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Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters

The Modern Nonprofit

By using cause-specific language that clearly conveys the urgency of needs on the ground, you can compel donors to take immediate action through their communications across channels. Personalize the email with the donor’s name, donation amount, and cause supported. Tag and thank them. This creates a more meaningful ask.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It seems that a room helps with the noise levels because people have to consciously add info to a given room. Causes Raised $2.5 Causes Raised $2.5 Reed Stockman shared Is Social Networking/Causes the Next Big Thing? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. room, etc).

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Shopping for a Cause: Tips from a Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She contacted me via Facebook after she my post on shopping for cause and my query for tips for how nonprofits can make the best of cause-related shopping sites. Include links in your email tag lines. Promote the shopping for cause opportunity year-round.

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position. There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. She narrowed the decision down to two options.

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If you could Ask One Question what would it be?

NetWits

The session will feature: Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes. Matt must be thinking about how Causes has raised over $27 M for nonprofits around the world. More info on the #bbsocial Tweetup here. Incredible!). Noah Everett , founder of TwitPic. This has got to be the best of all our pictures.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network.

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Ideas for newsletter content that donors will love

Get Fully Funded

To make your donors read your newsletter from start to finish, it must include info that donors find interesting. What are the common myths about your cause? Share a couple of shocking statistics about your cause or the work your organization is doing. Tags: Newsletter nonprofit fundraising. Testimonials. Statistics.