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Top NonProfit Posts for February
February has been a big month for great posts that help nonprofits learn to fundraise, brand their image, and use social media to get their messages out. We thought a nice post to round out February would be a link to many of these articles on the same page for easy reference. Maybe you dream to start a Nonprofit but don’t know how. There are even links to great articles on how to start a nonprofit. Whatever your depth of knowledge in the nonprofit arena, there are quick and timely articles for everyone below that are sure to help you increase the success of your nonprofit. Read on and enjoy the free information, all we ask is that you pass the web site address on to at least one other nonprofit that could benefit from the information also. This is just and excerpt to read the entire article click the link below…
Tweet or Not to Tweet?
I am writing this after spending the morning on Twitter and FaceBook. You may not have any idea what I am talking about or know just enough to believe it is a waste of your time. That is the whole reason we at Ocean Grand have decided to put together a series of ongoing articles around “social media” for non profits. Read on to learn how social media is here to stay and how you can get on board to help your nonprofit become more successful.
The key to getting, keeping and engaging donors, funders, and corporations is by building a relationship with them. There is no alternative to building relationships, the relationship comes first and always first. There is also no alternative, not even through social media, to engage your non profit supporters in the “flesh”. However, social media is a great platform to tell and retell your story (read more about “your story” here). The more ways you are able to get the information and successes out to people who are interested in them the farther your reach. Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is another way to get your story and successes out to those that want to know about them, plus find some others that maybe interested in the mix.
Social media is also a way to keep donors and others up-to-date with your cause and what you’re doing to impact the world in a simple and easy way. A couple “tweets” (tweets are short messages on twitter) a day will help all those following the progress of your non profit to know what you’re doing today to help the cause. Likewise, it is a great way to invite people to your fundraisers, events and projects. By using Twitter, others who get your tweets can pass the message along very easily, possibly generating lots of buzz about your upcoming function. If those tweets are also posted automatically on your FaceBook “wall”, then you have reached two audiences that otherwise would have had no idea what you were doing. For example, maybe you are holding a fundraiser or event in Virginia. Several tweets throughout the day from your mobile phone and everyone around the world knows how it is going.
This morning I wrote an article on “What Have You Done Lately That You Are Proud Of?” When I posted the article from the Ocean Grand blog http://www.oceangrand.org the post was tweeted and then also sent to our FaceBook wall. Almost instantaneously several people joined our twitter following who were not following before. The link to the article in the tweet was also clicked on and read by many from our twitter following. It was a quick, easy and effective way to let those that were interested know there was a new article.
Actors Are People Too!
How Actors and Entertainers Can Jump On The Fast Track
If you are an actor, actress or know an actor or actress, you need to read this article on how you can better launch your career by focusing on what many actors do once they are successful. Read on and I will show you how you [...]
6 Steps to Making a Bigger Splash
You, yeah you!
Everyone is involved in non profit work, however, some are more focused on changing the world with their involvement than others. Read on and figure out how you can make a lasting impact in that which you focus your charitable giving and involvement.
We all give money to charities and we all volunteer doing [...]
The Wonder of a Star
Have you ever sat on a clear night and gazed up at the stars in wonder? Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and was having trouble getting back to sleep. After laying in bed for 20 minutes I decided to get up and take a walk around the house, jot a few things on “Things” a killer to-do list on the Mac. As I walked into the family room a twinkle caught my eye outside through the glass sliding door. We live on a saltwater inlet so just out side our back door is a beautiful view of the night sky over the water. Through the pines was one lone star twinkling as if to say “look at me and be amazed.” Stars amaze me because not one twinkles like the other. It also amazes me that the light we are seeing from a star has many times taken 10,000 years or more and the star might cease to exist. The reason being that the light from the star took so many years to get to us that the star burned out many years before.
For me gazing at the stars puts many things back into perspective because of the magnitude of the universe and the realization of what your actually gazing at. Standing on planet that is spinning about 1,038 miles per hour on the equator or if you live in the U.S. and Europe the speed is around 700 to 900 mph. The earth is also hurling through space at 67,000 miles an hour around the sun. When we look into the sky we are looking into the endless vastness of space and some 9800 stars are visible to the naked eye at any one time.
I am reminded of the hope that the rhyme, “Star light, start bright, the first star I see tonight, wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight” gives us. There is a magical thing that happens in our minds when we believe there is hope that someone or something cares about giving us a break of unprecedented magnitude. For many that hope that someone cares is what gets them through the cold winter nights, the time to the next hot meal, the pain of a medical condition, or even the death of a loved one. Some non profits even encourage our hope by touching us with plays, the arts, music and stories of hope found.
