Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This analysis can help guide you towards what best engages your target audiences. If you are incorporating new ideas into this year’s fundraising efforts, use this data to make some predictions about how you can best motivate your audiences into action. You might think they’re redundant—but your audience won’t.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Advertising can be an effective way to help grow your nonprofit’ s digital footprint, complement your current organic marketing efforts, and be an essential, part of your integrated marketing strategy. For your bottom-funnel efforts, you may remarket the list of new email leads with a strong CTA to donate and support your organization.

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Tips Organization Channel Benchmark 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Like everything else, though, pop-up technology has evolved considerably, allowing you to segment, test, and optimize. As you collect email addresses and information from your users, consider setting up a sync with platforms such as Facebook Ads and LinkedIn to populate out custom audiences via people who signed up for your offer.

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Websites Work Test Nonprofit 299

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

While it’s important to follow standard best practices, engagement rates depend highly on the preferences of one’s audience, which can vary greatly between nonprofits who serve a diverse array of communities and issues. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not surprisingly, a 2020 report from Wild Apricot showed that 68% of organizations have difficulty growing membership. Target new audiences – We focus on member experience, satisfaction, and retention, but what about the more tangential groups we touch as an organization? What’s slowing these association’s down?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. You’ve heard of impact, and the many ways organizations try to capture what they’re doing. But first… What is impact management ?

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

Audience research is changing—along with a changing world—to help us on our quest to better understand audience behavior, needs, frustrations, and successes and ensure products and services are successful. As organizations navigate and adapt to connecting with users in new ways, here is what we see as valuable going forward.

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Testing your initial plans through stakeholder interviews. At each of these phases, understanding exactly who your audience is and how you should connect with them will be essential, especially after a year of pandemic challenges and distractions. Your Organization’s Leaders and Stakeholders. Feasibility Study. The Quiet Phase.

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M+R

MARCH 19, 2021

It can also lead to an emphasis on whiter, wealthier audience segments, which does not help build a fundraising program grounded in values of equity and inclusion. We need more refined tools and thoughtful approaches.

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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. This ensures you’re not wasting spend on areas that won’t drive results.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

For nonprofit organizations, which often have to meet urgent needs with limited resources, the importance of well-designed learning materials cannot be overstated. Start by identifying your audience and their needs. Based on your audience, you can set SMART objectives ; then you’re ready to start designing your learning materials.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The growing interest from donors and nonprofits alike in sustainer programs is an opportunity to test and do something different. With testing, nonprofits can experiment and improve on what communications work best for their sustainer audience. Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Communication Practice Program Instruction 130

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Online silent auctions help non-profits raise funds effectively without having to organize a full-scale in-person event. With a comprehensive fundraising platform , organizations can manage and run an exciting digital auction. Selecting compelling items that appeal to your audience can significantly impact your fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.” ” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Adding an emoji to your nonprofit’s email subject line can be effective in certain situations, but its impact largely depends on the context, your audience, and the nature of your email. Here are some factors to consider: Audience : Consider your audience’s preferences and expectations.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

At Forum One, we strive to provide solutions and tools that allow mission-driven organizations to make an impact in the world. Forum One is currently developing such a tool to empower content administrators to better shape the content that their audiences need, and in turn, increase the value of their websites.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

So, how do we help our audiences find the information they need? Before identifying which menu approach is appropriate, make sure your team is aligned on overall goals, audiences, and content needs. Audiences: Which audience groups are you prioritizing? Remember: you are not your audience. What issues do they have?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

While it can be hugely helpful, AI doesn’t do an amazing job writing for the searcher’s intent or your audience. Tailor content to your audience: For instance, Eventgroove enables nonprofits to easily run online raffles. The longer keyword targets your audience more precisely, leading to better engagement and conversion.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 11, 2017

billion users, how do you locate your target audience and direct their gaze your way? geolocation” the marketing buzzword of 2017, and we don’t disagree – so we looked closer at two ways geolocation can activate Facebook audiences around your nonprofit. refine your audience by location. refine your audience by location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Investigate how well your audiences perform. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. But for my social posts, I might set the medium to “organic”. We’ll get to that next.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? 2) Identify your target audience. The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

Leveraging analytics will help you identify if there is value in continuing hybrid or online events for your organization. Before the pandemic, there were many challenges with setting up real-life experiences to test your hypotheses. The pandemic gave organizations an opportunity to execute these abnormal events.

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Hosting Virtual Analytics Associations 321

Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. Successful organizations are leveraging the power of AI and social media to create more meaningful connections and foster community engagement. Drafting and testing. Optimizing reach.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic unexpectedly transformed how organizations hosted their events and meetings, forcing event planners to quickly pivot and move their meetings to virtual platforms. Breakdown attendees by job type, organization/company, age, location, tenure, behavior, repeat attendees and more. Predictive Analytics to focus your marketing.

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EveryAction

MAY 30, 2023

Virtual lobby days may be accessible to more people than in-person events; new supporters may be looking for a lower-barrier way to get involved; and virtual events can help you build the power in numbers that any organization needs for a successful advocacy effort. We’ll be rooting for you!

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The keyword planner makes it easy to find places which your audience is likely to visit and suggests new ways to connect with them using all of the targeting options available on the Google Display Network. Build Evergreen Resources Find useful content that your audience may use as an ongoing reference.

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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. Segment your audience. Here’s what three of our expert partners said!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Jen Frazier , President at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive. A/B testing can help determine the most effective sending days and times for an organization’s unique supporter base.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

A step-by-step approach to personalization allows organizations to start delivering unique content sooner than later. Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Practically, being audience-centered touches every aspect of staff work.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2023

Just upload their information into Meta, Google, or your DSP of choice, and target them as a custom audience. Once you’ve uploaded Scout Quest audiences into your ad platform, the next step is also very straightforward: Use those audiences to create your own lookalikes based on your super users and test them against other targeting options.

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Los Angeles Audience Google Channel 102

Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

There is so much expert advice out there about how much you should post, what types of content are the best, and how to reach new audiences. The problem is, this advice is often aimed at organizations with dedicated social media folks, or even teams of them. Set a time period for the test. In a year, what will success look like?

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 98

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If your nonprofit organization is struggling to share your message with your various audiences, you’re not alone. Are you looking to talk to your existing audience, or expand to new folks? But with a little bit of structure and curiosity, it becomes a lot easier to learn and iterate to better connect with your audience. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For nonprofits and grantmaking organizations committed to racial equity, using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) raises important concerns. The marketing copy generator could simply overlook authentic representation of minority audiences and voices in its outputs. Humans must apply an equity lens.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There are lots of elements in storytelling that you can tweak and test. This includes: Audience research – Here’s my guide to audience research and how to build an audience persona for your storytelling work. Make a list of tests that you can run to see where else you can optimize. You Are Not Your Audience.

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