Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to grow support and keep donors engaged. Collecting stories from your donors as to why they give and from your volunteers as to why they volunteer.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have always tried to understand how to shift and modify their fundraising strategies to appeal to and resonate with the future generation of donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Nonprofit organizations are often dependent on volunteers, and among adults 65 and older volunteering rates have increased from 14.3% 1 For nonprofits, understanding the dynamics of senior volunteerism can help organizations utilize seniors in a way that furthers their mission while offering a positive volunteering experience.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Would volunteering help? Q: Will it help to become a volunteer? It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I learned to step into the shoes of different types of donors to understand their expectations, to explain the needs of nonprofits clearly, about the importance of budgets, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? How can you encourage donor-advised fundholders to participate?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 23, 2020

What some think of as the donor pyramid. In offices that have a combination of these programs, staff typically oversee what’s called portfolio management where they decide which donor prospects get to move into new giving opportunities. This means we are incrementally moving donors through levels of engagement over time.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. State/Local.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

The process of becoming a donor typically looks more like this: A local resident, Stephanie, sees an interesting story about a family your nonprofit helped keep warm during the winter on her friend's Facebook feed. She clicks the link you shared, signs up to volunteer, and checks a box to start receiving your email newsletter.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. This is just a taste of the events being held this month by NetSquared chapters. Portland, OR: Volunteer meet and greet and help steer the rest of 2014 events. Upcoming Events.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. State/Local.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

If you’re working hard trying to find donors for your nonprofit, well done! Regularly adding new donors is how you grow your donor base, and a big, loyal donor base is a foundation for success. But if you’re new to the world of new donor acquisition, it can seem daunting. Your local Chamber of Commerce.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

We are here to talk about where to find potential donors to support your cause. We’ve got a good old-fashioned donor acquisition webinar for you today. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars or if you’re a first-timer, Bloomerang is also a provider of donor management software.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

This is a guest blog post from Salem Kimble, the manager of social media development at TechSoup's donor partner, BetterWorld Telecom. BetterWorld company policy supports and encourages all employees to volunteer up to two full days each month in their local communities. leaders to build local living economies.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. How many people who have benefited from their services come back and volunteer?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Finding the right funders that match your mission, your specific project, and your geographic locale is quite an art. They usually have local chapters. Your local community directory at the Foundation Center. Approach potential partners and local leaders to let them know about your search. Clubs and Organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Execution: The major donor cocktail party was by invitation only to CC’s largest donors.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. Many times, fundraising and volunteering took on the form of a collaborative effort. Their effort became known as the “YMCA School” of fundraising. Go big, or go home.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Understanding the philanthropic experience of donors and prospects is the critical first step. Alice, a development director at a local, mid-sized arts nonprofit, had paid access to NOZA, but she "didn’t have the time" to do any prospect research. Determine who to ask, how much to request, when to ask, and how to ask.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

December donors are always suppressed from receiving additional appeals after they’ve donated. What is the ideal length of a year-end campaign to avoid donor fatigue? I don’t believe in donor fatigue. I think donors get tired of boring, cookie-cutter solicitations that don’t align with their interests. Danielle .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. In light of that, I personally met only 4 of the 12 donors (excluding myself). One donor was a friend of a friend.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. The Power of a Year. You can still participate!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Building a donor base can be a daunting task when you’re running a small nonprofit. Here’s the secret to finding new donors for your organization: Start on the inside and work your way out. Here are three easy steps to finding new donors for your small nonprofit using this inside-out approach. That’s 156 new donors in one year!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Perhaps your donors are in the CRM, your advocates and evangelists are in an Excel spreadsheet, and your program beneficiaries are in paper files.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Perhaps your donors are in the CRM, your advocates and evangelists are in an Excel spreadsheet, and your program beneficiaries are in paper files.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Pretty well known for it, but if you’re wondering what the heck is Bloomerang, in addition to these webinars, we’re a donor database. So most of you are hoping to get strategies about how to strengthen your volunteer donor and staff relationships and sense of community. . Steven, let’s wrap it up. All right.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise. Basically, we’re here to talk about dirty donor data and how to prevent that. It’s a donor database, apropos to this topic. All right, so identify loyal donors who may be prospects for major and planned giving.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

That helps you raise money, expand your donor base, and increase community awareness about your cause. Then, you’ll recruit volunteer fundraisers to set up their own individual fundraising pages. Next, you’ll provide the volunteer fundraisers with resources to use while promoting their pages. Rolling campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

We brought our first product to market in July 2000 working with a local children’s museum as our first client. We engaged in primary research with nonprofits and their donors and became maniacal about data in order to publish educational content. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

To avoid being repetitive by listing these best practices in each of the chapters dedicated to social networks, those universal best practices are: 1. Increasingly, donors and supporters follow causes on social networks. Prioritize storytelling over marketing. Visuals inspire higher interaction and engagement rates.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership in associations can be driven by individuals, businesses, or by local chapters, but all associations exist, primarily, to serve their members’ interests and advance their goals. Local Memberships: With this model, an individual or business joins a local chapter which provides its own network, resources, and benefits.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

Erica Waasdorp will show you how important recurring giving has become, and how best to bring them in – with minimal time and effort, but with the large focus these sustainable recurring donors deserve. We’re here to talk about recurring donors, oh, yeah, best practices for unlocking the mystery that is recurring donors.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Donor relations. Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Donor Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I contributed a chapter on this topic to the Psychology of Facebook , so I'm going to stop myself from going on about that now. I'm giving Causes an A plus for the tips and reminders in email. Let me explain. As I explained in detail in an earlier post , it is based on your age.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Marketing is also how your staff and volunteers feel and talk about your nonprofit in their everyday lives. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. When a person or organization seems to be doing well, constituents are eager to get on the bandwagon.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Interested in seeing how we can help you design the perfect donor experience for your end-of-year appeal? At Qgiv, we love a good matching gift, and Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is great at using matching gift pledges in end-of-year fundraising campaigns to encourage their donors to give to their cause. Request a demo. Who they are.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

In this highly acclaimed book, Lubin starts by comparing what she accomplishes as a CEO of a successful nonprofit with “zilch,” to what one of her donor prospect businesses does with millions—and how businesses and nonprofits alike can get more bang with less buck! Have you volunteered? Nonprofit work is easy. That’s great.

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