Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Access to an entire library of marketing templates, sample fundraising campaigns, and industry best practices. Don’t spend all the real estate on your social media post or web page explaining how RoundUp App works. Use a multi-channel approach. Highlight the impact that RoundUps can make for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

By Gary Wohlfeill , Director of Marketing at CrowdRise , who works with partners to develop highly engaging fundraising campaigns and leads the marketing team in developing the CrowdRise brand. They’ll be excited to turn their personal connection into a meaningful campaign. And that’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

These days, peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and events take many forms: virtual runs/walks/rides , tribute/memorial campaigns, virtual drives. But no matter what types of peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns or events you’re running, they all require one key thing to be successful: participants. The list goes on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. The positive is you can lock people ahead of a campaign and be sure they will tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Develop shared language. Cross disciplinary teams.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If you plan to participate this year, start preparing today with these tips and resources for a successful GivingTuesday campaign via GivingTuesday.org. Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Use the #GivingTuesday Social Media Toolkit to get inspiration for your posts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? But they should!).

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you plan to participate this year, start preparing today with these tips and resources for a successful GivingTuesday campaign via GivingTuesday.org. Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Use the #GivingTuesday Social Media Toolkit to get inspiration for your posts.

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Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2012

As you have probably experienced yourself, raising money for your nonprofit campaign on social media is like pulling teeth. According to the 2012 Nonprofit benchmark Social Network Benchmarking Report, 98% of nonprofits didn’t raise a dime on Facebook, which is second most trafficked site on the web in the U.S.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Here are some ideas for recruiting more participants for your next peer-to-peer campaign or event: Create powerful messages – To get your supporters excited about helping you raise funds, it’s important to have a compelling story. How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem. Some ideas: Issue social media challenges.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

DC Social Media Week has arrived and there are tons of great panels and parties to attend. The growth of social media and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled mobile devices have changed the way Americans engage in the political process. From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media, Thursday, February 21st.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. There is still plenty of time left in the year -including important events like Giving Tuesday and end-of-year campaigns – to reset and get back on track. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Classy

JUNE 16, 2021

With Classy’s peer-to-peer and registration with fundraising campaign types, your supporters can sign up to fundraise on your behalf. However, many of the participants in these campaigns often are not professional fundraisers, so they need a little help along the way to ensure they can be as successful as they want to be.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

What channel do they spend the most time on? What are they looking at on those channels? Of the major social media platforms, Instagram routinely tops the list as one of the most important engagement channels for nonprofits looking to reach a wider, younger audience. Instagram is a visual social media platform.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Inspire your supporters by creating a campaign that engages your community, promotes your brand, and encourages generous donations. Whether this is your first time participating in Library Giving Day or you want to improve your strategy this time around, read on for simple tips to develop a compelling marketing campaign.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. It's about how to plan a mutlichannel fundraising campaign.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money. Email is Still King.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Visit the You Tube channel and share a video on How you will Create Change in FY10. They also implemented a bloggers outreach campaign to do a product giveaway. Amy Sample Ward.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Sometimes the only thing standing between you and launching a successful fundraising campaign to fund a new, needed program is an extra set of hands. Be sure to ask for work samples if appropriate for the work you are requesting. Your VA can find the right image to accompany the blog post and then share the post via social media.

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Roundtree

APRIL 20, 2022

It can be used across social media, email, website, and live events. Advertising has the most variation of any expense because it depends on the channels you use to advertise. Print magazine advertisements can start at $4,000 per issue while digital ads are substantially less (ex: a $100 Facebook ad campaign).

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). Increase Event Fundraising with Social Media.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Set up a Facebook fundraiser yourself, either a full-on campaign or a mini-fundraiser like a $5 Friday. Setting Up a Facebook Fundraiser First, let’s look at the Facebook fundraiser, one where you set up the campaign yourself. Once you are approved, you’ll be ready to launch your campaign. Go here to set up your campaign.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

However, with end-of-year fundraising quickly approaching, a new flavor of peer-to-peer fundraising is becoming more popular: using social ambassadors to amplify traditional online campaigns. What are Social Ambassadors? Social ambassadors are constituents who agree to help spread the word about your campaigns.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Or else it’s time to look blankly at the page while you try to plan your year-end fundraising email campaign because you’re not sure how many emails is too many or what your emails should include. These emails should coincide with your wider, multi-channel year-end campaign promotion timeline. Deep breaths. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce that I contributed to: npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS), a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. Happy Friday!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Digital fundraising, specifically on social media channels, provides a way for nonprofits to connect to younger generations who do not have the time nor desire to receive lengthy appeal letters or printed newsletters. Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. Be consistent.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And so, too often, the magic of mid-level giving is lost, especially in digital channels. Finding your audience part 2: matching to digital marketing channels. Once you know who your audience is, you still have to figure out the best digital channels to reach them in. Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Other initiatives include charitable giving stipends (a company gifts funds to employees to contribute to their favorite organizations), annual fundraising campaigns (internal fundraising efforts hosted by a business on behalf of one or more nonprofit groups), disaster relief efforts, and more. Use social media.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), Look, Giving Tuesday requires planning, like any other fundraising campaign. That gives you enough time to think things through and dig into the details of your campaign, like: 1. Donors gave an astounding $2.7

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With this information in mind, we can help you envision just how Marketing Cloud can bring your constituent data together and automate your cross-channel communications to the right person at the right time – meeting them exactly where they are at in the constituent lifecycle. Engagement. One-Time to Sustainer Journey.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

Just before noon, I decided to go online and see what those in my networks were sharing from their own celebrations or reflections, and immediately found the #GoSilent campaign from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). It pulled me in, and then everywhere I looked online I saw it was pulling in others! A simple commitment.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

While that worked for decades, the Information Age has taken university giving online in a big way, with email, text to give, social media and general online giving quickly taking the place of mailers. Provide a social media toolkit. Joseph’s College New York. Do they know what hashtag to use?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Not surprisingly, the pandemic caused many consumers to change the way they shop, including shifting to ecommerce channels. Make branded donation landing forms that match whatever campaign appeal the donor received; they need reassurance they’re in the right place. These can be tailored to particular campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Was the social media plan you implemented worth the time you spent running it? In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Specific and easy to assess.

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