Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose.

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MARCH 7, 2011

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Care2

AUGUST 19, 2010

During the event, the American Red Cross released a white paper based on a recent survey to over 1000 people that revealed interesting data about their use of social media in emergency situations.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2010

In this day of technology and multi-tasking too many office conversations occur passing in the hallway, while one person is checking/responding to e-mails, or talking while on hold. To learn how to fix organizational leadership communication problems like these download a free white paper at www.HowToImproveOrganizationalCommunication.com.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

mail, email, phone, text, social media). If you can’t wait, you may want to download this free White Paper: “ Tiering Your Donors: The Key to a Focused Caseload.” . Send a handwritten card if you’ve still received no response. Mention you’re sorry you’ve been unable to connect. Ask their preferred method of communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

You can play with calculator and then download a free white paper, Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us which was written in 2007. The paper also talks about the blurry lines between work and personal life.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

If you or your staff spends several hours creating a mailing list that should take less than 20 minutes, how is that fair your organization? Many vendors have webinars and white papers available, and even if you’re not ready to buy, the information itself is worth your time. Don’t have time for training? Make the time.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Like Mark Twain's famous quote, there is good news in the data -- the death of direct mail by some has been exaggerated -- but, when one looks at the data direct mail will not remain the dominate channel for soliciting and collecting gifts that it is today. You can see in the chart that direct mail is still appropriate.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I follow several nonprofit fundraising blogs, one of which is The Agitator, and this recent post about "ask amounts" on direct mail and fundraising forms caught my eye. Read the post, and the linked white paper about the research and testing that went into this sweeping declaration.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2012

Deborah Galea is the COO at Red Earth Software, Inc , which donates its Policy Patrol Mail Security Bundle to eligible nonprofits to prevent. Read more tips on how to create an effective email signature from Red Earth and visit these two excerpts from their white papers for tips and samples: Email Disclaimers to Protect Your Organization.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2009

replyforall lets you donate your e-mail signature to a good cause. Pontifix just released a white paper, " Strategies for Nonprofit Marketing in a Recession ", which has good some good tips and only a little self-promotion. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It could be a white paper, “how-to” video, tip list or recommendations (e.g., Exchange mailing lists Could you trade names with other charities sharing similar constituent bases? Rent direct mail lists Consider working with a direct mail broker to purchase lists of folks who give to similar causes.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

Clean your mailing list. Turn a recent report into a white paper and send it unsolicited either to a select group, or to all donors. Send paper or electronically, depending on donor preferences. If they gave once, they?re re likely to give again. Be smart, and approach them. Group-print materials. Cut out the dead wood.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2015

How can you leverage your communication channels—including email, direct mail, and social media—to promote sustained giving? Download the White Paper: Sustaining Your Mission: How to Build and Maintain a Successful Recurring Giving Program. Develop your communications plan. First, start with your website.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2015

By creating a “My Account” page—like the Gift Service Center in Luminate Online—you can allow constituents to select their preferred method of communication (email, direct mail, or phone), opt out or in to mailings, modify their gift amount, or even skip a monthly payment. Be Responsive.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

On the professional side, I’ve interviewed many industry professionals for articles, case studies, best practices guides, white papers and more. Yet over the holidays, I received a fancy direct mail piece from you. I realize that sometimes you will contact me by mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Digidave of Spot.Us

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We did some research around this issue and published a white paper detailing the case for integrating time-honored emergency response expertise with real-time social input. What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. Signing up for you mailing list. These include: Encouraging donations from donors and potential donors. Submitting a contact form. Donating a contribution.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2018

If you haven’t watched fundraising expert Joe Garecht’s Heating Up Multichannel Fundraising webinar or read his Raising Money through Multichannel Communications white paper, we highly recommend you do so. Tip 1: Master your direct mail fundraising. For over a century, direct mail has been a fundraising staple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

30= Monthly: A video, podcast, e-mail newsletter, flyer, a more detailed or longer blog post, a case study, etc. 4=Quarterly: This could be a research paper, an e-book of your content from blog posts distributed as pdf, a video series, a special issue of your enews letter. It’s the frequency of publishing.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Check out the “Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media” white paper to learn more. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been successful raising money for Friends Asking Friends events. One donation form is all we need Wrong.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Check out the “Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media&# white paper to learn more. But, peer to peer fundraising has been one area where social media has had very positive results.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2019

This approach leverages a combination of phone, email, direct mail, and SMS text messaging to make connections with alumni. Read more about how to improve your fundraising success in the free white paper “Fundraising at the Speed of Life: Strategies for Sustainability Through Uncertain Times”.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Typically for a new or smaller planned giving solicitation effort, costs are limited to the printing, mailing, and postage expenses that may or may not include mail house and data processing expenses. This was originally published as a white paper.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.).

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

I found out more about him, looking at his Twitter profile, than any other database social media profile, white papers. You also want to incorporate your values into grant proposals, white papers, annual reports. We typically send three mailed campaigns a year to our major donors.” this is so funny.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Superior content gives people a reason to stick around, learn more, join your mailing list and take all sorts of other valuable actions like buying, volunteering and donating. donors, volunteers, users of services, other prospects on your mailing lists)? White Papers (e.g., But are you really? People change. Recipes (e.g.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Content like blogs, eBooks, white papers, and infographics should be housed on your own site should be what you do first but it is hard work but it is what The Campaign Workshop The benefits of building your own site are that you own the keyword traffic and have control over what is on your website.

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