Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I cried after my first big film was released,” she admitted, in hushed tones over the phone. But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. Sometimes our language, traditions, and yes, those pesky power dynamics keep us apart.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. Activate supporters with Mobilize. Q: How are you actively seeking out input and feedback from customers, partners, and others in this space?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many companies like Twilio and Tropo offer APIs to integrate phone call and text message features into your web applications. To go the extra mile, you could even combine APIs like Twilio or Tropo with the elected officials’ phone numbers from the Cicero API for phone banking and other types of call-in advocacy campaigns.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

At the end of the fundraising period, the community comes together for a fun walk, giant resource fair, and community activities. The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. Chatting with them on the phone, in person, or over email will start to give you insight into what’s important to them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” And I equate a lot of that to the phone calls that I made.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

The thank you team means that when a gift comes through the door, I am going to send you an email, that email is going to have who was the donor, here’s their cell phone number or contact number, and here is how much they donated. Those board members agree to pick up the phone and call and say, “Thank you.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Super, you know, active in the nonprofit community, down in Houston. Now, if you’re saying in your head right now, “We have five volunteers,” or, “because of the pandemic,” you know, “some of our volunteers are not active with us,” this is the perfect time to re-engage those volunteers.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Work smarter, not harder.

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