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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Admins can invite up to 1,250 of their connections to attend the event and engage attendees with live chat and polls. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Building Personal Relationships with Thousands at a Time

NetWits

Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. And remember, you have less than 1 minute to grab the reader’s attention when they open an email. Think about it this way. You’re about to send out this month’s eNewsletter and you want to focus on a call to give, but which topic do you focus on?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. This opened Ogilvy’s eyes to how direct response advertisers carefully test and optimize tactics for immediate action and sales conversion rather than just broad messaging. ” Rather than gimmicks, spotlight your mission.

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Fundraising for Education: Your Guide to Doing Virtual Fundraising Right

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Finally, you want to make sure you add interactive elements to your livestream, whether that’s by adding chat people can use to ask questions, or y breaking up your livestream with polls, quizzes, raffles, etc. John Center for Homeless Men recently added some engagement to their Raisin’ the Rent event with virtual house parties !

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Volunteer Appreciation, Open Houses, etc., Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. You’ll reach them online when they don’t open your letters.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." I have a different poll that I wanted to do which builds on some of the wise words that Alli put out. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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