Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

On the other hand, being overly simplistic or general with your hashtags like #givingtuesday, #philanthropy, #donate, #charity, etc won’t help much. Start by looking at your tagged posts, hashtags with your nonprofit’s name, or location tags at fundraising events you’ve participated in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As it says on our home page , we want to help mindful organizations affect social change – both charities and companies. How better to do this than by highlighting a charity (501c3) that needs a hand in launching its social media strategy, we reasoned? We are looking for a charity that is hungry for help but short on dollars.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Maybe a friend shared the link with them, or they found your charity by Googling a topic you’re campaigning about. You’re a charity fighting for action on the climate crisis, and you had two ads on Facebook. They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL. Your donors can find you in a wide range of ways.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2014

The more you ask people to suffer, the more money you will raise for charity events. This is one reason that endurance events like the Boston Marathon raise over $10M a year for charities. Some people may find it easier to focus their fundraising pitches on social media and tag people directly. Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My Charity Connect: Netchange Week. I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

where you earn donations for your favorite charity, for free, just by playing. I joined the team a year ago as an adviser, charged with recruiting charities to be a part of the site. I have seen hundreds of ideas for new tools and technologies designed to help raise money for charities, none of which ever lived up to the billing.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 29, 2009

CharityWater.org scored over $1,500 US from Twollars — but will those virtual micro-donations add up to real-world funds for other charities? Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Social networking Twitter social media. read more ).

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Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tags: TechSoup. The Chronicle of Philanthropy isn't known for giving away money, but for talking about how to get it. They've come up with a contest to benefit a few lucky nonprofits. Here's the deal: read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. The nonprofit Charity: Water does this exceptionally well by inviting their supporters to create their own fundraising campaign for the organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2010

Did you know that 93% of charities have a Facebook page? A new study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research also found that 97% of large charities have a Facebook page as of 2009. The study found that charities adopted social media faster and the adoption was more widespread than for-profit use.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Some online e-commerce stores like Etsy spotlight Black-owned businesses or have a special tag you can search through to find Black-owned businesses to shop at. Learn about Black history The origins of Black History Month are rooted in education, making learning an integral part of any Black History Month celebration!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Charity How To is an online collection of videos to help nonprofits learn how to use the Internet more effectively. According to Charity How To's About page , "Our on-demand video guides are designed specifically for small and midsized nonprofits with limited human and financial resources. What Is RSS Anyway?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Charities & The Social Web view presentation (tags: groundswell agile communities storytelling ). Steve Bridger just posted a nice slideshow from a recent workshop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2010

Facebook: charity: water. Tags: Nonprofits of the Month. The nonprofits below are committed to reversing this trend through education and conservation in hopes of preventing the looming global water crisis: Twitter: Water.org. YouTube: WaterAid. LinkedIn: Water for People. Flickr: Water for Sale. Circle of Blue | Water News.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? The goal is to allow anyone to be a celebrity for their charity.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This TikTok by Charity: Water, below, educates viewers on the lack of clean water in Madagascar. By stringing together a series of marketing videos and adding statistics on the availability of clean water, Charity: Water does an excellent job educating viewers on the need they’re addressing in Madagascar.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Recent data from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) drives this point home. TAG found that 39% of grant applications they reviewed are duplicative across funders. Digging in to the problem .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? They also tag their friends. It is a reminder to have some good examples ready for your champions and supporters to emulate.

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OneCause

JUNE 15, 2023

As you build your campaigns — whether you’re planning a charity hockey game or an online give-a-thon — keep in mind: Is the registration process a seamless experience? If it’s hard to set up an account or the donation process is clunky, people will go to other places to give. How are you marketing your P2P campaign ?

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

Over the course of 30 days, individuals competed for donors donations and matching awards for their favorite charities. Contest participants rated the following as most useful: Tags: Nonprofit Events Online Fundraising Volunteering. The challenge raised $2.1 million dollars for nonprofits from over 105,000 donations.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Add a Description Tag to Your Package. Acknowledge who donated items or baskets for charity fundraising purposes. 3 : Continue making loops until you have about 8 or more to create a full bow. 4 : Use floral wire or a smaller ribbon to secure your bow by tying a knot where your fingers are pinching the loops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement. It’s hard to get noticed on Twitter without purchasing ads even if you have a large following.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

There is a new social media tool coming out that aims to connect individuals with charities. However, I have signed up to get more information and encourage you to do the same with the hopes that this can be more friendly to charities than Facebook has been. Tags: Tools cuil facebook jumo. It is called Jumo.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

The sponsor would be committed to pay the charity at the conclusion of the day. The end result would be more followers for us, great PR for the sponsor (and a good deed) and $ and awareness through tweet to the cancer charity. Since, we have let the sponsor choose whoever they would like as a cancer charity.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 23, 2010

The definitive, practical, go-to resource guide on helping all charities become more green.". Tags: TechSoup. The website for the new book, The Nonprofit Guide to Going Green describes it as "a comprehensive learning tool to guide nonprofits and NGOs towards becoming greener.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Adam Ostrow from Mashable has written a nice article about a new feature Facebook is rolling out – it is called charity gifts. Basically, Facebook is opening up their gift store software – so you can buy a gift which is a $5 or $10 donation for a charity. Tags: Facebook causes ephilanthropy facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

It’s a way for the donor to support their favorite charities beyond their lifetime, which is pretty cool. For example, donors who make a planned gift often increase their annual donations to a charity, according to a study in 2019 from the Giving USA Foundation. And quite often, it’s their largest gift.

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Care2

AUGUST 4, 2009

If you answered yes, then your organization maybe surprised to learn that it must comply with state charity registration laws and register with most of the states your donors are based. Currently 40 States have statutory requirements relating to the registration of charities that intend to solicit funds.

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