Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

Over the last year, we’ve seen this perfect pairing pay high dividends in our work with Pathfinder International, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that focuses on global reproductive health. Just consider a recent Pathfinder campaign in which we asked their audience to take an advocacy action for International Women’s Day. Lead Generation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

This can be as simple as giving them outlets to participate as part of a community and providing channels for regular internal communication, such as a segmented volunteer email list. Let them engage with your cause and the mission that your organization stands for. How does your organization keep volunteers coming back?

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While the marketing and fundraising teams should work together towards a common goal, there are key differences in the language, voice, and content of their writing. Marketing vs. Fundraising Communications Don’t make the mistake of falling back on marketing language when you’re asking for money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

At WITNESS, we’ve been wrestling with the promise and peril of new communications technologies. What are legitimate constraints on free speech under international human rights law? If this post has piqued your interest, check out the RightsCon livestream here or on CitizenTube’s channel. I’ll be tweeting myself at @samgregory.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

While your audience probably receives marketing materials and updates from your organization, these communications aren’t always the most effective at fostering close relationships. Drink lots of water beforehand and during the recording session to ensure you’re hydrated and your voice stays strong. Become a thought leader.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

He’s a 20-year veteran leader of a multi-campus megachurch and international television and radio broadcast ministry. Communicate Regularly and Use Multiple Channels – Donors should regularly hear from you, so they know what impact is being made through your organization’s efforts. About Infinity Concepts.

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Forum One

JUNE 29, 2022

Without the development team, the communications team may not know where donors are receiving information. Without program teams, the communications team doesn’t have the content they need to share the stories of their work on the ground. Create feedback channels. Build trusted relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Organizational silos are the bane of too many nonprofit communicators’ existences. Addressing the website in the first place came from a recognition that it just wasn’t functioning for our constituents,” says Stephanie Corleto, Digital Communications Manager at National Institute for Reproductive Health. “We Silos are for corn.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

It allows us to communicate with others and build connections. For non-profits and other organizations, narrative change as a strategy is an opportunity to build power and shape the conversation around their work and their values, which is part of their communications plan and strategy. Putting narrative change into action for impact.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Think beyond “your website” Your digital ecosystem —which encompasses all of your digital properties, including your website(s), engagement channels, and technical support platforms—is the entry point through which your target audiences experience your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz are behind this brilliant multi-channel campaign that is using social media for social good. . Darfur Voices. WorldBridge, A Refugees International Blog.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The RiseUP program also allowed me to develop plenty of practical and applicable skills alongside this valuable mentorship, like working with brand guides, brand voice, copywriting, scheduling programs, approval processes, and client and team communication. The Value of Environment. . The Value of Ownership. .

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to Make the Most of a Crisis Situation with Cross Channel Integration. Nonprofits are finally realizing that not only do they need to coordinate their fundraising efforts across channels, but they also need to coordinate their outreach, marketing, engagement, thus list growth activities among their own internal departments.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to Make the Most of a Crisis Situation with Cross Channel Integration. Nonprofits are finally realizing that not only do they need to coordinate their fundraising efforts across channels, but they also need to coordinate their outreach, marketing, engagement, thus list growth activities among their own internal departments.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Since it’s impossible to know which communication channels your supporters prefer simply by guessing, it’s prudent to ask them. Mastering online user experience and messaging.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Your digital ecosystem , which encompasses all of your digital properties, including your website(s), engagement channels, and technical support platforms, allows for a number of entry points through which your target audiences think and feel about your organization. Do they have a unified visual voice and brand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. At the base of any well written content strategy is a solid grasp of strategic communication fundamentals. . / Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But, in today’s world of digital over-communication and rowdy town halls overtaken by DC-based interest groups, one, two or even 20 Susans isn’t enough. Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

These institutions have had to most recently revise their playbooks to use the digital space as a primary channel in making their collections accessible to visitors. In archives, libraries, and museums, curators use their judgment to select and arrange artifacts to create a narrative, evoke a response, and communicate a message.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. At the base of any well written content strategy is a solid grasp of strategic communication fundamentals. . / Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Obtain feedback and internal approval from your team/leadership – as well as the beneficiary whose story you’re telling. Start considering and laying out the design for all campaign channels, including your donation page, direct mail appeal and emails. Design wireframes for your website, direct mail and email appeals. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media. It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. How do they communicate what they do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Trenton DuVal , Development & Communications Manager, International Development Exchange (IDEX). ” Tips via @humbertokam : pre-package stories, let talent speak for itself, optimize for the channel and be authentic. Abdi Soltani , Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. ” Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The visual nature makes it a perfect channel for executive directors to engage with their stakeholders. But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. Campbell above.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And since these are channels that are really important to so many nonprofits, I’d love to get your take on things. We can use our voice and our economic power and our political power to actually make changes to the platform. I will continue to use that phrase and, because there’s so much more than just social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

I always design to incorporate the voice and experience of the participants. Daniela shared that she works with volunteers and interns and that she does several short bursts during the day to tend to respond or post content Twitter or Facebook. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Guest post by Christina Relacion, Communications Manager at the Scleroderma Foundation’s National Office. We find that it is highly valuable to utilize every channel in which we engage with supporters so that we can have a variety of stories to select. When you’re stuck on an idea, depend internally on the creative power of your team.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The observations, practical tips, and recommendations are divided into three areas: Strengthen Your Internal Partnerships. Strengthen your Internal Partnerships. There are several areas to target for increased collaboration: Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Executive Team. Communications. Human Resources.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

In this webinar you will learn: Why early communication with a new supporter is so important. She now also helps nonprofits find a place for themselves on our cause channel blogs. A life-long activist, she had volunteered with the Progressive Student Alliance, Amnesty International and Sierra Club.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. If I love someone, I try to communicate with them in a way that is easy for them, not me. Our partner, GoodUnited , helps us have relationships with constituents inside Facebook, in their community. You must exist across multiple communications channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel included Stefani Klaskow , Head of Industry/Healthcare at Google; Carrie Martin Munk , Chief Communications & Marketing Office, The ALS Association, and Jackie Fouse, Ph.d, ” And while she used the term “crisis communications,” she said it was a good crisis. .”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to get in sync across international teams. Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. How to work together effectively.

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