Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

What We Tested. The euro is the second most-used currency in the world, so adding the option of donations in euros had the potential to allow many more people to contribute to their favorite projects on GlobalGiving. With all the upsides, why did we even need to bother with a test like this? Why It Matters. Our Method.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. As we cross the milestone of having 1 million Trailhead badges earned, now is a great opportunity to reflect and share key takeaways on what our team learned through the process of designing and implementing a learning program on Trailhead. Where We’re Headed Next, Together.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. This transparency and accountability can help secure funding and support for ongoing projects and future endeavors. Ensure each team member understands their role and responsibilities in the data warehousing project.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Creating a memorable brand ensures that your year-end fundraising efforts as a whole are memorable and that they stand out in supporters’ social media feeds, email inboxes, and mailboxes. Conduct A/B testing. Segment your donors and personalize messages. You can certainly send one year-end email appeal to your entire supporter base.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). " Social Spaces – I'm really excited to see Social Spaces, a project fueled by a friend a colleague, take off!

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone. If you are engaging a web developer or in the middle of an RFP process for a new site, be sure that proposals include mobile friendliness in the project. Feedburner will also make sure your site feed is recognized by major browsers and feed readers.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?s shovel-ready?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? See our ideas for other " Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects ". Global Energy Observatory ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, here’s another mind-blowing stat: Radicati Group reports that there are over 4 billion email users worldwide, and that number is projected to reach 4.6 Test your subject lines. Is there an organization you could partner with, as Feeding America did with Mother Jones? But what about reach? billion by 2025.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

It provides a complication of nonprofit tech and social change blog feeds. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. It was a low risk experiment on AppMakr to test drive the service before selecting a vendor and to learn what was involved. The Case Foundation Blog. Great NonProfits.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Libraries have access to information, engagement, and opportunity – it’s just a matter of setting sail. Communities As A Model. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Plus we’ll provide a breakdown of the costs of every project in the form of a simple shopping list. This will certainly be an interesting project to follow! What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Leads World Central Kitchen’s emergency and disaster relief efforts and long-term impact projects . The Trevor Project. The Investment Integration Project, Impact Alpha. Sam Dorison.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. We were talking before the session started, they’ve got a lot of really interesting projects. Aaron, Brian, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I am heartened that the sector seems to have learned from the trials and tests of the past few years, and I see refreshing changes in attitudes and funding practices. Philanthropy has an amazing role to play because the global “we” has yet to figure out how to feed, clothe, and care for our fellow citizens with equity, compassion, and love.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2020

Food Lifeline, a member of Feeding America, is the largest food bank in Western Washington , distributing donated food to more than 300 food banks, shelters and meal programs throughout their region. This new series will seek to highlight the incredible work of organizations across the social good sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

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). She enjoys camping, reading, adventure travel, and clean socks… and I should mention is starting a nonprofit called Pando Projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I can’t test it, because my Mac that has a Windows virtual machine is packed. But I will say this: that doesn’t matter. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Yes, they changed it, but it made me realize that it is a Bad Idea to put all of my eggs in one basket.

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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. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Over the course of the past year we have continued to test this format with our clients and refine it. But it takes content: you’ve got to feed those media platforms and seed those conversations. Last year, we offered an editorial calendar designed to support nonprofit communicators to act as their own publishers. Earned Media is Dead.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I think the most important contribution you can make in the research phase of a project like this is honesty and commitment. The project rarely, if never, fell behind schedule because were too busy to look at something and make a decision. I wouldn't have wanted to own this project without her support. We're human.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The Great Sunflower Project: sign up, they send you seeds and you send in data about those feeding off the flowers. ClimatePrediction.net: allow your computer, when not in use, to be used to help scientists run predictive tests for climate change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Here’s an example of a personalized subject line – “[First Name], can you help feed a kid in need?” Try testing out CTAs driving to content that includes an ask instead of just asking in the initial email. Try this: Don’t just focus on the time and day that emails are sent, but test different times of the month.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

You can schedule posts in advance on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to ensure that you’re consistently appearing on followers’ feeds. Tools like Hootsuite and HubSpot are popular platforms that also integrate with a variety of social media platforms, project management tools, and CRMs. Event planning software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Upwell is a pilot project, testing the waters to transform the ocean conversation. This bold project is incubated by Ocean Conservancy , and made possible by grants from the Waitt Foundation and other donors. Our team sifts through the vast amount of real-time online content about the ocean and amplifies it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

The Art Institute of Chicago was a pioneer in this regard: In 2015 and 2016, the Institute employed a sophisticated attendance model to test the effect of smaller exhibits on attendance. One of the most popular projects, My Life, My Met , uses AI to turn your Instagram feed into a work of art. The results?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

In a world of iteration, prototyping, and A/B testing , do we need a new ethical litmus test for social experimentation? Last year, there was a HUGE media kerfuffle when people were shocked to learn that they had been "lab rats" for Facebook engineers researching how the News Feed content could impact people''s moods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" Of course, I showed people my bloglines and 233 feeds, but I also told them that I didn't start off with that many and I also give myself permission not to read everything all the time. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. I just set up a few as tests.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

An official-looking decal for the “GISKIN ANOMALY SURVEY PROJECT” appeared on a window in the park. But as it happened, I got the first episode completely ready (to completely test out the concept and the voicemail system) and then launched it. Lesson: An answer is like the proverbial fish: it only feeds someone for a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once you have an idea for the what, subject it to the so what test. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Clearly, things will happen that we can’t anticipate and it's important to stay flexible and timely, but our weekly reports and projections are things we do to make sure we're ready to take action. We're hoping this will help engage communities in a national effort to reduce stigma about HIV/AIDS and to promote HIV testing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Secure your donor, client, and project information with desktop security tools like Norton and enterprise security software available through the Symantec donation program. And, feel safe with the new 2014 Bitdefender Internet Security , a product of the year with top marks from PCMag , AV-Test, and AV-Comparatives.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Don’t be afraid to begin with one or two primary goals, testing to see whether or not your goals are being achieved, then adding more social media integrations that achieve other goals to the site. Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. Categories of Implementation. Categories : show, share, interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Once a month, my kids' school holds a school spirit day which includes a school-wide community service project. I have two Twitter accounts - one for relationship building and one where I will post automated feeds. I'm mostly doing this to test out what the Twitterfeed can do. Photo by Danamdefebbo.

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