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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the first time, readers could comment and share their opinions publicly on a piece of online content. Comments were taken very seriously, and in some cases, coming up with response was an agonizing, overthought experience. Also interesting about today’s nonprofit blogging is that many nonprofits have turned off commenting.

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Multi-Year Gift Agreements: Your Donor Retention ‘Ace-In-The-Hole’

Bloomerang

How multi-year giving agreements impact donor retention According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , retention hit an all-time low of 42.6%. It’s about telling a compelling story where these gifts are the heroes, providing stability and enabling ambitious, long-term projects. Let us know in the comments below!

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When should a nonprofit organizational blog moderate comments? What are the different approaches?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers. You moderate comments or leave it open.

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82 Fundraising and Social Media Stats for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of new retained donors dropped 14.9% ( Fundraising Effectiveness Project ). million) due to spam filters ( EveryAction ). million) due to spam filters ( EveryAction ). However, nonprofits lose 20.18% of their revenue due to spam filters. Please post it in a comment below with a link to the source.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. followers, can tweet and receive significant engagement (comments, retweets, likes) without having to engage their followers.

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4 Tips for Year-End Campaigns

Roundtree

There are ways to ask for specific-sized gifts for specific projects that will still be unrestricted funds. Organization Comments CAPTCHA. And we're promising not to spam you. You don’t want to ask for general operating support. Let’s be honest, no one likes to feel they’re supporting overhead. Ask more than once. Name Email.

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. I’m sure I’ll miss some, so please add more in comments. Reports of the death of email are, of course rampant, for the past, oh, 10 years or so.

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