Care2

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ll try to keep it short and just sweet enough to fill you in on everything you need to know about the new 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN. Thanks to Allyson for inviting me to guest post. This stuff fascinates me – which I guess is good since it’s my job.

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Care2

JANUARY 8, 2010

Make sure you start 2010 off right by adopting the latest best practices for online advocacy as a proven strategy to recruit and retain donors, while advancing your mission. Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 2 pm EST. We have a limited amount of webinar lines, so please take a moment to sign up now.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2010

The new 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R was just released today! The new report might look slim and slick, but this scrappy guide is thick with valuable insights and key industry benchmarks for online messaging, fundraising and advocacy, based on a full year's worth of results from 31 of your nonprofit peers.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session submission process yielded so many great session ideas, we couldn't include them all on the agenda. New online advocacy techniques from the health care reform debate (02/18). So, we decided to turn some of the ones we couldn't fit into a webinar series divided into 2 tracks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Join us for this webinar: The Procrastinator's Guide to 2010 Year End Fundraising When: Thursday, December 9th at 2PM ET Who: Alia McKee from Sea Change Strategies, along with a surprise special nonprofit guest and moderator Ryann Miller of Care2.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, Diverse Goals. Raising funds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? All this being said, advocacy can be difficult to quantify. New advocates.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

I think we'd all do ourselves and our audiences a favor if we read this article from Jake Brewer and The Sunlight Foundation : " Rethinking Advocacy Email." s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. Join fellow NTEN members Jon Stahl and Chris Tuttle in the comment discussion!

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. Facebook Boosts Organizations Web Traffic, Advocacy, and Email Lists. 66% from advocacy organizations said they experienced an increase in people taking some type of action, like signing a petition.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Mark Horvath, winner of the 2013 NTC Rob Stuart Memorial Award , at NTC in 2010. fundraising campaigns games for change Mobile mobile advocacy mobile campaigns mobile video Communications'

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. Engagement, advocacy, fundraising – these are all areas where QR codes will help you tap into the mobile market. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them! Are you using QR codes at your nonprofit?

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

The National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people. They are a multi-disciplinary organization that uses litigation, policy advocacy, education, movement building, and direct service to meet the needs of transgender communities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. Blackbaud 's Amy Braiterman had a blog post that made the RT (that's re-tweeting) rounds this week.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Beth reflects on the lessons learned from this year's online success in a thorough blog post , including slides and tips you can use for your own organization or advocacy efforts. " to the NTEN community for showing how people-to-people fundraising online works. Thank you, Beth, and Happy Birthday!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

So, when the ICT-KM Program was tasked with organising the social reporting for the Share Fair on Agricultural and Rural Development Knowledge in Africa in Addis Ababa in October 2010, it was clear that it was high time that we document the social reporting team’s experiences and lessons learned in a generic guide. Event management?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

– Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – No matter where you look, social media is on everyone’s radar. " How Useful is Social Media to Nonprofits? The big question nonprofits ask is, how useful is social media?

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2012

Other highlights: The advocacy email response rate increased by 28% from 2010, to 3.8%. Nonprofit Facebook fan bases have seen phenomenal growth between 2010 and 2011, with the average nonprofit increasing its fan base by 70%. The median nonprofit email-driven donation form had a completion rate of 17%.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

September 14-21: Mozilla Service Week September 16 & 17, 2009: Online Nonprofit Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission September 25 (deadline) Applications are being accepted for the TED 2010 Fellowship program September 30 (deadline) Enter the GreatNonprofits' Youth Thrive Awards 2009

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2010 Designed with fundraising staff in mind, iDonate’s overall mission is to move overall giving from 2% of disposable income to 4% by 2025. Founded: 2010 We’re big fans of Causevox for the manifold resources that they provide nonprofits from their homebase in Brooklyn (sound familiar?). For a Fundraising Swiss Army Knife.

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

As recently as 2010, a Fast Company journalist posited that it’s impossible to prove whether CSR helps or not 1. One way to keep reaching new customers is through employee advocacy. Seventy-nine percent of brands that implemented employee advocacy programs reported improved online visibility. The answer isn’t immediately clear.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

February 12, 2010, and promises to be “more than just a conference on the next generation web.&# Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! Are you a an online advocacy guru, a fundraiser, or grassroots organizer? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. NonProfit 2.0 Unconference here.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As a result of C3’s advocacy efforts, $15 million for a new peer reviewed cancer research program is included in the final Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill. C3 Helps Secure $15 Million for New Cancer Research Program.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As a result of C3’s advocacy efforts, $15 million for a new peer reviewed cancer research program is included in the final Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill. C3 Helps Secure $15 Million for New Cancer Research Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

Saudatu Mahdi, she is as mentioned, Head of Secretariat for LACVAW (Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women) and Secretary General of WRAPA (Women's Rights and Protection Alternative). This was their advocacy material for communicating the urgency of a Bill against violence against persons in Nigeria.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 1, 2010

Don't Cut Corners With Your Website - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop: "s your nonprofit planning to upgrade your website in 2010 such as migrating it to a content management system or a new one - but don't want to change a thing about it otherwise? They feel the need to maker publishing easier and get.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. But I’m quite looking forward to it.

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Care2

MARCH 14, 2011

This annual report analyzes the online fundraising performance of approximately 600 nonprofits that used the Convio platform in 2010. In 2010, Convio clients raised $1.3 Advocacy supports fundraising. In 2010, 6.42% of advocates were also donors. Today, Convio released the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Index Study.

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2010

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After all, location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla were the breakout technology at SXSWi just a few months ago.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2011

Well, maybe “exhilarating” isn’t the right word, but if you’re a research nerd like me, or if you’re wondering how well other orgs performed in 2010 (i.e. website traffic and registration, email communications, online fundraising and advocacy) look no further. Advocacy continues to play an important role.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Tags: Advocacy Community debra askanase nptechm 10NTC Program.

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Care2

DECEMBER 29, 2014

In 2010 nonprofits heavily invested in Facebook. Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing' This does not mean you can’t work towards long term goals, but donors and activists expect to see impact if they are going to continue to support your organization. Review Your Online Strategy. Are You Diversified?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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