Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images. Make a donation! Craziness!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The IRS is still trying to wrap it’s head around that one… a book tour fundraiser. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Add “Donate Now” button to your home page. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your social networking communities. 3) “Donate Now” Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns. Step Two :: Pin It!

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As a nonprofit organization, you may already be feeling the need to take a stance on the concept of the metaverse or perhaps make decisions about “meta-related” activities like accepting crypto donations. Crypto users are also more likely to donate—nearly 50%—overshadowing the general investor population, of which the number is only 33%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. While embracing a comprehensive, long-term breaking news and crisis communications strategy is challenging for many nonprofits, all nonprofits, regardless of their size, can tap into the power of cause awareness days.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Large nonprofits usually have the expertise and resources necessary to launch and maintain successful online communications and fundraising campaigns. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Hint, hint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment). If desired, suggestions can also be made about how your nonprofit can begin to launch a mobile communications and fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment). If desired, suggestions can also be made about how your nonprofit can begin to launch a mobile communications and fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment). If desired, suggestions can also be made about how your nonprofit can begin to launch a mobile communications and fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

If your nonprofit is already on Google+, then the best practices below are meant to help you better learn how to tap into and inspire the Google+ community. In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. e-Newsletter. Photos and slideshows.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise. If people are fundraising for you online, do you know about it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. You need a good avatar. Social media is not free!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Great for farmers’ market vendors, silent auctions, and fundraisers on the go! A website that allows nonprofits to set up web-based SupporterWalls of which spots of varying sizes and donation amounts can be purchased by your supporters. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. The next reiteration a "Tweet-a-thon" fundraising event is taking place until March 5th and the goal is to empower marginalized women and girls in the world’s poorest countries. The image is available here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I am seriously impressed with how he has created and grown CauseVox and how it continues to do great work around crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I am seriously impressed with how he has created and grown CauseVox and how it continues to do great work around crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I didn’t feel like the Twitter community could handle another cause infused global campaign on the scale of Twestival so soon. My gut told me to think locally and use this international momentum and inspire people to shine a spotlight on a local cause, or a cause that a community would get behind.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you are ready to turn your board around and increase their comfort level with fundraising, Sabrina Walker Hernandez will show you how! We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. You are worth it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. I pointed her to my personal fundraising case study ). I hope she will blog some of her lessons learned too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. For more information, go to www.oneten.org.uk. Host your own event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

" He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. And not just fundraise. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. Educate about your cause. Provide Hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Over the last two months Nonprofit Tech for Good presented a free webinar based on the newly released book Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Mobile and social media are powerful fundraising tools. To be successful utilizing mobile and social media for fundraising, you need a strategic plan and a budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Any doubts that social networks aren’t powerful or don’t need to be prioritized in your online communications and fundraising campaigns can now be put to rest. Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Of course, they have professional fundraisers on staff. Audiences won't stick with nonprofits that don't make progress on issues and won't donate to groups that aren't having MAJOR impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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