Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps life all the boats. I was honored when Holly agreed to do this post about the 2012 Editorial Calendar. And, now, we are excited to present the new and improved editorial calendar for 2012. Earned Media is Dead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative. The LightBox Collaborative 2013 Editorial Calendar is here! This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Before you hit Share on a new post or Story, make the item shown clickable by adding a Product Tag that allows people to tap on a direct link within the image or video to view and purchase right from Instagram or Facebook. For example, Heal the Bay’s Gorgongosa Coffee : Don’t promote everything in your Shop all at once on your channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The goal of this webinar was to provide some baseline tools to help manage the incoming and the outgoing content across all channels an organization may be using to communicate and connect. Monitor multiple channels at once. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization. Content Calendar.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 13, 2023

From GivingTuesday to the start of the new year, nonprofits are focused on communicating with donors, sharing the organization’s successes and plans for the year ahead, and meeting their fundraising goals so they can be ready to power their purpose when the calendar flips. 24 through 31.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He was facing a significant tax liability if he didn’t get this completed before the calendar rolled into January. This allowed him the complete deduction in that calendar year. Needless to say, this created an “all hands-on deck” moment.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 5, 2023

An annual awareness calendar can offer your nonprofit lots of great promotional ideas throughout the year. Spend some time looking through all the awareness day events throughout the year by using a 2023 awareness day calendar. Create Your Own 2023 Awareness Day Calendar. Turning Awareness Days Into Action Plans.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fortunately, with data, we can better understand members’ behavior and which marketing channel is most effective to reach our members. In this blog, we share tips on how to take your marketing to the next level with the help of analytics. Let’s start by identifying the best channels and tools to maximize your campaigns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

billion social media users in 2021 – an increase of five percent from a year ago – it’s a valuable communication channel that should be part of your mix. Your social channels should reflect your mission and values. Here are easy-to-implement content ideas to help fill out your social media calendar.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. Faculty are engaging with students in real time using channels , which allows a continuous feedback loop to fine-tune courses throughout the semester.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.) and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. So, if someone was looking to put together a monthly calendar for their social media channels, what are the types of posts they should look to include in that plan?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

One way to get organized and more strategic is to use an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar provides you with a broad overview of your whole content marketing plan and outlines exactly what needs to be completed when. Here are six steps to getting your editorial calendar started. A YouTube channel? Instagram?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Consider how your GivingTuesday communications strategy fits into your annual communications strategy and be sure to plan around three key elements of audience, channel, and timing. Include ways to continuously share how much you appreciate your donors’ support and connections to your organization.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s more important than ever to share your mission in a way that is real, relevant, and sensitive to what’s going on within your organization’s environment and the impact of your work. Continue to engage with your audiences, sharing how critical your mission is and, given current events, how it may be even more critical than ever before.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Rachel Muir’s terrific post, Four Strategies to Retain Your #GivingTuesday Donors , shares her thoughts on this vital subject. Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A holistic nonprofit digital marketing plan involves weaving together multiple channels and strategies into a unified approach that resonates with your target audience. Marketing is not just about producing powerful content and sharing it on your platforms. Choose your digital marketing channels. Segment your audience.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Many millennials share little in common other than a familiarity with the internet, but, thankfully, your direct mail campaigns can also address and make the most of each supporters’ unique relationship with your nonprofit. Segmentation refers to dividing supporters into groups based on shared characteristics. Guides like.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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Classy

MAY 12, 2021

The following seven steps help you navigate the confusion about what to post on which channels and when. You never know what could spark your next big idea for a social media challenge, educational content shares, or behind-the-scenes videos. Choose the Best Channels to Post on . The result? Get Started With Your Free Download.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 12, 2024

Through my professional training as a journalist and newsroom leader, I am committed to sharing my insider newsroom knowledge with nonprofits to help them get the attention they deserve from their local media outlets. Here are my top 10 tips for nonprofits that want to secure earned media: 1. Blogs can be utilized in so many ways.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

If your organization has a Candid Seal of Transparency , consider taking a similar approach to further showcase your nonprofit’s impact. Share and interact with funders’ social content Most people appreciate receiving a “like” on content they post on social media. But think about ways you can take your interactions to the next level.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Use your personal social media channels to let your friends and family know about your work. Create a calendar of Asks.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Consider holding weekly check-in calls where stakeholders can trade intel and coordinate, and think about other virtual channels that make it as easy as possible to share thinking in real time, like Slack. We recommend building the calendar out on a week-by-week basis so you can get as granular as possible.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

Direct fundraising asks are part of a well-rounded digital calendar. It generated the most in-platform engagement of any content Pathfinder has shared on Twitter to-date – and was a top driver of shares on Instagram. Used as a strategic element of your digital calendar, advocacy checks each of these boxes. . and abroad.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. And that’s okay because by offloading the highlighted tasks, you just cleared space on your calendar to focus on these items and get them done. COMMUNICATION .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2012

Multi-channel! Multi-channel! Multi-channel! Calendar-based campaigning. Not financially committed to a second channel. No calendar and/or campaign coordination. Second channel constitutes 5-20% direct response revenue. Thematically integrated, some consolidation of data across channels.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

To get your supporters excited about joining your event and helping you raise funds, you need a compelling story that’s easy to share with friends and family. Make Your Story Easy To Understand And Share. Create a calendar for recruitment emails to begin signing up participants for your peer-to-peer fundraising event or campaign.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. When sharing content or announcements on social media, include a link redirecting your followers to your online donation page.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

In this guide, we’ll share seven unique, memorable, and meaningful ways you can appreciate your donors. In addition to email, eCards can be sent via text message or social media, so your nonprofit can reach out using donors’ preferred communication channels. Send eCards. Create thank-your videos.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

We wanted to see if this was a channel that our community responded well to. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. Create a work plan or communications calendar for your Giving Day that breaks the project into manageable pieces or chunks, so that planning seems more doable. As you can imagine, it was!

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Here’s how: Analyze fundraising channels: Examine how each of your fundraising channels is performing. Encourage your supporters to create their own pages and share them with their networks.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog, we explore what to do when you get a rejection to a grant proposal and share questions you should ask the funder if your grant proposal isn’t selected. Many organizations publish a calendar of events open to the public on their websites, social channels, or in their newsletters.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. percent after inflation adjustments) for calendar year-end giving in 2022.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’ll also be sharing the important metrics you need to keep an eye on to measure your performance. This strategy will encompass tailored activities, communication channels, and personalized interactions aimed at making their members more satisfied and encouraging them to contribute to the organization’s mission.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

A member newsletter or club newsletter is a great tool to share important information with members in a place they likely visit every day, multiple times a day: their email inbox. Channel the audience reading your newsletter—what’s helpful to them? Share upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, organization updates, etc.,

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