Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Member-centricity is also a glue that can help people work with a common purpose. Help your people to develop interpersonal skills by encouraging networking and relationship building. Events like that help keep people engaged.”

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Creating a central place for conversations is a great way to encourage discussion about your meeting agenda and keep the conversation flowing after the latest board meeting. Try building a subcommittee group for members who serve on different areas of your board, for example, executive, finance, technology, or member services.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Reviewing and amending your questions can also help you get better and more consistent answers, which can make your review process easier and more effective. As a grantmaker, questions are your tools.

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Forum One

MARCH 22, 2022

Evaluate any hidden fees and what could trigger them. For example, many tools have limits set on how many emails you can send or tiers that set limits on the number of mailable contacts you can have in the tool. Your marketing automation tool should be helping you make your marketing significantly more effective.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, if you’re an animal shelter nonprofit, you could label your $25 donation option with “a month’s worth of food for a puppy.” For example, on your event landing page, you could say your shoe drive fundraising event will take place Saturday, July 7th, from 1 PM to 5 PM in the community center. Conversion rate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Perhaps making sure your co-workers do their part in helping make the project a success is also critical. You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

For example, your organization may have a 2021 goal of “increasing membership.” For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy. Formulate SMART Goals. Although this goal makes sense, it does not meet all the qualifications of a SMART goal.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Volunteers can certainly be a huge help for any nonprofit staffer, especially since cloning yourself isn’t an option… yet. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, there are fewer quality online materials representing the viewpoints of certain racial groups. Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. Have frank internal conversations about priorities. Complement with human judgment.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. But I doubt that when you began your journey up the ladder, you imagined that the top would be this precarious. Association 4.0

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some tips to help you convince your stakeholders that streamlining your grantee application is not only good for your grantees, but also for your organization. This will help you identify areas that need improvement and the benefits of streamlining your application. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you own a pet-care business , bookstore, or flower shop, these five tips will help put your small business on the digital map. This database will reveal your customers’ traits, preferences, buying patterns, and more, helping you develop donor-driven engagement strategies. Perform market research. Create customer personas.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. Take it out. Streamline your process!

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, you might attract 150 new donors and retain 55% of your existing donors within a year. Prioritizing donor stewardship efforts will help you retain more donors so your time, effort, and money spent acquiring donors isn’t wasted. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Craft a conversion journey.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

They will not shy away from difficult conversations and assess how they, as individuals, might need to change their own thinking. Many foundations have turned to outside consultants with expertise in this area to help guide them through the beginning of their DEI journey. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. Be the disruption.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. In addition to keeping it safe and secure, think of how you can leverage it to gain insights to help run your association more effectively. We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. In this way, the MarTech stack also helps shape part of the user’s journey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. Select “Conversions” as your marketing objective, name the campaign, then continue on to plan your ad sets.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

While researching and writing our book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human Center in an Age of Automation , we found many examples of chatbots misbehaving in the world. For over 20 years, its hotline has provided advice and help to hundreds of thousands of people. It is also important to solve the right problem.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

is an opportunity to have meaningful and deliberate conversations that lead to greater involvement. This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. Examples of basic personalization. Examples of intermediate personalization. Examples of advanced personalization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

AI tools enable major gift officers to do more with their time by minimizing administrative tasks, helping with research, and drafting communications. Ultimately, this helps major gift teams focus on what matters most—building relationships with donors and helping their organization make an impact. It’s a necessity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts. Social media provides plenty of tools to help you create an effective strategy that can make a huge difference in your organization and help you meet the goals you set.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are some examples: User Interviews. Examples of questions include: How did you come to be involved with our organization? Data obtained from user interviews can be used to develop Audience Personas , to help guide design and content creation for your website/emails and to get ideas for improving events.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2023

Whether it’s determining what content leads to conversions, or tracking the CX experience among a complex system of different branded websites, there are some unique challenges that mission-driven organizations face when it comes to tracking customer satisfaction. These are several KPIs that can help you begin to measure your website’s CX.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have historically been left out of the conversation, but want to give their time and resources to make the biggest social impact possible. Evaluate what the organization is currently doing to engage young people. Recommendations. They also want to feel welcome when supporting organizations. Engage in crowdfunding. Conclusion.

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

These hurdles are a few of the challenges facing school business offices and nonprofit organizations doing their best to evaluate and keep track of employee purchases day-to-day. Of course, there are caveats to consider when evaluating new tools. Lost receipts, multiple tracking spreadsheets, and unchecked spending, oh my!

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2023

Next, staff suggested it in our annual accessibility survey feedback and associated conversations with the equity team. It even came up in yearly evaluations and manager check-ins. But having a process driven by the areas where staff feel unsure as the primary focus areas was helpful to us and likely would be to you as well.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In line with this signature clause, Google offers nonprofits an exclusive resource that can help them make the world a better place: the Google Ad Grant. Whether your organization relies on donations for general support or to fund specific programs, a Google Ad Grant can help you bring in more contributions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Good preparation up front helps to ensure good results. You’ll create tools to help narrow the field to the best match for you. This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. It helps us to adapt, adjust, and evolve amidst complexity. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Text marketing , also known as SMS marketing, can help your organization engage supporters, build relationships, and ultimately boost your fundraising results. For example, adding a Salesforce SMS app to your nonprofit’s Salesforce database allows you to quickly create segments based on your existing donor data.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

When asking for a legacy gift from a donor to your nonprofit, it’s important to approach the conversation with sensitivity and professionalism. Here are ten practical steps to help you navigate the process: 1. They may be evaluating their financial and philanthropic goals, and thinking of ways to leave a lasting impact.

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