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4 Unique Call-to-Actions to Test on Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the Nature Conservancy uses a maroon top bar to send visitors prompted by TV ads to their monthly giving donation page. A growing trend is to add large, visually prominent CTAs to the body of blog posts and news articles approximately halfway down the page. At a cost of $13.99 See also OptinMonster.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. For example, the National Parks Conservation Association recently blogged about a rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and included a prominent CTA.

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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

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In a normal month, 40 to 50 Arizona nonprofits will gain ‘public charity’ status from the IRS. You can see this reflected in the chart, with a low-point coming in the average for November and December 2012: 31 new Arizona charities. What is driving this explosion in public charities in Arizona? Like this article?

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

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Many charities or nonprofits only require activists to “like our Facebook page” or “retweet this” or “hashtag that.” A portion of sales from each shirt also aided the zoo’s work to conserve wild orangutans. Like this article? Sure, work is being done and lives are being improved, but the impact is often times minimal.

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I'll Comment for Food Donations, Ten Cents for Woman's Shelter, and Other Interesting Social Media Charity Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. Yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about charity giving trends and social media use. Here's a few examples.

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What’s your nonprofit doing to go green?

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Whether it’s a charity, a civic league, a social club, or any other type of NPO, the end product is likely to be an evolving contribution to society rather than a quick buck. Conserve around the workplace where you can. Like this article? That’s often why people get involved with them in the first place. Get another!

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. ” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution.

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