Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations. Silent Generation donors value personal connections and traditional forms of communication. 59% of Gen Zs are inspired to donate to charity by a message/image they saw on social media.*

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

This will create a great first draft, but it’s important to personalize the content by adding stories from your community or sharing updates on the progress made towards achieving your mission. This can lighten the load on your team, enabling them to focus on what truly matters – making a difference in your community.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Then, draft marketing materials tailored to the needs and interests of each group to create a more personalized experience. Personalize donor outreach. When you have the chance to connect with supporters in person, take it! Describe the impact of giving at different levels. Choosing images strategically.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Enlarge this image 1. When a donor first lands on this donation page, they’ll only see an impact statement, a compelling image, and options for choosing your donation amount and frequency. If a donor were to click on “Recurring Gift” instead of “One-Time Gift,” they’d see slightly different suggested donation amounts and descriptions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

labor force today and they have greatly different media patterns, behaviors and habits compared to their parents. A good strategy is to use a first-person perspective to create authenticity and a sense of personalness. Images are extremely powerful in evoking emotions and can be more persuasive than text alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you offer many different paths on your site, a good strategy is to let users pick their own way forward. Instead of making site visitors click around extra pages, they put the different ways to help front-and-center so people can choose. In the examples below, some websites chose to ask their visitors what they need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Click to See Larger Image. One of the important issues she raises is “how do you balance a personal brand and an organizational brand to best serve its strategic goals?” Leadership: There are several reasons to build a strong personal brand to help support your non-profit brand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors. Your multi-channel approach needs to reach supporters with similar messaging across different touchpoints throughout the campaign.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There are more places than ever to get free images that are entirely OK for you to use for your communications. Here are 10 sources for images you can freely use on your website or other communications channels. Where to Find Free Images. Google Advanced Image Search lets you filter your search by usage rights.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

This not only matters when looking for fundraising ideas during COVID, but also in general since there’s always going to be a level of risk associated with any in-person event. Not having an in-person event? There are several in-person event considerations you should think about regardless of the style of event you’re hosting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

One person (me) handles the bulk of our copy and content projects. Since this is an article on using AI to write, we asked Google’s Bard, “What is the difference between ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Bing Chat?” ” In other words, though different, all three chatbots perform similar tasks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

1) Choose the right fundraiser images and videos. The fundraiser’s main image is one of the first things others will see when the fundraiser is shared on social media platforms, so it’s important it conveys the right message and grabs the attention of potential donors. Make sure that your main image is not the nonprofit’s logo.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tell your potential donors how their gift can make a difference. Use impact images and statements Humans are visual creatures—we’re drawn to images, especially ones that feature other humans. Using impactful images that show your organization’s work is a great way to motivate people to give to your cause.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Consider your nonprofit brand’s image and how emojis fit into it. Mobile compatibility : Emojis are widely supported in email services, but it’s still a good idea to test how they appear on different devices and email platforms to ensure they don’t break formatting or appear differently than intended.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

An online fundraising campaign is different than a simple online fundraiser. There are lots of different reasons to run an online campaign. You’ll need to write several versions of your Ask for several different channels, and you’ll need to write several different posts. Use powerful images to tell your story.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

Oh stock images. Here are a few key considerations to help you choose fantastic images for your site. Are You Treating Your Images as Content? Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration. Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As evidenced by the post title, I like to think of targeted content as the ability to build personal relationships with hundreds, or even thousands, of constituents at a time. The Power of Personalization. There is power in personalizing the user experience. What is Targeted Content? Think about it this way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

As your supporters slowly get more comfortable with stepping out in 2021, there are plenty of opportunities for in-person, virtual, or hybrid auctions, depending on their needs. Personal training sessions. They truly want their effort to make a difference. The more personal your interactions with supporters, the better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Blogs were most often written in first-person, more than 1,000 words, and many nonprofit blogs of the past embraced the concept that a blog post had to be published daily for the blogger to be taken seriously. Today’s blogging couldn’t be more different. Embed images and videos that are consistent in size.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

