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How to Keep Donors Engaged When Everything is Changing

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I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. Inevitably, the instant anyone walks through the doors of any of our hospitals, you experience ‘the feels.’ We continue to thank, report and engage by creating experiences that resonate with our donors.

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

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Analytic Activism documents how nonprofits are using analytics to listen, experiment, learn, and thrive in the digital era. What they actually did was far more mundane – the same type of modeling and segmentation that the Obama campaign deployed in 2008 and 2012. The reality of analytic activism is both more mundane and more promising.

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Things To Do In Twitter

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Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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Things To Do In Twitter

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Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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Are you getting the most out of your matching gifts? Guest post by Stephen Hafner

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In my experience, too many organizations don’t take advantage of this “free money.” According to the Council for Aid to Education's 2008 Voluntary Support of Education Survey , matching gifts as a percentage of corporate giving totaled $175 million in 2008, up $6 million from the previous year.

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5 Cases for Building Nonprofit Operating Reserves

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Many nonprofit staff members experience burnout as a result of consistent cash flow stress, which often leads to low morale and increased staff turnover. However, it became evident after the market crashed in 2008 that many under-capitalized organizations were so financially fragile that they didn’t make it through.

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Accidental Giver or Loyal Supporter

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That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. To some degree these two experiences illustrate the two diametrically opposite philosophies that organizations seem to have when it comes to managing their relationships with recurring donors. They never called or emailed to say, “Hey, Michelle!

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