Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

Many TechSoup donor partners offer mobile versions of the products your organization already uses. Learn how you can communicate, collaborate, create content, and manage data on-the-go with our guide to TechSoup donor partner mobile apps. You can also access Flickr's mobile site using almost any smartphone browser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Your supporters and donors now expect well-executed, integrated social media campaigns. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

In addition, when women give, they are more likely to give more and to be more loyal donors. Tip: Nonprofits may consider specifically tailoring their Pinterest content to the female segment of their donors and supporters. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Build volunteer relationships, create new opportunities for existing supporters, and develop a donor pipeline. More about donor thank you messaging and templates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. To many supporters and donors who are trying to direct message you, it’s a bit of a snub when they realize they can’t because you’re not following them in return.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Our donors don’t give year after year. Donors staying loyal is the exception, not the rule. According to Chuck Longfield , ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Once a year thank-a-thon for all donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

It has forever changed how nonprofits communicate and connect with their supporters and donors online. Your nonprofit needs a square avatar for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, your blog, Foursquare, Gowalla, TwitPic, etc. The visual appeal of your social media avatar is very important to the success of building your online brand.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

loses 70% of donors after the first gift. And to make matters worse, the probability that a donor will make five consecutive gifts is only 10-15%.These By the time you’ve added a new donor, half of your previous new donors are out the door. A timely thank you gives the donor confidence you received their gift.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Donor retention is an absolute priority (again) for 2014. Please join me in thanking Frank Barry and the Blackbaud team for sharing donor retention guidance from some of the smartest fundraising experts out there. Here’s my #1 donor retention guidance for you—R-E-S-P-E-C-T your way to strong and long-lasting donor relationships.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Fortunately, TechSoup’s generous donors offer the following range of tools to create powerful digital stories. Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. So pick your tools and get started!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Acquiring Technology Donors Software causes online community community tsdigs digital storytelling' Atomic Training All Access yearly subscriptions. Cisco Flip video camera. Plantronics headset. First Place Photo.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . If you do the math, that's $41 per donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location. Dipity :: dipity.com. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Donors can pledge as little as $.01 The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

2) ATTN Donors: Have you ever donated to a nonprofit organization through your cell phone? [ [link] ]. 4) ATTN Donors: Do you prefer to give $$$ to your favorite organizations via: [ [link] ]: 71% The organization’s website. 9% Flickr. [ [link] ]. 39% Yes… it’s in the works. 15% We already do! 25% Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. sponsors and donors. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

UC Berkeley talked about a badge that donors can post to their Facebook pages after making a gift ("I Feed The Bears"). Very few speakers or attendees reported using these tools for fundraising, though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Flickr photo by Mallix. It is not only a time for rest and relaxation, it is also an important time to start thinking about your nonprofit’s year-end fundraising campaign. The ultimate goal of any fundraising campaign, especially at year-end, is to get your donors to feel like they are essential to accomplishing your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. From courting potential donors to hours of grant writing, there are very few times a fundraiser’s job feels done. You went to every corner of the earth to recruit donors, vendors, sponsors, volunteers, attendees, etc. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Joanne Fritz outlines characteristics of her dream nonprofit organization: Stubborn, eloquent and donor focused. And finally, I want to share my vision for donor-centered, right-thing, right-now marketing and the way to get there. Next Up…How to ensure donors make the next giftr.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from our award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Donors over 40 appreciate a strong website and an e-newsletter. Some nonprofits will be tempted to drop many tools such as WordPress, Twitter, and Flickr to consolidate their efforts under one platform, the Google platform. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Donors over 40 appreciate a strong website and an e-newsletter. Some nonprofits will be tempted to drop many tools such as WordPress, Twitter, and Flickr to consolidate their efforts under one platform, the Google platform. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

Regardless of mission, nonprofits often have basic technology needs that overlap, including office productivity software, email platforms, accounting and payroll, data backup, and donor or fundraising databases. Flickr photo: torkildr. Environment America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Try shifting the hero of your story to a volunteer, donor, sponsor – what’s their journey? Treat your team like donors: report on impact. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why. Here’s a bit about how See3 is doing that with the good folks at Make-A-Wish. ).

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2011

TechSoup has over 400 technology products available for nonprofits and over 40 donor partners. Since 2002, TechSoup has helped over 118,000 nonprofits and libraries save over $1.7 billion in information technology expenses. Look for us and let us know what you think; you can find us at any one of the following: TechSoup Blog. SlideShare.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

But a lot of what nonprofit folks do is similarly performance-oriented: every time you present on a panel at a conference, every time you pitch a prospective donor or funder, every time you talk to a reporter. Photo credit: Flickr rburtzel). You prepare (or not), and then you perform well (or not).

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. How many new donors did your Twitter campaign convert? come from the experts and practicioners in our community. how do your train staff to use it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

East Bay Regional Parks - Calendar from Photos in Flickr Group. Their flickr group is an example. The best evidence of this that I hear comes from those nonprofits that now have volunteers helping them with their social media. It used to require a lot of staff time, but for some areas social media savvy volunteers do a lot of the work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

But if your nonprofit wants to build a recognizable brand on the Social Web and notice a significant increase in your website traffic and e-newsletter subscribers – thus also an increase in online donors, volunteers, and event attendees – then at the very least you need to hire a part-time social media manager.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Reach out to your existing donors, volunteers and consultants and ask them to share their plans to give back on their social networks and in their online communities. Keep in mind that many donors work at companies that are willing to double the donations made by employees. to see what the movement is all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. The exact opposite is more likely especially for wealthier donors. The potential for tax code changes are more likely to encourage these donors to give now instead of waiting. Human Services and Societal Benefit organizations have experienced very positive revenue and donor growth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Highlight Special Donors, Fund-Raisers, and Volunteers. Blogs are a great platform for highlighting donors, fund-raisers, volunteers, and other supporters through “of the month” posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

ntenthanks to all of our donors so far - we couldn''t do what we do without you! Flickr photo credit: martha_chapa95. Support our amazing Community Champions who are helping NTEN to reach our fundraising goal of $50,000, which will help us to serve the 50,000 and counting NTEN Community members.

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