Greater Giving

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Save money and a ton of time this year end giving season—just create your donation page to start accepting contributions online, and automatically handle recurring donations to encourage repeat donors. Take online donations now with built-in Year End Giving tools. Online Payments frees you from time-consuming data entry!

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every dollar is tightly contested by other nonprofits whose missions are often equally as noble as your own. It is amazing that every nonprofit does not already have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or all three and more social media platforms. Image courtesy of Fundraiser Help. Revamp your donation page. Ask, and thank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. He worked at Cern or the UN at the time and everyone wanted to view his public FTP folder - after all it was the "secret" folder.). Twitter lists lets you curate your followers and keep connected to smaller affinity groups of your choosing. Gopher Screen Capture.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Additionally, it’s an even bigger one right now because of how much time people are spending online while in quarantine. Social media planning is a luxury many smaller nonprofits can’t afford, so think about how much time and money you want to invest in it. Using this content type doesn’t take much of your time. Run a contest!

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Just like games, contests are virtual event ideas that can get people talking. Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Real-time Illustrations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

Building a community takes time and effort. Since the Twive contest kicked off a couple months ago, these nonprofits got to work. She’s also editor of Inspiring Generosity, a blog that gives nonprofits helpful resources on online community management and social media tools. The Importance of a Strong Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone. The ins and outs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. Creating a page with 3-5 CTAs on your website could be a great tool for engagement. Make a one-time or monthly financial contribution to the organization. This could be done annually or just one time. Then help implement these tools. This works.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

It’s that time again. Date/Time : 9:30 AM Monday, March 14. Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Follow Frank on Twitter. Blackbaud @ SXSW 2011.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Twitter - Please submit in reply to @ZeroDivideorg, with #haiku. Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. ZD Blog - Comment on this blog post.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Acceptable submission formats include Windows Media, Quick Time and MPEG (files ending in.wmv,avi,mov,mpg or.mp4). Be passionate. Be creative. Be concise.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. Text-to-give tools streamline the donation process and can even encourage donors to give more (and more frequently!). You need a quick turnaround time for responses. Live support. Integrations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. com/savethecats.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Not sure you have time to offer this type of assistance? Check-in occasionally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This weekend, I got to spend some time at a beautiful conference center on Falling Leaf Lake with 140 grassroots environmental organizations, all grantees of Patagonia, at the Tools for Grassroots Activists Conference. Instagram Contests and Hashtags. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll For the most part, I agree with the way the crowds voted – but, given that people were able to submit and vote at the same time, it means some groups only submitted on the very last day, not leaving much time for votes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2017

And so, each time we do it, our Storymakers campaign gets bigger, better, and stronger. The contest opens on September 5, and closes on October 31, 2017. For the first time, we're offering a FREE, comprehensive learning curriculum , plus our great webinars and TechSoup30s. Storymakers 2017 is here! Check out Storymakers.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Learning takes time, but it’s something that you can start to pick up very quickly and with daily or weekly work you’ll become effective in no time at all. Step Two: Configure the tools.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The most common mistake we see is trying to acquire a donor on the “first date” interaction only, instead of viewing donor acquisition like a longer relationship that must be nurtured over time. Paid: Twitter ads. Twitter offers advertising to target demographics, topics, and geographic areas. Forward to a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). There are lots of photo editing apps that work with Instagram, management tools, and tools to measure Instagram.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It's really interesting as far as mobile fundraising, but also just that the ARC are able to gather, analyze and share data like this in close to real time.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

I haven’t received any gifts and frankly don’t have the time. And fundraisers who use Twitter along raise 10x more than those who don’t. Participants who use online fundraising tools raise 6x more than those who don’t. Those who haven’t started fundraising may think Become a top fundraiser? Yeah, right. Simple as that.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. Click to See Larger Version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. He doesn't pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day. But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. We were able to coach many nonprofit staff on best practices using email, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

If your organization isn't already using Instagram, Vine, or another video/photosharing tool, now is the time to start experimenting. The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. What's New.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Twitter: There are two different apps to integrate Twitter. Twitter App automatically re-posts your tweets in your Facebook Page status. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. Send emails to as many people as possible, multiple times. Use social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. They want to connect.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. at ARC, listening has been the core value of our last three year’s of social media (mentioned online over 400 times a day), learn what people want and expect from us. How much time is spent listening? success stories.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

This time: Yes: 58% No: 42%. The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. But, the phrase is important, because talking about the best ways to support and involve volunteers using Internet tools, specifically, is important. The results: Yes: 32% No: 68%. Is it Facebook?

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Have you ever been frightened knowing that on Friday nights the intern still has the keys to your Twitter account? There have been contests with nothing but crickets, comment wars where everyone loses, and the inadvertent mixing of personal and business accounts – often with hilarious results (who here’s #gettingslizzard?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. With that said, it is difficult to make time for learning when you have a big, hairy to do list breathing facing you or in this case when grief is involved.

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