Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

1) Set up your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile to maximize followers. 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. Schedule tweets in advance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. As we grow older, storytelling is the means by which we engage with our friends and family to create shared understanding, and eventually with our employers and workmates to establish alignment around a mission.

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

A secondary ask —sometimes referred to as “daisy-chaining,” including a follow-up with an ask for a donation or a re-share once a supporter has submitted the first form can be an extremely effective way of continuing to engage your supporters. Visual and auditory elements make a story stronger by engaging the senses.

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

introduced Stories to compete with the rising popularity of Snapchat Stories, and the way we interact with social media has never been the same since! people use Instagram Stories daily and 2 out of 3 users say that the feature fosters brand interaction. But how can you make your Stories engaging? Back in 2016, Instagram.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We love hearing about nonprofits’ successful fundraising strategies in action, and sharing these stories allows nonprofits to learn from each other. One of the best ways to become a fundraising success story is to leverage the data in your nonprofit donor database to better reach and personalize donor outreach.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Allow donors to proudly repost and share to widen your organization’s base.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Many small nonprofits find the cost of maintaining a robust website prohibitive, but you can create a Candid profile for free. Funders look to Candid profiles to guide their giving decisions. Share details about your work and interact with funders’ social media posts. Relationship building takes time, patience, and perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile – Guest Post by Jacob Harold, Guidestar. I am happy to officially debut our completely redesigned GuideStar Nonprofit Profiles. We started this redesign process by asking you and ourselves one question: In 2016, what will matter most when sharing a nonprofit’s story?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

That said, I am starting to worry a little bit that nonprofits are falling behind on mobile communications and missing out on some exceptional opportunities to tell their nonprofit’s story to the mobile masses. That said, here are three simple steps to get started with mobile photo-sharing: 1. Download a Twitter app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Momsrising Story Site. They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

Four remarkable leaders, whose life experiences give them inspiration and strength, share their personal stories and reflect on their leadership journeys in conversations with Fred Ali, the retired President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and a former nonprofit leader.

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Candid

MAY 2, 2022

By partnering with nonprofit associations, funders, philanthropy serving organizations, and other social sector organizations, Candid seeks to increase the input of basic organizational information, reduce waste, reveal diversity, and build shared identity. They shared quite a bit from Candid’s articles, social posts, and training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

DonorPerfect is thrilled to announce DP Video , a new feature that enables nonprofit teams to send video messages to donors right from their donor profile in DonorPerfect. You’d be surprised how often people share about nonprofit events they’ve attended or projects they’ve taken part in. 5) Collaborate with your surrounding community.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Almost 100,000 nonprofits have claimed their Candid profile and updated it within the past two years to earn a Candid Seal of Transparency. And hundreds of foundations share details about their grantmaking through our e-reporter program. Finally, the richest data we have comes directly from organizations themselves.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Whether your nonprofit already has a devoted following that likes and shares your posts, or you’re still building your presence on social media, here are some tips will help you expand your social audience and, ultimately, your donor base. You can link your Core Profile or one of your Campaign Pages here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 10, 2020

Create and sign into one more profile? However, the internet can be a stressful place with many negative and sad stories and visuals. On Flixxaid, your nonprofit’s supporters can easily share videos of their virtual participation and fundraise. Will they download one more app? And regularly check one more feed?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

To share your mission with a wide audience. What are our best stories to tell? Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). Is our donor list accurate and up-to-date?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Prepare to be enlightened, fascinated and inspired by the stories of some of history’s iconic men and women that show where they were at near the age of 25. Dilenschneider tells these stories of 25 men and women from around the globe who shaped the world in his new book, Nailing It. Author Robert L.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. Platform builder. Storytelling is key.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The goal of this book is to provide an intensely practical guide to making that transition by sharing insights, stories, and approaches from hundreds of leaders to build the skills you will need to make the leap to leader,” explains Bryant. Many of his discussions are included in his interview series on LinkedIn.

