Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. Successful organizations are leveraging the power of AI and social media to create more meaningful connections and foster community engagement. But if you’re just starting out, you’re not behind!

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Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. The Bad News. The Good News. However, organizations who focus their stewardship efforts on brand new donors are likely to generate more ROI than other donor types.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Over the last few weeks I have been running a Facebook Advertising experiment for the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. Purchasing advertising did not increase my fan base or help my Status Updates show up in the News Feed > Top News. That’s the new Facebook. Your organization may too.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. In the age of post “Moneyball,” everyone is looking to leverage their data and do something uniquely beneficial for their organization, regardless of industry. When most people think about reporting in the Learning Industry, they think about ROI justification. Conclusion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. It will help you stay organized by planning your content in advance, without being overwhelmed by last-minute deadlines. Monitor important dates : there are numerous awareness days that are relevant to your organization.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An expert in her field, Lori has several decades of experience working with some of the largest commercial and nonprofits in the world, but prefers to use analytics for the greater good by helping social good organizations make a bigger impact in the work that they do. The economy continues its tennis volley between troubling and good news.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As someone who observes thousands of nonprofits on the Social Web each year, let me just say it’s better to spend 90-minutes on a webinar than hours upon hours to trying to figure it out yourself, or worse not knowing about the changes and their effect, and thus wasting your time executing a poor, ROI-less strategy on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. Many nonprofit organizations have made the transition to working remotely due to COVID-19 health concerns. Your supporters often engage with your organization using more than one channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Oh yeah, PLEASE make a donation!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

At VolunteerHub, we have been a leading provider of volunteer management software for over 20 years, and have helped many organizations , including volunteer centers, surpass program goals. VolunteerHub provides the feature-rich solution your volunteer center needs to effectively engage, recruit, and manage volunteers. Hour Tracking.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For organizations using both platforms, Integrating VolunteerHub with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT can provide many benefits including streamlined data management and a 360-degree view of constituents. VolunteerHub integrates seamlessly with Raiser’s Edge NXT and all other Blackbaud CRMs via direct integration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Still, understand that the content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Organization: Big Cat Rescue. Organization Size: 125 exotic cats, 9 paid staff, 107 volunteers, 80,000 supporters. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which has helped your organization the most and how? Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Title: CEO.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to do more with fewer resources, prompting us to look at our internal fundraising operations to see how to become more efficient with the resources we have. However, using data to complement those stories can communicate to savvy donors the impact of their investment in the organization.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An online website isn’t just an advertisement for your organization. Wouldn’t your organization rather spend a little extra money on a website if it means finding more donors and volunteers? When done correctly, an organization’s website should have a high ROI and lasting impression.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

For detailed best practices on how to use email effectively, see 10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. Social Media: To effectively promote your monthly giving program on social media, you’ll need to create a series of promo graphics that are properly sized for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Add a pop-up!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This news isn’t new with Instagram upgrading every month; it’s a given that new features are always popping up. They’re going to enable the new feature a step at a time. . Understandably, the pandemic crisis is taking a toll on small businesses and hitting ROI hard. The testing phase is a long process.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

You may be thinking that it’s not the right time to consider additional employee training at your organization because everyone is stressed about the pandemic. However, that’s actually what makes it a perfect time to invest in new training programs! Increased Fundraising ROI. Increased Fundraising ROI.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 20, 2021

Your organization’s volunteer management solution is a crucial component of your volunteer program. The competitive nature of the nonprofit industry continues to rise, and many organizations are aiming to capture the attention of the same potential volunteers. Is your strategy & solution up-to-date in 2021?

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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

Analytics 4 features new reports that have been reorganized around the customer lifecycle. Not only can you get a more complete picture of how your customers engage with your organization across channels, but also devices. Good news, Google Analytics will still be around for a little bit more.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The good news is that virtual events can provide even more benefits and a greater return on investment (ROI) than a traditional physical event. . Virtual event organizers and planners design their event content and marketing strategy with very specific audiences in mind. But does the same hold true for virtual events? .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’ll cover: Text-to-give: FAQs Pros and cons of text-to-give How to set up text-to-give Best practices for an effective text-to-donate campaign 7 top text-to-give platforms Text-to-give: FAQs What is text-to-give and how does it work? What kinds of organizations use text-to-give?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It isn’t a new field—it has been around for decades—but recent increases in computing power combined with decreases in the cost of that power have created a new generation of AI-powered tools and applications that are available to everyday people and organizations. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI Using all of this data, Quilt.AI

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For organizations using both platforms, Integrating VolunteerHub with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge (data is also accessible via Raiser’s Edge NXT) can provide many benefits including streamlined data management and a 360-degree view of constituents.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The exact donation amount that you consider to be a major gift will depend on the highest donation amounts your organization typically receives. Some larger organizations may consider major donations to be donations of $100,000 or more, while smaller nonprofits might consider $1,000 donations to be major gifts.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Diversify your news sources. The best social media managers have a voracious appetite for news and current affairs. Learn basic HTML. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2013

Taryn Degnan picks up on this them of using social media to save lives to share her observations about the use of social media to find organ donors and her own personal story. How’s That for ROI? Pasadena mom uses social media to find organ donor for daughter. Want to learn more about organ donation? by Taryn Degnan.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

And when it comes to creating a nonprofit business plan for your organization, that’s a task that generally falls to the board—a situation that can create a big disconnect between what you need and what you actually get. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

“The value that volunteers provide our organization is tremendous. MANNA was founded by volunteers so volunteerism is one of the foundations that makes our organization what it is today.”. Our volunteer program saves our organization around $230,000 a year. The Importance of Volunteers. Paul and Minneapolis. “I

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

CBS News reported that in November 2022, Giving Tuesday raised an incredible $3.1 Donors who’ve contributed to your cause or interacted with your organization recently have demonstrated their connection to your nonprofit and are likely to give again. History of donating or volunteering with similar organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan. And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." Change the internet?

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