Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. In fact, to allow for maximum content, the WWF used a tiny 8 point font in their 2008 home page design. Today, this font size and large quantity of content would visually overwhelm supporters and donors.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether you need product photos, photos of people using your products, or simply stylish stock photos, these tools can help you find what you’re looking for. These images could be used for a wide variety of storytelling and attention-grabbing hooks for content. Is your website in need of some fresh imagery? 13 per image.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make it a point to find them so you’re getting as many eyes on your attention-deserving content as possible. Once you know your nonprofit’s activity is being seen by all your new followers, it’s time to post share-worthy content that’ll remind them why they support your cause. Don’t wait for your supporters to find you on social media!

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2015

One of the biggest questions when curating social media content is “What the heck should we be posting and how often?”. Content guidelines such as the 80/20 Rule or the Rule of Thirds are great aids for helping decide how to keep your content diverse and engage followers. Appreciation. Appreciation.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Mission Moments Photo of your mission in action Quote from service recipient At-home activities (ex. Fundraising Thank you to one specific donor Thank you to corporate donor Thank you to foundation donor Photo from your most recent fundraiser Next fundraiser Special event save the date (ex. Success story (ex. Change in office hours.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. It’s easy to underestimate the importance of the table of contents — many reports treat them as an afterthought. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Communicate with your audience by showing engaging photos of your work or a testimonial. Your peer-to-peer software should provide the opportunity for them to share these elements with personal photos and customized descriptions. Stick to one photo or image, and keep the text appeal short. . is a Content Marketer at.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

If you’re prompting supporters to get involved with an advocacy campaign , you wouldn’t want to use a long-winded CTA button that says “Click Here to Advocate for Animals In Your Area Today.” Also, use text and photo CTAs throughout your blog posts or informational pages to direct readers to take certain actions. Your CTAs should: .

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re part of an animal shelter, wildlife conservation organization, or advocacy group, these insights will help you navigate the ever-evolving world of nonprofit marketing. Share photos and videos of the animals in your care and use relevant hashtags to expand your reach. Build authentic relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. One key element is the use of an online homebase.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever possible, include photos or video content to show supporters, or suggest recipients share their photos from the day using a dedicated hashtag on their social media. Humanize your email communication by including your supporters’ names and using first-person pronouns when referencing your organization.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

One of email’s strengths is its flexibility: you can use it to deliver a wide variety of “asks” and to link to content such as videos, tweets, Facebook posts and photo galleries. Whether standalone or part of a series, email can tell a more complex story than most social media posts – and an email can link to more than one thing. .

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EveryAction

MAY 4, 2016

While we've seen successful campaigns that exist almost entirely in the Twitterverse or even on Snapchat , social media is more a vehicle for your intended audience to get a sense of a campaign's flavor - from there, it's up to you to entice them to click through to your main campaign content. Main Course - Donation Page. Side Dish - Video.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

Personalization also includes adjusting the content you share based on supporters’ interests. In an email list for remote supporters, you would instead promote online opportunities and content. Capture photos of your beneficiaries, your volunteers at work, or anything else that will inspire your supporters. Show appreciation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. You can also use storify to curate tweets, photos, videos, resources, and links during the event.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Remember, content is still king.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. While my workshop on Day 1 focused a lot on internal processes and best practices, the next question that we anticipated from attendees was, "What tools can I use to help create this compelling content?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Have a Consistent Design throughout All Secondary Navigation and Content Pages. A good Content management System (CMS) will take care of this for you. All content pages should be the same size and should be consistent in their layout and color scheme. Keep bullet-pointed content short. Use bold for headlines.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. You did just post that photo and it went viral by itself? What happened?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. Combining both content marketing techniques and digital advertising tools has delivered value to nonprofits. That’s why all EveryAction’s online donation and advocacy forms come mobile optimized.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

They do pretty much everything online – from dating and movies to advocacy. Once they get there, you’ll want to make sure your content looks good and is easy to use. Main photo courtesy of Jopwell.com. They’re accustomed to a high level of connectivity and instant gratification. They are strongly influenced by friends.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2013

Users were more than twice as likely to like, share, or comment on a Photo post than any other content. Mobile Advocacy Nonprofit Benchmark Studies social media' On average they''re posting about once per day, though large groups posted twice as frequently.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Ever attend a conference, for a keynote, and find the rest of the content to be wanting? Are you a an online advocacy guru, a fundraiser, or grassroots organizer? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. Photos of any whiteboards are also important along with any slides that were presented.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

advocacy opportunities, matching gift and volunteer grant information, event calendar, and more. This is because modern nonprofit websites are much more than informational tools— they’re donation processing tools, volunteer and event registration tools, and even channels for direct advocacy actions.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Timeline when you will create key content for upcoming campaigns, events and conferences, and marketing initiatives, and clarify who on the team is responsible for overseeing and implementing tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

October 2nd is LIVESTRONG Day- a day we set aside each year to focus on cancer survivors, advocacy efforts and community participation. Create opportunities for the community to create social content for your web site We asked our supporters to upload photos from their events to Flickr and videos to Youtube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The sooner your nonprofit can master content distribution on social networks, the more likely (and faster) your fundraising and content strategies will result in success. The five content approaches of success, urgency, statistics, quotes, and humor should be interwoven throughout your social network strategy.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

For example, signing petitions, pledges, sharing your petitions or content on social networks and with their friends, family, and colleagues. You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals. You know the old saying content is king?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Here's a little more about this year's esteemed cohort of judges!

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

The Power of Tech in Advocacy & Organizing 14NTC: We came, we tweeted, we played with Legos. Relive the conference experience and learn from many of the 2,120 attendees through this content round-up! Relive the conference experience and learn from many of the 2,120 attendees through this content round-up!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

They seek advice from experts who tell them that they need to “engage” more, or have more “engaging” content, or build more “engagement” strategies. Your first goal should be to hold the attention of the user by attracting them with high-quality content and stories bring value to your audience.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

Why do I count Facebook boosting/content promotion as a strength? Because page owners can at least pay to get their content in front of their supporters, something denied (for now?) For example, you might use email to encourage people to share content socially or use Facebook to build your email list. . Pay to play.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner. event announcements.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Wellington, New Zealand: Advocacy – how can using a digital soap box work for you. Washington, DC: June 24: APIs for Meaningful & Impactful Advocacy. New York, NY: Content Modeling: Where Strategy, Design, and Tech Converge. Photo by Robert Kibaya. NetSquared Cambridge: Inclusion Unstuck. Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Engagement: Readers engage with their content. Lisa has worked extensively with a network of Jewish Day Schools on their social media skills. When I posed that question to here, she responded with “ Schools need to connect online with alumni with content and conversations that resonate, are valuable.

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