Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

You donate a buck at the register to feed homeless families (or was it homeless dogs?). You’ve read this blog enough to know that cause marketing has its merits and raises millions for causes. Tags: Causerants cause marketing Malcolm Gladwell social media the tipping point weak ties.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 29, 2021

Read the blog further to know more. They are also recommending it to their friends and family and posting about it on social media, which has contributed to the consistency of increasing followers. . When you post it, add shoppable tags on every product. This discovery is called Social Shopping. What is Social Shopping?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 16, 2018

According to Facebook’s Head of News Feed, Adam Mosseri : Because space in News Feed is limited, showing more posts from friends and family and updates that spark conversation means we’ll show less public content, including videos and other posts from publishers or businesses. Start a Social Media Ambassador Program.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 15, 2011

With a few tips from me and Nancy Schwartz, the National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth shows what goes into Creating a Simple Marketing Plan. If you’ve been reading a lot of nonprofit communications blogs, you know storytelling should be a big part of your communications plan. You can find the lists tagged Friday Futures.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In your Instagram profile, you can place your website link or blog. She created a challenge called # BathtubChallenge where she encouraged her audience to dress up and take a photo in a bathtub and tag their friends. . Suddenly, her followers were doing the same and were tagging their friends, and the hashtag grew up to 2000 posts!

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Care2

AUGUST 2, 2010

I treasured (and still do) the vitality and vibrancy of blogging to generate succinct, timely content and discussions. org blog to complement our long-form e-news articles. This human services agency is using Facebook’s “safe space&# to build awareness of its family violence prevention services.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In any given week, I’m creating content for my own blog , e-newsletter , webinars and e-clinics , and upcoming in-person workshops. I have different Google Apps Calendars that I use as editorial calendars for my blog, email newsletter, and book marketing. Every website I manage is now in WordPress, including this blog.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2009

I’m sure my family is asleep back home (where it’s about 2 am!). I’m thrilled that I’ve successfully navigated the Russian interface here in the hotel lobby to be able to log in and post on my blog! Tags: Fundraising in Russia. It’s 10:00 am here in Moscow. Stay tuned!!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. To blog effectively, a nonprofit must allocate a minimum of 10 hours per week to blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Read reviews from real volunteers and share your activities with your friends and family. Access videos, blog updates, twitter posts and more. I will elaborate at a later date, but briefly three very important best practices that I learned while researching for this blog post: 1) The App Description is important.

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Getting Attention

APRIL 21, 2010

I'm blown away by the news — blogged by cause marketer Joe Waters — that Komen has made a huge nonprofit marketing mistake. family carried on based on the assumption that s/he was in. Pink buckets for the cure? You must be kidding me. We all know what the F stands for. What should be the standards for partnerships?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

So if you are trying to get a family to organize a disaster preparedness kit that will most likely require some purchases, reaching out to the people who decide what to buy makes sense. The Red Cross also wanted to emphasize that each family is different and so what’s in their emergency kits should be different too.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know how strongly I believe in both storytelling and thank-yous as powerful nonprofit marketing and fundraising tools. One was a nurse herself and the other has many nurses in her family. Tags: Nonprofit Communications Storytelling Thank-You Letters. Get the Details Here.

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Getting Attention

JULY 26, 2010

The only additional suggestion I have for HealthRight is that they continue the story across online and offline channels, including the blog (nothing there yet on Clinton’s visit). Tags: Case Studies Strategy HealthRight International media relations Mila Rosenthal nonprofit branding Nonprofit Communications. Subscribe today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages. Currently, 1 in 5 families is cell phone only.

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Getting Attention

APRIL 21, 2010

I'm blown away by the news--blogged by cause marketer Joe Waters --that Komen has made a huge nonprofit marketing mistake. Tags: Branding and Messages. The famed Race for Cure has undermined its own brand by partnering with KFC to cause market one of the most unhealthy foods there is--fried chicken in a pink bucket.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The number one reason people donate to nonprofit organizations is because they were asked to by either a friend or family member, or the nonprofit organization itself. Imagine if you had 100 fundraisers out there on the Web asking their friends and family to donate to your organization! And of course, bloggers love blog comments!

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Many families live day to day for meals. UNICEF makes the most of social media for the TOT campaign (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube) and it encourages participants to share what they’re doing with their own networks. Talk about what it would be like to live in a one room house. • 2 - Shout it from the rooftops.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Then head over to Pamela’s blog to sign up for her free 5-part course on successful foundation funding. “It I worked for a sizable family grant-making foundation for six years and if I had a dollar for every grant applicant who failed to follow our guidelines, I’d be a wealthy woman today. It does not happen all at once.

