Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. Shared stories bind all sorts of people, from families to religious groups. Nonprofit storytelling lets donors and volunteers know that they are making an impact and making life better for real people. Again, words matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. Hearing from so many people. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Now you need to figure out what kind of person (or people) will help you meet those goals. We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. The executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

It is the largest gathering of people who work in the nonprofit sector and technology. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. Gaping Void Cartoons. The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. April 12- 3:30-5:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Nonprofits + Internet = People Inspiring People by Ted Hart , ACFRE and Host of The Nonprofit Coach on Blog Talk Radio. Want to Raise Money Online? Happy Friday!

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. For starters, answer these questions: How many staff people can devote their time to fundraising? So, let’s touch some more on these fundraising techniques. How much time can they devote each week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. Engage people in your organization who don’t understand social media. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Start to recruit your champions, people in your community who can serve as ambassadors for promoting the event. Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. Look, fundraising is about connecting people who care with work that matters to them. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Educate people about the need. Fundraising is not about you.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But for most people, planning for fundraising isn’t easy. Too many people say they have a plan, but the plan is not written down. Too many people wait for the perfect time, the perfect Board, the perfect staff, the perfect template, or a perfect something else to work on their plan for fundraising. Write it down. .

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Lots of people do. People don’t like to work hard to figure out what you want. If your letter starts off by thanking people for their support this year, then talks about how hard the year has been, then says “We hope we can count on your support again this year,” your reader will be confused. Direct mail DOES work after all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique. He also identified staff who were enthusiastic and proficient in using Twitter to lead training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). How many people will be monitoring and managing your accounts?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise. Remember the storytelling part of your case statement? Friends + Family.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. We wanted it to be something fun and interesting, so people would want to join – a surprise party! Some people posted on their own blogs. Some tweeted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. The type of content I share that supports these objectives includes: the best links on strategy and tactics for Facebook, discussion questions, and responding to people's questions. Page Views: Total number of times a Page was viewed per day.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

The news agencies were reporting that hundreds of people have died and tens-of-thousands were missing. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Personal Fundraising – In order to extend our reach and to leverage personal networks, we encouraged people to create fundraising pages.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Every year, mobile use climbs as more people turn to their smartphones to communicate, connect, work, and play. This enables you to get a representative sample of volunteers to ensure that you’re meeting everyone’s needs, not just a certain segment’s. Keep volunteers updated with mobile messaging.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

There is a lot of value to keeping your eye on what other people are doing and replicating strategies that work. In this way, I have found most nonprofit professional to be more collaborative than combative, very willing to speak candidly about techniques that work for them.&#. They can get you samples of just about anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I asked people to share a couple sentences about their experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it. Twenty people made contributions - although 7 contributions were made by "guests" - people who didn't register for the wiki. Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

" Care2 Impact Prize | NTEN – A group of inspiring, talented people! From humanitarian relief to the environment, public health to education, microfinance to intellectual property, NGOs are increasingly at the forefront of developments shaping the lives of millions of people around the world."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Her blog is Contentious.com.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some people will have you believe that online advocacy doesn't work, or that Congress isn't listening, and so you should abandon your efforts entirely. DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

While the above report is six years old and samples organizations in California, I am willing to bet that these statistics would still apply today and be generalized to communities-of- color-led organizations in other states. People of color are very generous, but factors, like where they give and why, need to be examined.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

People are talking online and the best way to influence what they are saying or how they are thinking about issues is to talk with them. Twitter is part of the real-time Web, meaning it enables people to communicate, share information, spread news, and distribute links in “real-time&# as it happens. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I was about to ditch the whole experiment when Zemanta recommended two excellent posts by Chris Brogan, " A Sample Blogging Work Flow " and David Peralty on Organizing a Blog Post. In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. For example, I might not start with a specific a topic in mind.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

| Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Be available to talk with people at your events and hand out your contact information to anyone who has an idea they’d like to talk with you about or is interested in helping. Who are they?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques.

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