NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

So perhaps the first step in making a name for yourself in your community is to actually go out into your community and interact with potential donors. Attend town hall meetings, other organization’s fundraisers and other community-centered events. Do you have a blog? A good writer for that blog? A Twitter account?

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Social media posts and account maintenance We’ve noted that organizations should guard their voice online. Have interns handwrite thank you notes to VIP members of the community. They can refine guest lists, do community outreach, and help with day-of craziness.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Maybe an influential pastor at a large community church. And, we’re constantly recruiting more who will be ready to serve as the lead volunteer in their community. Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. But, you’d be wrong. You can do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

In April, the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens ” that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report was filled with examples , but more and more are coming to life everyday.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. Go where the community already is! Join the community!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To serve a community, you have to be in the community. What makes this product particularly special is that our community developed it through The Commons program. Because Grassroots Mobile Survey was built for the community, by the community, I wanted the team to tell you about it in their own words.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday participants worldwide also volunteered, performed countless acts of kindness, and gave their voices, time, and goods. That means that thousands of organizations all over the world are inspiring generosity in their communities on GivingTuesday. But financial contributions aren’t the only way people got involved.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Natalye Paquin currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Points of Light Foundation, the largest nonprofit in the world dedicated to volunteerism and community service. Founded in 1990 by President George H.W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. Some may exist solely online. We received a lot of great feedback and the idea took.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Sarah Potts is the Community Manager at Not For Sale, and that is her challenge. She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. Choose the Right Platform for Your Message. Measure, Adapt, Repeat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

6,057 donors completed the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey and based on their responses, the donor community worldwide is made up of primarily women (65%) who have a liberal ideology (53%) , characterize themselves as religious (72%), and give between ($101-$1,000 USD) annually (43%). 5) Messaging apps have very little impact on donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Global use of social media is also a great way to amplify voices, ideas, and stories. FourSquare.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Her goal is to see more nonprofits become true “sustainable social benefit organizations”– those that help people be the change they want to see in their communities and the world. THE AGITATOR / DONOR VOICE. A nonprofit fundraiser since childhood, Beth has over 30 years as a professional fundraiser and consultant.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. But communicating with your supporters can be intimidating. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. Well, it means a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. What does it mean for community change?"

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end. What it Means to Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end. What it Means to Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members. Giving permission to the community to have conversations without you requires trust. Let’s discuss!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

New Radical Online Community: [link] coordinated by Debra Askanese. Moving Past Pixels: Claiming Your Strategic Voice – [link] coordinated by Eve Simon (Be sure to see all the great panels Beaconfire has put together for voting). Social Media Smackdown: Online VS Offline Impact - [link] coordinated by Kayta Andresen.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Nick Ellinger of Donor Voice is a guru on this type and he suggests the following as a guideline: For current low/mid-level donors – Set suggested donations at 1x, 1.5x, and 2x their average amount, and offer an “other” option. The smaller the community within which you establish the norm, the more powerful your message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic. And where is the local community in all of this?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. And when you're offline, you have access to all the Box documents because the documents cache offline." We currently use Google Voice for this. Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

1. The basics of it include strong media relations efforts, a media trade program, strategic communications through our own robust channels and active outreach to organizations. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. They are enthusiastic and positive voices for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. So for example, now I can see what State Department was tweeting in Arabic. For example, what is being tweeted about the use of social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns. We need to couple real voices, with real opportunities to take action and get involved. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. Livingston - HHS, wanted evaluation of pandemic flu conversation online, point was to understand what they were saying about the government and so on to really know what to address as an organization to that community. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints?

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

Activate & organize supporters on and offline. Offline organizing tools such as phone banking , peer-to-peer texting , and door-to-door canvassing all provide outlets for your members to take action in ways that are easily tracked and quantifiable through your CRM.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Ensure all of your marketing materials reflect your organization’s brand by incorporating your logo, fonts, colors, and tone of voice. Events are a great way to reinforce a sense of community within your organization.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But giving is still something we can do, and Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to remind your donors that they can build community with friends and family by supporting an organization they love. Today, your organization’s visibility and credibility are tightly linked with the fervor of your online and offline audience.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They were also costly in that they pushed earlier and arguably more successful forms of ICT4D like community radio to the periphery, in an attempt to overcome the basic untenable economics of a rural telecenter, namely: . Voice remains the killer app. Telecenters helped “prime the pump” in areas of ICT access market-failure.

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