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The Agitator

APRIL 16, 2009

Nearly one in five (18%) internet users posted their thoughts, comments or questions about the campaign on an online forum such as a blog or social networking site. While young adults led the way in many political activities, seniors were highly engaged in forwarding political content to their friends and family members.

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The Agitator

APRIL 15, 2009

Through its Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center, the Foundation gives women and families all the information they need in English and Spanish on preconception, pregnancy and newborn health. We understand the importance of reaching out to our Hispanic moms and families. All from Engage:Hispanics.

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Getting Attention

JULY 21, 2009

Our family has a farm share for the first time this year, via Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). These communications -- and the blog for recipe sharing Kerry set up -- made us feel part of the farm and CSA communities. Tags: Branding and Messages Case Studies Strategy. Because good corn isn't good communications!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Interplast’s blog is one my top favorites in the nonprofit world, because it does such a fabulous job of sharing success stories and letting readers behind-the-scenes, which are two of the best uses of blogs by nonprofits, in my opinion. Here’s more on different ways nonprofits can use blogs.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

The Furniture Bank has a website , a blog , an email newsletter, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Another can go on the blog. Tags: Nonprofit Communications Nonprofit Marketing Strategy Online Marketing Social Networking Storytelling 10NTC 10NTC.DOS. One story can go in the e-newsletter.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

Today’s blog post comes from Stephen A. Over the past ten years, Stephen has written successfully funded grant proposals in a variety of areas including professional development, school improvement, service-learning, after school, mentoring, school technology, family literacy, youth fitness, violence prevention, and college access programs.

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Pam Moore

MARCH 14, 2019

In this blog post I'm excited to share with you my top 5 technology platforms that I recommend and use for growing, streamlining, and integrating with my business. With that addition, the customer is tagged into my automated nurture series of emails automatically. That’s the whole reason I started this business in the first place.

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Pam Moore

MARCH 14, 2019

In this blog post I'm excited to share with you my top 5 technology platforms that I recommend and use for growing, streamlining, and integrating with my business. With that addition, the customer is tagged into my automated nurture series of emails automatically. That’s the whole reason I started this business in the first place.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I reached out to John Hawbaker, the editor of Chattarati , a local Chattanooga blog, to see if we could adapt Twestival to help Girls Inc. I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast. Using Paypal, a blog post and posted links, another blast email went out and Facebook was updated.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If you do a Google search on autofollowing , you’ll find some pretty heated blog posts for and against the practice. This is the second in a series of 3 Twitter 101 blog posts. 3 Twitter habits that irritate me With all the blog posts I’ve done on Twitter for. I autofollowed for over a year and found it helpful.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If you do a Google search on autofollowing , you’ll find some pretty heated blog posts for and against the practice. Services like SocialOomph (formerly TweetLater) allow you to “autofollow&# people that have followed you. I autofollowed for over a year and found it helpful. This allows you to group people in any way you see fit.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2009

is intended for all women interested in better policies for women, families and society. Of course, I will be there too and moderating a panel on Everything You Wanted to Know About Tech But Were Afraid to Ask along with Judith Freeman, Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute and Liza Sabater, Blog Editor at Culture Kitchen.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They were saying, “This is a message to our families from our teachers. George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation. “How many of you would allow me to tag you?” Have a great weekend.”

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We’re paying close attention to how we set up our landing pages, conscious of the fact that people searching for information on low-income families in the United States might have different expectations from our website than people searching for information on the history of NWLC. Tags: Case Studies Online Marketing.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monday rolls around, and you find yourself posting yet another press release to your nonprofit website’s blog. You scroll through your blog roll and see post after post with long text blocks and little else. Captivating blog content is a prime opportunity to engage supporters and get them more invested in your cause.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For example, if one of your keywords is “homeless shelter” then “homeless shelter for families” and “homeless shelter New York City” would be examples of long-tail keywords. A direct link to a specific blog post or forum entry. Descriptive keywords used to categorize an article, such as a blog entry. Love the daily blogging?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Sidebar to those of you who aren’t exactly sure what a podcast is: It’s just an audio recording that you can subscribe to if you want, like a blog, so you can get future editions too automatically. Switch to an RSS feed reader like Google Reader and you can subscribe to this blog and others, without clogging your inbox.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So retaining your participants is a great opportunity to raise more money and get started fundraising more quickly, but you may also have the opportunity to engage with their friends and family in new ways. They’re advocating for you to their friends and family. Were you able to feed local families? So I hope that helps.

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