Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Twitter engagement rates for brands are actually higher on the weekend. In a crisis, the most efficient thing you can train your community managers to do is to be active and be human. And you shouldn’t be either.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Yes, but on social networks like Twitter, the adoption rate is actually low. Only about 10% to 20% of Twitter’s users are actively tweeting and are the ones driving 80% to 90% of all tweets.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones. Its response rate is 5-9x more than email , paid search, or social media.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Steven Shattuck, Bloomerang’s Chief Engagement Officer , found that when donors give a recurring gift their retention rate increases to 90%. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? In putting on those sweatshirts, we all agree to stand together, so that we can be active participants in what happens to us and around us.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

Online participants can take part in activities via livestream or through apps. For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. Why are hybrid events important to youth organizations?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Click To Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you?

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Steven Shattuck, Bloomerang’s Chief Engagement Officer , found that when donors give a recurring gift their retention rate increases to 90%. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Additionally, 70 percent of the older users rated their communities as very important or extremely important, compared to 58 percent of younger users. Right now, we're making plans online for a family gathering.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

It launched in the United States in 2016 and rapidly grew to more than 680 million active users worldwide. Users with under 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of 51.1%. TikTok has the highest social media engagement rate per post. TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. The majority of U.S.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As connections increase, it becomes essential for organizations to have a holistic view of all of their activities. The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But without a clear idea of where you’re going, all that activity may not actually move you forward toward your goals. Contrary to popular belief, a strategic plan is not a one-time activity. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. They need food and your organization provides it.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

For testing, there could be 0 shot tests designed but we have put a placeholder of a “failure rate” of less than 10% – meaning the bot just fails to answer or transfer the user at the right time, and a “harm rate” 0% – meaning an actually harmful answer is provided. Close monitoring is required.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). Instead, encourage low-effort contributions such as star ratings. Don't introduce overly complex sign up forms or processes. She believes it is a usability issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. would most likely had revealed itself. 4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates. You need to turn the ways you currently do research into listening activities, and you need to ask your community specifically to help you improve the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Fundraising activity often slows down mid-campaign, and your fundraisers on the ground can feel it. Essentially, they noticed that mortality rates were decreasing for all age groups except adolescents, particularly in Eastern/Southern Africa. You guys rock!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

million teen activists who had opted in to giving the organization their cell phone numbers and emails. The message was intended for Jewish teens who volunteering to collect canned goods during Thanksgiving for a Jewish organization. We also didn’t segment according to activity or demographics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Lay out a plan that identifies all the Asks, donor communications, warm touches, and marketing activities you plan to do between now and the end of the year. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. You can pay someone an hourly rate or a project fee and get the professional polish you need to power your campaign forward.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This immigration paradox has contributed to the teen pregnancy rates among Latinas, which is currently higher than any other major race/ethnic group in the U.S., A young person’s spiritual development impacts his or her identity formation, resilience, delinquency rates, and overall wellbeing.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. You should also analyse which content, including your captions and hashtags as well as your imagery, results in the best engagement and click-through rates (either to your profile or your website). An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Club Penguin is subscription-based and purely on the web; Webkinz requires the purchase of a plush toy (with an active virtual life). These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life." They love the way it fuels their desire to quickly jump from one activity to the next.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Key Takeaway: Your nonprofit’s website should actively highlight your work’s impact. It’s imperative that nonprofits keep their sites frequently updated in order to show their visitors that they’re actively serving their communities. Its rating platform allows suppliers to anonymously rate the purchasing practices of retailers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well, the domestic violence rate had increased threefold in New York State directly as a result of the pandemic and stay-at-home orders. Fourth, they may want to be an active partner. Oh, love when this happens, if they want to be an active partner, because what that often means is they will not fund you for just one year.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re about activating our people as citizens, or agents of good as I like to call them. 2016 took us into the teens, and 2017 ended with participation just shy of 23% (made even more significant that national median participation rates have not changed much over the past few years). And guess what? Millennials WERE engaging.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2014

As a community-based museum, it makes sense that we actively solicit participation through the e-blast when we can. Our average e-blast has a click rate of 1-2%. Bolstered by the power of the Wishlist, we decided to explore other non-announcement-y content to add to the e-blast. Here''s a recent e-blast we sent.

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