The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2021

Keep in mind what platforms fit your audience. Your voice should be consistent across all your social media platforms so that your messaging sounds like it’s coming from the same reliable source. Comment on posts, respond to other’s comments, retweet, and share quality posts from other organizations, causes, and users.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding your nonprofit audiences—their hearts and minds, wallets and worlds—is critical to successfully communicating in an election year. Three —Mind the Calendar + Communicate Precisely The months nearest to the election, October especially, are going to be some of the toughest times to reach your audiences.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

Know your current audience demographic and keep your target audience in mind. Be sure to interact with community comments by liking or commenting back. Be sure to keep a careful eye for comments that are inflammatory. Build community guidelines and post/pin them in post comments when necessary. Be consistent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Whatever you want your donors to do, make sure you have this goal in mind when crafting your email series. Personalized thank you’s sound incredibly time-consuming, but there are tools to make this essential task manageable for your team. Share in the comments below. Examples: Make a second gift. Sign up to volunteer.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, one word comes to mind: gratitude. It may sound simple, and it is. I invite your comments and ideas about how we can be our best selves, personally and professionally, in 2022! Yes, it has been a year of challenge and change. I feel very fortunate to be part of this organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. It’s easier than it sounds. Sean Kosofsky is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2014

Without these things relationships fade away – out of sight, out of mind. With that in mind I give you three long time fundraising experts - Rachel Muir, Shanon Doolittle and Pamela Grow. In the comments, someone referred the fellow to an organization that gets these folks a college education. Let us know in the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

And I’m kinda tired and bored of sounding like a broken record, so I will stop rotating now. But for now, and until I change my mind (I like to keep my options open), this blog will be inactive. Perhaps you can tell me in comments. Was this blog a success? I don’t know how to answer. Those are enough for me.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

It’s important to have a script that sounds like what you would say in a normal conversation. Let’s face it: Listening to “exciting updates” sounds about as enticing as watching paint dry. Drop it in the comments! Staff members who feel they need more guidance when reaching out to potential donors. What makes a good script?

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Keep these in mind next time you are self-editing, and you may find your ideal lede lurking a few lines in to your draft. People who care, yes, or they wouldn’t be your audience — but who very likely have other things on their mind. Q: How does it sound? Does this sound or look like a policy briefing? In real life?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 28, 2019

You may think you have your mind made up about their character, but there are always more factors at play. You can’t expect your employee to read your mind. Learn about what’s going on with them and acknowledge their performance (without negative comments or accusations) while laying out your expectations.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Keep in mind that mingling with other donors is likely a big draw for them so consider your guest list appropriately. Can you recreate the sights, sounds and smells of your work? Drop it in the comments! If you are planning an event at night or on the weekend is there a way their family could experience it with them?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One comment was particularly memorable : A long-time board member shared that, of all the board retreats he had attended, this was the best one. With that in mind, here are the seven principles that we use to design and lead impactful strategic planning or board retreats. It was so gratifying to receive such positive feedback.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Don’t forget to ask supporters to comment, share, and interact with you online to promote the organic growth of the campaign. Without your loyal supporters, raising money, sharing the campaign, and acting as your sounding board, you wouldn’t see much success. or comment on your posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. It’s worth noting that LinkedIn Analytics provide a module for monitoring LinkedIn employee advocacy where nonprofits can view their LinkedIn Page engagement by employees, such as recommendations, posts, share activity, comments, and reactions.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

The person(s) in this role will gather the questions and comments from the session live chat, the event’s social media channels, and private messages. Social media moderators will act similarly to virtual emcees by monitoring online chats and comments and relaying this information back to the emcee. Virtual Event Technical Producers.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

There are three core elements that immediately come to mind when I think of trust: empathy, power, and vulnerability. The comments sound harsh but I’ve heard both uttered, repeatedly. These are core elements of trust and of any good relationship. When these values are activated to action, both parties thrive.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Paid social is, in simple terms, paid advertising that takes place on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, etc with specific targetted audiences in mind. Be aware that adding keywords in comments does not help with search. Now what exactly does it mean when we talk about social SEO?

