Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

I have a confession: I have a crush on Zoom, the video conferencing platform. If you are suddenly tasked with turning an event into a webinar, these nonprofit video conferencing tips are for you. Here are my top six tips for Zoom (or your favorite video conferencing platform): 1. Practice and prepare. Best of luck!

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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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Real-time reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. Live reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. Instagram: Share photos and video clips and stream using Live Video Stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

That’s why video engagement is quickly coming to the forefront of nonprofits’ digital strategies. The best thing about incorporating video in your strategy is that no special skills are needed. To break up the monotony, you’ll want to post photos, videos, links and graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 6, 2023

You can upload up to 10 photos to a Thread. You can upload a video up to 5 minutes long. Threaders are looking for something different and now is a good time to stretch your social media manager skills and try a new tone or content. 2) Know the basics about creating and posting a thread. Threads can be up to 500 characters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

They can be branded images embedded with the event hashtag, quotes from speakers , or photos of the venue. On the day of the event, new media managers should come equipped with both a laptop and a tablet or smartphone that has photo and video editing capabilities and be provided a space where they can work uninterrupted.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

As with previous research, the survey found that youth who volunteered reported gains in leadership skills (77%), career readiness (70%), and a sense of belonging (67%). We just have to take the time to listen and apply their experiences.” Photo credit: Megan Ory, Chicago Corporate Photography & Video, Inc.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Don’t lead with a photo from your latest fundraiser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. The strongest recommendation in this article is that you invest in building skills in using Facebook Ads inside your organisation. . 3) Understand Facebook Ad objectives.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Bring skills to the table to do tasks you can’t afford to hire out (like bookkeeping, lawn maintenance, facility maintenance, video editing, etc.). While they’re volunteering, you can evaluate their skills and dedication to see if they have what you need on your Board. which makes volunteer hours add up fast!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. We often put things off, placing learning skills on the shelf where they weren’t easily accessible to us. We didn’t stop trying.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. And you need to use the right tools.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 12, 2022

To reduce the risk of burnout, it is crucial that you consider a volunteer’s motivation for giving, their allotted time for volunteerism, and their skill-set. Help Volunteer Acquire New Skills. One of the best ways to create value for volunteers and support their personal goals is by helping them acquire new skill-sets.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

million community members have been reached with information, skills, and services. Allison captioned her LinkedIn photo like this, “The start of amazing begins with the right question.” We feature videos about women who are achieving firsts either for their ethnic group or for their country.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A unique element to this report that we don’t see very often: video. org integrated videos throughout the report so readers can get more information about two of their campaigns — Exxon Knew and Break Free — all while keeping the word count down. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. We all have certain skills and we all possess special passions. But don’t just take it from me – Forbes named storytelling the #1 most important career skill of the future. Direct mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. To begin, provide your staff, board members, and volunteers guidelines for maximizing their LinkedIn Profiles , such as: Complete their profile and upload a professional photo.

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

One of the most critical—but often overlooked—keys to successful event fundraising marketing has nothing to do with skills or marketing expertise. Wistia : Boost video engagement while tracking video performance. By using an official hashtag, your team has an additional opportunity to showcase guest photos.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Video and Photography 101. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Simple Video Story to Advocate for a Community Concern.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. A good social media manager has an advanced communications and online fundraising skill set.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). They just think of YouTube as website where the can quickly upload and host their online videos.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix are do-it-yourself sites designed for people with no coding skills. All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In a tweet, Subaru tagged Feeding America, shared a video with the Feeding America logo and photos of the nonprofit’s impact on-the-ground, and linked to a webpage with more information about their partnership. More recently, Subaru helped donate 100 million additional meals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Video owned by and featured on the ABC News Youtube channel. Photo provided directly by the CORE team. Photo featured on the Hope for Haiti website. Team Rubicon mobilizes veterans to offer their services, skills, and expertise to people preparing for, responding to, or recovering from disasters. . Facebook: CoreResponse.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have people register for your event, then livestream the class to your participants so they can learn some new skills and recipes from the comfort of their own homes. Host it over a video conferencing platform like Zoom and take advantage of features like breakout rooms to allow participants to get to know each other in a smaller setting.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Additionally, there are also AI-enhanced tools your organization can take advantage of to supplement skills you don’t have expertise in. Matching volunteers with the best roles is easy to do using AI algorithms to analyze skills, preferences, and availability. AI-enhanced editing tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Photo by One Squiggly Line. ” The idea is that when you give in small amounts – anything – your time, money, or skills and encourage your network online to amplify it, you can have a great impact as an individual. For emphasis, I repeated the line, “It’s not about the red hat and tossed it.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Canva also has thousands of video templates you can easily edit and add text to—no animation experience necessary! Video is the most engaged with type of content on social media. More engagement results in higher visibility for your content, so it’s worth creating video content for your social channels. Emojipedia. Adobe Spark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum).

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Use these tips to create a fulfilling volunteer experience and retain your remote volunteers’ support year-round: Provide thorough training Use the right tools Show volunteer appreciation By keeping your remote volunteers motivated, you can leverage their unique skills and interests to fuel change in your community. Let’s begin.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

A story bank is central place to capture any text, audio, video and photos associated with a story. Weekly Task Management I mentioned earlier in this post that one of the skills we develop when we work from home is learning how to manage ourselves and our time in a non-office environment.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

You could also invite various local musicians to create a video of an ensemble cover of a popular song. They could dedicate the video to your cause and let you debut the video during your event. Virtual Class: Look around and see who has a skill they could offer as a class. Here’s a video on how to adapt bunco using Zoom.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

They want to engage on their own terms and are more likely to respond to social media influencers and short videos of real people. Project-based work and opportunities to build leadership skills are highly valuable to a generation that’s keen on professional development. Main photo courtesy of Jopwell.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s useful to have your photos and links (to your website, a blog post, a news article etc) ready in a folder or folders so that when you want to schedule new posts, it’s easy to access the content. Ideally, it’s good to test tools around scheduling, campaign management, image and video editing to find what works best for your organization.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Optimize your photos. When choosing your header image, pick a photo that best represents the work your organization does. Whether it’s a photo of your volunteers in action or pictures of the communities you serve, the photo you pick should demonstrate your organization’s impact to visitors to your LinkedIn page.

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