Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Be Informed.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

From email to your website , your nonprofit’s digital presence spans multiple communication channels, each with its own unwritten rules for success. Managing several of these channels can easily monopolize your marketing team’s time and resources. Also ensure that your web design is optimized for mobile devices.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a departure from its usual format, the August session of the San Francisco Online Community Meetup was an open forum. Community manager members were invited to ask their most pressing questions and share their best practices. What’s the difference between managing online community, customer service, and social media?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Community Engagement Manager NTEN seeks a community-focused individual with a love for technology, social data, and building community to join NTEN’s Membership team.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Create Different Ticket Types Your nonprofit’s supporters are not a one-size-fits-all group. Group Tickets: These tickets are designed for groups of people attending together, offering discounts for purchasing multiple tickets. That’s why we’ve collected 10 different ways that your nonprofit can increase your ticket sales.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. GivingTuesday is a valuable day to engage new donors, reconnect with existing ones, and engage a group of primarily small-dollar donors. Who Is Giving?

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sgEngage

JUNE 30, 2023

This article covers the nuances of nonprofit marketing, exploring the different types, channels, and challenges. Direct Marketing Direct marketing involves direct communication with potential supporters either offline or online. Digital marketing is comprised of various channels that involve their own strategies.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Community Engagement Manager NTEN seeks a community-focused individual with a love for technology, social data, and building community to join NTEN’s Membership team.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This post originally appeared on Care2 Frogloop – you can read it there and join the Frogloop community , or read the full post below. The responses lean towards a reality in which our online presence is just as diverse as our offline personalities – people are connecting with a mix of others on difference platforms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

7) Encourage Donors to Go Paperless Dive into your database and determine who your donors are that tend to give offline. Personalization is also key, so you should be segmenting your email lists and tailoring your messaging to different donor groups. Remember, your donors should be able to access your donation form easily.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2023

If they made an offline gift, mail a personalized thank you letter within 48 hours. What can you include that makes the donor feel pulled in, sincerely included, and happy to have joined your community? If so, what sorts of cultivation strategies have we implemented targeted specifically towards this group?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Depending on the target audience (and your capacity), you might want to promote the event on other social channel Event Pages such as LinkedIN or Facebook. Start to recruit your champions, people in your community who can serve as ambassadors for promoting the event. Also set up a system in advance so you can track the hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Increase in engagement of key groups. Participation among key groups – like staff. 2. Having a way to communicate with them regularly is essential, both leading up to the Giving Day and especially during the day itself. Facebook Groups are great for this! Click to Download. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. Knowing what channels to use—like whether you need to email donors versus posting on Facebook—is one thing. But that doesn’t mean analog channels aren’t valuable!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Many early adopters in the nonprofit community were already working hard (despite announcements from Google that they would police use and roll-out an organization-specific profile option) to start building a space for their organization’s profile on the new social network since it originally launched. Community First.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

How Women Use the Web [REPORT] – "In the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (Internet)&# report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are more engaged than their male counterparts, and are the primary drivers of online and group buying."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By sending the right donor communications and reaching your target audience where they are, you’ll be able to successfully promote your event and expand your nonprofit’s reach. Use direct mail, email, social media, and other channels to reach and engage donors. Social media.

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Kindful

AUGUST 19, 2021

Are they involved in their local community? They can be reached through: Either online socially or offline socially, including the online advocate program, events or speaking engagements (church or other places). And if so, are they affiliated with a certain party? Which nonprofits do they usually support and how much do they give?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

I thought it was important to lay the foundation of group texting and mobile websites for nonprofits before moving into examining how nonprofits are using iPhone Apps: 1. Users can also download stories for offline reading. Related Links: Webinar :: How Nonprofits Can Utilize Group Texting, Mobile Websites and Smartphone Apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I’m bummed that I cannot participate this time around (will be traveling with my family, enjoying some offline adventures) but am already looking forward to the next opportunity! Because we know you’d be disappointed in us if we didn’t include them, we’ll have a live question and answer and a back channel discussion.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 17, 2014

Plus, it’s something that spans both the online and the offline worlds, and can put your organization clearly on people’s radars in a very positive fashion. Recruit a Group of Volunteers Who Are Willing to Share Your Brilliant Social Media Content. Build Your Street Cred. Finally, Get Your Board on Board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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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. Segmentation involves grouping supporters based on shared characteristics. For instance, you might group supporters based on their engagement level, recency and frequency of giving, or preferred communication channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications. When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. They also have a robust online community. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. A total of 3,094 Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channel used the hashtag #OceanLoveEarl from 6/23-7/15. Total raise $5563 or 10% over goal of $5,000 in 2 weeks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Our LinkedIn group for Active pro bono consultants is a great place where these people can connect based on a current interest—giving back using their current skills. We started out by creating a twitter account and using just a few hours a week to monitor and post, then built out our other channels and cross-promoted our specific campaigns.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2013

. “Online giving continues to rise in importance and prominence, with the largest group of donors (Boomers) reporting to give slightly more via online (42%) than direct mail (40%),” said the study. Marketing Research Metrics Nonprofit Online Fundraising'

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling Challenge tweet chat gathered nonprofit video experts and other experienced storytellers to share what works, what channels are best and more when it comes to sharing videos over social media. Read about how the NetSquared Local Warsaw group (NetWtorek) advertises its events through social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The basics of it include strong media relations efforts, a media trade program, strategic communications through our own robust channels and active outreach to organizations. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. PadillaCRT has led our earned media strategies since we launched GiveMN in 2009.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Multi-channel marketing is the practice of communicating and marketing across many channels. By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters. There’s Power in Numbers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

Mobile-friendly campaigns are raising awareness for issues that certain populations may not have access to otherwise, such as youth or minority groups. These things allow for more sustainable dialogue, contribute to long-term engagement, and add channels to network offline and opportunities for further community building.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

What we love about Fun Team Events Fun Team Events helps build communities by strengthening relationships through interactive virtual activities. The app fosters a sense of community engagement and wellness, connecting users globally in a shared mission to support charitable organizations through their everyday activities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Offline activities. If your offline database tracking activities can communicate with your online system (whether through data syncing or old-school spreadsheet downloading and uploading) you have a great wealth of information at your fingertips. How do you know what your constituents are interested in? Special constituents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The discussion featured guest speakers Jen Burton , community director at Causes ; Tom Dawkins , co-founder of StartSomeGood ; and Miles Orkin , national director for mobile and web at the American Cancer Society. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline. Fundraising channels needs to be integrated.

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