Greater Giving

JUNE 17, 2021

As nonprofits were forced to postpone, and often cancel, their large, in-person fundraising galas, something else took its place: the virtual event. appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. We’ve detailed many of these shifts, and the lessons learned from them, in the recently-published The State of Nonprofit Fundraising report.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Imagine opening up your site to find all your images are gone, and in their place are broken placeholders. The post Don’t Panic: Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them (Part One) appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. Image Upload Problems.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

While this may seem trivial, any non-profit sporting an FB presence should be closely monitoring the number of links from friends versus links from “Pages”—it’s more than likely that the ratio is ten-to-one or greater. What does this mean in practical terms? Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Other businesses may increase their match ratios, raise their donation limits, or introduce short-term matching gift initiatives⁠—even if they don’t typically match employee donations. But you’ll need to begin sourcing these partnerships ahead of Giving Tuesday to ensure all aspects of the programs are in place on the big day!

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: Narratives should succinctly highlight achievements, financial strategies, and future plans in layman’s terms, while dashboards provide a visual summary of trends, ratios, and key indicators at a glance. This integrated approach illustrates your organization’s impact in a more relatable, holistic way.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A little harder to get in place, automatic payroll deductions, if done correctly, can be a highly successful means of fundraising. The post Courting Corporate: Utilizing the Opportunities of Company Philanthropy appeared first on Byte Technology’s Nonprofit Web Design Insights Blog. Pursue the Paycheck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Solicitation: AI-Enhanced Strategies for Effective Appeals Type of AI : Generative AI Where to Use It : Getting over the hump on the capacity-to-ask ratio One of the most common issues in major gift fundraising is simply not asking donors to make as large a gift as they could.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I stick by them as a place to begin. In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . “you” Here’s an example: As you can see, the ratio of ego-centric to donor-centric pronouns is an astonishing 18:3.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. But if they congregate online, on a community news site or blog network, join them in conversation there. Who is using the platform?

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Make sure to check out his blog [link]. The “Like Sources&# report is especially important if your organization has invested in Facebook Sponsored Story Ads or have placed a LikeBox on your website. Is it your blog? Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. How many new fans did we get during this past month? Is it a partner website?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

My colleague Vicky Davis, Coolcat Teacher Blog, has put this question out to her network, in a brilliant post called " How would you use cell phones to bring Web2.0 " I just have to quote her in a few places: When you complain about your student teacher ratios, look at everyone gathered around the computer in this lesson!

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

BoardAssist prides itself on identifying board candidates for the nonprofit world who will be leaders on the boards where we place them. With over 90% of our placements doing just that, within a year of being placed, we can see that our placements are generating tremendous good wherever they go. The first is the months of cash ratio.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2023

Instead of including images on your donation form header, place the images on your form tied to different giving amounts. Normally, gifts are matched on a 1:1 ratio, but it isn’t unheard of for some businesses to match 1.5:1 Want to go beyond that first step and really show donors what they accomplish at each giving level?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Also, it lets you step away from the echo chamber and find useful and unique gems that have not been over shared all over the place. This is what builds thought leadership and attention. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

The WCAG specifically suggest web designers aim for a high contrast ratio on all images and graphics, use easy-to-read fonts, include closed captions and transcripts on multimedia elements, and provide alt-text for all images. . Here are some things you can do to make your website more accessible to everyone: .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Your logo tells your donors they’re in the right place and they’ll rest assured they’re giving to you and not a third party. These gifts often come from a donor’s employer and match their donation on a 1:1 ratio. It’s also a great place to ask for matching gifts or to set up a donor account! Second, use your brand colors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

If you’ve run a similar event in the past, then you have some sense of expense ratios and trends. More often than not, if you do not have a firm budget in place or if this is your first event, you might find that you are overzealous in planning event expenses. Re-evaluate Your Event Budgeting Goals To Identify Areas For Saving Money.

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Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

It’s essential to budget accurately and keep in mind your expense ratios when you’re planning an event. With a little bit of strategy and wheeling-and-dealing, you may find that you can keep your expense ratio low. . When you’re searching for sponsors, a great place to start is by looking in your community.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Be strategic in making sure you find the right place for them on your committee, even if that means continuing your search for that elusive sponsorship chair. No matter what kind of volunteer you’re working to recruit, make sure you have an onboarding program in place that will help you set your new volunteer (and you!) up for success.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

I have a guest post up on John Haydon’s blog ! You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. If you only have an hour a week to post to a blog, then it is unreasonable to expect a lively conversation and community emerging from it, at least not very quickly. The post is republished below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Lately, the crap to good stuff ratio has been a little skewed toward crap when it comes to trackbacks and somewhat with comments. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

As I blogged in response to the article, Causes is best for creating connections and awareness. If you didn't read the thread over at Allison Fine's blog, you can find it here. Her case in point is the recent Washington Post article suggesting that Facebook Causes had driven very little money to charity and was a failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

Visit the SHINE socialreporter blog to read David’s post. The game combines elements of the Social Media Game, local real-world issues (at SHINE we used local regeneration topics), and the idea development and pitching of the Social Innovation Camp model. What should we call it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

I use FriendFeed to follow a group of people in more depth because I can see their complete social media activity in one place. How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - This post includes some great tips on how to contribute value to FriendFeed, keep your "signal-to-noise" ratio high, and use "rooms" effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

LinkedIn groups and company pages are a great place to encourage this type of engagement. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. What’s most important where to ask that question. According to research, place the question at the end. or “Love it!” Answering a question posted.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Despite these behaviors, a lot of digital marketing looks something like this: Let’s take a look at why this approach doesn’t work: First, it’s easy for content to get lost in the 2 million blog posts published every day. Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

You can also download these sponsorship letter templates to add to your fundraising arsenal at the end of this blog. The sponsor could include a reference to your cause on their corporate philanthropy page, or they could agree to match gifts to your organization at a higher ratio than gifts to other causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. To really master the art of screencasting and to get my 1 hour to 1 minute video editing ratio lower. To organize all my contacts that are distributed all over the place in various social networking communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Well, lots of places. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Your blog, if you have one. Your homepage, “about us” page, your newsfeed or blog, and your donation page are the bare essentials. . In terms of visual frontend elements, the contrast ratio between your site’s text and its background is key. If you actively update your organization’s blog or newsfeed (and you should!),

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When designing and placing your donate button, keep in mind the important role it plays in online giving—and make sure you implement these donate button best practices! 1 color contrast—although for big text like you might find a donate button, a ratio of 3:1 might suffice. Not sure if your chosen colors match that ratio?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.” Chapter 7 :: Add Share Functionality to Your Blog.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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