Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Select a two-column, responsively designed template. A blog template with a body column width of 600 pixels and a call-to-action column of 300 pixels in width is ideal. Second, the call-to-action column provides ample space to feature your nonprofit’s most important calls-to-action. Enable social comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Just because you have your own profiles now, doesn’t mean you can stop listening to the community or replying and commenting. Templates: Community Map Template.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Use eye-catching calls to action. For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters. Google Ads.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits. You need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want. Use this template to get started on your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Plan. Comment below and let us know!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 3, 2023

Any advice on how I can help balance the scales, between discussion and action? If you’re working on creating or updating a DEI policy at your organization, you can review Bloomerang’s DEI Policy Template to help you get started. Ask away in the comments below. What other DEI-related questions do you have?

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Create an email template with slight variations depending on donor age, familiarity with your organization, and specific programming interest. Create a clear call to action and place it in your email near the top and again at the end. Make it bold, make the text large, and provide an obvious link or button to click to take action.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 28, 2011

Until recently, when someone registered through our website without donating or taking action, they got very little initial feedback from us. They just started hearing from us when we sent out email enewsletters, appeals or action alerts. Using email templates and workflow rules, this is super easy to set up in Salesforce.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 2, 2017

And that trend goes beyond simple appearance: users should be able to navigate through a site, makes purchases, leave comments and more as seamlessly as if they were sitting behind a monitor at a desk. You can choose from different design templates, and the program syncs both the app and your home site perfectly. But have no fear.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

>> Get this template! >> Get this template! These goals should primarily come from the Community Map where you have two columns’ worth of goals and actions. >> Get this template! This template, like the others, is available at that link as a public google doc that you can save and reuse.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

There are hundreds of responsively designed, low cost WordPress.org templates for NGOs and freelancers available for hire. Use large tappable buttons for calls-to-action: water.org. Use the Facebook Comments Plugin or Disqus for blog comments. Design templates that allow header images to be easily changed.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To inspire action one of the first things you must do is educate your community on the needs your nonprofit meets. Engagement can be responding to comments on your posts, liking and sharing content posted by your partners, tagging your donors or volunteers in posts, and more! Educating your target audience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

But it also offers peer-to-peer fundraising features to bring supporters into the fundraising action. Learn more about pricing and fees. Handbid Overview Handbid is customarily thought of as an auction platform first and foremost. Anyone can start their own fundraising campaign on Facebook and contributions are sent directly to your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. Please share your experience and additional hook ideas in the comments section below. You can download it here.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Trello Platform overview: Trello is another project management and productivity platform focused on giving organizations greater insight and control over their workflows, with boards, views, and templates. Using Canva, you can start a new design from scratch or choose a template based on your marketing goals and needs.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course you needn’t worry that people will run rampant across your pages with their own personal posts: you, the admin, will have the ability to moderate comments and content and approve only what you deem appropriate and useful. Thankfully, WordPress makes it easy, and there are no less than three ways to go about the process.

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WordPress Content Site Plugin 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

Armed with his advice and resources which includes a simple graphic template, some good photos, a good tagline, and a tool like photoshop, your organization can create a respectable DYI cover image in less than an hour. After reading his post, I thought it was so useful, I invited him to share it as a guest post. Cover Photo Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I came up with a couple of phrases that described me and what I do and that were not a call to action. I started with “Author. She shared her secret in the comments. He included templates, examples, and steps. And while the advice was fantastic, you need a little time and a good eye. I have ”Connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2012

It takes time to do that, so I’ve been posting screenshots of Nonprofit Facebook Pages and curating them on pinterest so other nonprofits can spend more time looking, versus hunting. I noticed that every time I posted an example, Nancy Schwartz would make a brilliant comment on how to improve the impact. Mix and Match.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Capturing insights like this as the event unfolds is a good technique because if you wait until the event is over, there is a chance you won’t remember everything in vivid detail. It isn’t just about writing it down, it is also reviewing what your captured with your team in an “ After Action Review.”

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Your execution process should include all the duties your key players should perform in a crisis and the order they should perform those actions in. Below is a basic execution template to get you started: Messaging creation: Who will be responsible for drafting talking points, emails, a social media post, or press release?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

You need to be nimble and not blindly follow a template because it worked in the past. Measurement and learning are now more important than ever for success. Focus on Engagement That Leads To Action. This puts even more pressure on us to figure out how to bridge the gap between digital and real life. This advice still holds true.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

Craft your Call-to-Action (CTA). These can include email and social media post templates, as well as thank-you letters that they can customize for their own networks. We’d love to hear from you in the comments. Set a clear fundraising goal. Communicate your message + make your ask. Stay in touch with regular updates.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Knowing where your emails are read will also let you make data-driven decisions about template design and layout. Clear, short and actionable subject lines followed by quick easy to read text with a link (to whatever your action or conversion might be) early on. Call to action up front and very clear. Google Gmail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. After all, data is only as good as it is actionable!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. But it is important to understand that there is a process behind the template.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

These tools are affordable, easy to use, and have great templates you can customize for your nonprofit. Using a template from an email tool is ideal for your newsletter because these templates are made to be easily read online or on mobile (more about that in a minute). Comment on your blog post. Your regular email (e.g.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here are some additional resources that include templates and examples of inventories, tech budget worksheets and other essentials: A really useful quick and easy, and also free tool to get started with is TechSoup Canada’s Tech Self-Assessment. Please log in to comment on this blog post. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Here is a simple step-by-step template to follow if you want to try it at your organization. Share in the comments. … Read More

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Use a template similar to this: Many companies actually match donations made by their employees to schools and other nonprofits. If a donor has expressed interest in matching gifts on the phone, your organization has to follow up afterward to increase the likelihood of your turning interest into action. Rob Schlitts.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2011

It can sometimes be the push we all need to take action. Autoresponders can acknowledge the online action taken, while also providing instructions on what they should do as a result. Motivate action. Conivo clients interested in advanced badges can grab instructions, code and links to photoshop and illustrator templates.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can even write encouraging comments on these posts while the campaign is running or give social media shoutouts to supporters who are pulling in lots of donations. Provide materials and messaging templates for your supporters to send out invitations, whether through email, social media, or direct mail. Try out these templates.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

Neff and Kagan are looking for feedback on the Bill of Rights so if you have ideas, head on over to their respective blogs ( NTEN and Kimbia ) and leave a comment. These platforms have templates so you can easily provide images and videos demonstrating your campaign in action. Platforms to the Rescue!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) , the advocacy affiliate to the American Cancer Society , we have a volunteer like Susan in every congressional district. ACS CAN is a major proponent of the Direct Action Organizing model created by the brilliant grassroots campaigning organizers at the Midwest Academy.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Squarespace leaves out all the hubbub and gives visitors to your site a clear call to action. Squarespace’s templates are very visual and photo-heavy. You can edit directly on your website by dragging and dropping elements to the template. You can add categories and tags, edit each post’s URL, moderate comments and much more.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2023

Reduce calls and emails by optimizing online information ROI: Making your most-sought information and actions easy to find and simple to access can reduce other burdens. How many people and systems are needed to take that single sign-up to its full action? But the ROI can equally be higher. Let’s chat!

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

She’s told a powerful story, connected it to your mission, tied it in to current campaign priorities, used compelling images, offered a relevant call to action, asked a great question for people to answer in the comments, and more. And your email newsletter template also has a spot in the sidebar with links to recent posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I found a few features annoying, most notably the lack of flexibility with the templates. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. thanks everyone!). Why or why not?

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