Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Smart Nonprofit. I am thrilled to share with you my article in today’s Harvard Business Review , “ How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits ,” co-authored with Allison Fine. The article highlights some of the themes in our book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World , coming out in March, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors. But look out, get ready to reach out to Gen Z donors , sometimes called “ PhilanthroTeens ” or “ PhilanthroKids.”. How do nonprofit reach out to this generation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Says Newhouse, these donors are younger and want to engage with us differently. ” It has now become more central to their communications and fundraising strategy, especially for retention of these new donors who Newhouse says want a lot more accountability. .” There was one day in August where I did 30 interviews.”

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JULY 25, 2013

The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. ” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, bots, and other automation technologies offer many benefits to nonprofit professionals because it can perform basic and mundane tasks. Artificial Intelligence can help nonprofits do more with less staff time, including the tasks described below. improved donor acquisition & prospecting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.” This was my third visit to the country. ” The unofficial title was “Beth and the Two Marcelos.”

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The legislation signals the need for more responsible and ethical practices that support nonprofits, donors, and platforms. The California Association of Nonprofits is seeking feedback from the broader nonprofit community about these proposed guidelines. Jan Masaoka’s guest post provides more details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

I realized after the first week, that I needed to gather every tool from my Happy Healthy Nonprofit toolkit to try to keep calm, focused, and positive. In the workplace, nonprofits have experimenting with zoom and social activities. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

To avoid getting seduced by “ shiny object syndrome &# get educated about Mobile Campaign Basics for Nonprofits and spend some time reflecting those strategic questions. Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future? Maybe that first step is research.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors Guest Post By Geri Stengel, Ventureneer. Note from Beth: We know that social media can bring in the small dollar donors, but what about larger gifts? Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it. Identify prospects using the 990s of nonprofits with a mission similar to yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Do you know what it is like to be a donor to your nonprofit? Network for Good is launching its first ever Be Your Donor Day on October 24th to inspire nonprofits to play the role of their donors and rate how they are performing from the perspective of those supporters. October 24th is that day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

My colleague, Julia Campbell, has just published a book, “ Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits ” and was kind enough to share an advanced copy. This comprehensive book covers the following: Part One addresses storytelling readiness, especially now to transform your nonprofit’s culture.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. We are most excited about the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and create a better experience for donors. What about your nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

You’ve smiled through back-to-back-to-back-to-back meetings with donors and your best donor prospect just cancelled on you, and now you’ve got to finish that grant report before you can go home. Maybe every little thing about a donor, a board member, or your executive director is rubbing you the wrong way.

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JUNE 13, 2012

MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. Three years ago, the first study on Millennial donor engagement was published by Achieve and partner JGA.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

The findings suggest that if nonprofits are more transparent in sharing information about their results online that they could attract more donors. The study also states that donors want to be able to obtain this information from third-party portals and 53 percent of donors survyed want to use such sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2020

The field of AI4Giving is just beginning to take shape with promising new technology platforms helping nonprofits scale and improve their fundraising practices. It is timely given the impact of COVID-19 crisis on nonprofits, fundraising, and the social sector at large.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. We want our donors to be advocates. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto . Organizational silos are the bane of too many nonprofit communicators’ existences. But in the individual-centric digital age, silos are doing nonprofits zero favors. Treat your team like donors: report on impact.

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APRIL 4, 2014

As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there is a need to set standards and expectations. Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding by Robert Wu. Nonprofit crowdfunding is changing the landscape in online fundraising. Start with a measurable goal.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference. kanter A real family philanthropy manager/donor, a real wish to wear a cape & punch out dumb foundation, donor, nonprofit behavior.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I’m a huge fan of Joan Garry’s blog and podcast. I consider the “Dear Abby” of the nonprofit world, dispensing practical and brilliant advice to nonprofits with her wonderful sense of humor. ” Joan understands the messiness and accepts that nonprofits work this way. (She

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

The MDS11 extended the concepts and ideas discovered in the annual Millennial Donors Survey conducted by JGA and Achieve by building knowledge around the topic of millennial engagement. Download the complete 2011 Millennial Donor Study findings and recommendations by visiting millennialdonors.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Valentine’s Day is a big day for florists, jewelers, restaurants, candy makers, and nonprofit techies too! Here’s a few curated examples. They also have a gallery of their favorite nonprofit Valentine’s Day wishes from nonprofits on Facebook. Happy Valentine’s Day! Oh how do we love #philanthropy ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Today, he has launched a platform to help raise money for nonprofits that are doing highly effective work, but may not be as well known to a larger audience. Everyday they will donate a dollar a day to specific nonprofit, encourage others to donate, and promote the nonprofit’s work to their network via a brief email newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s a step-by-step guide to get your nonprofit staff walking their way to more productive work.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I attended the launch of the book, Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector by William F. The authors identify seven leadership best practices of high performance based on their extensive experience in the nonprofit and philanthropy sector. Not in this book.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

They have been for a long time and some nonprofits, like Momsrising, have been using them as part of their engagement strategy. The nonprofit blog carniva l has been going for a few years, created by Kivi Leroux Miller, of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, in 2006, and Joanne Fritz at About.com took over management of the carnival in 201o.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Apple also made it difficult for nonprofits to collect in-app donations without incurring huge transaction fees on top of credit card fees. Six years ago, I helped organized a protest and online petition to ask Apple to change their online donation policy for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

Network For Good hosted a virtual conference today called “ Fundraise Like Netflix: Engaging Donors in a Subscription-Driven World ,” that included several hours of online presentations about strategy and tools for getting repeat donors. How is your nonprofit incorporating the use of AI in its fundraising campaigns?

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AUGUST 11, 2009

New research funded by the Columbus Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation demonstrates that High dollar donors — especially 30-49 year-olds — use the social web, but have yet to be engaged by strong, trustworthy philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Help them set up and manage their campaign.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. We are honored to have Laura Arrillaga-Andreeseen, Author of Giving 2.0 , write the foreword and it articulates from the donor perspective why nonprofits need to embrace measurement and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

What does this mean for the nonprofit sector in the future? She said that in a world of connectivity where individuals can do their own crowdfunding for services, bypassing nonprofits, that nonprofits will still have the advantage because of the human relationships. Designing an Effective Nonprofit Chatbot.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? ” Why not “crowd nonprofits” that share program delivery, administration, and fundraising. My answer: yes and no.

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