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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Posts can be as little as 250 words with a featured image or as long as a 5,000-word photo essay. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network makes wise use of their sidebar by prominently featuring a call-to-follow on social networks and an e-newsletter opt-in.

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Judi Sohn of the Colorectal Cancer Coalition: Blogging for Cancer Advocacy

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Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. The second thing she did after hiring an attorney to get the organization's tax-exempt status was to hire a well-known cancer blogger for her organization.

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7 Online Fundraising Tips I Learned By Participating in Movember

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For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. The mustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. was the most effective, and what type of message generated the most giving.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

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Fight Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a health impact organization dedicated to ending colorectal cancer and supporting those affected by the disease through patient support, funding research, and impactful policy change. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. Cue the giraffes.

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Guest Post by Brooke McMillan: How LIVESTRONG Uses Social Media To Animate Its Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname “Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

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She uses IFTTT and sets it up to collect photos with the event hashtag into a google document and then add captions and curate the sharing. You can also use storify to curate tweets, photos, videos, resources, and links during the event. You can also use storify to curate tweets, photos, videos, resources, and links during the event.

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How to Convert Peer-to-Peer Event Participants into Monthly Donors

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Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises. “And

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