Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

In this post, we’ll explore the benefits of AI to fundraising, cover a few of the concerns that frequently arise with AI, show you how AI can be a powerful ally in every stage of the donor funnel, and demonstrate how leveraging AI can be a true game-changer for major gift fundraising. It’s a necessity.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Do you know what social media posts they like or share?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Additionally, you should employ a multi-channel marketing strategy to promote your event. Be sure to talk about your event on social media and ask your peer-to-peer participants and supporters to share your event promotion posts on their social networks too. This type of fundraising appeal puts the FUN in fundraising!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. A thorough, thoughtful strategy takes the guess work out of the daily operations of your nonprofit. It’s the story you tell potential and current donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2013

I’m honored to be included in a new ebook about marketing, fundraising, and social media. That’s why social media can be a valuable component of your online fundraising strategies. After all, it’s called “social” media for a reason! Well, sure – it does happen.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While it is frustrating and even demoralizing to be shy of your fundraising goal at the eleventh hour, there’s a powerful strategy you can employ at the last minute to boost revenue: peer-to-peer fundraising. Peer-to-peer fundraising often leverages social media and tech platforms to share campaigns, collect payments, and track progress.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

3 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Nonprofits Volunteers recruitment is crucial to many aspects of your nonprofit’s operations. To garner this crucial support for your organization, you must implement creative recruitment strategies. They can post on social media about their experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

Keep the momentum going with these creative donor engagement ideas you can apply to your 2021 fundraising strategy: 1) Get personal with gratitude via thank-you videos. This opens the possibility for multiple activities to occur at once, such as games , a meditation activity, presentations, auctions , and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy. Prominently feature a call-to-give, an email newsletter opt-in, and a call-to-follow on social media on your landing page. Promote your landing page each quarter on social media for one month. Email #1 ?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

So, if Facebook fundraising is a big game, how do you win? Facebook fundraising isn’t a replacement strategy – it’s simply another piece of your fundraising pie. This strategy is similar to any crowdfunding strategy, but instead of using a separate platform like GoFundMe, you use Facebook.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

This year’s tools tap into emerging trends, such as Messenger bots, cryptocurrency, and gaming for good, and also build on long-time successful fundraising strategies, such as e-advocacy, online contests, and monthly giving. If you think we’ve missed a tool, please share it in a comment below. 6) Twitch :: twitch.tv.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2010

I had a 90-minute workshop which was broken into two parts: a bit of presentation, and a bit of game time. Presentation: Community-Driven Social Impact. Game: To play the game with your organization, team or community group, use the documents below to share the grid and other pages to print and cut out the playing cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right? With that in mind, here are 12 tips that will help you succeed no matter what social-networking site you apply them to. Creating a social-media listening dashboard helps as you get started.

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NetWits

JUNE 2, 2011

At this year’s SXSW conference, keynote speaker Seth Priebatsch said the next 10 years will be the decade of games. Groupon , Care2 , Zynga and the like are already using gaming elements to drive fundraising, engagement, word-of-mouth sharing and stickiness amongst other things. Increase Event Fundraising with Social Media.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 31, 2023

And the more you engage with your donors, the more successful your fundraising strategy will be. Technology can amplify your fundraising strategy because: Technology allows for easy donations. Online Donation Forms The first step in any online fundraising strategy is to create an online donation form.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month. If not, it may be time to get some training.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Leveraging Your Board for Nonprofit Fundraising: 10 Strategies and Tips for Success What if we told you that your nonprofit’s board members hold the keys to a fundraising revolution? That’s where this blog post comes in!

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

The term was coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman , who was the founding editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine and editor of the Harvard Business Review. But, here is a more contemporary take on the concept from Leah Hardy, Head of Gaming Marketing, Americas, Facebook. That’s the beauty of thought leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. Here are four strategies your nonprofit should keep in mind when using Instagram for fundraising: 1. Build a Content Strategy. Strategies for Fundraising on Instagram.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Rather, they should be a vital part of the overall strategy for your nonprofit. Here are our five strategies for improving communication and fostering a stronger connection with supporters: . Create community on social media. Utilize storytelling in your communications. Craft compelling messages. Let’s dive in!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

Rather, they should be a vital part of the overall strategy for your nonprofit. Here are our five strategies for improving communication and fostering a stronger connection with supporters: . Create community on social media. Utilize storytelling in your communications. Craft compelling messages. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social Media Strategy Game Workshop Final View more presentations from kanter. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. I got a glimpse of what doing this workshop with a room full of social media rock stars would be like.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 11, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts Ever wondered how some nonprofits have a dedicated group of repeat donors while others are constantly chasing new ones? Chit-chat That Hits Home Building a personal bond with your donors is a game-changer.

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OneCause

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Take your event to the next level by adding some new golf outing games to the mix. Remember that not all of your players will want to participate in all of your games. Some foursomes would rather play a leisurely game on the course, while some will want to try their hand at every game you offer. Longest Marshmallow Drive.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Using your digital strategy along with a few unique twists, you can avoid glazed looks and vacant stares from your audience members. Create a wider-reaching marketing strategy. An engaging event starts with an engaging marketing strategy. Social media. Incorporate supporter feedback throughout the entire process.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The era of easy fundraising is over — it’s time to change the game, and we’ve got the Year-End and GivingTuesday playbook you need! Free Marketing and Communications Templates: Start writing your Year-End and GivingTuesday appeals, emails, receipts and social media posts from a first draft, not from scratch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. The process is simple.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. After what felt like hours of agonizing over potential topics, one of my coworkers suggested the idea to discuss common social media mistakes we see our clients making all the time!

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2013

Social Media is an important tool for engaging with your community -- but what are the risks and rewards of working with volunteers to implement your social media strategies? The best kept secret of the social media world is: A volunteer. VolunteerMatch.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

One way to bring any organization’s end-of-year fundraising strategy to the next level is a matching gift strategy. In order to make the most of the opportunity this year, it’s important to have a well-thought-out strategy in place. Try these proven tips and tricks to yield impactful results!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2020

We’ve talked a lot recently about taking your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy digital. How to make the transition to virtual events, social fundraising, and livestream everything. By Erin Booker , Head of Content at Funraise , a fundraising platform built for fundraisers by fundraisers with 20+ third-party integrations.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Looking at the current state of fundraising, there are a few top trends and strategies to elevate your fundraising efforts that stand out among the crowd. Take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) In the world of fundraising, artificial intelligence, or AI, is a game-changer. A well-informed donor is a committed donor!

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