Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . Contrast Checker.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

By Chuck Spidell , founder of ILLUSIO and a WordPress Strategist committed to helping nonprofits get their websites unstuck and moving forward. If your organization is using generic or low-cost website hosting for WordPress, it’s likely you’re running into common problems: Your website’s pages and posts load slow.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking at their internal dashboard they could see that those individuals weren’t engaging with the association due to a lack of available content. Once the team aggregated the data and they were able to form a hypothesis, test it and confirm a need. They then promoted that content to unengaged members with similar profiles.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website is the center of your communication and marketing strategy. When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. In this guide, we’ll cover common reasons your website may need a revamp, including: Your content is out of date.

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sgEngage

JULY 13, 2021

Website design has changed a lot over the last decade, largely due to the vast availability of low-cost, templated designs that look quite stunning. Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of a website. IA defines the navigation of the site and the layout of all the key design elements.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? That said, we’ve compiled a few resources that might help you think through your next website redesign. Read more about the #1 Reason Why Nonprofit Websites Fail. Use this valuable information to plan your content’s future.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Step 1: Build the top of your funnel SImply put, building the top of the funnel means participating in activities designed to create awareness about your association. Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility. Or offer them a discount on membership?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Everytime you reskin your website, or send out an email blast, you need to make sure that you take the time to test how content appears to your supporters. This may sound like a really basic step, but it’s amazing how many testing and double checking procedures fly out the door in the midst of a last minute frenzy.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Since its inception in 2014, Murad has acted as Creative Director and Chief Technologist to help nonprofits spread their vision online through engaging design, intuitive software, and strategic communication. Imagine this: a new site visitor passionate about your cause is looking for an organization to support and lands on your website.

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Forum One

AUGUST 19, 2021

The most common approaches are through two research approaches: audience research and usability testing. Human-centered design, design thinking, and research best practices all champion the value of putting people first. This is a crucial step to take before embarking on improvements to any brand, website, or tool.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. But, if you’re like most people, you haven’t looked at your website in a while. So, what exactly does an optimized website look like?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

To keep donors engaged and maintain a steady funding stream year-round, nonprofits are increasingly turning to their websites to help drive ongoing fundraising pursuits. Incorporate these six elements into your website to see better fundraising results: 1. Accessible content. Inspiring calls to action. Let’s dive in!

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Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2023

In the ever-evolving digital world, it’s essential that nonprofit websites are visually appealing and functional to engage with their audience effectively, convert visitors to donors, and achieve their goals. Website redesigns aren’t always fiscally feasible. Add landing pages.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

Before we write product requirements, design interfaces, or build software, we go to our users to understand how they do their work, what their goals are, and what obstacles are standing in their way. With the information we’ve gathered from users, we can begin to design and build new Candid tools. What problems are we trying to solve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

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. Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization. The experience people have on your non-profit website will influence what they think about you and if they think they can trust you. That’s a lot of pressure on you to have a good website! You just drag-and-drop.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While nonprofits are aware that setting up their account the right way can improve results, they often don’t realize that improving their website can also help lead to better results from Google Ads.” How Do Website Improvements Lead to Better Google Ads Results? Make your webpage and website easy to navigate.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Meta descriptions and tagging Interns can be given assignments to clean up tagging and past content on platforms like YouTube or Pinterest which will help discoverability. Writing meta descriptions for main pages on your website is another good task that will help indexing of a website. Many eyes make for light work.

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NetWits

APRIL 25, 2012

Effective nonprofit websites don’t exist as boutiques to show off information. You know that your nonprofits website is a tool that should be used. Here are two of the ten key elements every nonprofit website should have. Without knowing who your website is serving you’re shooting in the dark.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

By Maria De La Guardia , design director and brand strategist at Bureau for Good , a design agency that helps nonprofits explain why they matter across digital and print media. For more insights on branding, messaging, strategy, print and web design, sign up to receive Bureau for Good’s once-monthly articles here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Built for publishers that produce a lot of content, Action Button is a widget that features “Donate” buttons (as well as Tweet, Call, Pledge buttons) directly inside trending articles published by their partners. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 1) Action Button :: actionbutton.org.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Step 1: Improve Your Content Strategy Acquiring new donors online requires you to build a better content plan.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Developing a new website. Developing a new website. Having a strong, engaging online presence requires having an a ccessib le , professionally designed website. Of course, designing, programming, and migrating your content to a new website is a long-term investment. Finalize visual design.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

What is website accessibility and why is it important? If a website is accessible, it means that it was built and designed for all people to use it. Websites are a tool for people to find information, learn, read the news, donate to causes that matter to them, shop, and more.

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Byte Technology

MAY 16, 2017

How many times have you browsed a website with content you really liked and, wishing to stay abreast of new developments or additions, you searched in vain for a contact page only to find there wasn’t one? To make your contact form page more personable add, well, personable content.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Redesigning a government agency or department website is no small task. There is content to manage, stakeholders to involve, and processes to follow to ensure that the redesign meets your needs and subsequently launched successfully. Here are the essential areas to focus on when taking on a government website redesign.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

Prioritize digital flexibility Because technology is constantly shifting, it’s paramount to run websites or other digital tools that can adapt to the times. AI may fundamentally change how we interact with information—even what we think a website looks like may be totally different in a year or two.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. You have heaps of data.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

All this passing-on of links has catapulted Facebook into first place for referral traffic among social media sites—indeed, a recent study from Shareaholic shows that the site “now drives more than 25 percent of all website traffic.” Put a “Like” button on all your website content, even those parts that may seem unimportant.

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NetWits

MARCH 20, 2012

As your visitors browse the highly competitive Internet scene, they will choose to engage with websites based on equally subjective, visual and emotional elements as mentioned above. Within 3 seconds of landing on your website, your visitors make a decision. If the content doesn’t work directly towards your mission, leave it out.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

A strong nonprofit website engages supporters, educates visitors about your mission, and accepts online donations. Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. Work with a website consultant.

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Forum One

MARCH 2, 2023

The home of animation and development by designers. The designers are taking over the development chair. Webflow is a content management system that allows the creation of websites with no code required. This is in part due to the Webflow community, which has created engaging educational content on Webflow University.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. In the first part of this series , we talked about why you should test your website and donation form with real supporters. Makes sense, no?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Maybe you’ve already experimented using generative AI to create content such as outlines, agendas, or even articles. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. Check Bing out.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. And while I’m usually able to offer some general guidance, nonprofit website design best practices have never been my area of expertise. To get a better understanding, I turned to the experts.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Unfortunately, subpar formatting, uninspiring content, and other mishaps could be holding back your fundraising efforts. All About Donation Pages Donation pages—sometimes known as giving or fundraising pages—are special webpages designed to rally financial support for a cause or individual.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

Brand guidelines expand on the decisions you have made with the design of your logo. They walk through how to use your logo, your brand colors, typefaces, and often include other assets of your design library. 5) Design Library. The most crucial reason to build brand guidelines is to have consistency across your brand.

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