Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. The home page of today should have large, powerful images and minimal text. Use bold for headlines.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Getting the media to cover your organization's fundraising campaign can help you reach new donors, garner larger donations, and become a well-known, trusted entity in your community. After years of being on both the press side and the PR side of the media game, here are some of my favorite tips for elevating a fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. This is an adaptation of the article “ Nine Valuable Marketing Lessons From a Nonprofit – Charitywater.org ” written for the KISSmetrics blog by Chloe Gray. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You probably want a News page for your blog (if you plan to have one), which will help you keep your site fresh. A well-defined brand supports your marketing and fundraising efforts and lets people know instantly what you’re about. This is a map that lays out the pages your site needs. Colors: Colors are so important. Trustworthy?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Convene online marketing meetings with key department representatives (Fundraising, Programs, etc) twice each month to plan out upcoming initiatives in the annual online marketing calendar, divide up tasks, and review progress. test different images, ad copy, and targeting. topic, draft headline, and bulleted ideas to expand on.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

Voices are constantly peppering you with how to simplify your donation form, employ stronger calls to action, and use headlines that even a 15-year-old playing a video game wouldn't be able to ignore. Share a page, blog post, or article via social media share buttons. Comment on a blog post. Reach out through a contact form.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. WFP USA has posted a nearly 650-word story of Rani on their blog with a big headline, full-size photos, large text, and bold quotes. Facebook and Instagram.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One nonprofit used online channels to surpass their year-end fundraising goals. Image Alt Tag. As it turns out, relevant images get 94% more views than content without images. This is because people process images 60,000 faster than they do words, making it easier to understand and retain information.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Charitable giving is essential to your nonprofit, but fundraising can be one of your most daunting tasks. With donations and goodwill on the upswing, it is critical to understand how to fundraise for a nonprofit. Every organization has unique goals and methods, but all fundraisers for nonprofits use common terminology.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compare the following nonprofit year-end fundraising appeals: Our year-end fundraising campaign is right around the corner. Include images of people. Weave storytelling through different aspects of your website, such as your blog, donation page, about page, and community testimonials page. Include images of people.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Nice blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Headlines should be short.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

If all you’re here for is a list of email ledes you can use for fundraising or advocacy messaging, you can go ahead and skip right to that part. In order to ground things a bit, we’re going to include an example of each type of lede from a hypothetical environmental organization sending a fundraising appeal on the topic of climate change.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

If you are ready to ride an epic wave of generosity with an airtight end-of-year fundraising strategy join our special guest Rachel Muir. If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day no matter when and where you are because we are here to talk about end-of-year fundraising. Rachel: Absolutely. .

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The unfortunate reality is that the average fundraising page completion rate is only 17%, according to the M+R 2017 Benchmarks Study. Feature a Clear Headline The first two questions of any visitor to a web page are: Where am I? The most effective way to answer both is with a clear and compelling page headline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). And not just fundraise. I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Meaningful numbers will show the donor you’re doing your job and that builds trust which is the backbone of donor-based fundraising. Check out the Fundraiser’s Paradox from Bluefrog Fundraising. Comment on your blog post. Good fundraising requires a balance of asks and non-asks. Good images. Thanks to you.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They can’t find any impact measurement statistics for your nonprofit , and the images featured on your homepage are awkwardly sized and don’t readily communicate how your organization is making a difference. The post How to Makeover Your Nonprofit Homepage: 3 Top Strategies appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Let’s begin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Informing and educating the public by attracting new visitors to blog posts, videos, and PDF resources. For example, a blog post recapping your most recent fundraising event is not something that there is a lot of search traffic for. If we had to make some guesses about the future, we would imaging that: .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Feature a Clear Call-to-Action Headline. The most effective way to answer both is with a clear and compelling page headline. The best headlines are succinct and to the point but also tap into the reason your donors are motivated to give in the first place. Display Powerful Images. Image : SplitShire.com / CC0.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. Every dollar helps.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

They bring together America’s fundraisers on one page, showing off their success whilst displaying how anyone can help them. Nonprofits can teach us a lot about how best to use social media, whether to promote an ecommerce business, a blog or simply for personal use. Facebook Fundraising Tools. What We Can Learn. Conclusion.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Many nonprofits have a single online donation page linked from dozens of buttons, blog post links, social media posts, and even paid ad campaigns. For example, look at the (anonymized) donation page below. See how there’s only a tiny amount of text here?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Many nonprofits have a single online donation page linked from dozens of buttons, blog post links, social media posts, and even paid ad campaigns. For example, look at the (anonymized) donation page below. See how there’s only a tiny amount of text here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop. Crowdsourcing Resources.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Maybe you have a case of writer's blog or just feel like the inspiration has run dry. I also like the fact that the content is separated very clearly by topics such as “fundraising,” “news,” and “shop online.” But what I really want to highlight is how they divide up the newsletter sections with great headlines.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

They’ve also shared thousands of pages, videos, social media comments, blog posts, and white papers discussing relief efforts and their own initiatives. Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She’s been blogging for us. And a peer-to-peer fundraising. So if you’re have a fundraiser, usually what is done on WhatsApp is to have a link that could you have a link to the place that, you know, you can donate money, you can send it to your contacts, and this works because. She’s awesome, folks.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Real-time fundraising thermometer. In addition to encouraging donations, North Shore Animal League also enables supporters to raise money on their behalf through an integrated Blackbaud peer-to-peer fundraising tool. News and blog content. Top Nonprofit Website: Mustard Seed Communities. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2014

Kevan Lee of Buffer prefaced his post by saying, “Writing a blog post about how to write a perfect blog post is the most meta of burdens.” The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post: The Data on Headlines, Length, Images and More is everything its title promises it will be. knew he wasn’t lying.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

With the right design, your nonprofit’s website will be an invaluable part of your marketing and fundraising efforts. More specifically, this process involves choosing layouts, colors, images, links, and other on-page elements. The appearance of on-page elements like text and images will change from person to person.

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