Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. The first of the Rwandan Twitter “peeps” that I discovered was the President of Rwanda – Paul Kagame who is very active on Twitter. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

DonorPerfect is thrilled to announce DP Video , a new feature that enables nonprofit teams to send video messages to donors right from their donor profile in DonorPerfect. Pro Tip: Save a step by using DonorPerfect to locate your donors’ social media profiles from within their constituent record.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

An estimated $2-3 billion USD is donated through matching gift programs annually, however, an additional $4-7 billion USD in matching gift funds goes unclaimed every year ( Double the Donation ). For every 1,000 email addresses, nonprofits had an average of 806 Facebook fans, 286 Twitter followers, and 101 Instagram followers. (

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Launch a peer-to-peer fund-raising campaign, if applicable. 2) Twitter. Create a Twitter Profile. Find your Twitter voice. Find your Twitter voice. Create Twitter lists. Experiment with Twitter social good apps and portals. Launch a Twitter fundraising campaign, if applicable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To tap this potential, your NGO, nonprofit, or charity needs to activate its social media presence before, during, and after #GivingTuesday to help build the movement and, in the process, raise awareness and funds for your organization and mission. 800 x 400: Best for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Countdown graphics. Powerful stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Twitter requires a time investment that many small nonprofits simply do not have. Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile. All nonprofit social media campaigns – even those of large, well-funded organizations – can be improved upon. Yeah, right.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

And consultants are hotly debating the role of social media in a fund development plan. I don’t have time to get out of the office… I have spent lots of time posting our request for funds on our Facebook page and I have created a new, cool Donate section of our website.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Twitter: The Wildlife Alliance. YouTube: International Fund for Animal Welfare. MySpace: World Wildlife Fund. This is a cause dear to my heart and I would greatly appreciate you learning more about these organizations and supporting them through social media. Facebook: WildAid. for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

What about Peer-to-Peer Fund-Raising? Chapter 4 Twitter and Twitter Apps. Introduction to Twitter Profiles. Eleven Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Twitter Apps for Nonprofits. Twitter for Fundraising? How to Launch a Twitter Fundraising Campaign. The Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ]. Tip: Causes is super difficult to get on your page if you create it as a person from your personal profile on Facebook. I recently added the Twitter and YouTube Apps to the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. Link videos, your website, you Twitter profile, etc. Causes App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

A giving portfolio app is definitely an app whose time has come and interestingly enough while writing this post, a new app called Givolio appeared in my Twitter feed that plans to launch this fall. International Fund for Animal Welfare. Three nonprofits (9%) used PayPal exclusively. The Wilderness Society.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

One of the most high-profile letters to the editor in recent memory came from GLAAD and hundreds of advocacy organizations and addressed the New York Times regarding the anti-trans and transphobic content they published.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

There were a handful who were using LinkedIn and Twitter as professional networking tools. One Student, Giselle, has used Razoo to help raise her travel funds to a conference in the United States. We spent most of our time looking at the importance of setting up a professional profile on Twitter.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

What Facebook subscriptions does is allow Facebook to work more like Twitter or Google+ in that you don’t have to “friend&# or accept someone’s “friend&# request for that person to see your public updates. Your Social Media Intern can engage from their personal profile with supporters, volunteers, donors and the like.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Include a fundraising thermometer People are more likely to give if they feel the need for funds is time sensitive, and one way to encourage this sense of urgency is a fundraising thermometer , which helps your donors see how much more you need to raise for your campaign.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent). Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.). Research funding. Funding for this research was provided by The John D. How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent).

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: Find your inner animal. World Wildlife Fund offers a fun quiz that helps determine your "inner animal," After the quiz, you learn more about the animal that best matches you – and some of them are truly bizarre, with over 100 species available – and post about it on Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

28% of nonprofits raise between 26-50% of their annual funds from the year-end ask. A study by Frontstream found that “Instagram sent more individual donors to donation forms than Twitter, had a higher donation conversion rate, and the resulting gifts were of a higher average value.”. 5) Raise money using Facebook Live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2010

Add their address, phone and Twitter ID (search their website and Google to see what their Twitter ID is). Tips are featured on individual user profiles as well as on venues. FourSquare allows to you create a To Do list that is featured on your profile. Make sure you spell out the name of the nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

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. Crowdfunding is when a nonprofit creates an online fundraising campaign to fund a specific project or program.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

New donors invigorate your nonprofit with a fresh wave of funding and engagement. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks. Use social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is a legal 501(c)(3), then it has a profile in the GuideStar database, and consequently on Network for Good, JustGive.org, Facebook Causes, and Crowdrise as well. Build the community first, and raise funds second. Add a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Other Pitch to Your “Thank You” Landing Page.

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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. Kindful + Double The Donation: Giving Tuesday Matching Funds: Strategies for Driving Donations. Get Fully Funded: How To Plan A Simple Yet Powerful Giving Tuesday Campaign For Your Small Nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. Complaining about the errors on Twitter along with @Kanter, @pgjones00 was Mark Mann: It is in beta, let’s not forget! “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Ensure that your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and any other online profile you have includes a link back to your organization’s website. For example, my Twitter bio links to [link] instead of my website’s home page. Did you just secure some new funding? Hold open discussions. Releasing your annual report?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Work colleagues and clients will greatly appreciate you taking 5-10 minutes to write and post a positive recommendation on their profiles. The rise of Twitter has resulted in a new campaign awareness strategy and online event known as a tweet chat. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

If in the future Myspace allowed old profiles to be converted into the new with friends in tact, I’d jump in. Related Links: Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and Myspace Accounts. For them, it’s worth experimenting with. For most others, I think a better time investment would be Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2018

We’re going to teach you how and when to boost your posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter so your organization can start taking advantage of this awesome feature, if it hasn’t already! The site will first ask why you’re doing this: More profile visits? Last but not least, the Twitter promotion. More website traffic?

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

It involves your efforts to recruit new supporters, engage with existing ones, and grow your organization’s influence, all with the goal of funding your mission more efficiently. Your nonprofit CRM helps you store and manage donor information within robust donor profiles. That’s why developing a strategic fundraising plan is necessary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. In fact, more than half of all Twitterers use a third-party dashboard tool to manage their Twitter campaigns. </strong> 8.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To raise funds and create an engaging #GivingTuesday experience for your social supporters, we recommend hosting a Facebook Challenge. . During these, supporters complete a task (such as walking 10k steps per day) for a defined time period (such as a month) while raising funds for your nonprofit using a Facebook fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2009

There are some other benefits to having your nonprofit's CEO be on Twitter, these might include: Source of news. Of course, if your CEO is going to Twitter, they have to be keep a consistent schedule and be authentic. There's been a bit of debate about celebrity Twitter users who have "ghost" twitterers or simply people helping them tweet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Make sure you link to your Periscope Profile, such as periscope.tv/nonprofitorgs nonprofitorgs and Twitter username. A better option is to turn of the tweet function inside Periscope and send the tweet directly from Twitter or schedule the tweet(s) in advance on Buffer with your own #live hashtag.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Include multiple options like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. . You won’t be able to highlight many donors in one Twitter post because of the character limit. On Twitter, you could ask people to reply or quote your tweet with an explanation of why they donated. A social media share button. eye-catching graphic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Chris Hughes.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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). MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites."

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