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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

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A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook? Nearly ubiquitous in the United States. 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: .

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Tips to Maintain Momentum for Your In-Person Fundraising Events Amidst COVID-19

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This can be as easy as using your mobile phone and broadcasting your live event festivities over Facebook Live or another social media outlet. In response to the spread of COVID-19, the Center for Disease Control in the United States has released guidance about how to prepare your large community events for COVID-19.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

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Since 2016, online fundraising has grown 17% among nonprofits in the United States. Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% Some form of GDPR will come to the entire United States – not just a few states.

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Things To Do In Facebook

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You’ve heard of Facebook, right? As if I needed to provide the justification for why you need a presence in Facebook, here are the latest statistics from Facebook, as posted on their site at the time this post was published. I can think of at least 5 things to do in Facebook: 1. Your Facebook Page 2.

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Haters: What can you do?

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Carie Lewis , Director of Emerging Media for the Humane Society of the United States shares her two cents on the situation. I sincerely don’t think there’s anything you can do to deter people from saying stupid and downright nasty stuff on Facebook (or any other social media platform for that matter). What do you do?

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With Respect to Abraham Lincoln, Not All Are Equal in Fundraising

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Giving USA reports (year-after-year; this is not new) that the bulk of money given to charity in the United States comes from individuals. Ever since Facebook was launched in 2004, we’ve been chasing after each new social networking site with a desperation that sometimes overlooks the lack of inequality of the different platforms.

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Report: 33.5M U.S. Hispanics Online

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million Hispanics online in the United States. Not only do Hispanics have above average use of established platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, they are also flocking to new platforms such as Google+, Tumblr and Pinterest. Author: Cheryl Black. According to Engage: Hispanics in January there were 33.5

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