Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. For best practices on how to manage your page, please see all posts about Facebook.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To make this happen, here are some potential ideas you can put into practice immediately. But don’t feel like you need to do any or all of them, as the time and resources required to put them into practice vary. Consider hosting a thank-a-thon in January.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Your nonprofit website houses plenty of important information and resources, from the story of your organization’s founding to your donation page. Not only is this a best practice, but it’s also legally enforceable under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

This requires funders to examine their practices including grant applications, reporting requirements, decision-making structures, and program design to determine whether they reflect the inequities they seek to eliminate. Identify and change internal and funding practices that uphold inequity. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 21, 2022

New opportunities come to the forefront to tell your story. Organize a panel discussion around best practices in your field. An alternative is to use options like Fiverr and Upwork to find experts who can turn your raw footage, photos, and graphics into polished pieces. . The possibilities are endless.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Threads can also easily be shared to a user’s Instagram story or with a link. In the early days of Musk’s Twitter takeover, you may have seen many of your peers eulogizing the platform and moving to Mastodon or other Twitter alternatives. While some users were migrating, a true competitor hasn’t emerged until now.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the top five best practices to enhance your healthcare organization’s website: Optimize the user journey. Tell your organization’s story. Tell your organization’s story. If you feel your website could serve visitors more effectively, you might contemplate revamping it or even building a new one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is the second post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. BCC is an absolute worst practice, please don’t do it. Feature one to four news stories in your e-newsletter and focus on one story in your fundraising appeals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

You can use video to tell a story about what donors made possible, take them on a virtual tour of your facility, or spotlight major contributors of your campaign. This is an excellent alternative to traditional fundraising that may inspire a new crew of passionate people to become lifetime supporters of your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Below are 10 website design best practices specifically for the nonprofit sector. Then, throughout the ASPCA website, the sidebar alternates CTAs customized for that particular page.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s crucial that your online donation forms and landing page match the story you’re telling. An impact statement is your organization’s story about your influence on the community. Showing the impact of your organization by providing real life examples of your services and telling your story throughout the donor experience.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Many nonprofits have finalized their plans, but some are still adapting and adding tactics, like tweaking donation page settings, updating social media images, or double-checking that their organizations are in alignment with email best practices before the big day. Here’s what three of our expert partners said!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

Read more about the TechSoup Telework Story Challenge here. The January 2015 TechSoup Telework Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Visit the Success Stories landing page at [link] to enter your submission. (a) b) Story Submission. A submission form must be submitted for each story submission.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Isn’t this the same old story? Due to the time lag associated with IRS 990 filings” is practically a mantra among social sector researchers and experts. Instead, we need to figure out alternative ways to get recent data about the sector. To some, this might feel like old news.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, they’ll be eager to learn about your organization’s mission and what this actually looks like in practice. Alternatively, you can share a photo related to your website content that you already have, like a picture of your volunteers or the animals you’ve helped.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But did you know that research from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics show people are more engaged by stories than numbers ? If that’s true, what story could we tell to show effectiveness?”. They say : “We could tell the story of one person or family we helped get off the streets.”. You say : “Great idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Twitter Moments as defined by Twitter are curated tweets collected into a story. Alternatively, publish your Moment with an auto-generated cover photo (no image attached to the tweet). First launched in October 2015 in partnership with a select few media partners, as of September 29 all Twitter users can now create Moments.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This data point alone should prompt nonprofit leaders and gift officers to pause to consider modifications to their fundraising practices in the near term as inflation persists.” Business best practices recommend maintaining an emergency fund equivalent to at least three months (or more) of operating expenses.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

You’ll read intriguing and revealing stories of how some of the largest and scrappiest companies and organizations used one or more of the four workarounds to accomplish their objectives. They are well suited because they embrace uncertainty and imperfection and address our most urgent needs while exploring more robust alternatives.

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Bloomerang

JULY 15, 2021

Appreciate those who have alternative life experiences in their background when in recruitment phases. Founder of light-on-light, a project addressing the stories of individuals and organisations making a positive and intentional impact on society. Discuss this challenge regularly with other leaders in your organization if you can.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s easy to make mistakes when communicating with your donors, so be sure that when you reach out, your message is succinct, includes a call-to-action, and tells your story. These best practices will help you make the most of your outreach, especially if text-to-give is a new method of giving for your nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Besides the warm, fuzzy feeling you'll get from the act of sharing, organizations that submit the most compelling and innovative story will win their choice of one of these three amazing prizes from our RCI program. Submit your story anyway! Check out our terms and conditions below, and share your story today. Interested?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Besides the warm, fuzzy feeling you'll get from the act of sharing, organizations that submit the most compelling and innovative story will win their choice of one of these three amazing prizes from our RCI program. Submit your story anyway! Check out our terms and conditions below, and share your story today. Interested?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Practice, patience and time are your friends if you want to improve your writing. Source stories. Do the story and narrative help donors see how they can be on the “good” side? I use an online thesaurus called Word Hippo to come up with alternatives and try out different versions of the copy. Write first drafts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

They responded to the design challenge by making the toolkit as practical as possible. The heart and soul of the toolkit are the worksheets and processes for problem solving. Kimbell’s toolkit includes the 7 best practices for design thinking: 1. Tell stories and make maps. Make things to explore, test and learn.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Organizational Budgeting, Revenue Practices, and Forecasts (20 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent).

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Alternatively, you might notice your donor response rates are low, indicating that some of your data is outdated or inaccurate. Organize your CRM and maximize features like segmentation with these best practices: Run queries. Fill In Gaps With Data Appends. In your CRM, you might notice gaps in supporters’ profiles.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Develop a Strategy. Let’s begin.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

These surveys—more than 75 to date—all help tell the story of the pandemic’s continued impact on the sector, including how needs and responses have changed and what funders and nonprofits expect moving forward. Of that number, most foundations reported that they will do so to a lesser degree than their current pandemic practice.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. One agenda item is mentioned, and that is Betty’s cue to break into lengthy stories and opinions, basically hijacking the conversation. He’s the one that somehow manages to turn a conversation about the next fundraiser into a story about his nephew’s baseball game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. ” Is that that the story?) Nowhere to be found in this video.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One way for corporations to practice philanthropy is workplace giving, which relies on employee participation: Workplace giving is an employer-sponsored giving program that helps employees contribute to charitable causes. In-kind donations: Another alternative to making monetary contributions is donating goods or services.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam Causes may even want to consider alternative mobile channels for communications and fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In addition, I’ve learned alternate approaches to resolving the technical challenges that abound in statistical coding from the talented team of HRDAG statisticians I worked alongside. As a Ukrainian Jew, I grew up hearing stories of unfair and often-brutal police discrimination.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

We can help you take a look at some of those alternatives, look at how you might keep using some of those features, or how you might want to phase that approach. You May Also Enjoy: Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Marketing Cloud.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If gift cards are not in the budget, think of less expensive alternatives. Highlight Participant Stories. In addition to involving your top fundraisers and team captains, ask if you can tell their stories to other participants. Make a list of all possible incentives you can offer and begin using them next year.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We are offering a Dell Latitude 10 tablet refurbished by our friends at CDI to the best “ Digital Connector ” story lead. Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m.

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