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

Ok, ok … that sounds a little bit like bragging, but I promise the report is worth the read. Search engine optimization, paid search through Google Adwords, content marketing , social media engagement and display advertising all come to mind as very successful ways to drive traffic to your website on an ongoing basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story. With the recent changes Facebook is making to the algorithm, this makes our videos all the more important since we have our most passionate supporters in mind when creating them. The reason? Share on more than one platform to expand your reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Notice that the organization’s Facebook administrator hangs out in the comments and makes an effort to respond to each comment by liking or replying. Also, by hanging out a few extra minutes after you post to engage with your alumni network on Facebook sets up a culture of interaction.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

The person(s) in this role will gather the questions and comments from the session live chat, the event’s social media channels, and private messages. Social media moderators will act similarly to virtual emcees by monitoring online chats and comments and relaying this information back to the emcee. Virtual Event Technical Producers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2014

They get peppered with so many mind-numbing questions that they may wonder whether it’s worth the trouble. The heart will motivate people to do good deeds, but the mind has to be able to narrow down and communicate them. I know this sounds too basic to mention, but it very much deserves attention. Ask them in the comments.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Keep in mind that while WordPress is brimming with possibilities, all of that potential is only potential until it’s actually put to use. WordPress is used for nearly every kind of organization under the sun, which means that most pre-built WordPress themes were created with a more generic, for-profit organization in mind.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While this may sound like a perfect and easy plan, this method is typically suited for simple sites that do not rely on many contributed modules, as well as sites that don’t use custom modules to extend Drupal’s behavior. Migrating to Drupal 8 with Drupal 9 in Mind. First Name. Email Address. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Don’t attend a meeting wishing the meeting was over while stealing glances at your email on your mobile phone under the table, or trying to sound smart during the meeting. Here’s how to do it: Practice Mindfulness Meetings : Be fully present at every meeting, focused on the conversation at hand.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Does any of this sound familiar? Check out more on LinkedIn’s email management suggestions and other clever ideas from Mind Tools. Log in to share your tips and suggestions in the comments. Outlook calendar chaos. Keeping focused (even with the temptation of having the whole wide world a mere click away!). Image: Wiertz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A particular benefit of videos for nonprofits is that, unlike the written word, or even still photographs, video uses moving imagery and sound to convey a message that in text often appears dry and disassociated from the viewer. The figure is expected to rise to 54% by 2016, at which time video-on-demand traffic will have tripled.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Giving your followers what they want is great, but you still have tangible goals to keep in mind. I’ve thrown out some ideas below—feel free to add others in the comments. All of this sounds like a lot of work. If this feels overwhelming, keep in mind that Twitter may not be quite right for your organization at this point.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. Developing a strategy .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

With this in mind, when we produce participatory experiences, while our impetus is to serve our power users with extra content or “check for understanding” interactives, there are so many other ways to use interactives. Sound is often a good surprise in spaces. Museums get our visitors for an hour or two if we’re lucky. That’s huge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Keep in mind that a user on Flickr consumes and engages with media differently than the audience that engages on Instagram simply because of how the platforms of engagement are set up. If so, these types of comments probably sound familiar: “Are we on Tumblr?” ” “What are we doing with Pinterest?”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . I’m going to pause here.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2014

In my mind, crowd funding is simply another albeit new term for fundraising. Sounds pretty similar to fundraising right? Share your comments below. The fundraising world continues to evolve, now more than ever with the emergence of crowd funding. Not sure about this? Do you need one?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. That sounds like first-class leadership to me.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The posts are meaty and the commenting is robust. I truly wish I could have attended Facing Race , which sounded like a completely awesome and transformative event this past fall in Baltimore. You should go and tell us all about it. My sister attended, and I kicked myself about 87 times for not knowing about it or getting out there.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2015

When you love pricing, it can be easy to slip into pricing jargon…which might sound like a foreign language to some. Do the words “pricing strategy” not sound exciting enough for you? Check out the full article here , and see what ideas it brings to mind for you. One of the best things about this list ? Want more pricing tips?

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