Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They gave out a special blend of tea as a Giveaway, something I have never seen before.) I was invited to teach an interactive workshop based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit on how to link self-care with well being in the workplace. What part of the design made it an awesome learning experience for you? Source: Sitkicker.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect and lead author of #GivingTuesday Ideas for 2018 , a new guide designed to equip and empower nonprofit professionals to achieve their #GivingTuesday goals. Many people celebrate Giving Tuesday, so how will your nonprofit stand out?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A nonprofit CEO reader writes: “My inbox and mailbox are flooded with fundraising appeals from causes using the words ‘terrifying,’ ‘alarming,’ ‘emergency.’ “Yes, The truth is that fundraisers must sort out when and how to message their constituents using positive, negative, or a blend of both. Yes, we’re in deep sh*t on many levels.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause. There are quite a few different nonprofit event management software options your organization can use to make your event as seamless as possible.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This role goes beyond designing invitations; it encompasses crafting a seamless blend of physical and digital experiences that leave a lasting impact. Each design should embody the event’s theme, showcasing creativity and an eye for aesthetics.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Your Tech-Savvy Companion in Advocacy In this digital era, your nonprofit is not just a beacon of change – it’s tech-powered ! Email segmentation is like creating a special blend of tea tailored for each supporter’s taste – personal, engaging , and just right. Sounds like a dream?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” The new product seeks to seamlessly blend digital content with your physical space, offering both Virtual and Augmented Reality capabilities. Perhaps it’s Apple’s marketing allure, but I genuinely believe that spatial computing is and will transform the way we perceive experience design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Designed pro bono by acclaimed New York firm CookFox Architects, the ecological design creates a healthy environment for learning, limits water and energy usage, with a rooftop garden, natural ventilation, low-energy lighting, solar energy, and open-air learning spaces.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But, you probably already know how important a website is — what you might not know is that Microsoft Expressions software gives nonprofits and libraries like yours the tools you need to design and create websites. From donors, to press, to the communities you serve, your website is key in communicating your mission with the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.” Source: Hot Button Studio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This post is about the way people write the word nonprofit. As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. I’m editor of an academic journal, so I see people writing about the nonprofit sector all the time.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2021

Most notable is that in a recent survey of nonprofit organizations, 80.5% Let’s touch on a few easy ways to ensure you’re mixing up your P2P strategy and blending it with your organization’s overall fundraising strategy. This works for hospitals, colleges, universities, K-12 schools and all the nonprofits in-between.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides new books and educational resources—for free and at low cost—to schools and programs serving children in need. Areas served: Worldwide. Cornell Douglas Foundation. First Book.

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Media Cause

MAY 28, 2021

Media Cause Art Director Rob Shaw and Senior Designer Ansley Luce recently gave an agency-wide (virtual) talk on Color Theory: Emotion + Bias. We used some examples of Media Cause’s clients and other nonprofits to demonstrate this. Very few nonprofits use yellow, but the ones who do are primarily in the education space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

As video content on social media continues to reign supreme and audio-only content, spurred on by Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, grows, it’s important for nonprofits to prioritize accessibility when publishing content online. Let’s talk about a few steps that you can take NOW to make your social media content more accessible for everyone. .

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This busy time is marked with nonprofits around the world striving for new and exciting ways to engage with potential donors. Catholic Relief Services gets a shout-out for their clean and crisp page design. This may be the simplest design on our list but sometimes the simpler the better. Catholic Relief Services. Fresh Truck.

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AFP Blog

MAY 6, 2008

HaywoodCountyNews.com: HCC students design Web sites for 2 nonprofits: "CLYDE – Haywood Community College's Web Markup and Scripting class recently unveiled two web pages designed by students for two Haywood County nonprofit organizations.Representatives of Spotlights Youth Theatre and REACH of Haywood County were both presented the designs by a blended (..)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. In that spirit, here are some leading open-source solutions in three categories relevant to nonprofits: CRM. Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

The planning, preparation, execution and blend of multi-generational activities really comes together to make a community impact. Work with your Advancement Services team and representatives from online donation platform (again, for us this is the design team with JustGiving ) to ensure that day-of donations run smoothly.

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Double the Donation

JULY 27, 2021

The integration is designed to work with the ascend platform to identify match-eligible donors following the donation process, then lead them directly to their matching gift submission form. The 360MatchPro platform provides nonprofits with tools to identify match-eligible donors, drive matches to completion, and gain actionable insights.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2015

This guide will walk you through the first steps of how to create the poster from Intro to Photoshop for Nonprofits: Part 1. See Tuts+ Design's video tutorial on resampling for ways to dazzle your friends at parties when the topic of bicubic resampling inevitably comes up. Welcome back! Maybe someday.) Have any questions so far?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US. One thing that I loved was the playground.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. iOS/Android: The First Aid app from the American Red Cross is a great example of why the content of an app should inform it’s functionality and design.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

And successful mid-level programs are borrowing and blending the best of both disciplines. How are nonprofits closing the gap? The strengths of each discipline are blending. At Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, the team is designed for cooperation. Unique staffing models are emerging. Engaged Leadership.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

boom will boost corporate profits 30% or more over the next decade, according to a Goldman Sachs senior strategist ) and it can also lead to boosts for nonprofits – if used correctly. Enter the AI 2-minute rule, a blend of GTD and AI tech that expands the window of quick tasks that can be done to unblock yourself and your team.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. It’s an interesting model that blends the kind of action triggered approach to donation that HelpAttack! Frogloop has you covered. Checkon.me

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

But wait—should you really be starting a nonprofit? An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

At bbcon 2015, some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions. Nonprofits for years have made a discipline of speaking the same words as their funders. For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. Or an indicator. Or a milestone.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. The logo was designed what felt like minutes before our launch in March 2005. This is a post I've been waiting over a year to write, so apologies for its length.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. It’s a healthy and engaging way to support your nonprofit’s cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace – fast paced and heavy workloads – makes it nearly impossible to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it. It isn’t enough to read an article about a leadership skill, it is also important to practice it as part of doing your work.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ability to understand and operate within changing models and across traditional sector divisions will only become more important as private, public and social sector models continue to blend (social entrepreneurship) and transform (B Corps). Common Impact supports the rise of cross sector leaders through our skilled volunteer programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Derrick Feldmann is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. He serves as president of Achieve , a research and design agency for causes. This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine. The post 3 Ways to Engage Millennials in Your Cause appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Sign up to receive your copy today. __.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate. Even as we talk about “abundance thinking” in nonprofits, we tend to restrict ourselves to a limited landscape of opportunities. In my nonprofit world, I’m neither required nor challenged to develop such clear criteria.

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