Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. At ACS CAN, we’re seeing this newly inspired level of activity reflected in our offline recruitment as well. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support. Let’s get started with some general tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). Smart-home voice assistants, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, could also provide new ways of giving. 5) Messaging apps have very little impact on donors.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods. Tens of millions of donors in the United States supported their favorite causes last year, with a whopping 20 million donating money on GivingTuesday. participated in GivingTuesday 2022.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. It may be a community of geography, cause, or topic. We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. I definitely recommend them both! But the opt-in is essential.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. This is especially effective when that skill is related to your cause. You don’t have to write perfect 3.5

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

You know more about the cause. Just like the assumption about the tools, it is incredibly valuable to maintain the position that you (read: your organization, if not you personally, smartypants) know more, have more access to information about, and are more closely following news related to your cause and work than the community.

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Community Management Lesson NTEN 249

EveryAction

MAY 4, 2016

Nonprofits like Conservation International use video to (literally) lend a voice to the voiceless in pursuit of spreading awareness of their causes. Offline elements. If you have the resources, a video can be great way to add additional flair to a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic. Here’s the problem – these simple narratives can cause damage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

Create a vibrant online platform that inspires offline action, where challenges are posted, solutions are debated, successes and failures are archived, data is both disseminated and captured, stories are shared, and essential civic relationships developed. Disclaimer: Razoo is a Zoetica client).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. He is the third person to contribute and the first donor that I've met face-to-face.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

Global use of social media is also a great way to amplify voices, ideas, and stories. The power of using social media in a local context focuses most directly on just those things that make “local&# different: being “here,&# connecting online and offline, taking action collectively and delivering services.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. This helps put a face to your appeal and generate empathy for your cause. Show donors how their gift will impact your cause (i.e. Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Nick Ellinger of Donor Voice is a guru on this type and he suggests the following as a guideline: For current low/mid-level donors – Set suggested donations at 1x, 1.5x, and 2x their average amount, and offer an “other” option. Evidence indicates defaults do increase giving. Don’t start too small.

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Donation Donor Gift Nonprofit 72

CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Measurable: Ensure it’s trackable and measurable Attainable: The goal must be achieved through reasonable effort Relevant: The goal should match the needs of your cause Time-bound: Set a start and end date. After all, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of causes vying for your donor’s attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. What is the “autonomous world?”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We will use technology to stay in touch and collaborate on ideas.

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Community Offline Hype America 90

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members. . —– A new report from the team at Forrester came out last week: Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

One can’t really claim cause and effect here, but social media is becoming an important tool in grassroots organizing. At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

Activate & organize supporters on and offline. Offline organizing tools such as phone banking , peer-to-peer texting , and door-to-door canvassing all provide outlets for your members to take action in ways that are easily tracked and quantifiable through your CRM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . If you do the math, that's $41 per donor.

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Washington Metrics Facebook Donor 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. There is also a roundup of links to Burma causes (not just Facebook that's just one channel) and events. from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Burma Life Cambodia Online 50

Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Because their goal is to end human trafficking, they go beyond supporting survivors to also target the root causes of exploitation. Not For Sale wants to empower people to engage with their own online and offline communities. Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania.

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Social Media Community San Francisco Media 61

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

But, as the sector has embraced online giving, we've had a niggling voice in the backs of our heads telling us that the donors we've cultivated online aren't sticking around. Unfortunately, there's nothing in the report about the cost of acquiring and cultivating donors online vs. offline, so it's hard to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

both offline and online. So, why not lift the collective voices of nonprofits and leave some votes for these other awesome panels while you are there. Was this ad-hoc Twitter community a political movement? Ali Cherry. Don’t forget to vote for our SXSW panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? Slacktivism 101?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

These frustrations are causing barriers to entry for first-time voters, senior voters who’ve had their polling places change year to year, new Philadelphians, recent immigrants and more. In order to do this, we knew that we had to increase civic engagement both on and offline, so we recruited local street artists to help. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. There are offline ways to do it. Go to the places on the social web where you can find people who are passionate about your cause. Two basic skill sets: a.)

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Bloomerang

JULY 30, 2021

Here’s what makes SMS opt-ins a great addition to your subscriber collection avenues: They offer flexibility, allowing you to gather opt-ins offline and online. Conversational texts are much more likely to get people to respond and, in the process, take action for your cause. They make data collection easier. of the time, with 1.24

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Raise awareness for your cause and projects. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Brian Reich, publisher of Thinking About Media I have been critical of Facebook Causes, almost from the day it emerged onto the scene. Facebook Causes followed the same path. But its not just Facebook Causes. The Facebook Causes platform doesn’t change that. The fundraising results have been underwhelming.

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Facebook Causes Challenge Communication 98

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

They tend to have strong values and believe deeply in a cause. And giving them a way to have their voice heard and make a difference is essential. Engage Offline. But in general, many millennials want things to be easily accessible on their phones. Hence, a call to action is critical for this group.

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