These can be very different. Use keywords in image titles. Instead of uploading an image with an assigned name, rename the image with your keywords. Do this for any image, PDF or video you upload. A Google Business Profile with reviews, a Google map image on your website, and Yelp can boost local rankings.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Personalize emails. Staff can build member-facing emails and documents with point-and-click configuration, all while automatically personalizing your content with your member data. Encourage your event volunteers and ambassadors to post about your conference as it approaches to increase engagement across different member groups.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Increase Engagement with Website Personalization There are a lot of elements that a very basic website provider won’t offer you, and one of the big ones is the ability to personalize your user’s experiences. Website personalization can take many forms. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans.

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Whole Whale

JULY 18, 2022

Make it personal. Your supporters are more likely to respond positively to an email that feels personal and addressed directly to them. ” Instead, use the person’s first name or a title like “Mother of three” if you have that information available. .” Use compelling images.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.”

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference. We recommend analyzing the profile of people who gave to the previous year-end campaign to see if it’s somewhat or even dramatically different from an overall donor profile. Similar questions can be asked of pandemic ”crisis donors” and monthly donors.

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Kindful

APRIL 26, 2021

Having an actual photo of the person you are talking about, or the event you are referencing, makes a difference. Create an “image list” for every event. Create an “image list” for every event. After you create your list, assign a staff member or volunteer or hire a photographer to capture those images.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Personal And Organizational Productivity AI excels in structuring documents where the content is noncontroversial and exists all over the Internet. Do you want to understand the difference between a task force, a working group, and a project team? Key to maximizing AI’s personal productivity benefit is stepwise prompting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

What’s even better is looking behind and seeing you’ve left a path to help others, or coming to the aid of someone who needs help on their personal journey up ahead. There are a growing number of opportunities to show up as an ally in the Salesforce ecosystem that enable you to make a real difference.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, you can either attend a webinar or enroll in a self-paced online course on finding grants to learn about different types of foundations, what motivates them to give, and how you can start researching funders who are likely to be interested in your nonprofit’s mission and work.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2021

My teacher handed out booklets created by a public health nonprofit in England that clearly laid out how many people die from cigarettes each year and, more importantly, how a person might give up the addiction. . This personal story illustrates the power of handouts and how they can make a difference and help you reach your goals.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Beyond those important pragmatic concerns, a customized donation receipt is your opportunity to personalize the paperwork and ensure that your donors know how grateful you are. Donors want to know why their gift matters, so make it personal. Because your mission is personal. Create impact statements. Final Thoughts.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are various approaches to AI that each serve different purposes. The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. AI provides easy ways to personalize your content to better appeal to your supporters.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Focusing on donors as partners instead of focusing on money can make a huge difference. Getting into this mindset accomplishes a few things: It takes away any jitters about asking for donations because it isn’t personal. Your donors want to SEE that their dollars REALLY do make a difference in moving you towards your goal.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

CauseVox donation forms see an increase in completed donations, thanks to a seamless and personalized giving experience. Let’s look at the different levels of peer-to-peer fundraising you can use for your next giving day. Personal fundraisers are dedicated champions raising funds on behalf of your organization.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Most humans absorb information through written or spoken words and images that help them connect and synthesize chunks of information. Maybe that’s your Database Administrator, your CFO, or an office support staff person. Find that person, tell them they are amazing , and help them get in touch with their peers.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Don’t be that person to your donors. Element #1: Personalize it. The right image or video clip can connect better than any words you can write and will hit the donor right in the feelz. If your timing is different, go fix it right now. Add personal notes. Great if you’re sending a thank-you letter.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

The best blogs engage audiences by making personal connections with readers and sharing insider mission information. These are fictional representations of different audience segments. Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Simple language free of jargon.

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