Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. While social media is now a common part of every nonprofit’s communication strategy, a common sentiment is that interacting on social media is a poor substitute to in-person interactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

53% of nonprofit staff who are extremely or somewhat satisfied in their current roles donate to the organization where they work ( World-Changing Work Report ). For every share on social media, a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign raises an average of $13USD ( CrowdRise ). Social Media Stats. Social Media Stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2019

Social media is in a constant state of change and without regular education in emerging trends, your nonprofit could be wasting valuable time and resources implementing outdated best practices. Current best practices for using Facebook Pages and Groups. The importance of having a budget for social advertising. •

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

With the rise of smartphones, it seems like everyone’s constantly on social media, making it the perfect marketing tool for your nonprofit! Infact, there are over 308 million social media users in the United States alone. Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide!

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Candid

MARCH 14, 2024

Creating a consistent supply of social media content for a nonprofit is hard. At the Nonprofit Marketing Summit earlier this month, I shared how we do this—from how we rethought why we are on social media and our process for repurposing content (without getting too repetitive). Here are some of the highlights: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By Tereza Litsa , Social Media Manager at Lightful , a simple social media management platform for nonprofits. A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. Get organized : a content calendar can help you create a more consistent social presence.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.”

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 22, 2023

At this point in the digital age, we all know how to make a Facebook profile (heck, you’ve probably been on Facebook for so long, you don’t even remember making your profile anymore). However, many of us are less familiar with the process of creating Facebook Pages , or have never been faced with the need to make one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. In addition to overall giving increasing these next two months, the number of your donors giving online and via social media channels is growing. We give to what we know.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media changes so frequently that unless your NGO has a full-time social media manager who has the time to consistently research and adopt emerging trends, odds are your NGO is using social media in ways that are no longer effective. Social media is integrated into your website and blog.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

But inclusion on social media isn’t just about what you post—it’s about how you post as well. . Let’s talk about a few steps that you can take NOW to make your social media content more accessible for everyone. . These are all excellent and necessary steps. Captions . Color Choices. Link Sharing.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 18, 2022

More changes are coming to Facebook. . The social media platform announced last month that it will be taking additional steps to align with evolving privacy regulations. Starting in January, Facebook will remove thousands of targeting options. Get In Market Now. Rely on Broader Targeting.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Julia Campbell has been helping nonprofits make the most of their social media presences for years. She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. What kinds of posts should I make on social media?

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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. There’s an understanding among non-profits that Facebook Ads offer something very powerful, but there is a large gap in the understanding needed to run truly strategic campaigns. . 3) Understand Facebook Ad objectives.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

And it’s no different for social media managers. As Candid’s manager of digital communications, I’ve been digging through our social media analytics, researching broader trends, and determining our strategy and tactics for 2024. Here is a peek behind the scenes into how Candid assesses our social media annually.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Facebook is hardly a new platform for nonprofit organizations to interact with supporters. At one point, the discussion around using Facebook revolved around how to build an audience on the platform and then direct that audience to another digital location such as your online donation page. Facebook Messenger as an Acquisition Tool.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Social media has changed the marketing world, and Facebook Ads for nonprofits are an easy tool to increase your organization’s presence online. Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It’s not official, but it’s obvious that Facebook is ramping up promotion of its native “Donate” buttons and Fundraisers in its News Feed. Donors and peer-to-peer fundraisers have been slow to adopt donating and fundraising through Facebook, but that might be changing. 14% said Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2023

There are so many innovative marketing ideas out there for nonprofits to take advantage of, especially when it comes to social media outreach. In this article, we’ll give you five tips to upgrade your social media strategy using data. In this case, it’s most important to append social media profiles.

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TechImpact

JUNE 8, 2013

For some companies, social media at work remains a taboo. Facebook, Twitter, these are networks that employers have traditionally classified as distractions. But according to a recent post from Social Media Collective, more employers are realizing that social media often plays a critical role in day to day operations.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Creating a social media strategy can feel overwhelming. The problem is, this advice is often aimed at organizations with dedicated social media folks, or even teams of them. So, how can your nonprofit create a social media strategy that you can sustain? In a year, what will success look like?

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Donorbox

AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s not a secret that if a nonprofit wants to be successful in today’s fast-changing and complex world, it has to be present and active on social media networks. And the most prominent social media platform, without a doubt, is Facebook. Facebook boasts over 2.89

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Social media is a comparatively very young frontier in the nonprofit sector which features surprises around every twist and turn. Every day enormous strides are made in the industry that have the potential to change the way millions of individuals interact online. Image courtesy of Core 3 Solutions. Twitter pics gets an upgrade.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

The reports listed below are just a small sampling of some of the research available to nonprofits on the subjects of online fundraising and social media. Social Media: An Ongoing Series of Reports :: Download. 2014 Social Change Impact Report :: Download. 2013 Social Charity Index :: Download.

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

In the social media world, platforms are always changing. For nonprofits, using social media to your advantage is important as it gives you a creative way to accomplish your organization’s mission and purpose. Get ready for a shift toward audio format across social media platforms!

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TechImpact

JUNE 5, 2014

Few things have so dramatically altered our lives the way social media has. Defining an entire generation of Americans, and altering the way nonprofits and corporations view marketing, social media’s role in contemporary society and is only going to continue expanding. from social media, up from 26% last year.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s not often that social media giants like Facebook launch updates that directly benefit nonprofits. This is a big deal since previously, there was no way, besides 1:1 direct outreach, to directly speak to on-Facebook supporters of your organization. How to set up new Facebook Nonprofit Donor Audiences.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

In the past week Facebook anounced two changes that I think you should take note of: 1) they are going to start allowing hashtags to be posted in status updates and 2) they changed the news feed again. Facebook is still in the process of rolling it out to all ! know what the keyword is in your post. 0 bilion+ users.

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Candid

JULY 7, 2022

July 15 is officially Social Media Giving Day. This ‘holiday’ began in 2013, when Givver.com promoted it as an opportunity to leverage social media platforms for donations. Since then, a lot has changed. 43% attend or participate in charitable events in their community because of social media. .

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Industry newsletters: Stay informed about the ever-changing philanthropic landscape through updates from Philanthropy News Digest , Issue Lab , and Candid. Free fundraising resources Finding your most likely funders can be challenging, especially when only ~10% of U.S. foundations have websites.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Once the update goes live (currently projected for early Spring) this means an iPhone user with the update installed will open up an app like Facebook, for example, and see the following prompt: Source: Apple. If a user opts into tracking, nothing really changes. impact advertising on Facebook? How will iOS14.5 8-event Limit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Many nonprofits need social media training - they just don’t know it. There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 1) Set up and prioritize LinkedIn Pages in your social media strategy. LinkedIn Pages.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Facebook also made news by announcing that it has changed its privacy policy…again… that will allow all users to be discovered using Facebook Graph (it’s search tool). What about Facebook? Tools facebook privacy settings twitter' Will you follow people on Twitter just to send them direct messages?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, I had a ton of fun leading a session and discussion around making the most of social media in just 30 minutes a day. Here are the slides from the session and links to get you started: Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the most important lessons that all nonprofit social media managers need to learn is that social media is constantly in flux. Once you get accustomed to a tool, it changes in an attempt to reinvent itself. Rather than lamenting this new reality, a good social media manager will adapt quickly.

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