Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As a follow-up to Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries , below are five social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs in developing countries. 1) Tell your NGOs’ story in photo essay format.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

For example, you may have a very horizontal logo with both an icon and text you use for your website’s header, and a version that is just the icon you only use for social media where space is limited. Whatever you choose, colorizing your photos will bring a sense of uniformity to your photos. Formatting Your Brand Guidelines.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Storytelling and social media – these terms have certainly been thrown around a lot this year! Great storytelling and successful social media campaigns are completely interconnected. You can manage 10 social media accounts, but if you are not telling great stories and cutting through the online clutter, your audience will not engage.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s digital-centric world, your organisation has plenty of choices when it comes to marketing your organization —from generating content on social media accounts like Instagram and Facebook to your nonprofit website. Let’s jump into how you can realize these benefits and successfully connect your social media with your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2013

H ere’s a case study from Taryn Degnan is the interactive marketing manager at Common Sense Media about their recipe for successful content. The Photo that Was Worth 25,000 Shares by Taryn Degnan. The goal was to break through the noise and strike an emotional chord using images that were directly linked to content on our site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By Tereza Litsa , Social Media Manager at Lightful , a simple social media management platform for nonprofits. A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. A content calendar is the link between posting daily on social media and a social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

Today, we’ll teach you how you can use RemoteHub to recruit volunteers absolutely free of charge and even earn donations to your nonprofit organization! . Next, add a cover picture, company photo, headline, and description. Just like with nonprofit positions, paid remote positions are completely free to post.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There are more places than ever to get free images that are entirely OK for you to use for your communications. Here are 10 sources for images you can freely use on your website or other communications channels. Where to Find Free Images. Google Advanced Image Search lets you filter your search by usage rights.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2017

There are a lot of resources out there that will let you create content for free. Possibly the most used and most recommended, but arguably the most complicated software to edit photos, Lightroom can be found in the toolkit of most photographers. With this free app, you can create your own filters. And this app is free.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

The #GivingTuesday hashtag gets billions of impressions each year, which tells us that nonprofits participating in GivingTuesday need a social media strategy to maximize fundraising. How Does Social Media Benefit Nonprofits on GivingTuesday? Social media is important for nonprofits year-round. That’s a lot of eyes!

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sponsored by Give Lively Increasingly, donors are turning to social media to find causes to support. According to a recent survey , almost half of millennials say they’re inspired to give to charity by social media. Click “Add a Button” on the top right of your nonprofit’s page underneath the cover photo. A menu will appear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Kitchen Equipment. 3. Measuring Tools. What’s your recipe?

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, Candid Learning provides an array of free training resources, including webinars , a library of eBooks and audiobooks , and on-demand courses on topics ranging from fundraising to grantwriting. Digital storytelling, which combines narrative techniques with digital media such as video or images, can be particularly productive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about. 1) Choose the right fundraiser images and videos. Interesting and informative content can truly set your fundraiser apart from the rest, and the right photos can help tell your story in a unique way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

With GiveCloud , once attendees register for your livestream event, they can access a branded event page to consider multiple giving options, see how much is being raised in real time, share on social media, and interact with others in a public chat. Share to social media as often as possible. Investing in social media is a safe bet.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 21, 2023

E quip your advocates with the tools they need to be successful in their social media presence. Provide association-branded social media assets to ensure your advocates are prepared to post on your program’s behalf. Some examples of social media assets can include images, videos, photos, hashtags, and thought leadership topic ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. But if you start by testing more images, and more that are significantly different, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results. . Find 5 significantly different images to test.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. Posts can be as little as 250 words with a featured image or as long as a 5,000-word photo essay.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 13, 2024

As the founder and CEO of HistoryIT , she works with organizations to photograph and catalog the objects, documents, and images that accumulate over time and turn them into a collection that your team can search through and use. This is more than just scanning old photos and adding them to an online database. Want to learn more?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tailored for social media managers, this webinar below was presented on October 9 highlighted which skills are necessary for live reporting, which online tools work the best, and outlined a 6-week plan that includes pre-event planning and post-event follow-up. Instagram: Share photos and video clips and stream using Live Video Stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Adding social media to that already packed job description just would not have been possible. All that said, I know there are many nonprofit staff out there in the exact same position and it’s becoming increasingly clear that adding social media to a long list of job responsibilities is just not humanly possible.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

In today’s modernized world, social media branding has become a no-brainer. billion social media users worldwide. The average individual spends around 2 hours and 24 minutes each day on social media. The average individual spends around 2 hours and 24 minutes each day on social media. and the world. Community building.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home). Photos and videos are crucial to the success of your story. Some of the most compelling images and videos are snapped in an instant on a smartphone. Show them who, where, why.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

Oh stock images. Here are a few key considerations to help you choose fantastic images for your site. Are You Treating Your Images as Content? Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration. Is the Image Relevant?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

With so many cute cat photos on the Internet, it's tempting to just grab one and use it on your website. But what are the rules and where can you get good public domain or Creative Commons images to spice up your website? The Rules on Using Images. You don't need to register an image with the U.S.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Social media shout out. Show your donors you care by highlighting them on social media. In each post, include relevant photos, images, or graphs, to further elevate the donor story. Consider highlighting individual donor stories, photos, or graphics to show the impact of each donor in your fundraising campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

And, you need to think about the cover image design in the context of your overall content strategy. How To Create A Terrific Facebook Cover Image If You Don’t Have Resources To Hire A Designer by Guest Post Ash Shepherd. Cover Photo Template. Do you have a cover image you would like to share? Ash's Profile.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Many small nonprofits find the cost of maintaining a robust website prohibitive, but you can create a Candid profile for free. Next, use your social media channels to make stronger connections with current and potential funders. Next, use your social media channels to make stronger connections with current and potential funders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Best of all, most of these are free or cost effective so you can get the most bang for your buck and maximize the value of your marketing strategy. Ensure your landing pages are not only clear but also visually appealing by adding photos and videos that align with your branding.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

We offer a wide variety of free training resources on fundraising topics, including live webinars as well as on-demand courses. Once you’re ready to write a grant proposal, check out free eLearning courses such as Introduction to proposal writing or, for more step-by-step guidance, delve into Crafting compelling grant proposals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2013

Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. When a user downloads that image, we know they’ve opened the email. . The long answer: open rate has always been just one of many metrics we track, and the reliance on image downloads has made this number a little squishy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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