NTEN

APRIL 4, 2011

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs, Idealist As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. Clarify the job. Expect some curveball questions.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether you need product photos, photos of people using your products, or simply stylish stock photos, these tools can help you find what you’re looking for. Though the rights are completely royalty-free and there are video options for downloads in addition to celebrity photos with tools like Shutterstock.). 13 per image.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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. Here are a few tips about choosing photos that can lead to fundraising success : Stay away from using grainy or unclear images. Farm-to-Table Job Training: Grow Local Leaders.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice.

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Media Cause

JUNE 2, 2024

Use photos in your designs, ads, social posts, emails, and more! Leverage this when choosing photos for your content, planning photo shoots, and designing new ad campaigns! People make decisions based on emotions, so your job when creating shareable content is to help them understand why something is of value.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Your fundraising emails have ONE JOB: get people to take action. Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. Just remember, your job is to write a fundraising email that will get opened, get read, and get the action you are seeking: a donation. .

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Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Additionally, women are often clustered in jobs predominantly filled by females, such as child care workers, home health aides, and nursing and medical assistants—a phenomenon referred to as “occupational segregation.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. Adding social media to that already packed job description just would not have been possible. An overburdened job description inevitably leads to social media burnout.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ICA Fund Good Jobs. There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. NPR (National Public Radio) does an excellent job of making their annual report relevant. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 1, 2024

Although I love to take photos and videos, I’m not actually one to spend a lot of time looking back. If we don’t hear joy in a client’s voice, our job is not done. If you want to hear stories about when, why and how I started the company, listen to this week’s episode of Associations Thrive. My favorite fundamentals are: Do or do not.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

They say : “They need to see we’re effective and happy photos show that.”. They say : “I don’t need data and testing; I’ve been doing this for years, and people tell me they love our photos.”. They complain to their colleagues, take a couple of aspirin, run home to vent to their loved ones, and contemplate switching jobs. .

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Achieve

MAY 18, 2021

Next, you’ll want to upload all of your organization’s logos as well as photos and videos you know you will use often. We swapped the photo, changed the colors of the elements, and used our font and copy. does an awesome job using their brand colors across their page feed. From this point, your design is up to you!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s useful to have your photos and links (to your website, a blog post, a news article etc) ready in a folder or folders so that when you want to schedule new posts, it’s easy to access the content. This is only half your job as a social media manager. 10 Steps to Create a Content Calendar. 1) Organise your existing content.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

The Cycle of Giving Your receipt/thank you has a job to do. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

If your nonprofit is lucky enough to find exceptional volunteers or interns, you should still consider paying them for their work, especially if they are recent college grads struggling to find a job. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Being behind the camera takes confidence and a familiarity with digital equipment.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Don’t lead with a photo from your latest fundraiser.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

IAVA has done a great job ensuring a live count is active on the site for visitors to see their number add to the total. However, since it is a Facebook photo, when you click on it, the photo opens in a preview viewer and you can see further information and the link to the microsite in the photo description to the right.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She made it fun with decorations and a staff photo contest. Meredith and her team did a brilliant job of testing the campaign. Staff got into the spirit with personalized doodles and videos. They segmented the donors by type and put them into two groups: one group that would get a (thank you) letter and another that didn’t.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When it comes to deadlines, some administrators don’t give reviewers enough time to get the job done. However, taking this extra step and showing them the thank-you letter, photo, or video from the recipient can bring the reviewing process full circle for them. Involve them when setting deadlines.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Too many nonprofits think they’re doing a good job of building relationships, but they’re not. We rely on friends just like you to help us feed our community’s veterans.” …along with a nice photo Which one would make you feel great about the gift you just made? It’s your job to change that.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Use a photo that reflects the heart of your organization’s work. Framed photo: Take photos of your volunteers in action with a goal of getting a frame-worthy shot. When you get the perfect shot, have a print made of the photo and display it in a simple frame. You can get crafty and paint a wooden frame.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 6, 2022

Think of it like taking a photo. Direct calls to action, parameter setting and variation of those parameters are great tools, especially when your job involves regularly reaching out to the public. Instead of: Will you sponsor a table at the Gala and support our event? Try: Sponsor your own table today! Clearly define parameters.

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Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

employees are willing to give up 8% in annual pay for a remote job. Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto via pexels The post Setting work-life boundaries when working from home appeared first on Candid Blog. Four years later, many organizations ( including Candid ) continue to offer work-location flexibility. One study found that U.S.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. You may include physical photos of the character or describe their appearance. Visual storytelling with photos and videos is extremely valuable when available.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. Optimize your photos. When choosing your header image, pick a photo that best represents the work your organization does. Use LinkedIn Analytics.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

If it’s our job to raise money to support our mission, we can’t ignore a pipeline of slightly warm contacts. Share impact: Follow up with donors to share specific examples of how their donation made a difference, through stories, photos, videos, or impact reports. Today, I’m firmly in the “convert” camp.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. Customize Your Headline.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Do research for 30-60 minutes about the best way to format my resume for the kind of job I'm looking for. If you have a laptop, it may be less distracting to have your job search time at a café, or the library so that when you come home you don’t feel guilty relaxing. Make a quick bullet list of the qualities of your ideal job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Never forget that being a donor is an extremely difficult job in which you’re not just choosing between the good and the bad, but between the good and the good. I relished seeing the photos, books, mementos, and other personal artifacts that donors displayed in their homes and offices. Ours isn’t a complicated business.

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Here are few ways to put nonprofit event fundraising marketing magic to work even during the fundraiser: Photos : Make sure your team (or a hired professional) takes photos to post live on social media during the event. By using an official hashtag, your team has an additional opportunity to showcase guest photos.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the nonprofit services supervisor, my job is to guide users through the often overwhelming number of nonprofit resources available. Photo credit: Free Library Philadelphia, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Search our list of Funding Information Network partners to connect with Candid in your community.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

Twitter for many is simply a way to stay involved in greater conversations that are happening online, engage those users with photo caption, trivia, or retweet contest. While it is still important to market directly through Twitter, it might also be a good idea to run contests, or campaigns more focused around awareness than fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

For example, artificial intelligence can do a facial recognition analysis of hundreds and thousands of photos in minutes. That technology is already here and is used on Facebook to tag photos of people). But, there are also concerns that need to be considered now, including ethical issues and loss of jobs to robots.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Boards have to do a better job of saying “Yes!” Photo credit: SDI Productions via Getty Images The post Black women and gender-expansive nonprofit leaders: Combating the absence of trust appeared first on Candid Blog. when leaders ask for help that requires resources.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We'll post a few stories on Facebook, share photos, and of course, let visitors take things home with them. And so we came up with a job for a person who is part marketing/PR task-master, part journalist/media-maker, part community organizer. We made research and creative collaboration key parts of the job description.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

The Elephant in the Room: Job Security Underneath the irritation and the AI fatigue, we understand there might be a more profound concern: the fear that AI adoption will reduce or eliminate the importance of your job (we will address ethics and errors later). It’s a valid worry, but let’s address it head-on.

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