Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

A great social media content calendar can help you: Save time : we’re all busy, which means that sometimes we can forget to update our social channels – especially if you don’t have a dedicated social media manager. It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. 7) Tell your story.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How to Audit Your Strategic Plan to Prepare for Annual Planning Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast Your strategic plan is your guiding star, helping you determine where to channel your energy, time, and resources. Listen on the go with the Spotify playlist here. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Here’s what we’ll be covering to better utilize marketing for donor engagement: Core Nonprofit Marketing Channels . Integrating Marketing Channels . Core Nonprofit Marketing Channels. Let’s focus on these four main channels: Direct mail. Integrating Nonprofit Marketing Channels. Donor Profiles and Records .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

PRO TIP: Crowdfunding campaigns are best for story-driven and time-bound direct giving appeals like Giving Tuesday. After all, strong storytelling can help build meaningful connections with your audience and even move them to rally around your cause. Rally your supporters by sending an email series that tells a cohesive story.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tell Stories Give those receiving your direct mail something compelling to read and respond to. Use direct mail as an opportunity to be a storyteller and put your impact on paper. Your call to action (CTA) and main campaign message should be clear and centered, but stories are donor conversion machines.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Once you have a clear mission, set both short-term and long-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). Give each persona a name and story Assign each donor persona a name and create a brief narrative that describes their background, motivations, and relationship with your organization.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Leverage Multiple Marketing Channels If you want to attract the attention of as many supporters as possible, develop a multichannel marketing strategy. Create a brand guide to ensure your graphics and messaging stay consistent across these channels. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Social media provides your organization with a public forum to share updates on projects, success stories, and any unexpected challenges you’ve come across.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

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. Watch her recent webinar, 6 Types of Stories You Should Be Telling on Social Media. If you have a great post or a great story, you can share it lots of different ways.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

You can reimagine old footage or images by giving them new life on your social media channels. Chatbots give your existing audiences new channels to discover your existing services and are also a new way to serve key audiences you’re trying to reach. Strengthen your brand story. Flip the physical to digital.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

When leveraged with other communication channels, direct mail can generate significant engagement and gift-giving from donors. This shows that appreciation for this communication channel is growing among younger generations. This channel also tends to see positive returns—for every $1.27 Mail enhances trust and credibility.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?” . Measuring inputs and outputs Calculating ROI and other relevant metrics requires measuring your campaign’s inputs and outputs. . or $1 raised for every $0.40

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Maximize Your Digital Marketing Channels Even if your event is taking place in-person, your marketing efforts should be primarily happening online. With everyone spending hours a day glued to their phones and computers, digital channels will be the best way to reach them. Emotional connections drive ticket sales.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

We tell stories to make sense of the world around us. Stories are based on commonly held beliefs about people, institutions, and society. Who are the messengers and storytellers that can most effectively deliver these messages and move this narrative? It allows us to communicate with others and build connections.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Determine what channels to use. Focus on storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Note from Beth : As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one from Simon Mainwaring. Here’s how a non-profit effectively combines them both.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

You can tell a story of a client who benefited from your services, for example, or highlight key data on your activities from the past year. Stories and data showing your impact to date. Above all, remember that storytelling is a powerful tool. Above all, remember that storytelling is a powerful tool.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Develop a system for tracking and monitoring board members’ outreach efforts to measure success and identify areas for improvement. Promote the matching gift campaign through various channels, such as social media, email, and events, to increase awareness and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Others are using Instagram by sharing visual stories about their programs using a branded profile, like Children’s LA and Unicef USA. Instagram is one of those channels where a nonprofit could start with a small pilot that is strategically linked to communications or marketing objectives and pick a success metric and track it.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

You’ve read articles about up-and-coming communications channels and whether you should incorporate them into your nonprofit outreach strategy. But, the fact of the matter is, the channels you employ will have little impact on your outreach strategy if the messages you send through those channels are subpar. Let’s get started.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

s not only helps you plan ahead, but gives you a baseline to measure success against throughout the year. To help with consistency, a good first step is to take inventory of your social channels: Which social channels is your nonprofit on? How often are you posting on each channel? What are your goals? Are you trying to….

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

The potential here goes beyond the average marketing or communication channel. All that said, it appears that the app is taking a measured, thoughtful approach to its growth and monetization strategy, so while we encourage proceeding with caution, hopefully they can learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. . About the Author.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

The goals you set will help you plan the rest of your campaign: The channels you use for appeals, decisions about your event, and even the types of stories you’ll tell your donors will hinge on the goals you’ve set for your campaign. Measurable: Ensure your goal is measurable to track progress and success.

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Classy

AUGUST 9, 2021

PRO TIP: Crowdfunding campaigns are best for story-driven and time-bound direct giving appeals like Giving Tuesday. After all, strong storytelling can help build meaningful connections with your audience and even move them to rally around your cause. Every touchpoint with your donors will bring them closer to your Giving Tuesday story.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept. When setting your own goal, use the SMART principles approach, making sure it’s Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely. Your donors want to hear those stories.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. Eight of the eleven cities in the digital storytelling global tweet chat were led by Net2 local organizers.

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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. Increase reach on social media channels. Increase engagement on social channels. Social media content mirrors other channels.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

"What gets measured gets treasured," he says. For the last 10 years, email has continued to generate the highest return on investment for fundraising — more than any other fundraising channel. Email works with other channels: Test sending fewer emails, and cultivating donors through other channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

With more than 150 countries joining, and more than 14 billion impressions on social channels every year, it’s the perfect opportunity to tell your story to a global audience of people interested in making a difference through the power of social media. The theme of your story can help you define the content you’ll need to create.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Ready, set, goals!

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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. Why is it important for nonprofits?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Power Up Your Content: Mastering the Art of Compelling Storytelling Discover the secrets of storytelling that make your nonprofit stand out! Introduction Storytelling is an essential part of any nonprofit fundraising campaign. Use Visuals : Visuals are a powerful tool in storytelling.

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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. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Other channels to consider for sharing your videos include Vimeo , Justin.tv , and BlipTV. Other methods of measuring viewership data include Google Analytics for videos posted on your organization's website and Facebook Insights for movies posted on your organization's Facebook fan page. Optimising Video For Search Engines.

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