EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Share urgent calls to action across channels. Check out our last installment here !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The visual nature makes it a perfect channel for executive directors to engage with their stakeholders. But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. At ACS CAN, we’re seeing this newly inspired level of activity reflected in our offline recruitment as well. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support. What This Looks Like at ACS CAN.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If your nonprofit has made any large-scale changes, your team should sit down and assess whether your mission statement still accurately reflects your work. Donors Report Tablet View Want to learn more about your donors? This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2018

Once a patient becomes a donor, trust is maintained and strengthened with thoughtful donor cultivation and stewardship, transparent reporting, and consistent, personalized messaging. While the overall decline in trust has impacted the healthcare and nonprofit industries, these two segments fared better than most, as they reported a 4.6%

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants. We did this on Day 1.

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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. Create a recognizable and consistent voice and visual identity across your social media platforms. Fundraising. Social media is a powerful fundraising tool!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Therefore, it’s crucial that you update your GuideStar “Nonprofit Report” at least once a year. Donors also appreciate simple pie charts that show how much is spent on programs vs. operations—as long the chart reflects that at least 75 percent of your budget goes directly to programs. before their communities were ready.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

There are definitely some benefits to having your executive director or CEO being present on social media channels. It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality. It is not a "CEO" blog where she writes daily, but a blog that includes the voices of NTEN staff and members. I think it depends. .

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Can they use their personal channels to uplift your organization’s event or message?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

Get the report and read it. But, as the sector has embraced online giving, we've had a niggling voice in the backs of our heads telling us that the donors we've cultivated online aren't sticking around. Well, this report has some pretty telling data. It points to some great momentum in online giving.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. You must exist across multiple communications channels. She proved that speaking to people in a way that reflects how they see themselves increases both their feeling of well-being and their attachment to the nonprofit. How did we react?

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EveryAction

MARCH 22, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Connect online: Invite your donors to follow your nonprofit’s social channels.

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Relationship Support Charlotte Retention 216

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Communications colleagues can help you develop the right messaging and select the most effective communication channels to get heard. Analyze all the previous year’s performance data, developing goals that truly reflect what is possible. Give them a voice and let them help you spread the word. Executive Support.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest). In the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. Anaheim Ballet has a YouTube Channel with over 130,000 channel views.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. Upload more photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. Upload more photos.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. They could put it on their website, they can put it in their newsletters, and they can run it across all of their social media channels. So we’re at voice, vision, and values.

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Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

A couple of recent reports and frameworks in both nonprofit and for-profit areas have been published recently and provide some useful ways to think about how to measure the ROI as well and measure effectiveness. Altimeter Report: Social Media Analytics. Perhaps more relevant for nonprofits is this report specifically for nonprofits.

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Social Media Measure Strategy Media 99

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. Upload more photos.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So I love that my early birds are here, and I’m going to be encouraging you right now to get started on drafting your campaign, your theme, your appeal, your offer, your appeal, your thank you, and you’re reporting back. ” The reporting back is you’re telling them exactly how their gift made a difference.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Your organization is just one channel through which they seek to drive change. From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, from the Ice Bucket Challenge to the Woman’s March, many of today’s most effective movements are less about single charismatic voices and more about the power of the chorus. Old power works like a currency.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Fast forward several years— more nonprofits are now using digital channels to engage with donors, but there is still resistance (or maybe it’s a lack of understanding) to incorporating and building a major gifts strategy online. Videos should be short(personally I won’t watch anything longer than 3-4 minutes) and reports should be brief.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . Are communication channels clear? I had an instance that was similar.” Of course, is it ethical?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Make your call-to-action (CTA) clear and distinct, and have your action button reflect that. 1-2 weeks post-campaign: Continue to engage and personally thank your donors, welcome new donors, share impact reports and encourage recurring giving. And determine your voice per platform according to your target audience on each.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But it’s also important that your organization communicates with a clear credible and compelling voice, that you communicate with consistently at all points of contact. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. You have owned media, earned media, and paid media.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Make your call-to-action (CTA) clear and distinct, and have your action button reflect that. 1-2 weeks post-campaign: Continue to engage and personally thank your donors, welcome new donors, share impact reports and encourage recurring giving. And determine your voice per platform according to your target audience on each.

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 98

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s incredibly important- Saying Thank You Like You Mean It - and it’s reported to be indicative of a donor’s willingness to give again. According to the 2014 Content Marketing Report, 92% of the nonprofits surveyed are using content marketing. Curious about what other findings are reported in the study?

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