Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been part of the Salesforce community for a while, you’ve certainly heard of Trailhead — the fun way to learn about all things Salesforce. A sampling of badge art from Salesforce.org Trailhead modules. Senior Manager, Partner Success, Salesforce.org Global Alliances and Channels. You may have even earned some badges.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

What channel do they spend the most time on? What are they looking at on those channels? Of the major social media platforms, Instagram routinely tops the list as one of the most important engagement channels for nonprofits looking to reach a wider, younger audience. Create a unique event hashtag.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Volunteers who are excited about their work will invite friends and family to join them in the fun, magically growing your volunteer base. Craft stores are full of stickers, decals, paper punches, and other fun items to create little masterpieces. Yard signs are so much fun and very effective at driving the point home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

What are your strengths and preferences and what is the best match in terms of social channels? What did the trick was a “How To Tweet” cheat sheet that not only included the simple mechanics, but also sample tweets from other ACLU leaders around the country, subtle form of peer pressure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

Many more groups joined in on the fun, recording videos and posting to YouTube. It’s fun, for one. Everyone involved in an organization and everyone online is, actually, human, and fun is a good thing. That said, having fun, gaining visibility, and making connections with new supporters happens only if you do it right.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience. What’s more, thinking more like your constituents isn’t difficult.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Add a guide to share sample Facebook and Twitter messages, along with easily downloadable pictures, giving day logos, and other artifacts for them to use for their social media posts. Ask student leaders to create short videos that can be posted throughout the day on your giving day hub and social media channels. Make it fun.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Not surprisingly, the pandemic caused many consumers to change the way they shop, including shifting to ecommerce channels. People like to engage, and when you enter them into a raffle for a prize (preferably one that is donated), they’re more likely to join the fun. The third is to offer donors opportunities to leverage their giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

“ 72% of the 209 respondents describe their approaches to personal/professional use of social media as either ‘blended’ or ‘segmented by channel’ ” Facebook friends aren’t created equal; or, rather, Facebook gives you the options to treat your friends differently.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Inspire your supporters to channel their inner Joey Chestnut and stuff their face for good. Set up tasting tables with glasses and laminated A/B/C cards (they will get wet) for people to try to match the samples to the bottle.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the fun opportunity to present a webinar session with Allen Gunn of Aspiration in part of the TechSoup Talks series. I can’t believe we had to, and managed to, fit everything into just one hour, including questions/answers!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Make a sample recurring donation—or several—to ensure the transaction and email confirmations work as expected. Step 7: Launch Your Recurring Giving Program Once your donation page is live, promote it through your website, email campaigns, social media, and other marketing channels. Then test it again. Did it work? Now, keep testing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md. Have fun doing it.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even better, pick different strategies to use across multiple channels (e.g., You can find a sample script here. Invitations (especially to free events) that offer interesting and fun opportunities for supporters to find even greater meaning and enjoyment in their affiliation with you.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

These emails should coincide with your wider, multi-channel year-end campaign promotion timeline. It might include an emoji, fun wordplay, or a question. Sample Campaign Plan. We’ll get into more detail about the types of emails you can send, but all of them should include some story-driven content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Here’s how I think about content strategy, and how I framed it to my network: “I’m looking to develop a strategy across channels (web, mobile, across social media platforms), across audiences, building better engagement and community through content, linking it back to organizational goals, measuring success, etc. . Copyblogger.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. I'll just be presenting a bit of a case study of how we're starting to funnel multi-channel communication in to our CRM. I was on a panel two years ago as a last minute substitution. It's the new shiny.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The folks at Idealist recently shared their obsession with drawing the actor Nicolas Cage in their post, Doodling Nicolas Cage: How we keep work fun. In the latest episode of npVOICES , NTEN''s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, shares how she began her career in the nonprofit sector as an accidental techie at an organization while in college.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Nonprofits must closely consider how fundraising channels work in relation to one another versus as competing initiatives." Probably no better an indication of my love for the knowledge waiting to be unmasked within this tool, is the (fun?) fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. I'll just be presenting a bit of a case study of how we're starting to funnel multi-channel communication in to our CRM. I was on a panel two years ago as a last minute substitution. It's the new shiny.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Photo by eschipul Yesterday's SXSW Nonprofit Social Media Poetry Slam was so much fun and from the feedback we all learned a lot about measuring the return of social media for nonprofits. Need for way to track people's participation in social media and what it generated in other channels - how many signed up for the newsletter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Philadelphia's Net Tuesday livestreamed a talk by Amy Sample Ward on building a multi-channel campaign. Want in on the fun? NetSquared Local organizers are bringing together their communities to do amazing things and have inspiring discussions. Here are some highlights that they've shared from their April events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. Synthesis of grassroots organization to channel social change. Never underestimate something that is fun and has short feed back loops. If we want people to engage, it has to be easy, fun, and addictive.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Post by Michael Beahm, Channel Marketing Manager at Blackbaud. Each toolkit included : a) Directions on how to run the photo booth b) Suggested tweets c) Signage to maintain Camp Kesem branding and d) A sample press release and media alert. He’s a husband, father of two, and coffee-holic. Connect with him on Twitter!

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Make it Fun! Hold fun, internal gatherings to celebrate victories : specified number of notes written, donations received, etc. Recognize and publicize the project through social channels with recognition going to the physicians who were honored. Letters to patients asking for their stories, including a sample.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Since 1988, CCTV has provided Cambridge residents with access to media production equipment, training, facilities, and cable television channels to accomplish this goal. Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels. Here is a fun video from a class they taught here at CCTV the following year.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Here’s how Fiver told their story for their relay: “The Fiver Relay is a longtime tradition at Camp Fiver, where cabins compete in a series of fun, timed activities that are similar to the TV Game Show “Minute to Win It”.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

That’s what keeps things fun and engaging! But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Schedule those posts then wait for the fun. JUST for fun! Links don’t get seen as often, so post the video directly to specific channels if you can. LearnWorlds.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. On July 5 the real fun began. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). How was the project developed?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2009

So for the next hour I got to relive my Texas hail experience through photos and videos that Austinites sent by the gigabyte into our local news channels. I think this should change, because recently I had a really fun time making a volunteer video about a special nonprofit event.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

The playlist also looked different for different types of nonprofits — every single environmental group that reported data in our sample experienced a decrease in year-over-year overall revenue. And inflation coupled with the looming warnings of a recession certainly didn’t help. Let’s dig in! Build an “attribution model” for email.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written. Start simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Keep It Multi-Channel, But Within Your Capacity To Implement: I have 1,500 friends on Facebook, although it pales in comparison to some super connected social media gurus like Chris Brogan and Robert Scoble. Keep It Happy, Keep It Fun, Keep A Deadline, Keep It Urgent: I try as much as possible to have fun with these campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Below is a sample email I sent to our captains, complete with a template they could use to motivate and equip their team members. “Hi With the help of the organization’s communication team, we crafted several sample posts for Facebook and Instagram that our fundraisers could copy and paste as their own. Get social!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Send all kinds of channels. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. It’s just the most fun ever. And dang, that was really fun. That’s fun. So that’s really fun. Yes, build relationships. Get to know people, Chad. Yes, email.

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