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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Yet tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of nonprofits every day send messages to their communities on social-networking sites with completely wrecked logos.

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What is UX Design and How Can Understanding it Benefit Your Nonprofit

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Using color combinations with a contrast ratio of less than 4.5:1 A site that takes too long to load or that is not built responsively may cause users to abandon the experience entirely. Are you using headings, subheads, and visuals to break up copy and create breathing space on your site?

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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

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This tool by WebAIM checks the contrast between your foreground and background by providing ratios based on hex codes. . Remember, the contrast ratio between text and a text’s background should be at least 4.5:1. When you run the extension on your site, it identifies where ALT text is missing by highlighting the images. .

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Don’t Panic: Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them (Part One)

Byte Technology

The vast majority of WordPress users managing and administering their own sites have most likely, at one time or another, received an error message or code that got their hearts racing and induced a bit of panic. Just be absolutely sure to backup everything on your site before you start attempting this fix. Internal Server Error.

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Making the Web Accessible: Color Choices

Media Cause

As we try to reach new audiences and engage with our audiences online, designing websites to be accessibility friendly to color blindness needs to be thought through with the same planning and care that we put into navigation and site structure. . One such example tool for this is Accessibe. Over 13% of the U.S.

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Social Superpower: Using Facebook to Increase Your NPO’s Website Traffic

Byte Technology

While this may seem trivial, any non-profit sporting an FB presence should be closely monitoring the number of links from friends versus links from “Pages”—it’s more than likely that the ratio is ten-to-one or greater. It’s easy to do—add them by generating code on Facebook’s developer site—and the payoff can be huge. Use Sharing.

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8 Top Corporate Giving Trends to Watch in 2024 + Examples

Nonprofits Source

Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. Both full-time and part-time employees are eligible, and the company will match donations from $25 to $500 at a 1:1 ratio. Take Coca-Cola for example.

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