article thumbnail

Cause Awareness & Giving Day Campaigns for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The United States has Give Local America Day (May 1, 2018). Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. million mentions on social media). Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 68 million was raised in 2015. Before the Giving Day: Get Organized.

Awareness 202
article thumbnail

Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. Learn Basic HTML.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Oxfam America “Thank You” landing page. Your nonprofit has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. If you discover you haven’t, don’t feel bad. 90% of nonprofits miss this very obvious opportunity to convert their online donors into social media followers.

article thumbnail

10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel.

article thumbnail

How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. If your nonprofit does international development in Asia or Latin America, try Hi5 or Quepasa.

article thumbnail

10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. Other ideas for promotion include an ad in your print newsletter and listing the opportunity on your “More Ways to Give” page. The Audubon Society uses a matching gift strategy to grow its monthly donors.

Practice 339
article thumbnail

11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless. Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager.