Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. Who are their big individual donors?

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works. What is your organization doing to learn and adapt its strategy to the new changes?

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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.”. The Giving 2.0 What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future? While they may not be using nonprofit created apps or donating via SMS, are the next generation of nonprofit donors following on the heels of Millennials? Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment.

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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. Cat herding skills?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

They also understand how to avoid donor fatigue, the potential downside to online contests. The case study brings up some great questions that we’d love to discuss with you: How does your organization vet online contest opportunities?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2021

And here’s the most exciting part: Smart nonprofits create a “dividend of time,” a gift of new time that can be spent with clients and donors, preventing crises, thinking, learning, and even dreaming! The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World will be published on March 9, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone? That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions.

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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. He also mentioned Quilt.Ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

In order to answer to this critical question, nonprofit arts organizations have a special opportunity during the month of February to use social media as a way bring new visibility to their organizations' work by participating in the GreatNonprofits Arts Appreciation Campaign. Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. If you do the math, that's $41 per donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It isn’t a new field—it has been around for decades—but recent increases in computing power combined with decreases in the cost of that power have created a new generation of AI-powered tools and applications that are available to everyday people and organizations. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As fundraisers, we need to understand this shift and change how we look at fundraising, reaching new donors, and engaging our current supporters. You can do this by: Asking your donor to connect on social media and through email. Get to know your donor on a personal level. 3: Donors Hold Power. 1: Relationships Matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So, of course, I want to encourage you to share your giving story and compete for cash grants for your favorite nonprofit organization. Entrants have the opportunity to win up to $10,000 for their chosen nonprofit organization, in addition to other prizes and grants. Here are the steps. Write or Record Your #MyGivingStory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Donor Perfect is matching the next $3,000 that is donated). NTEN believes that finances should not be a barrier for small organizations to be able to access the resources and connections that the Nonprofit Technology Conference offers, so every year they offer scholarships to those who might not otherwise be able to attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

And, as blogger Vu Le says, donating to organizations on the ground can be a form of self-care. I have my go-to global organizations that do a great job at relief efforts on the ground, set up funds for long-term rebuilding, or do a terrific job of vetting local charities to support. How do you decide which organizations to support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Does it exist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. The charity isn't the central organizer of the event - it appears that they are letting their stakeholders run with it and not imposing "branding and messaging" standards. How did the relationship originate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Myth 9: I’ve heard GT can only involve donors, not my staff or volunteers. Myth 10: Donors will only pay attention to your organization at the end of the year. Myth 7: If my org doesn’t have a big online following, #GivingTuesday won’t be successful for us. Is your nonprofit ready for GivingTuesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Observation is not just scanning or browsing, but looking at another organization’s practice with a critical thinking lens and gaining insights. Along with benchmarking – that is comparing your organization’s numbers with an industry average or simply another similar organization or two is great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2013

NTEN , an organization that has been very supportive and influential for Data Analysts for Social Good , helps nonprofits make smart technology decisions and provides a community for nonprofit technology leaders. To take advantage, your organization should have a social media strategy. Segment New Donors. Get the right data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

We need to look at how the technology is impacting our organizations and the people we serve. AI-Driven fundraising key benefit is the ability to scale 1:1 engagement that now is primarily reserved for major donors. AI-Driven fundraising has the ability to scale customized donor interaction at scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to grow support and keep donors engaged. Collecting stories from your donors as to why they give and from your volunteers as to why they volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The exact opposite is more likely especially for wealthier donors. The potential for tax code changes are more likely to encourage these donors to give now instead of waiting. The data shows a troubling trend in the nonprofit sector: Donor populations have been shrinking for the past five years and revenue per donor has been flat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

And here’s the most exciting part: Smart nonprofits create a “dividend of time,” a gift of new time that can be spent with clients and donors, preventing crises, thinking, learning, and even dreaming! You can purchase the book on Amazon! The Smart Nonprofit (Hardcover). The Smart Nonprofit (Kindle). I recommend you buy it today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

NTEN believes that finances should not be a barrier for small organizations to be able to access the resources and connections that the Nonprofit Technology Conference offers, so every year they offer scholarships to those who might not otherwise be able to attend. How is your organization leveraging Giving Tuesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

We are particularly interested in the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and support donors. These “instant-messaging using human fundraisers” chat with donors, provide links, may refer them to a chatbot for more information, or donation link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. In fact, we (that is, we organizations) kind of love them. That meant shifting the organization of the website, but also adjusting the lens.

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