The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2021

Your voice should be consistent across all your social media platforms so that your messaging sounds like it’s coming from the same reliable source. The latest stats from Brandwatch state that 77% of Twitter users feel more positive about a brand when their Tweet has been replied to. Check out this article ! Content is King.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Include short stats in your TikTok videos that demonstrate the importance of your work or the severity of the problem you’re addressing. original sound – charity: water. original sound – GivingTuesday. original sound – GivingTuesday. What problems does your nonprofit tackle?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As you would send a note to a friend, do something to make it sound personal and specific, not scripted. Keep in mind this isn’t the time to go on about stats and successes of your programs—save that for another time. I was once told to treat each donation as the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This means the language you use in your elevator pitch, on your website, and in your communications materials should sound like it comes from one organization. That’s why you should share your nonprofit’s most important stats and data with them. . In order to build trust with supporters, your branding needs to be consistent.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Try reading your letter aloud and see if it sounds like you are chatting with your donor. Make sure the stat truly makes the case that your donor’s gift made a difference. And, make sure the stat makes sense. This tone helps build a connection between you and your donor. Information required by the IRS (US only).

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It doesn’t spew mind-numbing facts and stats about the need and their accomplishments. Your thank-you letter should be conversational and sound natural if read aloud. You are changing each one of their lives with your gift, and we are so grateful for your support.” This letter doesn’t go into detail about the nonprofit’s programs.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

To do that, you need to tie your story in with stats, facts, and other pieces of logic that show your donors that: . It may sound silly to spell this out, but it really does help people take the next step. You need logic. . You need to explain to your donors why giving is so important. . This need is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

While some appeals favor stories while others lean toward stats, the pitch is fundamentally the same: help us make the world a better place by supporting our work. Pitchfall #1: You sound like a robot. You sound like every other organization out there. Pitchfall #5: You sound like a talking tagline.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Sounds horrible, right? But it doesn’t have to be. So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams.

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Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

Not all research is sound, and even when it is, not all decisions based on research are sound. Employment, volunteering, and revenue stats (may help with grant proposals and advocacy). “Objectivity means being aware and honest about how one’s own beliefs, values, and biases affect the research process.”. Patti Lather.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Sounds serious. Find those tasks and outsource them STAT. Dictionary.com defines “burnout” as physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Read that again. Physical or mental COLLAPSE. Not a stumble. Not a setback. A COLLAPSE. It’s THAT serious. You need to communicate with your team and tell them you are overwhelmed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your social and mobile strategy is sound, then you should see an increase in your totals from month-to-month for website and blog traffic, e-newsletter and text alerts subscribers, and social network followers. Related Links: 12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness. It’s that simple.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. The actions we take today will support and protect the well-being of future generations. . Read Next: How Ocean’s Power Our Wallets, Health, and Planet. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 percent gets recycled.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your social and mobile strategy is sound, then you should see an increase in your totals from month-to-month for website and blog traffic, e-newsletter and text alerts subscribers, and social network followers. Related Links: 12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness. It’s that simple.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2012

However grim that may sound, another stat is encouraging: "Women are projected to account for 51.2 According to the US Department of Labor , in 2010 "the median weekly earnings of women who were full-time wage and salary workers was $669, or 81 percent of men’s $824.". That said, ladies, we have a lot of work ahead of us.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2012

You can also participate in a virtual conference (sounds fun since I think you can wear PJs and not be judged) on July 19. Here’s a few of the stats from the 2012 report and my take on how they’ll impact your online strategy: Millennials reported that their biggest pet peeve is not knowing how a gift will make a difference.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2012

Our good friend and business partner in Canada, Michael Johnston of HJC, also shared some interesting stats about the differences in the nonprofit landscape that I thought I’d pass along. Sounds like the email channel in Canada should be high on your list if it isn’t already.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here are just a few stats about video content : 1/3 of all online activity is spent watching videos. Add captions to your video – Most people watch videos without sound! Unless you’ve been living under a rock with no Internet, you realize that the amount of video content on social media has skyrocketed over the past few years.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Full stats here. Talking with Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum, it sounds like GO comparably sparked a huge number of community conversations in artists' studios around Brooklyn. An estimated 18,000 people attended, of which 4,929 nominated artists for the show. but they may show up in droves to see what the fuss is about.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Funders are going to eat those stats up! And that sounds like a great relationship to me. . If you were tackling this question with just your own data, you might see something like: 3,467 contact initiations (number of people who called with service requests). 3,148 counseling sessions. 2,924 placements. That looks pretty good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites] [link] #twtrcon @ davemcclure yo @ hootsuite not really that cool to be incentivizing followers to spam the #twtrcon hash tag with product spam. It sounds like he did an electronic version of many of us done for years on flip charts or on the wall in low tech ways. (See

