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Build excitement before you ask: Rethink your year-end giving social media plan

Candid

Warm them up with polls or easy open-ended questions, like asking what their favorite program or event of yours was over the last year. Perhaps you can offer a glimpse of a planning meeting or a few objects that hint at next year’s gala theme. People stay on these social platforms to enjoy the scroll, not to click a link and leave.

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How Data Can Drive Your Fundraising: A Conversation With Keela’s Philip Manzano

Global Giving

The cost per dollar raised for a fundraising campaign, and its evolution throughout one campaign and across different campaigns—this will give you hints about what works the best in your campaigns. Polls on Facebook and Twitter—this will show you what parts of your work resonate on social media. Gathering data at regular times (e.g.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Questions and polling. Think about allowing others to add their own options to the poll – when is it appropriate, and when is it unnecessary or confusing.

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What You Can Learn About Cultivating Community from The Lord of the Rings

Tech Soup

So with that in mind, let's explore how you can build this kind of meaningful relationship with your supporters by taking a few hints from the best friends ever, Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. When you listen first, you know better what your next steps should be to develop that relationship.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.” Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Design them free on Canva.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. Remember that they are following YOU because they are curious about the work you are doing. What are they interested in?

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Reconsider Facebook

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. Facebook even deleted a poll asking if Obama should be killed , but they won’t delete the the Page about praying for Obama’s death?

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