Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As such, consider showcasing your mission statement as a sub-headline on your nonprofit’s homepage, appearing just after your nonprofit’s tagline or name, to immediately grab your audience’s attention. Who does your nonprofit serve and how are you actively working to solve the challenges they face?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

One —Acknowledge Your Environment + Lead with Your Mission Yes, the presidential election is important and will be commanding the attention of the media and masses alike. There are, and always will be, other headlines, but your supporters are your supporters because they care about your work. impact messaging in an election year?

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. Craft a minimum of three different headlines and use a tool like Advanced Marketing Institute’s Headline Analyzer to gauge the most effective subject line. Are you tired of feeling like a wee fish in the vast ocean of social media?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. Network with influential Twitterati who can share your story and spread the word about your activities. The charity 5K and walk is so common that municipalities struggle to schedule parks and roadways for these events every weekend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.” You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.” More than likely, the person is just busy or not that active on LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

3) Activate Google for Nonprofits Products Once your organization has been verified, you can activate various Google for Nonprofits products, including Google Ad Grants , Google Workspace for Nonprofits , the YouTube Nonprofit Program , and Google Earth and Maps credits. Add all 15 headlines and 4 descriptions to your ads.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.” You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.” More than likely, the person is just busy or not that active on LinkedIn.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We strive to promote a healthy work life balance, that’s why our team hosts things like “social fridays”, team yoga classes, company-wide bake-offs, and other activities to de-stress. Sure, sometimes there’s a crunch to release something, or a customer support ticket that requires extra attention?—?but

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you have trouble keeping all of your accounts active, prioritize quality over quantity and focus on the platforms where you experience the greatest success. This can be a sign to reevaluate your approach to some platforms or to consolidate your efforts and focus your attention where it has the greatest impact.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Sure, you could highlight all three programs, but with competing imagery, a mutli-topic appeal and non-specific headline, you’re basically taking a gamble that the email will even be read, much less personally relevant and meaningful to the constituent receiving it. Enter Targeted Content. The possibilities are endless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

And Michael pointed out that sometimes networks will hum along at a lower level of activity, doing no more than sharing information e.g., tracking state court cases to predict when the issue could become a Supreme Court case. Another essential network function is to watch for a window of opportunity for activation. a disaster?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

” For one of the sessions, we focused on a methodology of how to make sense of data from Facebook Insights to improve the relevance of content and engagement activities. Post a variety of different media types, photographs and visuals get attention, shorter status updates, and curated links.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. Let’s take a look at the impact of what we call the “Generosity Experience”—the overall trust that a supporter has when interacting with a nonprofit’s marketing, revenue, or impact activities.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2015

Don’t get me wrong, it’s important for your organization to pay attention to some trends—hell, we even published two of those headlines above (not the puppy one). To get you in order for the year, it’s important to have a plan in place so that we—as an organization—are doing a marketing or fundraising activity every month.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Your goal in the first part of the letter is to get your reader’s attention. Artwork: 80%; photos: 75%; headlines: 56%; captions: 29%, and very little text! (~Tom Never use the passive voice when you can use the active voice. Try larger sizes to get your reader’s attention. THE APPEAL LETTER: HOW TO DRAW YOUR DONORS IN.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces. OR IF YOU HAVE A SHORTER ATTENTION SPAN. This is mostly just a really great headline. IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE. Give yourself a long afternoon and read it. Happy reading!'

