Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. Odds are a year from now pitches to subscribe or join “Mobile Action Networks&# will be commonly seen in Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, blogs posts, homepages, and e-newsletter subject lines.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Not only does she understand social media very well and stays on top of all the changes, but she also has a very deep background in nonprofit work. So today, Julia, I wanted to get your take on the recent news that came to light, you know, about Facebook and Instagram. Now that’s not to say that Facebook is not a powerful tool.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Providing tools for sustainable change to populations most vulnerable to hunger, violence, and disease, CARE has earned its place in the hall of fame of nonprofits continuing to make the world a better place. Get Involved | Twitter | Facebook. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications. I became a documentary filmmaker to tell meaningful stories that explore social issues and inspire change. ” Enjoy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

—– If you’ve been on facebook at all in December this year, you may have seen something happening to all your friends – their pictures changing to their favorite cartoon characters! The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#.

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Care2

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We turned to Facebook, the voice of a nearly a billion people, and one of the most important, personal communication channels of our time. We asked the five most popular Finnish celebrities to donate their Facebook profiles to five Dalits from Nepal. This was one of the tougher briefs we’d received in a long time.

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Everyaction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

From legal work to advocacy to grassroots mobilization, these 7 organizations highlighted below are fighting to ensure that immigrant rights are human rights. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook. American Immigration Council. Learn More |. United We Dream. Get Involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. Our Farm Animal Protection campaign posted the quote in the form of an image post on their Facebook page (275k fans).

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

She said: New email subscribers Event attendees Volunteers Advocacy action-takers Google Grant search ad-clickers Random local connections Are You Forgetting Something? On the flip side, I also hear complaints and concerns from many nonprofit leaders about not being able to contact donors who give through Facebook.

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you’re just getting up and running with ads, check on your Meta Ads Manager Account , a tool to run and report on ads for Facebook and Instagram. Testing changes to your donation form to improve conversion rates. Tune up your tracking in advance of key moments. For ads tracking and more, we highly recommend Google Analytics.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Most of the research on digital advocacy is focused on the new types of speech we now see online.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

By dedicating just 120 hours per year, board members can make a substantial difference in the organization’s growth, advocacy, fundraising efforts, and overall success. Advocacy: Spreading the message Successful board members go beyond their boardroom roles by actively advocating for the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. The columns represent a simplified marketing funnel – how people make “purchase” decisions or in this case advocacy “action” decisions. Your organization’s “funnel” for advocacy may look different, it may have more stages.

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M+R

JUNE 4, 2024

Note any platform restrictions or blackout dates The biggest restrictions we’ve come across historically are those found on the Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram, where we anticipate a similar policy to that of 2022 for ads about social issues, elections, or politics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. COVID-19 obviously changed this dynamic. She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience. Leverage social information and norms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What is Your Nonprofit’s Holiday Content Strategy for Facebook? Recently, I noticed a trend on what major retailers were doing on their Facebook pages for the holiday season. The emerging trend was that major retailers were using their Facebook pages to release special deals and give retail discounts for the holiday season.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

The new book I co-authored with Allyson Kapin, Social Change Anytime Everywhere , looks at the way nonprofit organizations can use multichannel strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and community building. For example, maybe you notice that you check your email and then go to Facebook. What do you do? Which tools do you use?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Other factors could include the increased distance from the momentum of the 2016 election, or the impact of tax changes on donors. Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. Email advocacy response rates are down 15%.

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NTEN

APRIL 23, 2010

Ask my husband: he stopped reading sports and gossip web sites and spends all his surfing time on Facebook now. . For several years, what happened on Facebook stayed in Facebook. I want to stress that Facebook -- or Yelp, or Pandora, or Docs.com -- aren't evil indentity thieves. For some, this trade-off is unthinkable.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What’s on tap for social media and advocacy? I’m discouraged by the amount of time many nonprofits are spending on new tools (like Facebook and Twitter), which may or may not work for fundraising, at the expense of optimizing their own sites! Mark Rovner, Sea Change Strategies. Online Advocacy is broken.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Averaging 3,100 Facebook page views per week. Organization Size: Medium.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

For example, @nonprofitorgs/lists : Customized for small nonprofits on a limited budget, the Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits webinar highlights current trends in using social media for fundraising, advocacy, and storytelling. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We often hear about the doing good movement in the context of millennials , and oftentimes Gen Z’ers, two generations that have demonstrated substantial shifts in attitude surrounding the belief in their own power to create positive change in the world. By midmorning of November 28 th , 1.64

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

And while it employs several methods to attract and retain volunteers, it’s found Facebook to be a good way to help meet its volunteer needs. We’ve had a certain amount of success using Facebook,” said Sue Yacka, AVP’s grants and communications coordinator. “I Volunteers for that program are also recruited through Facebook.

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Neon CRM

MAY 26, 2023

The best nonprofit marketing campaigns are designed for awareness and advocacy for your organization. It can update as the data changes, ensuring the website always shows the most current information. They create a video, post it on YouTube, link it on Facebook, and maybe share it on Twitter. Here are five ideas to consider.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. She is a consultant to progressive media and advocacy organizations. Deanna Zandt, author, Share This!

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

This is the generation that invented Facebook. They do pretty much everything online – from dating and movies to advocacy. An active presence on Facebook will also build your credibility with millennials. While the newest users on the platform skew older, 41% still use Facebook every day.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

As donor behavior continues to change, nonprofits of all sizes must increasingly rely on the generosity of many instead of the consistent support from a few. It takes a strategic approach, strong advocacy, and collaboration to secure the funding that ensures your organization can continue its valuable work.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Chatbots often live on websites, on Facebook, and inside mobile apps. Chatbots aren't new, but they've taken off in recent years, thanks to technological advances and the fact that Facebook now lets anyone program a chatbot within its Messenger app. The Climate Reality Advocacy Bot. Build Your Own Chatbot.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/humanesociety. We’re using Facebook primarily, Twitter for feedback, dabbling in Foursquare, and starting our LinkedIn presence. We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Organization: The Humane Society of the United States. Name: Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But these characteristics won't change about the demographic: They are vocal, demanding and discerning." " Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Can I be honest? to quickly share links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks. And now this has all.ly

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change: Crowdsourcing Social Change – Marcia Stepanek has a terrific recap of our sxsw Crowdsourcing session with quotes and links to the case studies we shared. Facebook protest isn't enough. Thanks for the post, Marcia! Submit today!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2016

Optimizing your nonprofit’s advocacy action alert doesn’t have to end with a supporter receiving a humble “thank you” from a thank you page or email. All too often, a tally is recorded and that’s the extent of online advocacy. This experience in online advocacy doesn’t have to yield this outcome. Facebook), Campaign Medium (e.g.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Title: Social Media for Social Good: How Digital Charity is Changing our World. Description: As non-profits turn their sights to the social web for mission delivery, advocacy, fundraising and awareness building, more for-profits organizations are supporting charity work with specialized programs and initiatives.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? All this being said, advocacy can be difficult to quantify.

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