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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. Aaron LaMonica-Weier , Sr. It’s popular ,” Aaron shared.

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Unlock Fans While Engaging Supporters Beyond Like, Share and Comment

Amy Sample Ward

At the same time I have watched organization struggle to engage with Facebook supporters in meaningful ways using just the actions Facebook has provided; Like, Share, or Comment. Facebook’s new Open Graph is designed to support the viral growth of highly relevant actions. We also give action takers other ways to help spread the word.

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Consider social media sharing as a form of generosity this GivingTuesday

Candid

Most prioritize content that other people are liking, sharing, and commenting on. Basically, if you want more people to see your GivingTuesday posts, you need your followers to reshare, comment, and like your social media content in advance. Communicate that every comment, like, and share can help boost the post.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. The right team feeds off the energy of the group. David added this comment about the synergy of enthusiasm. The right team also feeds on the energy of the group. The ability to manage risk and the courage to fail.

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Build excitement before you ask: Rethink your year-end giving social media plan

Candid

Find the posts from the last year that had the most likes and comments. Then, reshare them to your feed with some slight changes to the text, so they’re not exact duplicates. Warm them up with polls or easy open-ended questions, like asking what their favorite program or event of yours was over the last year.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.