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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

When advocacy campaigns are quiet, consider some other engaging advocacy content that can be written and approved in advance to ensure advocates are still opening and clicking your messages: Flash poll: Create a one-question poll that is irresistible to advocates, such as “Which of the following should be a higher priority?

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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Strategies: Breaking Through the Noise

Neon CRM

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. Sharing conversation starters, polls, or even quizzes on social media can inspire lots of engagement.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. Photo: Bart Sullivan .

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. We currently use Google Voice for this.

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Crypto Donors Don’t Wear Tinfoil Hats: The 14 differences between Crypto & Traditional Donors

Whole Whale

13% of population) meaning this is still early in the larger adoption cycle ( A Harris Poll from August 2021 ). Consider how your organization’s narrative may map to these values of giving power and voice to stakeholders that have been traditionally ignored by financial institutions.

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. Inviting a guest speaker can invigorate your Board members and introduce new ideas from a new voice that may resonate with them. You might need to plan some polls or interactivity about every 10 minutes to help keep people engaged. Show a video.

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Going Green: Paperless Evaluations at the 10NTC

NTEN

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.