NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. One of the most important steps in building a productive blogging strategy is creating content that engages and appeals to your audience.

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MAY 5, 2021

For instance, fear now influences social interactions. The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. The rational part of a donor’s brain still mediates the action evoked or prompted by the emotional part through values and learnings. Understand Donor Values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. The reason that most NPOs do this is because they don’t see the fundraiser/donor interaction as a relationship, even though it’s a sense of relationship that keeps a donor giving year after year.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

change management Change Management Digital Strategy intensive it Leadership Leadership nonprofit tech academy NTA social media Staffing Strategy IT Staff' We still have a few slots available in our Nonprofit Tech Academy for spring 2014, but the application deadline is fast approaching. Does the following sound good to you?

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Both of these strategies can be effective, especially when used in combination with each other. It’s important to remember that these strategies are only useful if you reference details that matter to their engagement. Direct mail can obviously be interacted with physically in ways digital materials can’t. Personalization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A brand is a living, breathing reflection of who you are, brought to life by every interaction between your staff, donors and volunteers. Does your brand strategy reflect who your organization is now? You need a new brand strategy to make sure your “insides match your outsides”, so to speak. It’s both tangible and intangible.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

And the truth is, any sized business can run a successful event as part of its overall marketing strategy. Lead generation is far easier when your attendees interact with an online format. There are some simple steps to take to use your event for lead generation and retrieval: Develop your strategy long before the event. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! Visual Strategies for Focus In Age of Distraction. This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Let People Know in Advance.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. When implementing this strategy, create compelling and visually appealing call-to-action buttons that convey the purpose and urgency of donating to your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

I recently taught several leadership development workshops at the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership based on my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to interact with more people than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. I prefer flexible space but that isn’t always possible.

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2021

Our brains tell us, “Wow! post on their social media channels, be sure you interact with their posts. Nothing can take the wind out of one’s sails like trying something new (like trying to raise money on social media) and getting no interaction. it’s full of strategies to keep your highly-engaged participant base (and donors!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

What are challenges that nonprofits face when trying to create an innovation mindset in their organization to support social strategy and how to overcome them? What are some ways to get your CEO on board using social as part of your strategy? How can you train and coordinate all staff on social to scale your strategy?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The will to engage and interact is drained, and procrastination sets in. The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. But when burnout sets in, the focus shifts to simply posting a minimal quota of status updates, tweets, grams, and pins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy. Design for Participants To Apply.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By using data, case studies and a bit of basic psychology, you can gain valuable insight about your supporters that can lead to an improved fundraising strategy. The answers to these questions should inform how you build your fundraising and donor retention strategies. Tell stories. Ask them questions, and remember their answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

It is important to set boundaries and the amount of energy to spend on interpersonal interactions, especially when so much of our work depends on interacting with other people – whether face-to-face or virtually. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. What really shocked me is that when The Strategy was (relatively) complete, it turned out not to be much different from what we've been doing all along. Think about your in-person interactions. What makes it official? I watched.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Check out his illustration of the panel).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Top-notch donor cultivation depends on consistent activity, customized communications, and an excellent strategy. The time nonprofit fundraisers expend on the first two activities of donor cultivation – consistent activity and customized communications – greatly limits the time they can spend on effective short and long term strategy.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Creating display maps – in print or as digital images – is easier than ever before, and interactive, web-based mapping is all over the place, so to speak. The assault of boxed labels, lack of a clear visual entry point and just a plain absence of communication strategy dooms a good message. More specifically, what about mapped data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Your brain can't go on automatic pilot for mundane tasks because it has had to rewire neurons. It uses a different part of the brain. NPOs have a lot of interactions w/donors & customers. Similar to what’s happening w/ Social CRM, do you encourage NPOs to add social media interactions to their database?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2015

As part of the success services team, I have the fortune of working with the very best and brightest online fundraising, web design, social media, open source development and digital marketing professionals in the world—all rolled up under one amazing team called Blackbaud Interactive @BBinteractive. Let’s start the Interactive Conversation.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

Navigating the social web can feel a bit like walking through a water park on a Saturday in July with a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old who somehow keep running into their friends, when you really want to be back home developing a dinner strategy for Sunday. And did you see that ice cream vendor over there? Did his cooler have a QR code on it?

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Media Cause

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, without a top-of-funnel strategy, like a brand awareness campaign, your paid media efforts could see diminishing returns and decreasing efficiency. This strategy allows you to show lower-funnel messaging to site visitors who are more likely to convert. They also help boost your organic performance.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This post brings together fundraising experts from across the industry to share 12 super simple (but effective) fundraising ideas for boosting donor engagement, loyalty, and retention based on answering one simple question, “ what’s the key to an effective donor retention strategy? Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

We’ve seen everything from completely fresh “Choose Your Own Adventure” type fundraisers to new takes on classic school events that combine typical school events like spelling bees, show and tell, brain bowls, and talent shows with fundraising. Know Your Post-Event Communication Strategy Before Your Event Starts. Keep Up Engagement.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Learn more about digital marketing and communications strategies in “npEXPERTS 2020: The Digital Spark” from the Blackbaud Institute. Going to this site and seeing the way they presented important information in the same format as those fast fashion sites really messed with my brain and woke me up a little.

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