Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Don’t lead with a photo from your latest fundraiser.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To find your donor retention rate, divide the number of donors who gave last year by the number of donors who gave again this year: (# of returning donors this year ÷ total # of donors who gave last year) x 100 For example, the Agloe Symphony had 367 donors last year. This year, 114 of them gave again. Make the most of these receipts!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Take the above example from charity:water for World Water Day. The first step is to get organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ. ” 3.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. This letter is the first thing the volunteer will see, so make it count!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Keep Your Group’s Summary and Description Brief. Limit your LinkedIn “Group Summary” and “Group Description” to one paragraph each that clarifies some possible topics of discussion for your group. Finally, you can use the same paragraph for your group summary and group description. Subtlety is an art on the Social Web.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

You can still send a year-end summary of your organization’s fundraising results and how the money was used. Several digital photo apps let you turn your photos into instant postcards (see Postagram or Touchnote, for example). A photo with a handwritten note—it doesn’t get much more personable than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Susie's Blog asks readers for examples of showing the need for ICT support in the VCS, "perhaps in the mould of terrible - things - we - have - witnessed - by - orgs - who - were - wildly - going - off - on - their - own - without - money - or - guidance." " I'm sure we could find a few examples in America and elsewhere.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Here’s an example of a nonprofit that tried this approach: Their goal of $900,000 is so big and so far away that people will think their $100 donation is just a drop in the bucket and won’t make a difference. Gather and assemble the following into a presentation: Photos and videos of the site (or a tour). It won’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine. Distinctiveness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. Last month, our theme was measurement and we shared a summary of the best measurement tips and resources here , here , and here. Or making you want to find a few examples, just post your query. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For example, at GlobalGiving, we’ve used an open source tool called Metabase to allow everyone on our global staff to ask questions of our data, build dashboards and visualizations, and share important conclusions with colleagues without needing to write a line of code or pay for an expensive proprietary software package. EXPLORE MORE TRENDS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Gates shares many examples from their work. Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. There are many takeaways from his letter , but I wanted to identify a few inspiring quotes here. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

They can, for example, provide executive directors with leadership training, organizations with skills and tools to develop strategic plans, and networks with training on the latest technologies to scale their work across the globe. Storify Of Event , link to recording , and photos. She tweets at @kdreich.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Post summaries of events or activities with photos. Share a couple of pertinent statistics of your work (for example “our animal shelter saw a 10% increase in adoptions this month”). Be specific with them when you ask. Ask them to write a short paragraph or two of 250 words MAX. Report back from an event or conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photo by Stuck in Customs. For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Earlier this week, I posted a summary from this month’s #4Change chat that focused on social media in the Climate Change movement. Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here ! What’s Blog Action Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). For example, open-ended questions work, particularly those that allow people to share their knowledge or ones accompanying a good resource link.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. In this post Dana MacLean, uses examples to discuss the opportunities that lie in using big data to improve aid systems and humanitarian assistance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. For example, the Community Food Bank of Arizona : 3) Invest in Facebook Ads. 2) Craft a compelling message (behind-the-scenes, a call-to-action, a positive story, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. see flickr photo ]. Via Cogdog Flickr Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. Here's a summary of the impressive participation stats for each phase. For example, the screen capture represents the top most discussed submissions to the Brooklyn Museum's Click Exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Check out these amazing photos taken by Brian Solis) No, I'm not starting a Silicon Valley tech business, but I thought it might be an interesting opportunity to learn. See Mark Hendrickson's post for a summary) A couple of nuggets: They use Twitter for customer service and encourage employees to tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. This guest post is a summary of a longer piece posted on The Whitman Institute ’s website titled From The Kids’ Table To The Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks. Funder Support for Relationships.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

For example, let people know when you’re halfway to your goal, or that you’re so close that you only need 10 more donors to give $100. For example, if your donors typically give $100, use that as a middle value so that you can encourage larger gifts. . Don’t be shy to include a photo or video as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. As a trainer, I create two agendas – a participant agenda which is a summary and a more detailed facilitator’s agenda. There is always a dance between too much detail and specific times vs less detail. ” Anne Lamott.

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