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. Are you able to collect donations directly from your website? With the new GoFundMe Charity Donate Button, it’s super simple to collect donations for your nonprofit through your own website with only a …
🚨 Breaking News: Changes Coming to the Facebook Donate Button 🚨
Did you get an email from Facebook letting you know that the call-to-action button on your nonprofit Facebook Page is going to be changed and/or eliminated? Several of my clients and colleagues received this email and asked me what it means. It means that Facebook is removing the ability for nonprofit Pages to use their “Donate” buttons to link to …
5 Actions Nonprofits Should Take Based on Facebook’s #GivingTuesday Report
A recent report released Facebook showcases the impact of their nonprofit fundraising tools last year on Giving Tuesday, and the results are encouraging. If you have never heard of Giving Tuesday, it’s an international day of giving – on the calendar the Tuesday after we have a day of thanks (Thanksgiving) – and then two days of rampant consumerism and …
Nonprofit Fundraising on Facebook: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Nonprofits large and small are looking into social media’s newest shiny object – the free nonprofit fundraising on Facebook features. However, many questions remain: How do we set up and use these tools? Should we use them? What about donor information? How do we get payments? Is it really worth all the fuss? Some organizations get great results from Facebook …
How to Get People to Raise Money for Your Nonprofit Using Facebook
In last week’s post, 3 Facebook Features Designed to Help You Fundraise, I highlighted just three of the Facebook features that are making social media fundraising a little bit easier for your nonprofit. These features are: 1) Donations option in personal status updates, 2) Fundraisers on Facebook, 3) The Donate button for your nonprofit Facebook Page. To read more, be sure …
3 Facebook Features Designed to Help You Fundraise
Social media fundraising is getting easier, thanks to some great new Facebook features designed specifically to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money on the social network. I will highlight three of these features in this post, and in my next post I will detail step-by-step the ways in which you can get your community excited about raising money for …
You Can Now Fundraise on Facebook for Your Favorite Charity
File under #AboutTime! Facebook recently announced a new tool designed to give individual users the power to fundraise on Facebook for their favorite verified US-based 501(c)3 nonprofits, directly within the platform! According to Facebook officials, this has always been their intended vision. They want to give their users more control in setting up and promoting individual fundraising pages for the causes …
Is A Donate Button Coming To Twitter?
The ability to donate directly inside Twitter may be coming to a nonprofit near you! Last week, Twitter announced that it will start testing a Buy button embedded into individual tweets. The company aims to encourage shopping directly from your mobile device – “sellers will gain a new way to turn the direct relationship they build with their followers into …