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6 Generations of Giving: Who Gives the Most and How They Prefer to Give

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Preferred contact methods: Voice calls, direct mail Preferred donation methods: Direct mail and voice calls 2) Baby Boomers (1946-1964) 72% give to charity, donating an annual average of $1,212 across an average of 4.5 Baby Boomers are also more likely to engage in offline giving, such as writing checks or attending fundraising events.

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25 Global Trends in Giving That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Smart-home voice assistants, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, could also provide new ways of giving. That said, very few organizations actively promote tribute giving and doing so would likely a result a steady revenue stream. 11) Donors are very involved with their favorite causes and charitable organizations offline.

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How Your Organization’s CEO Can Use Social Media for Thought Leadership

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. On social channels, people don’t have to interact with you to develop an opinion of you as a person based on reading your social stream. If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader? Managing Boundaries on Social.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

and news streams like #earthtweet. There is a lot of potential with Twitter to spread messages and calls to action from sources onto the Twitter stream, and then back again. The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable? How will you get their voice? Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline?

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meedan has set up a stream of curated tweets from the #jan25 hashtag and is translating them into both English/Arabic. It is a firehouse, uncurated list. How to contextualize it? Also, since I don’t understand Arabic and it is difficult to translate from Twitter, what can we do?

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? NWF - every program we have has an offline component, i try to integrate a social media strategy that leverages and encourages the offline part; like #nwf wildlife watch, raises your awareness offline if you can see something and tweet it, etc. be more intentional.