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Is Your Volunteer Management Solution Up-to-Date in 2021?

Volunteer Hub

In order to be successful in 2021, your volunteer program needs to captivate, entice, and enrich the lives of volunteers and the community that benefits from your mission. million 501c tax-exempt charitable organizations in the United States alone, according to an Independent Sector study. To be more specific, there are over 1.5

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What Pokémon Go Means to the Learning Industry

Gyrus

Pokémon Go is a phenomenon which is quickly taking over our cell phones. People are so engrossed in the game that they are watching their phone as opposed to their surroundings, and placing themselves in serious jeopardy; all for the reward of “catching ‘em all” before their friends.

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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People can donate from the privacy of their own phone. Donors in the US can donate $10 by texting SAFE to 20222 to contribute to our Syrian Children’s Relief Fund up to $30 per month and it is charged on their phone bills (standard txt messaging rates apply). Follow them on Twitter , Facebook and Google+. Strategy'

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Digital storytelling and video buying basics for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

Millennials and post-Millennials, Generation Z, live, eat, and likely even sleep, with their phones. In a video, your message needs to be immediate, concise, and captivating because you have approximately five seconds to get my attention. Adults in the United States are watching 5.5 YouTube, Facebook, and Snapchat, oh my!

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How to Get Noticed and Turn Heads in the Digital World (and 3 Tips to Boost Donor Acquisition)

Connection Cafe

You want to put out messages that captivate, resonate, and then inspire action. Humane Society of the United States does a fantastic job of using social media to build awareness and start conversations (I mean, just check out their RTs). What’s the point of turning a head if there’s no follow up? Consider these three tips: 1.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. This "revolution" seemed to captivate a lot of armchair activists on Twitter, mostly because it involved Twitter.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

nonprofits in the United States? Pick up the phone and ask. But picking up the phone to steward and thank donors, picking up the phone to solicit donors during end-of-year, very inexpensive affordable way to boost your end-of-year fundraising. Jennifer asks a good question. We’d have to do a poll of the.

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