Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Sometimes, it requires taking a step back to gain perspective on all the different ways data storytelling can enhance advocacy efforts. Here are some highlights we'd like to share by using Silk projects as examples. It does so by collecting sightings from social media and mapping them. Creating a Searchable Database.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Common subjects include strategic planning, communications, advocacy, and community needs assessments. . This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . 6) Funding or Engaging in Advocacy . Loose, short-term affiliations also can be valuable for advocacy work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

My Ocean , is a niche social network of more than 9000 divers and this guest post by Darren Barefoot describes some powerful outcomes for ocean conservation by bringing together several strategies: niche social network, crowdsourced data mapping, and deep engagement. For decades, scuba divers have been cleaning waterways. million divers.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, the truth Initiative leverages a multi-step SMS, email, and social messaging campaign to spread awareness of—and stop—the sale of tobacco in Walgreens. As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Cohesion across your team. Your supporters.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. Check out the slides from our presentation, Scanning for Good: How Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes – there are a bunch of examples in the second half of the deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 24, 2023

Make sure they’ve heard it before you launch your next fundraising or advocacy campaign. Email mapping allows you to link email addresses to IP addresses, serving targeted ads to specific people on your list. For example, imagine you’re a public radio station doing a membership drive. to your supporters?

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

7 Things Your Association Strategy Should Include Mapping out a strategy for your membership association isn’t a one-time process. Operations & Leadership How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 10 Great Examples) 17 min read Read Now 2. If it doesn’t, then your organization won’t last.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

Take action to make it easier for your community to volunteer and do advocacy work. For example, you might think about what leads up to and comes after a certain email marketing campaign, i.e. “How could people have gotten here? Now is the time to fine tune to really help your supporters be more effective. Analyze your “Donate” page.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard?

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) I recommend it highly.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) I recommend it highly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? Network Mapping Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I asked Brooke McMillan, Online Community Evangelist, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to share some examples of how they engage with their community. October 2nd is LIVESTRONG Day- a day we set aside each year to focus on cancer survivors, advocacy efforts and community participation.

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

Unlike ten years ago, we now know that strategic corporate philanthropy and CR efforts can map directly back to business goals. One way to keep reaching new customers is through employee advocacy. Seventy-nine percent of brands that implemented employee advocacy programs reported improved online visibility. Increasing sales.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

You also gain a full picture of the software your team is currently working with, which can inform your fundraising, advocacy, stewardship, and technology-related efforts going forward. For example, let’s say you’re a nonprofit with an effective CRM, online donation platform, and marketing software. Optimizing your current solutions.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Team DNL’s Nonprofit Technology Consulting At DNL OmniMedia, we work with large organizations and growing nonprofits to help them use technology to reach their fundraising and advocacy goals. Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals. Setting short- and long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Family members.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required. The answer could be “both.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

Broadly defined, GIS refers to the use of a map format to collect and analyze data. GIS is a powerful tool for education and advocacy: it's not just about presenting data more attractively; it's about illuminating the real story behind the facts. There's a lot of inspiration in these great examples of GIS from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

For example, you can compare this year’s year-end giving campaign to last year’s. For example, you can understand what impact, if any, a new communication channel had on fundraising outcomes. For example, you can understand what impact, if any, a new communication channel had on fundraising outcomes. Advocacy actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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M+R

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A week-by-week view also allows you to build out thematic weeks (for example, teachers in support of X, conservatives who stand for Y, and labor unions speaking out for Z). Work closely with your legal team to map out possible rulings and have a few brief bullet points for how you’d message each scenario. Get in the media mix.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We love how Girls Who Code built an interactive map of the U.S. Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. The photos are the centerpiece of NRDC’s handsome report, and they compel readers to read more about the programs and advocacy projects of NRDC in their effort to protect our planet.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

For example, signing petitions, pledges, sharing your petitions or content on social networks and with their friends, family, and colleagues. And of course don’t forget to map out your year-end fundraising campaign. Determine the types of actions supporters can take online and on the ground. Do a homepage hijack. A/B testing.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

I asked both women to talk about how they apply the lens of gender when planning advocacy campaigns, building coalitions, and marketing their programs. There are many examples like this; perhaps you have some from your own organization. Map your network. Mapping your whole network is important. Hire diverse staff!

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?" As a result, the conditions under which data become information look different every day, whether in journalism, government, health care, education, publishing, philanthropy, policy research, nonprofit work, advocacy or countless other fields.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

He acknolwedges the challenges for our sector, but provides some good advice and examples. Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. We love Geo Locating and Mapping!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

as an inital example), Kevin Carey of HumanITy invited Hiroshi Kawamura, the new President of the DAISY Consortium and me to lunch on Brighton beach. For example, disabled people are very concerned about access to education and employment. The best part of my job is brainstorming with brilliant, passionate people around social issues.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Probably the most pervasive example is Microsoft Office 365, in which application software and data (ie, content) is all worked on, saved, stored, shared, and otherwise managed over the internet. Blackbaud’s Luminate Online® and Raiser’s Edge NXT® are examples of business solutions for nonprofits that 100% cloud-based.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) " This fact certainly caught my attention.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Example: FrontlineSMS. Crowdsourcing and mapping. Crowdmap is a hosted version of Ushahidi , which allows you to gather data and visualize it on a map. Tools to help you target advocacy campaigns based on a geographic database of state and congressional legislators. Think about that in comparison to your email open rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel. It could also be about volunteering.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2011

Or maybe you host some runs, make sure people can see the events and sign up easily or that friends that want to cheer them on can get to a route map on the day of the event. Check out this great example (best viewed from your mobile device of course!) While you are at it, prepare for mobile advocacy.

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