sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

But first, let’s compare how the major communication channels of direct mail versus digital communications play a role in donor retention. This new, more effective communication strategy is referred to as integrated or multi-channel marketing, and it allows you to connect with supporters across all channels. .

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2019

By incorporating a unique and strategic combination of digital strategy, tactics and techniques, the Care2 team engaged millions of people around this critical issue via online petitions, social media and other digital channels. The timely campaign also helped drive real political change.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

Whether you’re looking to contact lawmakers, gather petition signatures, or mobilize public support using social media, you can measure and increase support for your mission by presenting your audience with a digital form across their preferred channels. Why should nonprofits use digital advocacy forms now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. Flickr Photo by Lululemon.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Fundraising is a pivotal part of your nonprofit’s ability to help change the world. With technology and societal changes, organizations like yours must stay on top of the trends to meet donors’ expectations. Diversifying your fundraising channels can help you reach more donors by making giving convenient for them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

Facebook Ads are the channel that Digital Charity Lab gets asked for the most help with, by quite a distance. It requires a slight change in thinking for many charities, who are used to putting their call to action into a video, and then set up ads seeking video views, thinking this will get people to take the call to action.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Leverage Multiple Marketing Channels If you want to attract the attention of as many supporters as possible, develop a multichannel marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Coordinating an impactful marketing campaign which runs across several channels remains one of the best ways to capture your audience’s attention. UK-based breast cancer awareness charities, have consistently used innovative marketing techniques to educate and empower people about the importance of early breast cancer detection.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Who would have thought a simple meal could change a family’s life? Inside these walls, 28 women have found the courage to start school to prepare themselves for the future and change their lives so they never have to go back to their abuser. Your nonprofit is simply the conduit to allow people to change lives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We often hear about the doing good movement in the context of millennials , and oftentimes Gen Z’ers, two generations that have demonstrated substantial shifts in attitude surrounding the belief in their own power to create positive change in the world. So what does this movement mean for your nonprofit’s strategy?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. Check out the sessions below and vote for them today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. But, it is important to point out that the Google + team is listening and improving features – with its “ Feedback Friday &# so the landscape is changing rapidly. Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Tailor your most compelling narratives for different channels to share them widely. By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time. This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

That’s why it’s good to know that some things never change. The days of press releases may be over, but that’s ok…we can become media channels. Bill walked us through seven different perspectives organizations can use to further their mission using traditional media plus new channels.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Digital fundraisers are busier than ever, reaching more people through digital channels than ever before. There is a lot of learning and experimenting going on in digital fundraising, which is fueling new innovations in how to raise money across the whole spectrum of digital channels. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

So how can your nonprofit turn its drab blogging techniques, and spin their posts into purposeful, high-quality stories, that effectively advance your nonprofit’s mission? Well, a blog post about the importance of pick-up trucks to effective construction techniques is probably not going to be the right post to write.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Consistently changing technology landscape. Multi-Channel Fundraising = Optimism. As you can see, nonprofits that implement fundraising strategies that include multiple channels have a lot more confidence in their ability to raise the funds they need to deliver on their mission. Flat or decreased fundraising.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Obviously, not every episodic donor can be retained,” noted our report , but several organizations who implemented a year-long multi-channel campaign with first-time donors were able to retain roughly 15 percent of their new donors who gave money for Haiti relief. Compare yourself to likeminded companies, observing their strengths.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

having your marketing team launch a new campaign and explore a different communication channel). Achievable: Assess your current resources such as staff, budget, and marketing channels to determine whether your goal is realistic. Analyze which types of content, stories, and communication techniques resonate most with your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Email is a depersonalized channel of communications because you don’t see the effect you’re having on the person receiving the email. The research study found that the expectation of assumed availability is what exhausts people and the anticipation of work creates stress that can lead to burnout. ” Individual Techniques.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Don’t change just for novelty’s sake. Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support. This convinced him to keep running successful campaigns for years without change. Avoid changing messaging just for novelty’s sake. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile.

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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.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The internet and 24/7 connectivity to the world around us have changed our relationships with people, businesses, and nonprofits in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. Naturally, our buying behaviors have radically changed as a result of this trend. These channels have shifted power from the nonprofit to the donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. A multi-screen world. Aspiration.

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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. Their theory of change is about raising awareness of the issues and then inspiring, engaging and encouraging their audiences to take actions around this goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Over a year and a half has passed since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, and needless to say, a lot has changed in that time. As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’ve likely seen your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy change drastically in the pandemic era as well. Keep supporter relationships at the forefront.

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