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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, this is not a universal rule. Nonprofits can make their year-end email campaigns more accessible by providing alt text for images, clear and simple language, and offering options for large font sizes. Common benchmarks include the number of new donors, the number of new email subscribers, or volunteer sign-ups.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S. and around the world to create award-winning videos that drive results. The Nonprofit Video Index.

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#AI4Good: What Your Nonprofit Needs To Know About AI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The survey will be implemented regularly to benchmark adoption of AI. EmoNet , neural network model developed by researchers at the University of Colorado and Duke University, was accurately able to classify images into 11 different emotion categories. This has implications in the mental health field.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

Set your own benchmarks: Guidelines, benchmark reports, and best practices are helpful to know, but ultimately its important to know your audience. Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.

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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were getting creative and pioneering MySpace in 2005 and Facebook in 2006 long before corporate brands and universities, but that hasn’t been the case with mobile technology. Personally, the ads don’t bother me, but you can decide for yourself by experiencing my ad-supported TextMarks campaign [see image for example of ads].

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How to Wow in 4 Easy Steps: A Mash-up

Tech Soup

Visual Storytelling E-Book: The Digital Video Documentary by Nancy Kalow of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. See3 Communications — Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video and a Guide for Creators — This report shows how and what nonprofits are doing with video and best practices. StoryCorps.

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Jump In Now to the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey

Tech Soup

Here’s how: Recency: We survey grantseekers, grant writers, and those involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year (spring and fall). Image: Ellen Mowrer (Shannon Crosby). What are the statistics for new organizations vs. established nonprofits? Do nonprofits lose grantseeking momentum after a few years?

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