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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

NTEN

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch!

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Community Mapping. >> Step 1: Identify all the groups within your community. Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. Presentation.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m also a champion for the Blue Key Campaign which is using a Facebook Group to coordinate and communicate around our work supporting the campaign. Last year, Darim Online used a Facebook Group to facilitate a virtual book club for the Networked Nonprofit. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply ask current volunteers to invite others with similar interests in their network or community. Building upon an existing peer network can be one of the best ways to increase the number of volunteers and volunteers who plan to engage long-term with your organization. It can increase productivity and speed.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! In addition to Twitter, two volunteers created separate press releases about the campaign on PitchEngine to spread through their networks. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool.

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Best Practices for Managing and Organizing Volunteers in 2021

Volunteer Hub

According to a study, performed by The Corporation for National & Community Service , more people are volunteering than ever before. Even though it is possible to create volunteer profiles via Excel spreadsheets and Google Docs, it is not a sustainable process, especially as your volunteer program grows. In 2019 alone, 77.34