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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your organization likely relies on direct mail, emails, social media, and even phone calls to get the word out about your organization’s work and solicit support for your mission. Messages can be used to solicit donations, recruit volunteers for a fundraising event or activity, and more. Amazon revolutionized the easy checkout process.

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Quick Favor Please! Take the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s questions delve into how donors prefer to give to their favorite causes and will reveal the impact of social media, emerging trends (such as cryptocurrency, Amazon Alexa, gaming for good), and the role of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, #GivingTuesday, and volunteerism in individual giving worldwide.

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Newly Released With “Look Inside!” Functionality! Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is now fully released to the public in both print and digital format. The content of the 5-hour training is best suited for social media practitioners on an intermediate/advanced level. Proceeds benefit Volunteers of America Delaware Valley. 9/29: New York, NY.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

And *poof*… the volunteers were gone. They ordered goods from Amazon rather than drive to the store. As nonprofits limited worker contact, many shuttered or adjusted programs and asked their volunteers to stay away. The first big piece was a survey of volunteer administrators. Students gravitated to online classes.

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Social Media for Social Good Book Tour Raises $17,130 for Partner Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3/19/12 Update: Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits launched in conjunction with a social media and mobile technology training and book tour that also served as fundraiser for partners nonprofits – a total of $17,130 was raised. Proceeds benefited Amazon CARES. Proceeds benefited Volunteer San Diego.

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8 Must-Have Integrations for Your Nonprofit CRM

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s questions delve into how donors prefer to give to their favorite causes and will reveal the impact of social media, emerging trends (such as cryptocurrency, Amazon Alexa, gaming for good), and the role of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, #GivingTuesday, and volunteerism in individual giving worldwide.

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Social Media for Social Good e-Book Version Now Available for Download!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And the fact that this books exists at all really is a testament to the power social media. Now, six years and 500,000 friends, followers, and fans later everything I’ve learned through hands-on experimentation with social and mobile media has been compiled into 268 pages in Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.