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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Having trouble getting that mobile phone out of your hands and checking it when you need to focus on work? There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun. The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. Here’s how it works.

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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. There’s enough children impacted by the crisis in Syria to fill every professional baseball and professional football stadium in the US.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls. Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman. Children for Children Foundation.

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Why omni-channel fundraising works at year-end

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Digital ads For example, say you’re interested in buying a TV, or a really cool new toy for your children. The TV might be on, but people are probably also on their phones, checking email or getting a text message or reading a website. Here’s how to apply those same techniques to your nonprofit omni-channel fundraising at year-end.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Children and youth – 10%. Phone – 2%. A personal phone call asking me to give – 5%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. 4) 45% are Baby Boomers, 24% are Gen Xers, 19% are Millennials, 11% are Matures, and 1% are Gen Zers.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery. So the CEO of a medical clinic trades ideas about technology with the head of a children’s advocacy organization, and the environmental leader gets to know the inner-city organizer.

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10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits are missing a big opportunity to stay more connected with their donors by not capturing their mobile phone numbers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) asserts that if you have a donor’s phone number, or a donor supplies it, it is implied permission to text them any future messages.

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