Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Social media can play many important roles in your student prospecting efforts— from knowing what prospective students care about to recruitment to enrollment. Learn why social listening is important and how to find and use the influencers among prospective and existing students, alumni, and parents. Approach Your Influencers.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Launching in February 2004 for students at Harvard University it quickly became a popular site and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy Leagues, and Stanford University. Independent schools, private schools and K-12 schools have all found great benefits from using the Facebook platform to engage with students and families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The course teaches students to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact giving plan, volunteer more effectively, and use online networks and tools for good. The course also has an action learning component. Each week is packed with content and activities as well as video modules exploring that theme.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, compare the impact of the following statements: “Because of our nonprofit’s tireless efforts, we were able to provide 100 laptops for local students interested in pursuing computer science careers.” As you can see, just a few subtle wording changes turn a nonprofit-centric statement into a supporter-centric one.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Wild Hope Platinum – Website & Mobile Sites – Environmental Awareness Wild Hope is a video production that highlights the heroes and successes, small and large, of biodiversity preservation. This work has empowered NRDC’s content managers, further engaged audiences in the mission, and amplified the organization’s impact.

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

— We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. Include your students. Famous or well know individuals/students. News / Important info for students/families. Show off your campus.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

For most organizations, this represents a significant number of prospects, especially organizations that invest time creating and sharing compelling Facebook content, building a large following. Post engaging content every day. Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Tell the story with photos or a video.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

Trello is a project management tool that can be used to manage so many things from blog content, content banks , PR outreach, and more. A story bank is central place to capture any text, audio, video and photos associated with a story. One of the tools I rely most heavily on is Trello.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. If you can create a short video, even better. Keep the video to about 30 seconds or less. Remember, you have 10 seconds!).

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

The 2010s and even early 2020s were focused on girlbossing, “aspirational” content from influencers traveling the world and doing a lot cooler things than we’re probably doing, and being #ThatGirl —someone who hustles, focuses on their wellness, and employs daily acts of rigorous self-care. In 2024, community members are the ones in control.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. Some of the videos, however, I found to be a bit sleepy. But what's good, effective, and also entertaining for kids? I think I may have a lead for you.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. Lots of videos on there you can watch. And they began to grow.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2023

For example, if a grantee runs an educational program, they could share a story about a student who improved their grades or gained admission into college due to the program. Some may prefer videos that offer a glimpse into the fieldwork, while others may find written testimonials far more compelling.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. Check out the annual report template!

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Classy

JUNE 15, 2021

You can easily follow along with video lessons to learn how to optimize your campaigns and receive practical resources for day-to-day tasks, like creating compelling email templates to boost your conversion. . And as we create more content in response to your suggestions, this list will only continue to grow. .

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

join as a student, new grad, or within the first five years of employment. Include content they care about. Giving members access to valuable content they can’t easily get anywhere else makes them feel part of a group and benefits them professionally for years to come. Create a group for early careerists.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many K-12 schools have found success by centralizing their asks in celebration of the students, faculty and staff building a legacy. Engage current students and alumni to share those stories on your giving day hub to give real-life meaning to how a donation can impact the campus community.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

There’s no engagement quite the same as having responses include personal messages, pictures, videos, or even re-worded messages. A recent study from University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, backed by MacArthur Foundation, involved more than 2,500 high school students (the study followed some students for up to 3.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Your video PSA. Books needed for elementary students). Any other ideas to fill the social media content queue with? Mission Moments Photo of your mission in action Quote from service recipient At-home activities (ex. Remember to turn off lights when you leave a room.) Success story (ex. Tim made an A on his math test!)

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Address the donor by name, explain how their contribution will make a difference, and consider including a short video featuring a beneficiary expressing gratitude. They draw from an archive of videos and pictures to insert in the series that they also make available to their members. They usually send three emails over ten days.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis. When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Whether you choose to do this over a livestream video, as a post on social media, or in another format, consider having two people support this project. For example, imagine you host an “ask me anything” session and learn that your supporters are deeply interested in your new summertime lunch program for students.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. Encourage volunteers, program officers, donors, or other community members to become social reporters and document events in their neighborhood.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The entire conference is virtual and free this year, so everyone can join for inspiring content and peer networking opportunities. These families rely on websites, social media, videos, and online reviews to help decide which school is best for their children and only initiate contact when filling out an online application.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 22, 2020

Check out these top nonprofit youtube channels and the videos that make them great to find out what they do so well! A Powerful YouTube Video Goes A Long Way . Their hard work has paid off, with these channels showing just how effective and entertaining nonprofit videos can be. Cancer Research UK. Greenpeace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

Let’s take a look at some examples we’ve seen that really make the most of eye-catching and engaging content to promote giving by text-to-donate. The video is short and simple. A series of short videos like this that tell a little bit about the campaign can really increase visibility and awareness, and lead to more donations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

The results allowed the executive team to launch a video channel, rather than sending text updates, in order to reach the numerous indigenous language speakers whose languages did not have a written form. As illustrated below, the process is never finished.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

For the most part, the content is either the same in both formats or very similar. Your event format, agenda, content, and tools, should all work toward your event goal. . You can consider running a product launch , a student recruitment event , a massive networking event, or revealing a rebrand. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Craft a strong appeal by sourcing your content early. Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Every day, these students struggled with self-esteem, grades, expectations, and friends. Because of that, students know it’s ok to be different. They don’t get discouraged.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

Good new media managers enjoy creating quality content and then monitoring the response to the content on their mobile and social networks. You should also make an effort to schedule content posts in advance. The first sign of burnout is when managing communities feels overwhelming and monotonous.

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