Media Cause

OCTOBER 17, 2022

While keeping this top of mind, you should ensure you give your audience what they want and need. Understanding user intent and your audience. Here are some ideas to help guide your content strategy and ensure your content is written well and optimized for search—no matter where it lives. Develop Your Keyword Strategy.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What marketing channels will you use? If you’re thinking about taking a one-channel marketing approach, there’s a good chance some donors will miss your messaging. Instead, try using multi-channel marketing to earn more Giving Tuesday donations. What is multi-channel marketing? Put together a master marketing calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Many organizations have to strategize around limited budgets while trying to reach the largest audience possible to get their mission out there.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. A thorough, thoughtful strategy takes the guess work out of the daily operations of your nonprofit.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. To maximize your potential across social media platforms, it’s essential to create a nonprofit social media strategy. How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Strategy. Build your audience persona. Set SMART goals.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding your nonprofit audiences—their hearts and minds, wallets and worlds—is critical to successfully communicating in an election year. Explore Media Cause experts’ top five communication tips to consider as you roll out your advocacy , fundraising , and engagement strategies during an election year. For nonprofits in the U.S.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy encompasses more than just earning donations from supporters. Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the process of building a fundraising strategy. With that, let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2014

Last month I moderated a panel of nonprofits sharing case studies about their integrated digital strategies. One of the case studies was about from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s content strategy and it featured a cute otter. Someone in the audience asked, “But what if your nonprofit doesn’t have cute animals for its content?”

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A holistic nonprofit digital marketing plan involves weaving together multiple channels and strategies into a unified approach that resonates with your target audience. Segment your audience. Use these insights to determine which channels to prioritize sending your messages through. Supporter type. Demographics.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

billion social media users in 2021 – an increase of five percent from a year ago – it’s a valuable communication channel that should be part of your mix. Your social channels should reflect your mission and values. Here are easy-to-implement content ideas to help fill out your social media calendar.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Prior to rolling your plan out to a larger audience, ask those closest to your organization—like your GivingTuesday committee members and top fundraisers—to review your messaging and toolkit. When thinking about your audience , consider the following: Who will read or view the communication and why?

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. So, if someone was looking to put together a monthly calendar for their social media channels, what are the types of posts they should look to include in that plan?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While the look and feel of a new website is often top of mind and absolutely essential in making a resounding impression, there are also a number of non-design-related strategies that you need to take into account. Who are the audiences you are looking to target? Look at your data and use it to segment your audiences.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

We helped Pathfinder leverage advocacy to great effect, connecting their audience to issues that resonate — and driving considerable growth in their individual giving program. Just consider a recent Pathfinder campaign in which we asked their audience to take an advocacy action for International Women’s Day. Action Center.

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Classy

MAY 12, 2021

The following seven steps help you navigate the confusion about what to post on which channels and when. Your unique nonprofit social media strategy. Try browsing various aspirational accounts to get your creativity flowing or check out the sample week of nonprofit social media posts for seven of today’s most engaged with channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Use these tactics to increase your chances of reaching supporters at the right time: 1) Promote using targeted audiences. Also, be sure to restrict your audience to countries where people can create Fundraisers for charities.

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

Fortunately, we started asking these questions with just enough time to put together a treatment test before finalizing our End of Year strategy last fall. So, when coming up with a cultivation content strategy for the test, we tried to reuse existing assets as much as possible. That’s not the shocking part.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The amount of digital content coming out of various departments and through various channels (website, social media, etc.) requires a solid content strategy. Learn more about higher ed marketing strategy in the free white paper: Your Online Marketing Plan for Higher Education. So, how do you define your content strategy?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. When implementing this strategy, create compelling and visually appealing call-to-action buttons that convey the purpose and urgency of donating to your cause.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With the right strategy, you can engage with your supporters, raise brand awareness, and make a lasting impact. Operating without a clear marketing strategy. Targeting the wrong audience. Operating without a clear marketing strategy. As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. My answer: Yes!

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

What is a good social media strategy for nonprofits? Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Why should nonprofits use social media? Engagement. Fundraising.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website is the center of your communication and marketing strategy. When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. Your site doesn’t engage your audience. Your website isn’t mobile responsive. Your site isn’t accessible.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Tech-savvy audiences like millennials are also familiar with automated emails and tell the difference between a generic email sent to a thousand people and one written personally for them. . Both of these strategies can be effective, especially when used in combination with each other. According to. a common mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Use of editorial calendar. Increase reach on social media channels. Increase engagement on social channels. Social media content mirrors other channels. Use of counting metrics. Cultivate “super fans”. Amplify peers’ efforts. Solicit and share stories.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

When planning your marketing strategy for 2015, you’ll want to give your content marketing efforts some serious consideration. One way to get organized and more strategic is to use an editorial calendar. Here are six steps to getting your editorial calendar started. Define your audience. A YouTube channel?

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Roundtree

AUGUST 10, 2021

Brands have to have an audience-building strategy for their social media activity. And the best strategy centers on delivering content your customers find valuable. . Tip #1: Know your audience. Unless you have a crystal-clear idea of who your audience is, you’ll never build your social media following.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Here are a few best practices that can help you as you get started with your member newsletter and your communication strategy as a whole. Consider Your Audience The key to creating a member newsletter that people keep opening and reading is to offer content that’s beneficial to them in some way.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With the right technology and a solid strategy, hosting a virtual fundraiser can be extremely lucrative for nonprofit organizations. Make a communications strategy. Instead, consider how you can approach communicating about your event in a way that reaches your target audience where they’re at. Who are your key audiences?

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

It was considered too resource intensive to play a consistent role in most promotional strategies. I realized that associations already had the content and the audience. In that scenario, all of the best content only hits approximately 15 percent of the audience. This topic appeals to both insider and outsider audiences.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

City Health Dashboard , a project of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health, supported by Forum One, is a model for making their rich data accessible to all of their audiences and at data-driven storytelling. Develop a strategy for data storytelling. Know your audience. Understand your capacity.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Here’s how: Analyze fundraising channels: Examine how each of your fundraising channels is performing. Use this information to tailor your strategies and strengthen your relationships with donors.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

We wanted to see if this was a channel that our community responded well to. Our Giving Day always happens during the first full week of April, but we set our strategy and begin our planning in July the year prior. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. As you can imagine, it was! Start at least six months early.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Though annual reports can come at any time, a key component of finishing the calendar year off strong is to ensure that you are reporting on what you’ve achieved and identifying where there is room to grow. Data that helps you make a decision, refine your strategy, or optimize a channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. It struck me that an effective nonprofit content strategy is a process of continuous improvement.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

For some clients, we only contributed to a particular channel or two, while for others, we orchestrated their entire effort across channels. In this blog post, we’ll compare performance, creative approach, strategies, tactics, and process. The calendar does much of the heavy lifting for you, and wallets are broadly open.

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