Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

In this article, I’ll explore how nonprofits can utilize Instructional Design principles to develop training that engages, empowers, and educates both colleagues and external stakeholders. Engage colleagues who have developed training content to help uncover any hidden gems. What is Instructional Design?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to engage your existing supporters and get them to fundraise on your behalf. Want to go the extra mile?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you want supporters to find you, you need a good website—and it needs to be optimized for search engines. While it can be confusing and hard to understand, ensuring you know how to optimize content for search will set you up for success. billion Google searches a day ( skai.org ), search is a great way to gain new supporters.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Here are some options that come top of mind: Social Media: Cons: Generally limited in the amount of content you can fit in a post. Can link to more in-depth content. Pros: Can tell a more developed story at once. Can push to more in-depth content. The more engaging your content, the larger of a request you can make.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. Through machine learning, it uses pattern recognition to interpret user prompts and generate content matching these prompts. Is it grammatically correct?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As a follow-up to Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries , below are five social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs in developing countries. Donors and supporters are increasing overwhelmed by text-heavy storytelling – especially on mobile devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Jen Frazier , President at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive. Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters.

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Forum One

MAY 16, 2024

As Forum One’s Accessibility Lead, Jeanette ensures that our public sector and nonprofit clients receive unwavering support in prioritizing accessibility for all users. It takes intention and planning to maintain a website’s level of accessibility as you make content and development updates over time. Educate and engage.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . Contrast Checker.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

It’s very easy to go into Facebook and quickly set up an ad campaign, but difficult to develop a winning strategy if you don’t know what you’re doing. . Once you’ve developed a campaign that performs, you can set a small daily budget and let it run for most of the year. 1) Forget about organic, focus on ads.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

Current uses range from member intelligence and hyper-personalization, transcription, notetaking, reporting and analytics, creating images, generating ideas, forecasting, and other strategic activities. Most leaders understand AI’s tremendous potential to support operations and to make work exponentially easier.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

Strategic branding is critical for your nonprofit to build trust among your supporters and get the word out about your services. Illustrators work to develop a consistent style of illustration, so you can often find a collection created by one artist. What Are Brand Guidelines? One easy way to do this is by colorizing your photography.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

What creates more awareness and connects you to people who share your mission is expert content. You can use sites like Answer the Public to learn what people are asking in Google to better understand the concerns of your donors and create content for them and to attract people like them. Use keywords in image titles.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

To make a solid first impression online, you need a captivating web design that draws supporters in and encourages them to take action, such as by registering for your upcoming event, applying to volunteer, or donating to your cause. Fonts: Use the same header and body fonts throughout your content to create a cohesive viewing experience.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s digital-centric world, your organisation has plenty of choices when it comes to marketing your organization —from generating content on social media accounts like Instagram and Facebook to your nonprofit website. What better way to show off your nonprofit’s impactful work than with your engaging social media content?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

No matter what your mission is, you’re probably dedicating significant resources to finding potential supporters and getting that first gift. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. For most nonprofits, social media can be a treasure trove of potential supporters. You have heaps of data.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Align content to your target audience’s interests. For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

Many nonprofits fall into the trap of believing that their audience is the general public, when the truth is that your supporters are much more nuanced than that. A great way to narrow in on your organization’s audience is to develop audience personas. When you think of Make-A-Wish, what’s the image that comes to mind?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 7, 2022

If you’re a volunteer coordinator looking for some effective and easy fundraising ideas to support your volunteer program, you’ve come to the right place! Suggested giving amounts – Provide suggested giving amounts so that your supporters have an idea of the type of donations you’re looking for. Share frequent campaign updates.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The idea on this day is to deviate from the consumer mindset driven by Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and to instead support charitable giving and volunteerism. Raise $45,000 to purchase a van to transport clients to supportive services. Develop all your assets before your GivingTuesday campaign. Some examples are: .

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Candid

JUNE 10, 2024

Offer additional support. Moreover, it keeps the focus on the content of the application rather than the background of the applicant. Photo credit: Julia Amaral via Getty Images The post Grant application and review practices for more equitable and inclusive funding appeared first on Candid insights.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

We asked our partners, what are some ways organizations doing advocacy can consistently engage supporters and keep them ready to take action with you, even outside of crisis moments? The goal is to move your position forward while engaging your supporter audience. Here’s what they said. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Your nonprofit’s digital presence makes a huge difference in how well you’re able to engage supporters. This is where an effective nonprofit homepage becomes especially important; it’s not only the first landing page supporters see. Ask yourself: What roles can supporters play in advancing your nonprofit’s mission? Issue areas.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. When a user downloads that image, we know they’ve opened the email. . From screenshots that’ve been shared, it looks like the “Protect Mail activity” option loads ALL content. What happens next?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability. SEO and Social Sharing.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Breakout Session] Artificial intelligence for social media: Supercharge copy, images, and videos Wednesday, March 13th, 3:15 – 3:45 pm Artificial intelligence tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. Machine Learning (ML) is a type of AI focusing on the development of algorithms which allow the program to learn and improve over time. AI Writing Assistant.

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

Setting a framework for AI use At Candid, we acknowledge AI’s value in helping us improve the ways in which we support the social sector through information. So in 2023, Candid’s executives, human resources team, compliance manager, and legal counsel collaboratively developed guidelines for AI use. The future of AI is uncertain.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a nonprofit, you likely use a variety of methods to promote your services and gain more support—two of the most common being email and website marketing. Your branding and voice are what make your content recognizable. Your supporters should be able to quickly identify emails and website pages as belonging to your organization.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2023

To run a successful nonprofit organization, you need to convince people to support you and help you raise funds to further your cause. These tasks require providing a compelling fundraising case for support and using it as the basis of your marketing and promotional efforts. Social media posts. Annual reports.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Want to learn more tips to develop a data-driven culture? AI also makes it easy to offer personalized content and suggest upcoming events a member might wish to attend. Professional development opportunities How innovative is your continuing education program?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

× Describe your nonprofit and general audience Image prompt: Image width: 128 256 384 448 512 576 640 704 768 832 896 960 1024 Image height: 128 256 384 448 512 576 640 704 768 832 896 960 1024 Submit Reset Get more Generate images Reset images GPT3 Response Replicate – Stable Diffusion Response What goes into a Donor Persona?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 13, 2024

As the founder and CEO of HistoryIT , she works with organizations to photograph and catalog the objects, documents, and images that accumulate over time and turn them into a collection that your team can search through and use. How To Use Your Digital Content Every piece of an archive is an untapped opportunity to engage your audience.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It’s a time when individuals, businesses, and communities unite to support nonprofits through financial contributions. Whether you’re a grassroots initiative or a well-established nonprofit, running your giving day allows you to engage directly with your supporters. Invite your supporters and their networks to join in.

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