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Instagram for Nonprofits — How Your Org Can Get Onboard

Connection Cafe

The 2017 M&R Nonprofit Benchmark Study found that for every 1000 email subscribers, organizations can expect to have 39 Instagram followers, and that orgs experienced on average a 101% Instagram follower growth in 2016. This is a challenge because many nonprofits are more focused on text than visuals — be the org who does visuals well!

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

org and others. Part of working in the social impact space means thinking about the big picture, the long-term goals, and the multi-year strategy. Here is a very small collection of some of my favorite pictures from Sunday’s event – all that include water. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org

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Giving Tuesday: Steps to Create a Stellar Campaign

Connection Cafe

How to Start Your Own Fundraiser for [org]. Why do you love [insert org]? Celebrate generosity with [insert org]. Whether your organization uses pictures, videos, or stories to engage your email subscribers, the point is to drive them to take action. Use stories and pictures to demonstrate why your cause matters to them.

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival Roundup: How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

I've never seen another org consistently recognize supporters in a blog like we do. Pictures have tenfold the value of words. This balance between 1 and 3 -- deflecting praise but also driving your org's strategy -- simply works. Tags: blog. Include a photo in the post if at all possible. Flickr photo credit: Juicy!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susie's Blog asks readers for examples of showing the need for ICT support in the VCS, "perhaps in the mould of terrible - things - we - have - witnessed - by - orgs - who - were - wildly - going - off - on - their - own - without - money - or - guidance." lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

One thing I think C3 (my org) does well is that we take a lot of short, successful hops. Yes, we’re making a difference against colorectal cancer, and that’s ultimately our big-picture goal. Tags: Nonprofit. But we’re getting there with a series of small steps. Convio Summit.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: Comeback lines to Collaboration Objectors

Amy Sample Ward

.&# The first step here is to create processes within your organization that are collaborative by nature so that when any new projects (whether they are collaborations—with other orgs, etc.— When it comes to social change and community impact work, who gets the credit for projects or successes is sadly still part of the picture.