Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. What’s elevator speech for the organization, he campaign and your role. What were the specific goals and KPIs for the campaign (assuming web traffic and key purchases?) Why important? ET that day, in shifts.

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Classy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Tailoring campaign materials to specific donor segments also adds a layer of customization that encourages giving. Pass-through parameters are special tags you can add to the end of a website address that allow you to pass information from your website or email campaigns to your Classy donation page. What Are Pass-Through Parameters?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

On the flip side, community foundations and local nonprofits can organize citywide or regional giving days, like Spur Local’s Give Local Together Campaign , rallying entire communities in support of various causes. We’ve seen that campaigns using peer-to-peer fundraising tend to raise twice as much as those without.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

They created a pin board with expert advice on how to “Green Your Home” that is filled with beautiful visuals and helpful content. Tip: Share stories about your impact and the different ways to get involved with your cause. For example, Grist.org is a news website that focuses on the environment. 2) Pinterest is about discovery.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 8, 2018

Starting your own employee giving campaign is not for the faint of heart! The great news is that if done well, an employee campaign has many benefits beyond the funds raised for your programs. Before implementing any type of campaign, have the support of your hospital CEO and Foundation board members and get an approved budget.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

If you have a CRM with an analytical dashboard, like Little Green Light or Bloomerang , you are presented with this number daily. Are there trends in giving, like an increase in donations at certain times of year or in response to particular stories? Campaigns: How many fundraising campaigns did you have and how did each one perform?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Images are powerful: they can tell your organization's story quickly and persuasively, help show your impact, and help you connect with volunteers and donors. Learn why cloud services like Flickr are green, and about how another nonprofit, Community Thread , is using Flickr. There are over 200 million photos to choose from.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

CC launched Red House@Your House with a mail and e-mail campaign. Proposed solution and execution: It developed a campaign called Packed with Love ( [link] ). Then, CMMB sends a welcome e-mail to the user that includes a thank-you and a story about where the package, along with other packages, is going.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 30, 2017

You need to launch your campaign , test your email deliverability , craft your message , and more. Below, we chronicle 14 donation pages, providing takeaways from each one, so you can apply some of these strategies to your own fundraising campaigns as you close out the year. Why not tell your story in your donation forms?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black. Include the color green, popular with many cultural traditions but especially to Muslims, for whom paradise is depicted as a garden. Bodhi Day: A Buddhist Tradition. Online Giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On Facebook, we’ve had some great success with Facebook Causes generating donations and our Facebook Fan Page driving traffic to our stories on nature.org. Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have a decentralized team of 10+ staff contributing stories to our social media channels. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

The fewer words you use the better, but you will need words to tell your story. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Photos: Photos are so important to a nonprofit website and go a long way in telling a story, hence the expression, A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Environmental Impact. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Environmental Impact. spanhidden.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Your fundraising campaign page is your digital storefront and your most effective tool for connecting with potential donors. But how do you design a campaign and make your cause stand out if you’re not a professional web designer? Why Your Campaign Page Matters Your campaign page is the gateway to your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

to track personal fundraising campaigns. Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Once they’ve completed the training program, Haiyya Fellows campaign on civic issues in their own neighbourhoods. A Fellow’s self-interest in making her campaign a success is often the anchor and motivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. What should participants each measure for their individual campaigns? Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

We had the privilege of having four panelists who each told a story demonstrating how the social web had empowered communities around social causes. " campaign that encouraged random acts of kindness. Three themes began to emerge in discussions after each panelist’s story: The importance of community. s " You In?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

Create email campaigns Email marketing can be an effective way to reach and engage with potential customers because it’s delivered straight to them. Create email campaigns that showcase your products and provide valuable content to your subscribers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. Movements versus campaigning. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. There are the ongoing efforts to fight Swine Flu, or new successes like LiveStrong. And that is the crossroads.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. We see a bit of a challenge out there: there are still thousands of people campaigning for change who are still a bit befuddled by how to rock the social web.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The Greenwash Brigade is a part of American Public Media's Public Insight Network , which is a network of more than 70,000 self nominated people across the world with particular areas of expertise who volunteer to fact check public radio news stories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Their stories are the fuel that keeps me going. Now she is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Conduct research to determine your nonprofit’s story. These questions will help you understand the story that’s currently surrounding your nonprofit. Then, you can consider what’s different between that story and your ideal brand positioning. Let’s take a look at how you can do just that. Positioning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Our focus is on campaigns that had a significant social media component, because we believe that this communication medium is an accelerator since the failures are often much more spectacular and widely reported. Take for example, “Buckets for the Cure” fund-raising campaign where Susan G. Source: Fit Sugar Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

With all the depressing stories on the news, you'd never know that there are all kinds of amazing people out there who not only have big visions for a better world, but are making their big visions real, but there are! I hope their stories inspire you to make your big vision for a better world real. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. Yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about charity giving trends and social media use. They mention DonorsChoose , SharingTV , the Salvation Army's use of mobile phones for its " text a kettle campaign."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It was our first true social media success story, and helped validate our social media use to the powers that be at our organization." No doubt, the listening also provides great content ideas for their blog. Getting Ideas for Campaigns or Programs. This drove traffic. Hat tip Miriam Kagan ) Improving Program and Service Delivery.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Victoria, British Columbia: Creating Integrated Campaigns — Multichannel Marketing in a Multifaceted World. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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