Giving Tuesday is fast-approaching! Love it or hate it, the truth is that this wildly popular international day of giving and giving back will most certainly generate record amounts of press coverage, website clicks, and donations to charities small and large. Not sure if you should carry out a campaign this year? Before you launch a #GivingTuesday campaign, be sure to …
5 Ways to Thank and Recognize Your Donors Using Digital Tools and Social Media
Donor attrition continues at a startling rate. Some nonprofits are losing as many as 90% of their first-time donors on an annual basis! The average across all types of donors isn’t much better, with about 59% of annual givers dropping off the radar each year. Let’s discuss why this may be happening, and what we can do better. Join …
How To Use Facebook’s Free Fundraising Tools on #GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday is less than one month away! On November 28th, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are matching up to $2 million in funds raised on Facebook for U.S-based nonprofits. Also on #GivingTuesday, Facebook is waiving all fees for donations made on Facebook. (Before and after #GivingTuesday, charitable organizations that have signed up to use Facebook’s fundraising tools will pay …
How to Create and Use a Nonprofit Social Media Calendar [with template]
As a nonprofit marketer, you wear many hats. Between answering emails, making phone calls to supporters, editing the annual appeal letter and coordinating fundraising events, who has time to maintain more than one social media site? You do have time. I promise. The answer to managing it all lies in one word – scheduling! Use a simple Social Media Calendar: …
The Future of Visual Social and What It Means for Nonprofits
The Facebook News Feed launched as a platform solely for text. In the subsequent decade, it has expanded to include pictures, video, and live streaming 360-degree broadcasts. Last week, Facebook announced the imminent release of their brand new $200 virtual reality headset, one that doesn’t require a phone or PC to power it. With the explosion of visual sites like …
3 Engagement Crushing Mistakes Nonprofits Are Making On Social Media – And What To Do Instead
Facebook and Instagram went down on Wednesday and people lost their minds. They were worried they couldn’t get the latest updates from friends and family members, but also they lost their major source of news, information, and community. Sound scary? It’s just reality! Social media tools have completely revolutionized the way human beings communicate, research information, ask questions, and express …
How Nonprofits Can Use LinkedIn’s Publishing Platform
LinkedIn may not be the sexiest of the social media platforms, but it may be one of the most powerful for nonprofits. 51% of global NGOs use LinkedIn, according to the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report. LinkedIn has more than 467 million users, and 57% of companies have a LinkedIn Company Page. Brands, individuals, and mission-driven organizations are using …
How to Create a 90-Day Nonprofit Online Marketing Plan (Without Spending Hours On Social Media)
The term “online marketing” can send chills up the spine of even the most seasoned nonprofit professional. Anxiety about staying up-to-date with all the different technology platforms, posting to social media every week, updating the website, writing the email newsletter… that’s enough to keep a busy nonprofit practitioner up at night. There is a solution, and I’m going to spell …
Battle-Tested Tools to Rock Your Digital Storytelling
In this post and video, I walk you through a variety of tools and mobile apps that you can use to create graphics, enhance photos, and make awesome videos for your digital storytelling campaigns. Catch the replay of the lesson on my Facebook Page by clicking here. Here are just 7 free or low-cost tools that you can start using today to enhance …








