sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2021

When implemented effectively, recurring gifts have the potential to increase supporter engagement and multiply your earnings. Whether your organization promotes literacy, shelters animals, or impacts another worthy cause, recurring donations have the power to increase your funds so long as you take a smart approach to optimizing your program.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We also have t-shirts for the best audience-submitted prompts). *No AI in Action: Building Trust with Human-Centered, Responsible, and Effective AI Leah Payne, Director of Prospect Management & Research, Longwood University Carrie Goldberger, Senior Product Manager, Blackbaud Are you ready to put artificial intelligence (AI) into action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

The most important listening literacy skills are. Engaging effectively : Don't just listen unless your mission is market research or you're a peeping tom. This should give you a reality check and avoid assuming that your audiences uses the same words as your staff or you. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

The formula for Writing Great GPT Prompts The best formula for getting unique responses from GPT tools involves a combination of effective prompts, customized settings, adding contextual data, and iterative experimentation. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. Email and Social Media Strategies to Connect with Donors Before asking for donations the day of the event, prime your audience by making them aware of Library Giving Day well in advance.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

So, not only do your target audiences have shorter attention spans than ever, there’s ever more stuff to distract them online. American Literacy is Iffy. Keep Your Audience (and Their Needs) Front and Center. That you should focus on your target audience’s needs seems like an obvious idea. 456,000 tweets are tweeted.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students. If you can only have one newsletter, it should be aimed at general audiences. With Neon CRM, you can create a more efficient, effective and engaging experience for your donors. Contact us for a demo.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Getting the message just right will save you from feeling nervous about asking for money, rambling when you talk about your organization’s work, and boring your audience. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital Strategy is my passion, but less from the perspective of technology implementation and more from the perspective of embedding digital knowledge and literacy throughout an organization. In our battle for the attention of our audiences, our biggest competition is the smartphone, but it is also our biggest ally.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At one point, the discussion around using Facebook revolved around how to build an audience on the platform and then direct that audience to another digital location such as your online donation page. Increase your internal team’s Facebook literacy as well as your supporters’. Create educational resources about Facebook.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2013

Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. General sessions are less effective than sessions that are topical or targeted. Is there a particular audience you could target? Here's advice from a pro! Don't try to cover too much.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We realized that the most effective tool to fight human rights abuse was the truth. Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Thanks to TechSoup, we're able to save time and money, putting more of our budget and efforts toward the artists our audiences want to see on stage."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities. In his April 2011 keynote address at the U.S. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Start with your audience. If your team doesn’t understand what you’re going for, neither will your audience! They also allow you to choose the speed of fades, which is crucial to get right, especially if you create title or caption cards to give your audience more information. This will broaden your audience.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A prominent theme, coming up over and over, was how engaging audiences remotely removes some barriers to access while creating others. As one volunteer manager in a human services organization in Alabama put it, remote technology like social media gives you an “audience that doesn’t have limits.” Here’s what they had to say.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Upcoming Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Develpomental evaluation is an approach to monitoring and supporting a program by working in partnership with your audience. Social media techniques like listening, engaging, and crowdsourcing – are developmental evaluation techniques at their finest.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Educational institutions have an abundance of data, but they are often challenged by making sense of it in the most effective ways possible.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. But when they can back it up with evidence, that's more recognized by a more Western audience. Want to learn more? spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. The most important listening literacy skills are. Engaging effectively. Qui Diaz, The Big Dig Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization. I call it slow social media.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Your fundraising campaign page is your digital storefront and your most effective tool for connecting with potential donors. When your page is visually appealing, you’re more likely to wow your audience. Understand Your Audience Once you’ve chosen your platform, it’s time to get a better understanding of your audience.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. Understand your audience. By understanding your nonprofit’s audience, you can craft marketing materials that connect your mission to their specific interests and values. Let’s jump in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." What are the implications and ripple effects? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Interested in games as an objective component to study. We need metrics!

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . So, getting your story in the news is still a worthwhile strategy, particularly if your nonprofit is young and needs a bigger audience. But how do you land a news story? Be thorough.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Besides keeping people safe during the pandemic, virtual volunteering also allows nonprofits to: Reach a more geographically far-flung audience. Your virtual volunteer experiences must be engaging to inspire your audience members to get involved. Why is that? Ask volunteers what they’d like to see.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

We’ll see more YouTube and Twitch stars testing the thresholds of what their audiences are willing to watch, which means ever more salacious, incendiary content, disturbing images and dangerous behaviors. People will be surrounded by more misleading or false information, not less. People must gradually evolve and adjust to these changes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. The fundraiser leaderboard and thermometer are testaments to the success of the event.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We know the impact is having a strong effect on someone or something. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Identify a business that shares your audience, and think about ways to support each other. If your organization promotes literacy, partner with a bookstore. It’s a very effective part of an Ask since it tells your donor prospect how their donation will make a difference. Partner with a local business. You need a Core Number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how do you know it is effective? Over the summer, Facebook has enabled you to pay for an individual post to be seen in more of your fans’ newsfeeds. This means that we believe there’s inherent value in developing authentic, meaningful, and helpful relationships with our audience through social media to help tell our story.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We can’t just bring a diverse audience to the table; we need to make sure that their contribution is noted. Fluency with digital tools for communication, collaboration, and decision-making leading to efficient and effective governance. A board matrix outlining current expertise plus the group’s wish list is an effective tool.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

Drive data literacy Defining your data vision and developing a strong framework for data governance are foundational elements of a data strategy, but increasing data literacy and maturity across your organization will make it stick.

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