I wanted to share some news from Meta that could impact the way you use their platforms. (If you want to stay on top of social media trends that impact nonprofits, be sure to come to this week’s Nonprofit Social Media Summit – get your free ticket here!) Meta recently rolled out an expansion to its paid verification program, Meta Verified, now …
New live training: How to Stand Out on Social Media in 2023
Secure your spot! New live training: How to Stand Out on Social Media in 2023 Learn how to grow your audience and expand your reach on social media this year. Focus will be on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. This course will be given LIVE on Zoom on Monday, April 24th from 3-4 PM ET. (Zoom link will be sent after purchase.) You …
The Unavoidable Power of Facebook Fundraising
Listen to a clip above, and tune in to the entire episode at www.NonprofitNationPodcast.com! GivePanel is the lead sponsor of the Nonprofit Social Media Summit! Click here to get your ticket – it’s all virtual on November 2-3, 2021. Despite what you may think of Facebook’s ethical practices, nonprofits around the world rely on the social network to connect with donors …
Should Nonprofits Leave Facebook?
You can also listen to this as a podcast episode on Nonprofit Nation. Listen in your favorite podcast app! What a week to be working in social media. If you manage social media channels for your nonprofit, if you are on them in your personal life, or even if you just pay attention to the news, then you have undoubtedly …
The Facebook Reckoning and What It Means for Nonprofits
Social Media for Social Good Academy 2.0 is opening soon! Don’t miss out or lose your spot – get on the Early Interest List by clicking here. Should nonprofits boycott Facebook? A lot of you have written to me in recent weeks asking where I stand on the Facebook Ad boycott, especially after NTEN wrote about their decision to leave …
Best Kept Secrets to Getting (And Using!) Facebook Fundraiser Data
Thanks to Keela for pulling together this wonderful free virtual conference for nonprofits, Plugged In: Nonprofit Tech and Transformation! Since the 2015 debut of Facebook charitable giving tools, people have raised $1 billion+ on Facebook for causes they care about. With the exploding popularity of Facebook Fundraisers, several important questions persist: How do we know who is fundraising for us? …
Facebook in 2020 – What Nonprofits Need to Know
The social media landscape of 2020 looks vastly different from the one in which Facebook entered the market, February 2004. Ephemeral, bite-size content is thriving on TikTok and Snapchat; longer form videos still rule on YouTube and IGTV; and across the board, great visual storytelling is the most engaging type of content, no matter the platform. What are the changes, …
What Nonprofits Need To Know About Facebook’s #GivingTuesday Announcement
Cue the bells, throw the confetti, ring the alarms! Facebook announced that for GivingTuesday this year (December 3) it will be matching up to $7 million USD in donations made on the platform that day. If you aren’t familiar with GivingTuesday, it’s a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. …
How to Raise Money Using Facebook Stories
Are you using Facebook Stories for your nonprofit, or on your personal profile? These ephemeral, Snapchat-style Stories now have more than 500 million daily users across Facebook and Messenger. This means that one-third of Facebook’s 1.5 billion daily users are posting or watching Stories EACH DAY – and they just launched this feature two years ago! Being a brand new …