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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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

That means that thousands of organizations all over the world are inspiring generosity in their communities on GivingTuesday. Check out how other nonprofits are inspiring generosity in their own communities. The success of GivingTuesday as a movement has a lot to do with its success at community building. Join the conversation!

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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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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. In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms. You don’t have to mix your channels!

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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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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Music is great at bringing communities together, and while it may take a lot of planning, hosting a benefit concert can be incredibly rewarding for both you and your supporters. Foster community engagement at your benefit concert as local musicians, volunteers, and donors all gather in one place for a cause they care about.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. Here are a few reasons why using multiple social networking platforms doesn’t just mean you repeat your effort.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

They also want to engage with the channel and experience they prefer. As it is built on the Salesforce platform, it includes our ecosystem of integrated partner solutions and innovative apps that integrate easily with our solutions. Nonprofit Cloud has an extensive solution for Fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. When adapting your strategy to online you may want to try multiple channels and approaches, although you will encounter metrics which may not be so promising. Testing is the golden rule.

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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. The power of community-driven nonprofits continues to be a highlight of GivingTuesday campaigns within the Neon One ecosystem. Who Is Giving? Where Do Donors Give?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Use direct mail, email, social media, and other channels to reach and engage donors. Then, you can spend more time combining the right content strategies with the right platforms to boost your reach. Your thank-yous should also explain how their donations will make a difference in your mission and the community you serve.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2. Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

End-to-end event management platforms provide comprehensive solutions covering all aspects of event planning and execution. Qgiv Events is a versatile online platform that streamlines event management and fundraising efforts. Customize your event pages, simplify the registration process, and manage your guests all in one place!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For nonprofits who use Neon CRM as their donor management platform and Neon Websites as their website builder, creating an event page is a breeze! Maximize Your Digital Marketing Channels Even if your event is taking place in-person, your marketing efforts should be primarily happening online.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. The campaign began by hosting more than 30 community meetings over the course of a month.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. Digital fundraisers are busier than ever, reaching more people through digital channels than ever before. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising (one of the big things you can do on our fundraising platform) accounts for ? As we all know, social media is a great place to fundraise, so leverage the power of these platforms with a one-day social media sharing event. Here’s a quick look at 3 of our top online fundraising ideas: 1.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Most nonprofits generate at least two “touches” with supporters during the year-end fundraising season using a variety of marketing platforms. 31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Which marketing platforms received the most engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Having a way to communicate with them regularly is essential, both leading up to the Giving Day and especially during the day itself. Take Advantage of Creative Generosity: This is good community management practice. Click to Download. While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Social media specific webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited. Knowing your audience remains essential, because each platform is a new arena for expression, and a new avenue to engage different targets and users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. If you are a smaller organization, have a few people work together to keep the channels updated and have fun with it. Anything else?

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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. That is what a lot of us are doing.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

Track supporters' engagement across channels. Tracking member engagement across different mediums or channels can be difficult, but achieving a 360 degree view of their activity will enable you to understand and communicate with them in more powerful ways. Activate & organize supporters on and offline.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

For example, you can understand what impact, if any, a new communication channel had on fundraising outcomes. This allows you to see which social media platforms are driving the most users to your website. That way, you can assess which pages are most popular for users who come via each traffic channel. Social traffic.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Diverse Goals.

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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. For the donation information, I pulled an excel spreadsheet from Razoo platform and analyzed donation amounts, sources, and weak/strong ties. Fundraiser.

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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. Causes' fundraising platform allows nonprofits to tell their story and engage donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Setting up multiple donation platforms. Transitioning your fundraising to online platforms can help to significantly boost the visibility of nonprofits of all sizes. Start with their past preferred communication channels. If a supporter has never declared one preferred line of communication, look at their past tendencies.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

To help us make the most of this channel, we're planning to run a social media append to determine which members of our eFile are also on Facebook, and reach out to invite them to "LIKE" our Facebook page. This will provide us and them with a different platform on which to interact. We've reached our limit in email communications.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. We faced challenges. There must be catalytic organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Plan From your website to social media, email to mobile messages, online to offline, multichannel strategies require coordination and creative thinking across teams and departments, and a focus on the core of your work beyond any one specific call to action.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google gives eligible nonprofits $10,000 monthly to spend on its paid advertising platform. They’ll leverage your grant to reach your entire community of donors, volunteers, advocates, and beneficiaries. This Google Grants manager has plenty of firsthand experience designing forms through different platforms. A/B testing.

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