Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Regularly updating your cover photos can help alert followers for specific campaigns like #GivingTuesday. I for one did not know before writing this post that the childhood cancer community knows the National Cancer Institute only gives less than 4% to research and to cure all types of childhood cancer. What does #morethan4 mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The Photo that Was Worth 25,000 Shares by Taryn Degnan. ” or “How do we make our story go viral?” In October, I was tasked with creating a campaign to promote Common Sense Media’s message supporting National Bullying Prevention Month. Here’s what I learned from the experience: Take risks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

You’ll also be able to add a special Donation sticker to Stories and Live videos and a “Donate”button to your profile, which will let users go directly from your content to a donation page. For example, Feeding America is a nonprofit with a national network of more than 200 food banks. Work With Influencers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, the “Reusable Goods Collection” from Heal the Bay : Tell your product’s story in the caption. Don’t miss the opportunity to directly tell your product’s story and how that ties into your organization’s mission in your caption on social media. Tag your products in Stories and Posts.

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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. 4) Write a captivating fundraiser story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 23, 2007

Ann Harrison, our Communications Director, just pulled together a great photo essay on our work with the National Police Archive in Guatemala. Ann's extensive experience as a journalist brings improved story telling to Benetech: combining our technical skills with the social impact that drives us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

For most of these users, it’s Instagram Stories. . In just one year, the daily user count for Instagram Stories jumped from 400 million (June 2018) to 500 million. That means that more than half of Instagram’s 1 billion users look at and consume Instagram Stories – EVERY DAY! . Here are 6 ways. . Well, it depends!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. But this past week, a string of stories from London have changed my perspective. Last week, he wrote a series of posts about the British National Gallery''s reversal of their photo policy. Some people can take photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 5, 2012

For the mobile social media manager, Instagram is a must-download photo-sharing smartphone app – and with more than 80 million users who to date have shared over four billion photos – its quickly becoming a community that early adopter nonprofits have added to their regular list of must-do’s.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

They’ve conserved more than 80,000 acres of prime desert habitat, forever weaving together National Parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife linkage corridors. But with some careful outreach and the resource of a beautiful national park, they nearly doubled their fundraising goal. Keep It On Theme.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 8, 2021

Mission moments” are a great time to deliver your organization’s strongest stories to a captive audience. Studies show most audiences respond better to content when there is a visual component such as a photo or a video. A few strong, communicative photos can go a long way! Direct mail and newsletters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Also by Allison Weber: How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels. The webpage included a link to a Feeding America donation page.

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Greater Giving

MAY 17, 2024

It’s official, National Wine Day is May, 25th , but fundraising with wine can take place year round. Wine cannot be in the weather above 80 degrees, so make sure to have great visuals/photos to showcase in case you cannot have the physical bottle on-site. The general format is producer, name of the wine, region, vintage.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2021

Having a coherent communications plan where you package your message will help ensure each piece of content you share is part of a greater story you are telling. Your message can be written, verbal, or even visual, but all messages should tell a story. Package your message and brand as part of an overall story. Spread the word?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

stories are the currency of community and they can bring about great. First Place Photo. Second Place (Photo or Video). Third Place (Photo or Video). Seeyourimpact.org, National Wildlife Federation, Micro-Documentaries, and Wix! TechSoup wants you to succeed at storytelling. Well, we believe that. emotional change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate. 2) Information Hub.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

Posts can be up to 500 characters, and they can include links, photos, or videos up to 5 minutes long. Post what you’d normally share on Twitter: A witty quip, a photo or video from an action, a link to your op-ed, or a meme about being the first to the party. We think Threads can fill that gap. But we think Threads has staying power.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our work in this area has been recognised with two national awards from the Royal Society for Public Health and PwC , but more importantly, it’s enabling young people to change their lives. Numbers Only Tell Half a Story. Numbers are easy to count, but what about the stories of the individuals we engage with?

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Grassroots organizations provide vital services to local communities, yet they struggle to compete for grants against large national nonprofits that can leverage robust development teams, considerable fundraising experience, and established relationships with grantmakers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

RoundUp App is the nation’s largest tool for rounded up donations. But there are countless benefits to registering your nonprofit with RoundUp App , including: A custom RoundUp App registration page with your own logo, photo, and impact statement. That’s where RoundUp App comes in.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2012

As 2012 winds down there were several major stories that I came across that are worth sharing. On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. Shortly after posting someone posted the photo to Twitter. She asked the person to remove the photo from Twitter. She thought only her friends could see it.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. As you plan your next fundraising campaign, consider how you'll use stories as a central element of your messaging. How will you tell your story to create both authenticity and urgency? Tip 1: Create a Strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 5, 2023

National awareness days are a great way to spread the word about your nonprofit’s work by aligning your mission with a day that’s dedicated to a specific, relevant issue. Spotlight the work that your nonprofit does around the awareness day with a video or photos. Run a fundraising drive centered around the awareness day issue.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Entire civilizations have been built off of, held together by and divided by stories. ” Stories have the power to bring together and to push apart –to distinguish and to extinguish. Stories are also integral parts to any nonprofit organizations and particularly when it comes to fundraising. The pictures told a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Analytics really do tell stories! Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. residents to show their support for the 43 million refugees around the world leading up to World Refugee Day on June 20th.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to tailor your messages to each medium — don’t cross-post the same photo and slogan to every social network. Organizations like World Central Kitchen and UNHCR are doing incredible work on Instagram and TikTok during the current humanitarian crisis in Ukraine — using photos and video to share stories of helpers and displaced people.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level. National Public Radio (NPR). Annual report template.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use it to tell your story. Most nonprofits have volunteers with interesting experiences to share and they are typically happy to share their stories. Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

To kick off our new success stories. section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. The challenge was that organizations had to tell their story with very few words – under 1,000 characters to be exact.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

If you’re in the US today, there’s probably little chance you didn’t know it was Memorial Day – from the specials on TV, to local events, to remembrance stories, and even community gatherings, it’s hard to miss the message of today’s holiday. What did you do to celebrate Memorial Day today?

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Twitter is great for quick updates; Instagram is great for sharing photos. Rely on established relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I was honored to be invited to be one of the speakers during the opening plenary along with Keith Jenkins from National Geographic and Ben Rattray from Change.org. The first speaker was Keith Jenkins who is the digital manager for National Geographic. Marcelo Iniarra (@marceloiniarra) October 17, 2014. This wasn’t just a gimmick.

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