Community Outreach. Community Outreach ABS | Teach | Handbook | Programming A-Z | Community Outreach Overview: Community outreach is an important part of developing any program.
It is essential when planning art programs for visitors with visual impairments and other disabilities . People with visual impairments have a broad range of experiences with the arts, both positive and negative. In this module, we will review outreach resources and strategies. Practical Considerations: Sample Agenda Checklists Troubleshooting Tips Funding Strategies! Contributors and Reviewers: Back to top Practical Considerations: Community Outreach Establishing connections and creating a community outreach program requires research and perseverance. Making Contacts Take advantage of resources you already have in the museum. Schools/residential schools for the blind and public schools, and in some states, individual visually impaired students, are all connected to a specialized district or coordinating office.
Older Audiences. Good Tips for Publicizing Your Non-Profit Fundraiser. Guest Post by DoJiggy Distributing press releases and informing the media about your fundraiser provide an excellent way to spread awareness about your upcoming fundraising event. The media is always interested in activities and events happening in the local community, especially when there is a positive angle such as an opportunity for the public to give back to a charitable cause. The best thing about PR is it’s free! Rather than paying for ads in a local newspaper or online banner ads and blog sponsorships, media coverage helps you publicize your fundraiser at no cost. In addition, editorial coverage often provides more credibility than self-promotion, as it comes from an objective third party who was interested in covering your story. Now that you know the benefit of public relations…how does it work? When to Announce Your Event? Study: Best times to post to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
What are you doing between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Eastern Time? If you have a Tumblr, you had better be posting content. According to a Bitly analysis, Tumblr posts updated during those times—particularly on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays—receive the most clicks. [READ: An essential guide for brands on Tumblr] Bitly is a service that shortens links so they can be shared and tracked on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The service looked at posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. The best time to post to Twitter is in the afternoon, early in the week—from 1 to 3 p.m. “As far as being a gateway to drive traffic to your content, it appears that Twitter doesn’t work on weekends,” reports Bitly. The peak traffic times, it adds, are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Thursday. [READ: When should brands tweet for the greatest reach?] Avoid posting to Facebook after 8 p.m. and before 8 a.m., and on the weekends.
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Pull yourself together. Www.charityhowto.com//blog/blogs/45hashtags.pdf. Rough Draft of a Nonprofit Social Media Policy. During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit, we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy.
The online interview in the tool includes 12 questions, and I asked the 30 or so webinar participants to pick the answers via GoToWebinar polling. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download). I recommended that everyone start with this and then customize it for their own organizations, using some of the alternative language offered in Social Media, Risk, and Policies for Associations by Social Fish and Croydon Consulting. I also shared links to lots of other advice and samples policies to make this rough draft your own. If you missed the webinar, but would appreciate a little help walking through your options (including what I recommend you do on several vexing questions), the recording of the webinar is available right now in our archive.
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