The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. Your next game-changing testimonial could be just a conversation away. They serve as powerful tools to convey the human impact behind numbers and statistics.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

With the rise of smartphones, it seems like everyone’s constantly on social media, making it the perfect marketing tool for your nonprofit! Social media provides plenty of tools to help you create an effective strategy that can make a huge difference in your organization and help you meet the goals you set. Engagement. Fundraising.

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Not all social media channels are created equally when it comes to engaging with your audience—meaning your planning and execution needs to be nimble and flexible based on your goals and the audiences you want to engage with. 5000 Voices.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

Digital advocacy forms are tools used to move nonprofit supporters to take action in support of your mission—no matter where they live. One step in that journey is allowing them to easily participate from the safety of their home with digital advocacy tools. million messages that year using our tools. Ease of experience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns. To help you dive right in, this posts provides an overview of the tools available, best practices, and examples to make your chosen AI writing tool work for you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. How many of them actually invite you to have a conversation with them? Encouraging conversations.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Chat-first search, where people use conversation interfaces like chatbots to find information, is poised to overtake traditional search engine usage sooner than you might expect. The following is a search for the longtail term “should my nonprofit use AI tools?” Maybe Sooner Than You Think | PCMag ). on Google present day (Q2, 2023).

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

No matter the details of your story, you can leverage that sense of empathy to solicit a response from your audience. Here are four nonprofit storytelling strategies that will help you attract new supporters and keep them for years to come: Maintain the right tone of voice. Maintain the right tone of voice.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Chat-first search, where people use conversation interfaces like chatbots to find information, is poised to overtake traditional search engine usage sooner than you might expect. The following is a search for the longtail term “should my nonprofit use AI tools?” Maybe Sooner Than You Think | PCMag ). on Google present day (Q2, 2023).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This process will allow you to learn about your audience, gain feedback through conversations, provide support to your community when needed, and build one-on-one (or one-to-many) relationships on social media. Below are some foundational steps to building your community management strategy: Know your audience. Be authentic.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2023

Thankfully, this year, you have new tools at your disposal! If access is allowed through your organization’s policies, generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bard AI, or Bing AI can help to break you out of your typical messaging and give you a foundation to work with. A strong message is great but must be tailored to the right audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can set up the posting times by looking at your analytics to see which are the best times to reach your audience. 5) Pick the right tools. Now that you’ve decided on the channels and how often you will post, you now need to choose the scheduling tools that will help you save time when creating your content calendar.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. If you’re using email as a fundraising and donor communications tool, you can’t afford to send anything dull. I worked to develop my own voice. Better Fundraising Email Trick #2: Keep It Conversational .

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

Now is the time to act and give your cause the voice it needs. Use free online tools. There are a few tools at your disposal that are both free and useful. Another useful tool is Google Alerts. Select which articles would make shareable content that your audience would be interested in reading. Plan, plan, plan.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. Management – What tool/resource(s) do we use to store and analyze our data? We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

The monthly social trends report from Media Cause spotlights the biggest trends on social media each month, and spotlights how nonprofits and social good organizations can use social media effectively to reach and engage with their audience. And the audience is joining. Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024! Let’s get into it.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And with the advent of numerous SMS tools, so too comes the advent of free mass texting for nonprofits. That said, there are plenty of tools that nonprofits can use that are either free or budget-friendly. Our favorite free (and cheap) mass texting tools for nonprofits. Free and low-cost mass texting tools. Give by Cell.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 29, 2023

You have to stay within the time they’ve given you to speak and try to say something inspiring so that your audience wants to either get involved in your nonprofit or make a donation. Video is a powerful tool for fundraising and being on TV is a great way to spread the word about your nonprofit. Deal with difficult Board members.

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NetWits

AUGUST 21, 2012

Prioritize Tasks to Reduce “Noise” The first step in creating a web strategy is “knowing your audience” and defining user tasks (see Andrew Fort’s post: “The #1 Reason Nonprofit Websites Fail and How to Fix It Immediately”). From the Audience Analysis exercise you will have a long list of user tasks for each audience segment.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Whole Whale has been building AI prompts into custom tools for clients since Q1 of 2022 and we’ve learned a lot about what makes a good vs generic prompt. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Despite a long history filled with decades of analog advocacy, NPCA embraced one very important maxim: modern advocacy requires the right tools in order to be successful. Their four largest text campaigns in 2019 averaged a 24-percent click rate and almost 15 percent conversion. Passion, dedication and smart strategy are important.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Social media is one of the most powerful tools for activating people to take action. This is a critical time for participating in relevant social media conversations and using trending hashtags in your posts. It’s important to reinforce to people that our voices matter—and that change only happens when people demand it.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods. A vast majority of nonprofits reported experimenting with new techniques last year, which could be anything from new tech tools to a novel strategy for reaching new supporters. Join the conversation!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

We’re the most connected we’ve ever been – with our friends, social networks and even strangers near and far having constant influence and involvement in our daily lives through messaging, social media, in app social tools, online communities and more. It’s about creating a conversation and inviting employees and consumers to join.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Your tools are defined both by the goal of what you want to do, but also by the people – are they tools that that audience uses and likes? Similarly, the content is defined by the goal, but also by the tools at your disposal and the people who will consume it. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

And remember this important tenet: many expert bloggers look at their work as a mix between art and science: the right words can get you started, but if you aren’t applying a good bit of logic to your target audience it may all be for nothing. And of course, a comment section is the best way to get to know your audience.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Your foundation’s website is the entry point for the majority of your audiences, and so ensuring that all parts of your digital strategy and digital ecosystem are connected to it is of utmost importance. Do they have a unified visual voice and brand? Do they have a unified visual voice and brand?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 17, 2021

With so much of this conversation happening in marketing and advertising, specifically, you’d imagine that some of the industries’ old standby tactics—criticism, shame, othering, etc.—would Appealing to audiences by creating opposing sides is nothing new to the world of marketing. would have fallen by the wayside.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One transformed Truman.gov into a streamlined design that is tailored to each of Truman’s main audience groups: scholars, candidates, and faculty representatives. This tool provides data on schools across the country – School Districts, Colleges and Universities, Legal Units (i.e.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool. You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are two design tasks.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

Segment your audience . Then we can more confidently explore a few major guidelines to put your communication tools to maximum efficiency. . On top of that, multi-channel marketing allows you to more easily cater your communications to specific audience segments and use each channel for different purposes. .

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