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Care2

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Every new nonprofit I work with at Rad Campaign always tell me how they want their new website to do a better job of telling stories. They are usually in a terrific position to tell incredibly inspiring stories, but they don''t have the resources or the time to craft them. Nonprofit Online Marketing Trends'

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

As Gagarin outlined, Demographics via Candid is a sector-wide initiative to make the process of collecting and sharing demographic data about nonprofit leaders, boards, and staff beneficial rather than burdensome, while contributing to the development of a national data standard.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, if you know which supporters interacted with your issue awareness campaign and learned about your work, you might then ask those specific supporters to contact their local library boards and express support for the drag story time bill currently in committee.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And use the recent Thanksgiving holiday as a way to say thank you to your current donors, board members and volunteers by sharing an impact story of what their support has helped accomplish. In fact, 42% of donors said success stories influenced their decision to give, so don’t forget to share your achievements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Of those that use a publishing and scheduling tool: 56%: To share most of our posts on social media accounts. 44%: To share some of our posts on social media accounts. 1%: Fundraiser stickers in Facebook Stories. 41%: Donation stickers in Instagram Stories. 43%: They had never heard of Facebook Charitable Giving tools.

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2023

Through Go for the Gold , a promotion we made permanent last year, organizations with budgets under $1 million can access Foundation Directory for free when they maintain a Gold Seal of Transparency through their Candid nonprofit profile.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Boost your online presence by optimizing your organization’s Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar. Candid’s free tool shares your organization with tens of millions ?of Check out this video for three easy steps to get your profile ready for giving season. Share an accomplishment or story about how things have?changed

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The square one received 2 times the likes and 3 times the shares when compared to the landscape video. They were able to get a video up that received way more shares, views and engagement than their average videos due to it being very relevant to what people were talking about on social as Hurricane Harvey hit.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

How did you first hear about Candid nonprofit profiles and what value do you see in earning the highest level seal? Meme: A great friend and mentor of mine—who is also a philanthropist—challenged me to hone in on my theory of change and mentioned how GuideStar is a great place to share our work with funders.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? Just like identifying an ideal donor profile is useful for fundraising, your social media presence should cater to your defined target audience. Use your logo as your profile picture.

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Here we share how we turned an expensive print piece into a simple, online PDF with multi-purpose content to maximize the return on our investment. That said, we believe that the annual report is a key tool for inspiring donor confidence by telling a compelling story to demonstrate your impact. Do you have to produce an annual report?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Isn’t this the same old story? Data-sharing partners. Over 800 funders share data directly with Candid— including 17 of the 25 largest U.S. These funders share information about their grant-making on a quarterly or annual basis, often before filing tax returns with the IRS. To some, this might feel like old news.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

Unless you have a dedicated social media manager at your nonprofit, you know that routinely sharing your stories on social media can take up a lot of your time. The free version of Hootsuite lets you manage up to 3 social media profiles and schedule up to 5 messages at any one time. Which makes sense. Try Airtable for free.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

But navigating the best way to share your message on Facebook can be…overwhelming. Here’s the long and short of it: if you want to share personal information, make a Facebook page. If you want to have one spot to share posts from a business or organization, make a Business Page. What is a Facebook Business Page?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Share stories of your fundraising campaigns and the cause that you’re promoting. Profile Your Supporters & Volunteers You have your volunteers supporting your cause. Among other strategies for volunteer engagement , creating a profile on your volunteers and giving them a shoutout is an ideal way to engage and thank them.

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

For eight days, this group of philanthropy professionals dedicated to advancing equitable, effective grantmaking practices came together to connect, learn, and share in critical discussions about the practice of grantmaking. Through Candid’s data partner networks, GuideStar profile information is shared with all major U.S.-based

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Prepare to be inspired, impressed and motivated by personal, real-life stories and case studies from 70 women leaders in the new book, Wisdom Warriors , authored by Carol Seymour. Reflecting on the abundance of stories in the book, Seymour said, "Sharing. How do you go about fixing difficult relationships?

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