NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers. If you haven’t started with social media yet and have nothing to review, this is a great time to realize the potential that you have with your digital presence and start thinking about the message you want your NPO to convey. Or even worse, something can get entirely skipped over.

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MAY 11, 2021

Tracy Ring is a former nonprofit worker and current freelance writer and marketer. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations feared the worst. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations feared the worst. I also vet nonprofits by asking current board members about their experiences.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2016

The same lesson applies to the relationships nonprofits have with their donors. The concept of inbound marketing takes all of that knowledge and incorporates it into a real-life framework for nonprofits and businesses to use when engaging their audiences. Knowing who you want your audience to be is crucial in this step.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

When the moment finally arrives to call your constituents to action, the last thing you want is for your hard work to be whisked away into a junk folder, never to be seen by your supporters. And unfortunately, according to this 2019 study , it’s estimated that nonprofits lost out on almost $93M due to low deliverability rates in 2018.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 13, 2015

In fact, only 15 percent of millennials didn’t give to an NPO in 2013. The answer for your nonprofit is through branding. I said the words “brand” and “nonprofit” in the same sentence. Millennials have huge potential in the nonprofit sector, and ultimately the way to tap into it and win the hearts of millennials is branding.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 12, 2014

When you boil it down, nonprofit organizations are here for one thing: benefiting their cause. Well it’s easy to forget that in order to work toward any cause, NPOs need donations. If donations are the lifeblood of NPOs, it makes sense that we would show love to donors whenever we can. Duh, right? Give the credit to the donors.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 4, 2015

By now we all know what hashtags are and how to use them properly, but what are the best nonprofit hashtags? After running about fifty different hashtags based on top ranking nonprofit hashtag lists through Keyhole (a free social media analytics resource) for April 20-27, 2015, the following hashtags yielded the highest amount of reach.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

Great news from a new study by M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN): Online giving is bigger than ever. millions total gifts and nearly $325 million were raised, making 2013 a huge year for nonprofits working to optimize their online presence. More than 5.5 Don’t let laziness creep in. Use it to persuade donors on the fence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

Tweets Into Action on Prezi. Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Tweets Into Action on Prezi What Does the Data Say? What Does the Data Say?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2015

million registered nonprofits in the United States. That’s a lot of nonprofits gunning for the same money. Don’t waste your time applying for grants that don’t perfectly fit your nonprofit organization. There are different types of grants and it’s vital that you look into which category your NPO fits into the best.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2015

These two tools have been a huge help to a lot of people and businesses, but there are two fatal flaws: they don’t help you to know what the content should be about and they aren’t exactly ideal tools for nonprofits. It doesn’t have a call to action, but it is just purely awesome content. Your NPO accounts can be human.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 21, 2014

In my other life, I serve as the Executive Director of a volunteer-run nonprofit that is focused on youth leadership development. So which route did our NPO decide to go with? We steered more toward an older, more established person, who was not heavily involved in the day-to-day actions.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Institutional silos are commonplace in many organizations, but in nonprofit organizations they may not be visible at first glance. In the past, fundraising owned the largest list but with Facebook's average nonprofit community size growing at an amazing 161 percent over the past year, that may not continue for long. you get the idea.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 21, 2014

In my other life, I serve as the Executive Director of a volunteer-run nonprofit that is focused on youth leadership development. So which route did our NPO decide to go with? We steered more toward an older, more established person, who was not heavily involved in the day-to-day actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Last year, I was on a panel organized by Ed Schipul and we were hoping that there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this year I just scanned the list of over 1200 panel submissions to SXSW in search of nonprofit oriented panels (in addition the two I submitted) and found a number of them for your consideration.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Until recently, these tools were too complicated and expensive for most nonprofit staff to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

So, I set up a little action learning project ( cambodia4kids ) to play with these tools to see how they might be useful for technology infused curriculum or nonprofit use. So, there have been a few things on my action learning list (I'm going to create a 43 things list for this at some point). Oh, and my point was.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Technology is transforming our world and impacts everyone, including nonprofits. A well-constructed mobile campaign includes easy-to-understand instructions and clear calls-to-actions driving the desired reaction. According to Business Insider , smartphone sales surpassed personal computer sales last year. Use Mobile to Raise Funds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Coincidently, once this change was made, activity on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page declined. Useful for Nonprofit Admins who manage many Pages and people who buy and manage Facebook ads, but there’s no way around it… less exposure of Status Updates on the Home view is just not good for most nonprofits.

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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I nterested in using Twitter on behalf of your nonprofit, social enterprise or cause? Try to avoid using generic photos but instead create custom imagery that displays information about your NPO, she adds. Define your nonprofit’s Twitter voice. Begin to master Twitter for your organization with these five steps.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2021

However, I also believe its potential for impact beyond conversation-starting is hampered by the strategy behind its CTA (call-to-action). . When you get to the website, the action they ask you to take is to “Tweet for Change”—essentially, to post a pre-written message on Twitter, using their hashtag, asking Twitter to do better.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Probably not. Probably not.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you’re a nonprofit veteran, you know that even 10 years ago, online fundraising wasn’t as important as it is now. The stat: 63% of donors didn’t offer action opportunities on their thank you page or emails. Your NPO could be setting up an automatic email reply (yet STILL warm and personalized). But alas, times have changed.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2019

You research your donor as an individual, but you also have a broad depth of general research on the kinds of people who donate to your nonprofit as a whole group. And then, we get to connect their existing passions and desires to your NPO, using the same language they use. How do you get to that point? You’re selling significance.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Would it be advisable to incorporate as a nonprofit?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? I started promoting the Public Library of Science to the readers of Nonprofit Online News as far back as December of 2002.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

Some people are programmers; others are IT practitioners; others are npo executives; others are computer industry product vendors. Nonprofits will need technical support and assistance. An easier way of helping is by tagging sites and webpages describing nonprofit innovation or great new tools or techniques. All can play a role.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2016

This trend plays right into the hands of many nonprofit organizations. If the first thing that viewers see on your website is a striking image paired with a call to action or mission statement, that message is likely to stick with them for the rest of their time on your site, and possibly even after they’ve left. Still not convinced?

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