Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. Everyone attends conferences for different reasons, so stay aware of what you’re looking to accomplish during the event. . 9 Ways to Become a Conference Networking Champ.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Since each staff person knows intimately their own positions and experiences as employees at your organization, they are well-suited to contribute to the conversation about the kind of leader they think would be most effective at helping them continue their work. Leave a comment and join in the conversation!

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Conversely, amplify the strategies or messages that lead to the most conversions. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, behavioral science should inform the ways you recruit and engage supporters as well as raise awareness for your cause. Furthermore, when people participate in your campaign on social media, they leave behind digital traces, which gives you an opportunity to identify and engage them through conversations.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Every nonprofit website should include key features to optimize fundraising, promote brand awareness, and attract volunteers. Instead, a website is a space you can utilize to increase fundraising, promote brand awareness, and find volunteers. An online website isn’t just an advertisement for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Hyper self-awareness occurs when we are forced to view our own faces while we are interacting with others. We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. In fact, it is called “ The Water Cooler Effect.”

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Blue Fox

APRIL 13, 2022

We are so honored that she not only accepted the invitation to serve but has been a force for driving those conversations and programs both internally and externally, as well as a financial supporter of our Professional Equity Sponsorship program for underserved business partners.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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CauseVox

JUNE 26, 2023

They increase overall giving, raise awareness, and create a supportive community. Raise Awareness Moreover, when donors make a tribute gift in honor of someone, their support goes beyond a simple contribution. It becomes a powerful act of raising awareness about your mission and the meaningful work you do.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Investing ten hours in talking about the organization with family, friends, associates, and various groups helps raise awareness and broaden the network of potential supporters. Regular communication channels should be established to facilitate the flow of information between board members and staff.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

Every purchase becomes an opportunity for your supporters to showcase their affiliation and spread awareness. Whether it’s artwork from beneficiaries or items that represent the impact of your work, your merchandise can be a conversation starter about your mission. Showcase Stories and Impact Products can tell a story.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A conversion-optimized donation page. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). A conversion-optimized donation page. Motivational imagery.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Also be aware of restricted versus unrestricted funds. Make sure all stakeholders are aware of the organization’s strategic plan as they work on and review the budget. Be sure to include the goals and supporting information with the Board in advance to help facilitate a constructive conversation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Part of the job of being a true philanthropy facilitator is showing donors how they might benefit from being a little more generous. Towards this end, why not be prepared to inform donors of giving opportunities of which they may not be aware? Let’s review these two giving opportunities of which your donors may not be aware.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Our commitment to the community and students of Davos, to climate action education, and to driving the conversation around stakeholder economy globally is stronger than ever.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Middle of Funnel : By the time a user reaches the middle of the intent funnel, they are aware of your organization’s mission, and they’ve been qualified as having the financial or other demographic markers of a potential donor.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

In your pre-event communications, make attendees aware of the feature and encourage them to ask questions during live speeches and presentations. It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. Program Networking Sessions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

In addition, there is increased global awareness of women’s issues such as reproductive rights in the U.S., Connecting the dots between research and practice, the symposium will facilitate reflective and thought-provoking conversations about big ideas like the intersections of gender, philanthropy, equity, and impact.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Educate and raise awareness : Many donors may not be familiar with planned giving options or how to include your nonprofit in their Will and estate plans. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Provide clear instructions. Choose the right time to bring up the subject.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Grantmakers should address the potential for bias through training or direct conversations. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making. We often find that bias is the bigger threat.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. Website conversion optimization. Custom plugin, module, or theme creation. Third-party/custom integrations. SEO strategy.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

In your pre-event communications, make attendees aware of the feature and encourage them to ask questions during live speeches and presentations. It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. Program Networking Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The first session focused on self-awareness skills. You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With the right strategy, you can engage with your supporters, raise brand awareness, and make a lasting impact. Raise awareness. This small touch of personalization builds rapport and loyalty to your organization, increasing engagement and the likelihood of conversion. Payment facilitators. Acquire new donors.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. It’s critical that you integrate content marketing and fundraising if you’re to succeed at raising both awareness and money in the current economy. . Mastering relevant content marketing.

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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’? Key Takeaway #4: Learn from Direct Response Many general advertisers used brief 30-second TV commercials that aim to build vague brand awareness in the 60s.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review what you need to know about volunteer management software and the top solutions to be aware of. Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. The ability to make top volunteers eligible to win raffles (supported by Golden) for valuable prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

6: Social Media Can and Should be Measured: This principle is about incorporating the discipline of measurement into your approach and to go beyond just measuring “coverage&# but also measure conversation and communities. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Self-awareness— is the ability to assess your own skills and to understand your personal emotional landscape. Create Awareness The easiest way to introduce EI into your environment is to build awareness about the concept. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. Start slowly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates. It makes content creation more effective.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Analyze your patient’s journey by collecting data on the following interactions: Pre-visit awareness: Whether it’s through an online ad, third-party listing, or call center a patient determined that their symptoms merit treatment. Initial contact: A patient makes contact with your healthcare system online or in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Arts and Social Media. View more presentations from Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Their theory of change is about raising awareness of the issues and then inspiring, engaging and encouraging their audiences to take actions around this goal. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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