Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

The choice of digital channels through which to tell an organization’s story depends on the intended audience, on the channels with which members of that audience are known to engage, and on budgetary and resource constraints. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management. 3) Business Profile. 4) Fundraising.

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sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2021

Facebook fundraising can get a bad reputation, especially when organizations fail to see the opportunities to engage and retain a new generation of supporters. However, Facebook fundraising is much more than a helpful boost to your organization’s online donations. When it comes to Facebook Fundraising, we wrote the ultimate guide !

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

In my last session as part of the Schools out for Summer Series I took a deep dive into how Schools can get the most out of Facebook. — We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. But there is hope!!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

But what if you don’t have the resources to hire a graphic designer and need to do it in-house? How To Create A Terrific Facebook Cover Image If You Don’t Have Resources To Hire A Designer by Guest Post Ash Shepherd. In fact he literally wrote the book on Facebook. Download Facebook Timeline Cover PSD file.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Of course, we’ve spent the year sharing tips and tricks to get your virtual fundraising to the next level all year long, but let’s be real: few things are as helpful as seeing real examples of real nonprofits doing it right. So here it is: our favorite 7 crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. Let’s take a look.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. Imagine extending SEO principles to social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Now what exactly does it mean when we talk about social SEO?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, Alley Cat Allies’ Cat-alyst Society – Monthly Giving Program : This page should have a URL that can be easily promoted in print newsletters and postcard campaigns, such as alleycat.org/givemonthly. For example, the Nature Conservancy offers both honor gifts and memorial gifts – each with their own donation page.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

Managing several of these channels can easily monopolize your marketing team’s time and resources. While allocating marketing resources to various offline promotional strategies is perfectly fine, abandoning your nonprofit’s digital outreach is almost always a mistake. A few examples of these are: Social media ads.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Set Up a “Donate” Button on Facebook When one of Facebook’s billions of users searches for your nonprofit, you want to provide the easiest possible path for them to contribute to your cause. The easiest path is the Facebook “Donate” button. You can link your Core Profile or one of your Campaign Pages here.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The year-end giving season kicks off with a lot of hype around GivingTuesday, when nonprofits invest significant time, energy, and resources into launching campaigns for the special day. For more resources on how to successfully craft a fundraising plan, check out Candid’s knowledge base page on fundraising planning.

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Candid

MARCH 14, 2024

We highlight trends in the sector, drill down into nonprofit data, offer tips for fundraising and grantwriting, and share free resources. Yes, once in a while, we promote Candid nonprofit profiles or an upcoming webinar, but the bulk of our social media content is designed to help you do more good. Change the content type.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control – the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/humanesociety. I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. We’re using Facebook primarily, Twitter for feedback, dabbling in Foursquare, and starting our LinkedIn presence. Organization: The Humane Society of the United States. Name: Carie Lewis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. And for that event, Facebook Causes helped us raise the most money we’ve ever raised on social media. Organization: National Wildlife Federation.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Just like identifying an ideal donor profile is useful for fundraising, your social media presence should cater to your defined target audience. For example, Gen Z and Millennial audiences are active Instagram users, while older generations tend to be more active on Facebook. Use your logo as your profile picture.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Facebook fundraising can get a bad reputation, especially when organizations fail to see the opportunities to engage and retain a new generation of supporters. However, Facebook fundraising is much more than a helpful boost to your organization’s online donations. When it comes to Facebook Fundraising, we wrote the ultimate guide !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

But, don’t go into denial either, these resources, that I found through Mari Smith’s Facebook Page will help you and your team come up with a plan. The dimensions are for the images on the personal profiles and the old brand pages, who knows if the dimensions be the same in the new format. Here they are: 1.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Check out some of my favorite resources in the nonprofit space. For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. Now, onto setting up your personal profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. A Google Account is different from a Google Profile. Create a Google Profile. Set up your Google Profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

And while the bulk of nonprofits put most of their resources into Facebook ( whether Facebook is perfect or not ), there are many nonprofits effectively using Twitter and leveraging the platform for social good as well as their staff and leaders. My colleague, Neil Parekh, created a Twitter Moment with some tips and resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Facebook has, for a couple years now, committed to making their platforms “video first.” How are marketers at resource-strapped non-profits to keep up with social media’s appetite for video content on social media? Facebook recommends that you “design for sound-off, delight for sound-on.” Get their attention with a “hook” (i.e.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Some social media sites such as Facebook shows you a list of people who have engaged in your campaign, and you can invite them to like your profile page to become followers. And one way to stretch their resources in this pandemic is to incorporate strategies that are proven and tested by behavioral science research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. Now, onto setting up your personal profile.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? percent of the entire American population is on Facebook. Fill out your profile completely. Twitter is different than Facebook, and Facebook is different than LinkedIn. The social Web is no different.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! . Chapter 3 Facebook and Facebook Apps. Introduction to Facebook Pages. Eleven Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits. Five Advanced Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits. Facebook Community Pages? Introduction to Twitter Profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide – by Mari Smith. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages. Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. View more presentations from Mari Smith. Sharing Philosophy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. What is the difference between pages, groups and profiles? What practices work best for nonprofits on Facebook?

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

For example, offer a free branded t-shirt to volunteers who bring a friend to a volunteer opportunity, or to donors who invite a loved one to a fundraising event. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Nonprofit Strategic Planning: The Ultimate Guide + Examples.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook? An email sent to 100,000 people can easily spark tens or hundreds of times more messages to Congress than the same appeal sent via a Facebook page with 100,000 followers. . Facebook Strengths: . Facebook Weaknesses: . Peer-to-peer potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

With Loomly, you cannot only draft, schedule, and publish your social media posts but you can also draft Facebook and Instagram ads! In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Facebook Payments and Charitable Giving Tools.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Some platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, offer donation features, such as donate buttons, that make it easier than ever for your supporters to contribute. Humane Society of Pikes Peak’s TikTok is a great example of raising awareness of their organization and engaging with their community. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Like many of you, when Facebook unveiled the new brand page guidelines – I was stressed out. With a big training project in the Middle East less than a week away, I was short on time. Results” that describes what people do on my Facebook page (I hope). So, what you do? You get a little help from your friends.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. If not, this guide is the resource for you. To raise funds and create an engaging #GivingTuesday experience for your social supporters, we recommend hosting a Facebook Challenge. .

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

We know that change is hard and slow, and Candid is a great example. While we are most commonly known for tools and resources like GuideStar profiles and Foundation Maps, we are currently bringing together our data repositories so we can seamlessly capture a full view of the field. .

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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).

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