Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re part of an animal shelter, wildlife conservation organization, or advocacy group, these insights will help you navigate the ever-evolving world of nonprofit marketing. Personalize these email campaigns to make donors feel appreciated and connected to your cause. Problem solve. Build authentic relationships.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2016

This study also examines millennials’ interest and activation in specific causes that may be differentiated by their support of a particular political party. We know through years of research within The Millennial Impact Project that millennials value cause work (any activities that are philanthropic in nature) and are engaged with causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

And it goes beyond just putting a cute little green vegetable plant on your profile -- the applications is making donations to green causes. program of the Nature Conservancy bringing the total donated to $33,600 and 16,000 members or an average of $2.00 The most recent donation was made May 1, 2008 to the Adopt An Acre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Ocean Conservancy has done just that! Leave a URL in the comments. While the timeline has the potential to embarrass some users who might have inappropriate photos buried along their timeline, the cover image is a great opportunity for nonprofits to engage their champions to help spread the word about the organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

Or, if your nonprofit works to protect the environment or animals, for every tragic loss of habitat or endangered species, share a story of conservation or progress. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. 2) The rise of the Internet troll. Engaging them just makes it worse.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Typically, when a nonprofit advertises an event it’s cause for celebration. Ask yourself if your audience is conservative or liberal, are the rural or urban; get to know what will pique their interest and be able to create welcoming feeling that will mimic what they’ll experience at the event. Event Promo Videos.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Marine Fish Conservation Network (MFCN), a coalition of over 190 organizations dedicated to ocean conservation, wanted to educate members of Congress and ask them to reject proposals that might do irreparable harm to several fish species. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! Her new book, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause,&# is part survival guide and part nitty-gritty how-to handbook for nonprofit communicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

" There some a thread of comments, from nonprofits, consultants, bloggers, and vendors. " technologies and sites to find people who are passionate about nature and concerned about conservation around the world. The biggest nonprofit social network is Project Agape's Causes with 4,000,000 users and counting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Those Status Updates that did had lots of Comments and Likes. Experiment with creating a Facebook Page for your Cause. For example, I think a Facebook Page called “Save the World’s Remaining 3,000 Tigers&# would grow much faster than a Facebook Page for a small wildlife conservation organization. Just an idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Social love is thoughtful engagement (liking, retweeting, commenting, following) with your social media audience. In the age of digital engagement, social love serves to nurture the relationship with your people by demonstrating that their voice matters to your cause. But first, what is social love and why does it matter?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 15, 2012

Here are a few ways telling a story can be helpful in fundraising: Breaking through the noise— There is no lack of worthy causes for philanthropists to choose from, so why should anyone take notice of your cause? Once people become emotional supporters of your cause, less convincing is needed to gain their support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

This comment struck me as well aligned with some made by Vikki Spruill from the Ocean Conservancy. Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa. Check it out, [link]. . . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

" She lists some strengths and opportunities: There are many thousands of people affected by this condition which is the leading cause of youth blindness. She asked for a starting point, one or two things that she could start on to begin to bring their cause to the attention of more people. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

“As a non-profit founded by one of the world’s greatest storytellers, Dr. Jane Goodall, telling our story is essential and the best way to present ourselves as the holistic conservation organization we are, on social media and other platforms. The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

See Frogloop’s recent article on Facebook Causes ). Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in Marketing Research , Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0 Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree. Over 50% say that they intend to increase social network staffing over the next 12 months. Thats wrong.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Nothing is worse than when you’re halfway through an article and this happens: You’re probably wondering: “ If popups might cause potential donors to leave my site, then why should I use them? Conservation International makes a point to include an email opt-in within the body of every blog post. Related Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

It takes trial and error to figure that for each organization as issues, causes, and audiences differ. Take for example Jonathon Colman who is the Internet Strategist for the Nature Conservancy or Wendy Harmon from the Red Cross both are dog lovers! Please leave a pointer in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger. UPDATE from Katrin Verclas at NTEN: (I'm elevating this comment into the post) Facebook is deleting organizational profiles now.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Main | CASE STUDY: Marine Conservation Group Wins Victory with Care2 » Friday Aug 17 2007 Building a Successful Internet Presence Friday, August 17, 2007 at 01:38PM | by Hatef Yamini NPTimes just ran a great article featuring tips from Harry Lynch, CEO of Sanky Commmunications and Paul Habig, director of Internet Services at SankyNet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook? Marlow’s study sheds even more light on the Washington Post article that said Facebook Causes are not raising much money for nonprofits. Only a small fraction of the 179,000 nonprofits that use Facebook Causes have brought in $1,000.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

This is a huge step forward for ocean conservation and international law. " 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 Case Studies , Care2 News Reader Comments (1) Hi, I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. Nice blog. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Add “pin it” buttons to your blog or web site so your visitors and supporters can create their own pin boards that highlight your cause. I’m sure we can expand on this together in the comments.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

In response , more than 50,000 people commented on the proposed changes in the management style of the National Park Service, including a petition from Care2 and The Wilderness Society that was signed by over 11,000 people. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 Case Studies Reader Comments (1) Nice reading! Thanks for the info!

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2007

Main | CASE STUDY: Marine Conservation Group Wins Victory with Care2 » Friday Aug 17 2007 Building a Successful Internet Presence Friday, August 17, 2007 at 01:38PM | by Hatef Yamini NPTimes just ran a great article featuring tips from Harry Lynch, CEO of Sanky Commmunications and Paul Habig, director of Internet Services at SankyNet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Think about the last time you did something for a cause. You supported a cause because of how it made you feel." An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. On their own, the member recruited 2500 people to the Cause. Maybe you gave them money. Why did you do it?

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2007

Post a Comment | by Share Article in Direct Marketing , Email Marketing , Marketing Research , Online Fundraising , Online Marketing Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below. Karen Taggart , aka DMDivaGirl, is a Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Conservation International won the “Email List Growth” prize for their campaign to save sea turtles. Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Understand keywords and use them well Keywords are words and phrases that potential visitors are likely to use when conducting online searches related to your organization or cause. your organization’s name and branded projects, words associated with your sector or cause, and the names of subject-matter experts on your staff.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

When not working, I am an obsessed bird watcher and volunteer to conserve shorebird habitat for endangered species. Many hackers already have attacks planned for April 2 nd which is going to cause pain for those organizations that have not upgraded. Please log in to comment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

When you started getting a lot of media attention, you got a lot of comments. I was reading through them and was kind of stunned by how many were negative comments. He wrote some mean comment. The next day, some TV station, ABC or CBS, was interviewing me and they said, "Read some of your blog comments live for the camera."

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Care2

JULY 19, 2007

Special thanks again to the debate paricipants, Krista Harte Sassaman of Epsilon and Vinne Wishrad of Conservation International. 60) Search « Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign | Main | A. Feel free to email me at karen@earth.care2.com com if you would like a copy of the presentation materials.

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