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Send more personal looking, sounding, and feeling email appeals. You can download the full study for more ideas, examples, and stats here. And even if you don’t want to continue engagement, confirmation pages make it easier to track in Google Analytics through goals which allows you see which traffic sources and people are signing up.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

During the budget crisis, the library was in the media daily; but as we know, the media shapes stories based on talking points and sound bites. The most critical aspect of this strategy was our ability to manage our message.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2016

In fact, Network for Good noted in its “20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats” last fall that according to Boomerang, “88% of dollars raised comes from 12% of an organization’s donors.” Sounds good to me! But woe to the fundraiser who tries to do it all for everyone—he or she will end up exhausted. or unemployed.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Facts or stats that your audience might find interesting : “X% of Americans are affected by Y every year. All of this sounds like a lot of work. Casual/conversational mentions of your work : “Just wrapped up a great event with our wonderful volunteers! See pictures on our Flickr stream”. Click here to learn more”. It sure can be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Need headphones to monitor sound. About $270 on Amazon.com. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. About $270 on Amazon. Comes with a microphone, or you can buy a better quality one. Electro-Voice Microphone 635A. Use with MicroTrak. 120 on Amazon Headphones. You can usually use any kind of headphones (Walkman, iPod, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

These moments when the audio stream was dropping in and out, a video and audio lag time between the 2 worlds of 15-45 seconds (adding some confusion), feedback and distorted sound quality, and a chaotic chat stream. Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats). So back to last night's events. I also turned off my audio.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sounds like you? Become familiar with the CSR research available and pull the data or stats that will help inform your colleagues. Enhanced technology has made giving simple and convenient, so why aren’t you booming with success and increasing your donors and donations year over year? There are many ways to reinvigorate your program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Another person looks at their blog or Web stats and sees what key words people were searching on that lead visitors to their site. . * Another person does an analyzes keyword searches on nichebot and then googles the keywords to see the numbers. Then plans shows based on those topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Quantcast, Google Analytics, HitTail are what I use but eventually I end up relying on server log stat software like AWStats. What advice would you offer other folks who are staff at nonprofits and want to blog? Don't ask for permission first, just do it. Then ask for permission once they find out.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2021

I opened the thick envelope and pulled out a stack of stat sheets, membership forms, and return address labels I’ll never use (seriously, nobody has called me “Andrew” since 1987. That sounds like a recipe for donor acquisition. Is that you calling from beyond the grave, Nana??).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It sounds obvious but if your website looks like it was designed in 2010, it’s time for a new one. The rest were bogged down with stats that did little to show the outcomes. Think about how you can be distinct to grab the potential donor’s attention. . Polish up your website. I’ll keep this simple for a reason.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader.

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Bloomerang

MAY 18, 2021

If this sounds familiar, no worries – you are not alone! Will you be sharing stats and facts to support what you are saying? The effort lacks clear communication objectives and no specified audience has been identified. And this blog series will help to offer a little step-by-step structure to develop a nonprofit communications plan.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

They don’t need to know all your statistics – in fact using more than one well-chosen stat can make people stop reading, which means they probably won’t give. This may sound crazy, but a lot of people beat around the bush when asking for a donation and never really come right out and ASK in their fundraising letter. So, stay on point!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are resources out there--experts, leaders of projects already underway--who can furnish you with stats to serve as arsenal. Be an ambassador (as cheesy as that sounds), validate fears, and then assuage them. Most of all, you have to identify with the folks you are talking with and give up your insider status.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Facts and stats are useful here. It sounds like they are doing some great work with kids and I think YVCC would be a strong partner for them.

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