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

While we focus on designing SEO-friendly nonprofit websites , our friends at Getting Attention work one-on-one with all sorts of nonprofits to help them to harness the power of the grant. Benefits of Google Ad Grants If your nonprofit has a website and is active online, you’re a great candidate for Google Ad Grants!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2014

More often you see millennials sharing that which is more visually pleasing and attention grabbing—so photos and videos are what scroll down your feeds. In politics, they’ve already made their voices heard through voting, activism and campaigning. Headliner: Dave Partridge, Wednesday 4:15pm. Kathryn Pauley ( @NPhub ).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Even if your success doesn’t make national news headlines, you can execute a great giving day that propels your annual giving program forward. Sending direct marketing pieces or starting your phone calls too early will draw attention away from your other fundraising activities. Adjust your goals as needed. Want even more tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. The tag trended on Twitter, capturing the attention of many new visitors to the site to read and to take action on changing federal policy about supporting younger farmers. We pay attention to these only 6 key indicators.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Over 100,000 nonprofits worldwide have taken advantage of Google Grants since the program was established in 2003, yet most nonprofits have never taken part in the program and many more are no longer receiving Google Ad Grants, because they did not take the necessary steps to keep their account active.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Draft your pitch as an email with the subject as the headline you would like to see. Start with a headline that summarizes your news. For the subject line, write the headline you want to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

Major (and mega) gifts will continue to make the headlines, as will donors making choices for how to give back in new ways that push the limits of traditional philanthropy (aka both donor advised funds and Zuckerburg’s LLC). Focus on Impact. alone of 7.1% (Giving USA), fueled by overall growth and mega-gifts coming from tech sector donors.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

(I should point out that proact isn’t actually a word, but in my opinion if you must act to be active, then you must proact to be proactive.) . You have a limited amount of attention from a visitor. Conclusions indicate that the upper left of a page is the highest viewed area, headlines draw the eye before pictures, and more.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Showcase your mission statement as a sub-headline beneath your nonprofit’s name to grab your visitors’ attention and let them know what your organization is about right off the bat. Bring attention to the various issue areas that your nonprofit is working to solve to emphasize your nonprofit’s purpose.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

By showcasing your membership theme across the report, you will make annual reporting more than just numbers, holding the attention of members and key stakeholders. Create a compelling report and show off your organization’s influence by leveraging exciting headlines, bright graphics, and photos.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

It’s about the content and how it’s written—and sadly it’s usually the piece of a website that gets the least amount of attention. 1) Get To The Point: When a user visits your website you have about 5 seconds to grab their attention before they click off. Remember, content is still king.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Use multimedia to engage and retain visitor attention. Just download the plugin and activate it and you’re all set. First, let’s define the fields: Title: Defines which headline should appear in results. It created all of the 301 redirects as soon as I activated the plugin.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Writing effectively for the web isn’t always as easy as it sounds (see our comments on the human attention span below). Let’s make one thing clear: Your readers have limited attention spans. There was a study conducted back in 2000 that showed the human attention span was 12 seconds long. Convert passive voice to active voice.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 18, 2019

Without them, copy or headlines can become boring and predictable. Using the word “you” instantly address the reader and gets their attention. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average American spends 8 hours working, 9 hours doing personal care, and almost 2 hours doing household activities every single day.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Headlines news feeds, link blogs, those blogs that just react, Twitter feeds, etc. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Headlines news feeds, link blogs, those blogs that just react, Twitter feeds, etc. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Collective activities are not new to social media. The Audubon Society organized the first Christmas Bird Count to inventory all the birds in the Western Hemisphere in 1900. But now using social media enable the Society and ( anyone else ) to increase this activity with less effort and less cost.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2014

Giving your visitor too many links, too many choices, or too much information divides their attention and detracts from the bare essence of what you are trying to achieve. The Twitter and Facebook widgets do a great job of showcasing recent activity with an invitation to connect right below it. Google got it Right! Ocean Conservancy.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Prove return on investment (ROI) of your marketing activities. 43% of nonprofit marketers say proving the ROI of their marketing activities is a top marketing challenge. Use the efficiency ratio to calculate the ROI of your marketing activities. High-resolution photos and videos to retain attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the Giving Tuesday Toolkit offers some excellent curriculum to involve kids in Giving Day activities. Perhaps your nonprofit has been growing its network on social media platforms and you have the opportunity to activate new supporters through your Facebook, Twitter, and social channels.

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