Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Prominently feature the date (November 28), the #GivingTuesday hashtag, a “Donate” button, links to your social networks, social sharing, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Optional: List three additional calls-to-action (share on social media, become a monthly donor, become a #GivingTuesday Ambassador, etc.). Tweet a minimum of 2X hourly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. 1) Implement Donation Page Best Practices. Add a pop-up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The urgency of a campaign occurring on a certain day inspires individuals to donate, but only if your nonprofit prepares in advance and creates an online campaign that taps into the impulsivity of cause awareness and giving day donors. List three calls-to-action (donate, share on social media, become a monthly donor, sign a petition, etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

You can also participate in the annual #GivingTuesday ( givingtuesday.org ) campaign which now raises an average of 50 percent more in total donations each year for participating nonprofits. This page should also prominently feature a donate button, an e-newsletter, mobile alert opt-in forms, and social network icons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Because of the results obtained, the action will keep going. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. What are the logistics of working the avatar?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Experience their online donation process. Learn Basic HTML. Learn from them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

It should be published in a largish font, have plenty of visual content, and a clear call-to-action. All nonprofits – no matter their size – should donate to themselves every six months to experience the donation process for themselves. Facebook Donations. Stray Rescue of St. Google for Nonprofits. google.com/nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Photos and slideshows.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Photos and slideshows.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And given that the primary focus of your fundraising event will be actual fundraising, you want to ensure you provide ample opportunities for donations. Look for a platform that combines ticketing with donation requests. With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. .

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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. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. The next thing now is to add the new AdWords-Style Widget from the Social Actions folks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio. “Link in Bio” Strategy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

Of the nearly 400 people who listened in on Thursday, many say they gained real, actionable advice they could apply to their organization's social media use. is static — it's your website, e-mail newsletters, and "donate now" buttons; Web 2.0 Heather began her presentation by differentiating between the different types of "web."

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And given that the primary focus of your fundraising event will be actual fundraising, you want to ensure you provide ample opportunities for donations. Look for a platform that combines ticketing with donation requests. With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). Our key objective was to make a viral splash, to spread dynamic content, to increase donations to the ARC Disaster Relief Fund. I also believe that it's more inspiring for an individual to feel moved enough by a cause and take action independently of the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Recently, thousands of Facebook members helped leveraged a $50,000 donation from the Western Union Foundation by voting for the American Red Cross and its disaster relief efforts. The $50,000 donation will contribute to a broader American Red Cross goal to raise $100 million for disaster relief. that are easy to grab and use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Goals (Increase traffic, followers, donations, etc.). Action Items (Mobile-optimize donate page, launch presence on Instagram, host Google+ Hangout, rebrand social networks, etc.). Budget (Cost of implementing action items). Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube videos that link to e-newsletter subscribe page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2014

Schedule the tweet chat at least one month in advance and create a page on their website or blog that details the date, time, and topic and highlights their nonprofit’s Twitter username, the tweet chat hashtag, and special guests that will participate in the tweet chat (include their Twitter usernames and avatars).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The only exception is in crisis situations where urgent calls to action require mobilizing your social networking communities to donate, volunteer, or participate in advocacy campaigns. If your avatar, banners, and backgrounds are professionally designed, then users are much more likely to become followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). When a user performs the desired next step from your social media campaign and responds to your call to action . e.g. email signup, donation, event registration.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And since my retirement, I’ve started my nonprofit consulting where I help small nonprofit staff and board, build relationships that convert into more donations, and that’s why I do actually love Bloomerang. So the organization’s fundraising responsibilities are not over once it has received the donation from the donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos. these visitors stay on your site, travel to pages beyond just your landing page, engage with your media, and click your calls-to-action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. How it worked.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

Your nonprofit’s donors are valuable for the donations they make now and all the future ones they’ll make, too. So, getting a donation is more about telling a compelling story than targeting people with deep pockets. Or maybe they don’t see the connection between their donation and making a difference in someone’s life.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. I know I’ll need your reassurance, your caring diagnosis, and soon your call to wise action. The line to donate blood. I hope you’ll be there. The candlelight services. The calls for calm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming.

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