Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Today, crowdfunding is a viable fundraising method that can be successfully utilized by nonprofit organizations as well as individuals. When crowdfunding campaigns are run correctly, nonprofits see their fundraising results catapult far beyond old-school techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Can you tell me the basics about the Red Cross $100 million fundraising campaign for disaster relief? All 700+ chapters are participating in the campaign.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Through these automations, you’re also freeing up staff time to innovate on current communications, strategize for large-scale fundraising campaigns, or even just be a little more hands-on with campaigns that require a little more intervention. .

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2022

For Komen, this was an additive fundraising method that was ideal for supplementing their ongoing efforts. . Outline the parameters for your campaign. Create a corresponding Facebook group and ad campaign. To emulate this approach at your organization, here are the steps for planning a Facebook challenge: .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have a decentralized team of 10+ staff contributing stories to our social media channels. They are representatives across the organization who have an interest in social media and can use the medium to help promote their own department’s stories. Yes, we definitely are.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Fundraising plan summary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization. 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

However, only between 25% and 35% said that they could confirm that they are truly reaching new supporters via these social networks. About 55% think that LinkedIn is a good source to reach new supporters. Less then 40% think using MySpace to reach new supporters is helpful. Other tangible results include:

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 29, 2014

While social media should play an integral piece, your organization has to allocate more money and time to marketing, build skills, identify targets, and expand beyond social networks. Many organizations concentrate heavily social networking because it’s free, easy to use and gives the false sense of success (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

An After Action Review can produce insights, but participants need to embrace with an open attitude, not blame game. What makes it useful as this detailed description of the method points out. It does not judge success or failure. It attempts to discover why things happened. You can read the full reflection here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? To read more about the campaign: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters? Our detailed case study with Darius Goes West reveals some fantastic insights and learnings.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

What do you get when you combine your donor performance data with social engagement data? Identify the social influencers within your donor base who can spread your message to their like-minded friends on social networks. Powerhouse donors! Let us know how we can help you! About Ed Messman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. I did not use any of these methods. But don’t let this geographic boundary limit your campaign. All are captured here ).

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2012

Shelly Kramer admits that Google+ may not be the most popular social network everyone thought it would be, but the growing social network has some fantastic benefits, one biggie being SEO. Methods to gain executive team support. 7 Simple Ways to Improve Google+ Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

This excellent post by my business partner, Geoff Livingston, provides some excellent tips for encouraging deeper engagement from your nonprofit's online social media friends and fans. to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions. I've also been reading about tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Within hours, Planned Parenthood sent a fundraising email out to its network, asking supporters to replace the money that Komen had pulled for breast cancer screenings for low-income women. As the news traveled from email boxes to social networks to mainstream media, activists, men, and women expressed their outrage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Care2 has a social media tracker tool that can analyze your list to see who is on social networks and how many friends. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents. Forensic Listening: Chris Abraham shared this method and is primarily for those who haven’t yet started.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. Collaborate with other nonprofit organizations and community groups to organize events, campaigns, and initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

QR codes present a valuable method of adding web based content (basically any URL) to real-world messages, objects or locations," says digital strategist Upasna Gautam on the Eventbrite blog. Here are few suggestions to think about experimenting with for your next multi-channel campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. Of course, being based in the U.S., 4) Study and mimic large NGOs.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2015

When crowdfunding campaigns are run correctly, nonprofits can realize incredible returns versus traditional fundraising methods. Crowdfunding campaigns involve more than just setting up a page so you can sit back and watch the donations pour in. Mistake 3: Being Shy With Social Media. Bonus Tip: Seed Your Campaign.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

Leverage the power of social networks with peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. Baby boomers and millennials take a fundamentally different approach to charitable giving than their silent generation counterparts, meaning that nonprofit fundraisers also need to update their methods in order to stay at the top of the game.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

Twitter, for example, has shown remarkable accuracy at forecasting box office success, even more accuracy than the currently used (and comparably complex) Hollywood Stock Exchange method. That was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2012

Millennials often get a bad reputation for being slackers and self absorbed, but they can actually be quite passionate about social justice issues, especially when the right causes resonate with them. But once you have them engaged, they can be some of your best advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. What happens is that you share your message with enthusiastic supporters and they in turn may choose to pass it to others with a similar a interest in your organization or campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

The Humane Society of the United States uses this method to raise funds during and after a major animal rescue operation. Growth : Social media use continues to climb, with one person joining a social network every 6.4 Millions of videos are watched online every day. Be consistent.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Before you begin, you need to figure out what kind of campaign you want to run. Here’s an overview of the three most popular crowdfunding services as well as others that focus on nonprofits: Kickstarter (AoN): Funds specific creative projects and features the largest crowdfunded campaigns. Spread the word on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Social Networking Online Advocacy -abandoning traditional online advocacy and instead using social networking tools to raise awareness and build a national movement. However, the power of social networking tools to enable a massive response in a short period of time is undeniable.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Is it matching campaigns? Match these initiatives up with your social media plan. Nonprofits tend to either ignore social media, or treat it like it has to be a rapid response tool, but it can, and should, be used as a method for long term engagement. What does that "everything else" look like for your team?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Here's an idea from our friend Laura at Idealware: what if you measured any communications method by whether it would have more or less impact than spending the same amount of time calling donors on the phone? It might be a letter, an email blast, or a social media campaign, and it might be a phone call.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

They help us gauge interest in topics, adjust phrasing of our communications, and provide us with free assets to use in our campaigns. Recently, we initiated a campaign against the electric company AEP and encouraged our fans to take over their Facebook page. This approach has increased the value of our fans tremendously.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy! Review the POST Method.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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