Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website is the center of your communication and marketing strategy. Examining the best nonprofit websites out there may give you an idea about whether it’s time to revamp your website or not, but we recommend also using a more empirical approach to determine if you need a new online strategy.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

As new thinking continues to emerge and donor positioning shifts, ethical storytelling is evolving, and a new messaging strategy, called strength-based messaging , has emerged. Consider lived experience and amplify community voice. Understanding it and employing it is essential to creating responsible fundraising messaging.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Marketing and Communication Tools Once you have your nonprofit’s office set up, you have to tell the world what your organization does, who your organization supports, and how your organization changes lives. Because so many people use Mailchimp, it is easy to get support via Mailchimp Facebook groups and YouTube tutorials.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

They can then use the information in the software to reach out to donors with personalized communications, ensuring they’re building genuine relationships with their supporters. Having this data in one place will help you create a more effective fundraising and communication strategy and build deeper relationships with your donors. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community. I would love some strategy recipes. What Causes would like to hear about from nonprofits is the feature requests that are rooted in strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions. I manage the general strategy and help cultivate ideas from our social media team. Mobile: m.nature.org. Blog: blog.nature.org. Yes, we definitely are.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

A good plan has enough detail in it to adequately explain each strategy and activity. Carve out some time free of distractions to draft a plan that will carry you through the year, one that will give you the confidence to make the Asks and work the strategies to raise money all year long. And that takes time. Be specific here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies. John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Started with mega trends of social media and green living.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

A key strategy we used at Classy was to include closed captioning in our live sessions and our session recordings for participants to watch later. JP helped with efforts related to the Collaborative’s use of different communication technologies and digital flow. Establish Communication Channels for Engagement. Have an Emcee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We had a “prize patrol” of volunteers serving up coffee and breakfast snacks, and handing out GiveMN giving cards and Metro Transit Go-To passes to commuters wearing green. Also new this year, we established headquarters in our offices that served as our communications hub. Tell us about your overall marketing strategy/campaign.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If lots of workers have iPhones and iPads, and another significant group has Android or Windows mobile devices, then companies seem to be opting to limit support to two or three types of personal devices, and they may opt to define what apps on each platform they support for accessing organizational email, for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. A couple things I discovered by following participants' ant trails: The Bay Versus the Bay: This was an excellent example of how social media strategy can support behavior change or action. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. If you use the new integrated Causes landing tab with your Facebook Page, you also need a communications strategy to go along with it. Here’s more.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Valerie Harris will focus on what is required when you commit to attracting and maintaining major donors, understanding how major donors think, and how to optimize your communications for this important donor segment. Yes, strategies that are going to help build some long time relationships with those big time givers. Valerie: Okay.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

This guide provides a deep-dive into nonprofit branding, from how to craft your organization’s brand narrative to how you can communicate that brand to staff members, volunteers, and supporters alike. Work with DNL OmniMedia to Preserve Your Nonprofit Branding Strategy. It’s crucial to communicate your brand to all of these groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

The trend is starting to blur the communication and brand efforts of our non-profit work. Remember when you met a group of young people who wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? So how did values-based marketing get its start and what does this mean for us as nonprofit professionals? A brief step back in time.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

So if you're looking to build your skills and find your fellow accidental techies, there's probably a group near you! Find your closest NetSquared group. However, we aren't everywhere yet , so we're looking for community leaders to start new groups. Start a NetSquared group. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Once you're signed up, the amazing Beth Kanter will get you up to speed and help you choose a project, Here's are some of the projects still looking for volunteers: Group #037 - Pro Pueblo Foundation Corp. Group #007 - Miles for Cystic Fibrosis. Group #021 - CobbWorks, Inc. Group #015 - The Shawn Norris Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. The green represents people talking about. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. Being sensitive to your stakeholder’s mindset is crucial for successful communication, as is being clear about what you convey. Cultural nuances abound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

My role is to work with USA for UNHCR on building out the digital and social media aspects of the campaign, particularly from an online community-building point of view. Both my client and I were curious about what exactly was working (and what was not), so they gave me the green light to create these charts (everyone should be so lucky!).

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Consolidated Technologies Group Be sure to visit the Consolidated Technologies Group booth (#87) to learn more about their new on-line marketing communications solution designed specifically for non-profit organizations, and enter a drawing to win a free e-Book Reader. Patrick’s Day and what’s more green then a crisp $100 bill?!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. We crafted a two-day challenge, mixing all-staff sessions with smaller group time. This year, the retreat theme was social media. Plans to re-run the game.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

We''re excited to announce our Green Sponsors for the 14NTC! This year''s Green Sponsors are: Confluence. Confluence''s Commitment to Going Green. We opted to be green tote bag sponsors this year because we responded to the eco-friendly nature of this type of advertising. How and Why We-Care is Green.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The key to successful financial reporting is to motivate managers to read and understand your communications instead of giving them a quick glance and filing them away (or worse, deleting them). A $1 million community group may have limited personnel and need four weeks to close the month, while a large university may only need a few days.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This allows your nonprofit’s staff to take a closer look at which strategies are most effective and which aspects of your fundraising or marketing efforts need improvement. They might use different marketing messages and imagery to appeal to each group. Identify the functionality that is missing from your current software strategy.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. Would you like to enhance communication in your small-medium size nonprofit? Zuri Group in booth 2. Better The World in booth 46.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. The HighTouch Blog points to a survey from 160Characters detailing how quickly people expect responses from various forms of communication.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. Would you like to enhance communication in your small-medium size nonprofit? Zuri Group in booth 2. Better The World in booth 46.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Now, CRMs for nonprofits are the technological hubs that connect disparate functions and strategies into a single, unified platform. It tracks donor contact details, donation history, communication preferences, event attendance, and more. Nonprofit CRMs have come a long way in the past 20 years. What is a CRM, Anyway?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If you want to handle event planning, ticketing, registration, communications, and fundraising by hand, we salute you—but you probably wouldn’t be reading this guide to event management software for nonprofits. Find My Neon CRM Group Demo 2. Due to its streamlined feature set, Little Green Light is a better fit for small nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

than any other advanced communications technology (including instant. as a replacement for in-person events and large group meetings, they. paper also looked closely at the importance of web conferencing in. teleworking: In a recent survey of 200 C-level. executives, 53 percent said their companies use web conferencing — more.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2009

. “The year-end fund-raising results last month confirm what we already suspected: for most people giving is not a luxury but a natural extension of who they are,&# said Mark Rovner, Founder of Sea Change Strategies. Nonprofits can easily use a similar strategy by setting donation limits at $5 or $10 -- or not even having a limit.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Automated Features Neon CRM offers a wide range of automated features to support your nonprofit’s workflows, communication, and receipting. Join a Free Neon CRM Group Demo If you’d like to learn more about Neon CRM and all that it can do, we have just the thing: Join one of our regularly scheduled Neon CRM group demos !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Sorin Matei We Have a Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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