Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Miscellaneous (3 percent). If you are a grantmaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is filled with stories of people and organizations that have more recently harnessed new power, both well-known examples like the Pope and lesser-known examples too. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Out of EveryAction’s FastAction network of saved donor profiles, 70% of forms have at least one field pre-filled, and many donors are able to easily make one-click donations. Donations are the most important example when it comes to securing support, but your website’s navigation and design play key roles, too.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . If you are hoping to target a specific industry, for example, you need to develop content that will be both valuable and meaningful to individuals in that industry. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

Sarah Mapes is the Director of Communications Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved and she also coordinates a team that shares updates through this profile as well as their individual profiles. One techniques she uses for new users that join the team is to create a “Twitter Scavenger Hunt.”

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Forum One

JULY 8, 2021

Audience personas are individual profiles that represent specific people within your broader target audience. For example, send emails from Jane at X Company, not The Marketing Team at X Company. Develop audience personas and segmentation. Make the sender a person.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Let’s look at a few specific examples as we review the various elements of a SWOT analysis. According to DonorSearch , you can use this information to create profiles for donor prospects.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

For example, if you work for a food bank, a clear, magnetic vision might be to end hunger in your community. Here’s a great example from Best Friends Animal Society with their BHAG of taking the entire U. For example, Habitat for Humanity might say “we make sure that everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live.”

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Make profiles for each volunteer. Make profiles for each volunteer. This is where volunteer profiles become a major asset for your scheduling and management system! Be sure to include this information in your own volunteer profiles: Names and contact information. Keep volunteers updated with mobile messaging.

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Gyrus

MAY 19, 2016

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. Gamification is the technique of using game elements and mechanics in the learning environment. Let’s take a very simple example to understand how it exactly engages the learning audience.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This post includes four examples of how you can raise funds and why they might work for your nonprofit. From membership to recognition societies, here are seven ideas to consider—examples included! Our Favorite Giving Tuesday Email Examples for Nonprofit Professionals. Check out these examples that we loved!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.” Mindful online is defined as not just going into auto pilot to update your FB status or scan your Twitter stream but to consciously think about all aspects of your digital actions.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . If you are hoping to target a specific industry, for example, you need to develop content that will be both valuable and meaningful to individuals in that industry. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

Melanie and Chad have patiently and generously shared their best secrets and time-saving tips to help nonprofits quickly implement social media. Aside from the great step-by-step “cheat sheets,” the book also profiles stories from 113 nonprofit organizations to illustrate the techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

He gave some sweet examples of it’s use (like teamsugar.com ) which is amazing, and made me totally rethink using Elgg. Advanced Theming Techniques - A nice talk given by two folks from CivicActions, once of whom I’d worked with jointly on a client project. It was a great introduction, and I’m totally sold on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

As an example, here’s a philosophical question for you, one that needs practical answers: To what extent can you engage with unethical partners without becoming tainted yourself? Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum. How LinkedIn’s New Profile Section Can Help Nonprofits Fundraise, Find the People They Need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 27, 2017

Many nonprofits make the mistake of using just one outreach technique, like email. Offer Obvious Signs of Approval From High-Profile Sources. When you rely on email to make contact, strengthen your outreach communication techniques by using subject lines that are personalized, intriguing and unique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

This is a cardigan I plan on making soon, as an example of an active pattern page: I made my first pair of socks ever based on a free pattern and what I learned about sock knitting technique in Ravelry’s forums: Everyone uses their project page differently, but I like creating a running mini-blog as my project is going along.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web? What do you think?

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Of course, a true prospect research unit would do far more than this in qualifying a prospect or profiling a donor. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques? Fundamentally, however, they are both doing the same thing. Completely!

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.orgSource

APRIL 3, 2023

Adele, who is the CEO and Founder of Convincing Company , describes this technique as using an open-ended comment to encourage someone to reveal additional significant information. For example, if your boss prompts you with a compliment like this, “You have incredible untapped potential.” Here’s another example from our experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

We were seeing examples of amazing results and also groups who were struggling to catch up on all the latest developments. For example, Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, Montana told us they have found ways to use digital tools to cultivate their neighborly spirit and are having success promoting events online.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

I’ll start off with the basics, but then we’ll get into some advanced techniques. Now, go into Google analytics and add a new profile (not a new account). When changing settings like this, it is best to make the changes on a test profile. Now, select “edit” next to your new profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Should I be creating a personal profile for the organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. ” Hanna shared an example of how they experiment on other platforms, like Pinterest. Most Frequently Tweeted Words. I could not imagine doing social media without connecting to peers.”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2018

Learning about a donor’s employer can lead to better donor profiles. For example, according to 360MatchPro, Home Depot matches donations as low as $25 and as high as $3,000. Learning about a donor’s employer can lead to better donor profiles. Reaching out to donors about matching gifts establishes trust. .

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A few examples of PII are: Name. There have been many high-profile data breaches over the last five years. Criminals use a variety of techniques to break into SaaS applications and steal data. These are most prevalent techniques. Date of Birth. Social Security number. Phone Number. Email Address. Attack Vectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recruit Through LinkedIn: On LinkedIn profiles, members can “signal” their interest in skilled volunteering for a nonprofit. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Harrison has over 61.5k How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

And while I wouldn't go as far to call the following example "cheating," the rules do not say that isn't allowed. . In all fairness, in the contest guidelines , it doesn't say that this technique is a violation of the contest rules. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Your team can create specific donor profiles and find similar traits between your supporters that allow you to provide more personalized interactions for each donor segment. Each of your donor segments should have a donor profile of common characteristics, and you can target potential new donors by marketing directly to those shared traits.

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