Voices from the Third Sector

#GivingTuesday Doesn’t Have to Stop on #GivingTuesday

 #GivingTuesday-and every day! If you haven’t come up with your Giving Tuesday strategy yet, it might be a little bit too late. It’s Giving Tuesday time and many nonprofits have upped their promotional efforts, their donation sites, and their thank you letters. Some have even come up with creative ways to launch a social giving strategy […]

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Podcast

Does Your End of Year Fundraising Campaign Need Help?

Emily Goodstein is a Washington, DC- based  online media strategist and a professional photographer. She’s also a birth photographer and a millennial…and an incredible resource for the best ways to enhance your end of year fundraising campaign with the help of images. While these valuable tips can be applied any time of year, we tend to […]

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Podcast

What’s a Social Media Super User Group?

The latest installment from online marketing strategist, Emily Goodstein, introduces the concept of a Social Media Super User Group. In this podcast she explains to us what the heck that actually is…and how to use it for good! Once you’ve assembled your SUPER GROUP, you will want to leverage it for all it’s worth. And […]

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Nonprofit Partner Post

Where are Your Donors?

  In today’s world, your donors are everywhere. Gone are the days when you can send them a letter or two in the mail and expect them to respond. Donors today live exceedingly busy lives and the non-profit that effectively works to ensure they are everywhere their donors are is the one that will have […]

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The Essence of Sports Philanthropy

There’s been so much attention focused on the negative actions of a few athletes lately, that it seemed a good time to bring focus to those who do good, and illustrate how sports philanthropy can have impact. Additionally, it provides a great lesson to any type or size nonprofit who is interested in finding a […]

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5 Common Online Marketing “Don’ts”

Online marketing and social media can be incredibly effective tools for nonprofits. But the effectiveness can get derailed by some simple- and common- mistakes. Make sure that you’re not making any of these! Listen to Emily Goodstein address five very common online marketing and social media mistakes and advice on how to remedy them. For more advice from […]

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Win a $100 Donation: Look Ma, No Ice!

Announcing: #3STPushUpChallenge Visit our Facebook Page to find out how you can win a $100 donation from Third Sector Today-and hopefully also inspire you to create a challenge that will get your donors sharing with their social networks. Determined to Develop is an organization that provides “programs supporting education, orphan care, women’s empowerment, health and the environment… in Africa […]

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Hashtag 101: Tips on how to #hashtag

I started tweeting in 2008 for one of my journalism classes. It was pretty cool to be able to use social media during class then (professors didn’t like cell phones out during class back in my day). But the one thing I didn’t really start using until the recent past was hashtags.   I always […]

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I Challenge You to Recreate the Ice Bucket Challenge!

If you’ve surfed social media sometime in the last two weeks, it’s pretty likely you’ve seen a bunch of videos of people – both in your network and not in your network – saying something about ALS, naming a few names, and ending with a bucket of ice water drenching them from head to toe. […]

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Nonprofit Social Media

Social Media Matters for Nonprofits

  Third Sector Today and Top Nonprofits follow trends and tactics in ever-developing social media options so that your nonprofit can benefit efficiently and appropriately from them. We aim to be your go-to source for the best platforms and tools to achieve your goals. You can revisit past posts to assist capitalizing on the internet, […]

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