Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. Of course mobile phone payments are not new. Strange News.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

You can celebrate with a card to your volunteers, a volunteer party, snacks in the breakroom, or even a letter to the Editor of your local paper. If you work with animals, press a paw on a nontoxic ink pad and then onto the card for a “pawsitively” perfect signature! Just use your phone. Should you be whimsical or serious?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ensure you have active, agreed-upon communication tools with your remote guest speakers, such as phone, instant messaging, or email. This contains things like technical information, event details and schedule, general tips, and team contact info. Contact Local Media. This is a lot more enticing to journalists.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The first step—which we’ll cover in this article—is to identify your digital volunteers who might be interested in volunteering offline and quickly drive them into a local activity that will engage and excite them. Are you asking other leadership volunteers or staff to contact your new prospects? Build the Internal Partnership.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Soliciting sponsors over the phone or in-person to be a part of your event and assist your mission. Getting sponsor guest names and contact information and entering them in the database. Here are just some of this committee’s (many) jobs and our suggestions for committee structure: Collecting all guest names and contact information.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. Schedule local events in advance along your road trip route. Pitch Press - Try to drum up press coverage from local outlets along your route.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Give Local worked with other organizations to highlight nonprofits during the holiday season.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

On your website: share y our programing goals , solicit collaborations in general and for specific events, provide easily accessible staff contact information, clearly state how your collaborations function, give thanks and acknowledgement to your collaborators through your website and on Facebook page. Keep in contact with them.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. Google Drive.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2015

Huddle gives you access to your files, notifications, tasks, and activity feed, and iOS users can access their contact list. Huddle Contacts ( iOS ; free; subscription required). Phone Swipe ( iOS and Android ; free). 4Bells allows nonprofits and local groups to deploy known volunteers to meet urgent, time-sensitive requests.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2011

So take a rest and come back refreshed, because post-event is the prime time to capitalize on all the excitement and press you’ve been generating over the past few months. I know that you probably maintain different lists or groups, maybe even different spreadsheets or databases where these different types of contacts “live.”

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Determine Your Audience’s Preferred Methods of Contact. Leverage your local connections and find creative ways to promote your fundraising efforts. If your event is going to take place at a local restaurant, ask if you can put tables or tents outside where your volunteers can advertise the event. Press Release.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A thank-you phone call, holiday card, thank-you video, and invitation to a special holiday reception or other event are some ways you can make your donors feel valued. I know it can seem like a lot of work, but a personal phone call is powerful and will make a huge positive impact on each donor you reach. But start early!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. Make a list of churches and community groups where you can potentially give a talk and contact them to get on their calendars. Have the same values?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Picking up the 500-pound phone and calling donors was a big struggle for me. So I consider myself an introvert, and as an introvert, there are a lot of things that I really dislike about the phone, right? Phone calls can feel a bit intrusive to me. So I’m still not in love with the phone, right? I hate phones.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And this new report , hot off the presses from nonprofit marketing research leaders Campbell Rinker, got me REALLY excited. . You are most probably going to have to continue working with donors remotely, via phone calls and video meetings, for the foreseeable future. . 12% said they expected to give less .

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

That’s why the next thing you should focus on is building relationships with the local press. Navigating Relationships with the Press Your media relations strategy is critical to building trust and credibility for your organization. Press releases may also be the jumping-off point for interviews and further media coverage.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s less personal contact, more virtual communication, and there are consequences for this. Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person. Should I call you on the phone periodically? Will you make a phone call? But essentially. So simplicity is your friend here. . Harvey: Okay.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

4) Learn the basic business skills that are essential to success and sanity: - communication (timely, clear, complete, appropriate method: sometimes a phone call, sometimes an email, sometimes a memo, sometimes a meeting. Nolo Press has some good boilerplate contracts. push for a single point of contact with clients.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

When a donor gives to your organization, you likely collect a good amount of information in your CRM, including their name, contact information, and address. Some nonprofits like to include optional questions on their form to find out how donors found out about the organization or how they prefer to be contacted.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. The combination of traditional media, social media, and mobilizing the local community helped to save their town's post office. I learned a few things from this experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So you have the most up-to-date address for each of your contacts. So you have that continuity of contact. So these donors may be contacted but in a very individual way and decide with your staff, your campaign cabinet the best approach, meaning major gift donors, pledged donors, and other people. Look at that. Check that out.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It can be something as simple as a phone call thanking them for going above and beyond, or a card. She was our first contact if we had a problem. So, during the event, every email, every text message, every phone call you send out, your goal is to make your participants successful, and show them that you love and appreciate them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. Let’s chat a little bit about donor cultivation and contact and connections. Well, I still recommend phone calling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. I set up a drop.io

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But it’s also important that your organization communicates with a clear credible and compelling voice, that you communicate with consistently at all points of contact. For instance, when somebody makes a gift, they might get a phone call from a board member thanking them for the gift. So you have less control over earned media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. We have a machine for making very strong building blocks out of soil and cement, where you can press them at a high pressure, and you get a strong building block, and it's a very low-cost building block.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Well organize local press events, face-to-face visits with members of Congress, and a national day of action to keep the heat on Congress and show how clean energy jobs can revive our communities. Framing It Is Everything MoveOn laid out what they were going to do with my donation. Their recent alert about how businesses would save $8.2

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