covered in my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps for Nonprofits. Facebook has launched a new App Center for Timeline and Mobile with over 600 Apps. 2) New Facebook Pages Manager App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Facebook has been making a flurry of changes to the functionality of Facebook Profiles, Facebook Pages, Facebook Community Pages, and Facebook Places Pages over the last two months. Sharing quality, engaging content is now more important than ever on Facebook. That said, technology is now constantly in flux.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions. On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Step One :: Add Questions to Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 6, 2012

As Mashable shared yesterday , PageLever’s analysis of 500 Facebook Pages (each with 10,000 fans or more) shows a dramatic decrease in custom tab views on Facebook after the transition to Timeline. Have you rearranged content to highlight a Welcome or Action custom tab at the top of your Page?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But, we’re here to present one solution that can tackle all of the above: Facebook fundraising. As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re surely aware that Facebook fundraising is quite different from the digital efforts you conduct on other platforms. Educate supporters about the basics of Facebook fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. LinkedIn Pages. For example: 1.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Facebook reach is loosely defined as the number of people who saw a piece of your content. Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. Here are ways your nonprofit can generate more reach on Facebook. Hammer out your content strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Best for nonprofits that respond to crisis or who organize fundraising events like marathons, social fundraising inside of Facebook is worth experimenting with: 1) Causes :: View App. Most nonprofits that are active on Facebook know about Facebook Causes. Cost: 4.75% donation processing fee. Website: causes.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the vast majority of nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide the ability to accept digital payments on Facebook is unlikely anytime soon since it would require Facebook to invest significant time and financial resources into creating a process to validate the legal status of the millions of nonprofits that have a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of Artificial Intelligence to better understand what nonprofits need to know about artificial intelligence to future proof their programs, marketing, and fundraising strategies? Source: AI for Lawyers (Click image for larger version).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

—– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all the changes to functionality, options, and analytics is incredibly overwhelming. Note: You can find resources about Facebook on Facebook using its resource center.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

I was just getting ready to add “Create a Facebook Page for a campaign in addition to your organization’s Facebook Page&# to my Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations when I read that Facebook had launched “Community Pages&#. Tags: Facebook FourSquare.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

Want to show your fundraising teams some great ways to fundraise on Facebook in support of your next event? Here’s how they earned more engagement on Facebook for their peer-to-peer efforts. They created a Facebook group. They created a Facebook Group and made it public and visible to anyone searching for it.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

So, how does Facebook fit into all of this? They have more than 750 million active user and at least half of them log-on daily. Facebook is a communications platform with close to a billion users. Your Special Event Director /Manager can hype your next event to the Facebook world. The trick is finding the right places.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

This provides prospective supporters who click on your ads or research your organization with evidence that your nonprofit is active and trustworthy. For example, Facebook offers Facebook Fundraisers, which allow anyone to launch a fundraiser for a nonprofit. Influencer marketing.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2019

Why Facebook is Important to Nonprofits. If you’re a marketer, then you know the impact that Facebook has globally. billion active daily users worldwide- that’s 66% of its monthly users- making Facebook the third most-visited site in the world. Americans alone spend 58 minutes a day scrolling through Facebook.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au]. Facebook [update+dxyfrdccslte@csj.g12.br]. Facebook [updateV995O9DZ34L9@facebookmail.com].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

(Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism. It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Over the past few months you’ve probably noticed the Facebook like button on at least a few of the websites you frequent. To date, over 1 million sites use the Facebook Like button. Some publishers are seeing up to 85% more time spent on their site by people who use the Facebook Like button. A few interesting facts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2013

That’s how I discovered three of the four functions below and when I give in-person trainings on Facebook and demonstrate these functions (with the exception of hashtags since the functionality was just launched last week), there are usually quite a few oohs, ahhs, and “I didn’t know that” in the room. Facebook'

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 10, 2016

Indeed, what started as a way to connect with people in an online world has now become the domain of all elements that drive our world: non-profit causes, e-commerce behemoths, social activism extraordinaire, political wrangling and, of course, lots and lots of controversy. Leverage the best possible imagery you can.

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