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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Learn Basic HTML. Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Tell your boss that.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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8 Essential Nonprofit Tools to Get You off the Ground

NonProfit Hub

Avoid this by using software that provides a simple and secure donation process — enabling you to raise funds from anywhere while collecting your donor’s information and increasing your online presence. Some helpful features are: Plugins – Serving platforms like Wix, WordPress, Weebly, and Squarespace. Donorbox can help you.

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Online Fundraising Ideas (7 Strategies & 63% More Donations)

Nonprofits Source

First I’ll show you how the Environmental Defense Fund used their email list in a creative way to increase online donations by 63%. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) used this strategy during Giving Tuesday to maximize their year-end online fundraising. 7 Online Fundraising Ideas (That Actually Work): 1. MaxTraffic.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. LastPass :: lastpass.com. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon!

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