Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. Never underestimate something that is fun and has short feed back loops. Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

If you don’t, well, you will have wasted a good opportunity to connect with people, feed their desire to do good in the world, and raise much-needed money for your cause. will feed 20 people in need.” will feed 50 people in need.” Avoid jargon, acronyms, and insider language. If you do that well, you’ll get what you want.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

These experiments look a lot like those conducted in social psychology labs, with two big differences: the sample sizes are many tens of thousands of times larger than those in the lab--and a lot more diverse across age, class, and geography. W e tweak language and seating and lighting--all to impact people''s experience.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. They raised $92,000 to feed families in the Seattle area, more than tripling their original goal. One incredibly important piece of peer-to-peer fundraising is supporting your fundraising. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Because of that community support, we are able to provide 125 families each month with the food they need to feed themselves and their children. . Watch their body language and facial expressions to gauge their engagement. This can be a tempting time to go overboard into ego-centric language. It’s what motivates people to give.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Crafting a good nonprofit mission statement forces you to examine your organization’s purpose at its core and then mine the English language for just the right words to convey that purpose in as few words as possible. We feed the hungry today while building a healthy, hunger-free tomorrow. The common thread is feeding people.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With an integrated campaign, your donors and prospects will connect with your Ask as they see the same message in their inbox, their mailbox, and their social media feed. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. And you need lots of warm touches in between the Asks.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water. Sample metrics. But we’d love to hear from you. You can tweet us.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And I’m going to say don’t, just use language that your mother would understand, like “will planning” or “leaving a legacy.” Here’s something on Alex’s Lemonade Stand where they share sample language that donors can share with their attorney. So it’s very values heavy. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

I eat breakfast and lunch at school, but I come here after school because they feed me, and that’s my three meals a day.” You have to give board members scripts, you have to give them social media posts, you have to give them sample letters and emails. You’re speaking my language. You have to make it easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. Kari: So we’ve got three sample donors. You can use your own language, however you want to do it. This is just a great example of how this organization did it, and it’s language that they’ve used before. You can also tweet us. Jackie: Okay.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For any virtual attendees, you can send drink samples to their homes. Service projects can be feeding the homeless, writing letters to inmates, doing an environmental clean up, and more! Language lessons – If you have some fluent foreign speaking volunteers or staff, enlisting them to host their own language lesson is a great idea.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We don’t have the language to talk about drug abuse and really aren’t equipped to be able to help them live a healthier lifestyle and address chemical use directly. And even though this is all standard strategic planning language, for some of you, you’re like, “I got this. We’re ready to do this, Julie.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I want to make a distinction, which is, if people don’t know the language here, endowment is money that’s parked in the bank. And if I’m getting it accurate, and we can put your name to it, I would love to include it on our social media feed. Because this is peer to peer, right? That was some awesome, awesome info.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

You have to know who you’re talking to, and you have to speak their language, and you have to gain their trust. It also is at the top of the feed, especially on Instagram, and it’ll be a little circle. I’m going to show you some sample social media posts. So we’re going to talk a lot about that today.

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