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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

New memes get started everyday. Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day? Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. Here’s the original meme: “Right girls let’s have some fun.

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5 Ways To Make Your Donors Feel Loved

Care2

I feel like there is a lot of donor fatigue happening right now in the nonprofit community. Our donors are being solicited on every channel from numerous organizations multiple times a day. Instead of treating our donors like ATM machines, we need to make them feel like heroes to our movement. Thank your donors.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support.

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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Creating a Fundraising Culture in Your Nonprofit

Greater Giving

There are several points during the year when donors expect to interact with a nonprofit they support. A nonprofit’s team of employees is its best asset when it comes to engaging donors. Who could know your donor community better than those who were drawn to the mission in the first place? What is a culture of fundraising?

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5 Steps To Increasing Your Facebook Reach

TechImpact

Do you want to educate donors? While both posts might be meant inspire, you might have used a meme for one post, but used a news article for another. Here are 5 ways your nonprofit can start to increase its reach starting today. List your nonprofit’s content themes. Inform the community? Empower or inspire a certain demographic?

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We still use Twitter a bit to talk about our programs, we participate and create our own memes like “ #felinefriday ”, but we focus on listening and responding to what people are already talking about. We started out by listening and found many people asking questions about us or our issues. Who maintains your social media campaigns?