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JULY 19, 2013

Last month, I kicked off my blog series on how to coach your first-time fundraisers towards success. Today, I’m going to bring this blog series to a close with talking about the third step which involves how to keep the momentum high with your first-time event fundraisers in the months and weeks leading up to your event.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Can you think of a business process in your organization that is inefficient or time consuming, yet no one has been able to change the process for the better? Learn how to identify value-add and non-value add steps and ultimately improve your constituent experience. Value-add activities. Non-value-add activities.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

These events are classic ways for nonprofits to raise funds and engage donors with a memorable experience, and they’re fairly easy to adapt to virtual settings. They open up a ton of flexibility in terms of scale, timeframe, and additional virtual activities to engage donors. Facilitating bids online and via mobile devices.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the internet saturated with different content and experiences, how can you ensure that your own volunteer opportunities reach the right people and inspire them to participate? This guide will walk you through some of the top tips we have for recruiting volunteers during this time and even a list of top virtual volunteer ideas to try out.

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MAY 4, 2020

The program consists of a daily live and on-demand videos featuring a zookeeper and an animal, plus an at-home activity for viewers. While the Cincinnati Zoo has been offering Facebook Live videos for quite some time as part of its digital marketing strategy, doing them daily and adding accompanying educational activities for viewers was new.

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MARCH 25, 2020

OKRs encourage organizations to set audacious goals that are achievable through well-defined outcomes, that become drivers for the activities and culture needed to achieve breakthrough performance. OKRs also provide a way to align an organizations’ activities with their overarching strategy. Key Results: Reduced checkout time by 20%.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In that piece, I shared my predictions for an upcoming increase in CEO activism, a heightened focus on leadership development through volunteer service and a call to action for corporate partners to effectively address disaster resiliency in affected communities. Employees Driving Corporate Activism.

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MARCH 15, 2021

You may be thinking that it’s not the right time to consider additional employee training at your organization because everyone is stressed about the pandemic. However, that’s actually what makes it a perfect time to invest in new training programs! But, they feel held back due to limited time for learning.

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NOVEMBER 29, 0002

With over 15 years of nonprofit industry experience, Michael has worked with nonprofit customers across North America and the United Kingdom to implement full-scale projects and business process improvement projects. Actively Manage Your Data. But in reality, we only know part of the story. Good luck out there.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

We’ve also created more opportunities for staff from across the organization, even if they don’t work together daily, to interact socially via optional evening and weekend activities. This means we have to invest the time and resources necessary to care for our team as they care for others.” Reynolds, Ph.D, Lastly, make it fun !

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MARCH 16, 2020

If you are like me, the COVID-19/coronavirus experience has taught you a new term: social distancing, which refers to actions that limit interactions with others in order to slow down the spread of a virus (the CDC refers to these as community mitigation strategies ). Thoughtfully create more shared experiences.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I’m going to be honest: it’s hard working full time and having two kids. We’re tired all the time, and sometimes it’s all we can do to get our weekend chores done (grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning the house, yard work) and keep the kids entertained. I don’t always have time to do research into what’s going on and what’s coming up.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

As an active volunteer and donor myself, discovering new nonprofits on social media often piques my interest to get involved and seeing my “go-tos” actively posting keeps me engaged with their mission. Then, an active member of the ministry invited me to be a part of a closed Facebook group. Extend your reach.

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MAY 27, 2020

Are your donors engaged and have they stood by you through these unprecedented times? While we still have a responsibility to steward our donors as we always have, our activities just might look slightly different. Inevitably, the instant anyone walks through the doors of any of our hospitals, you experience ‘the feels.’

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AUGUST 23, 2019

If your site still requires someone to sit in front of a laptop for the best experience, you’ll shed all but the most motivated mobile phone users. Social media activity can keep the excitement alive over the summer and offer friendly advice for navigating new experiences. The experience has to be a two-way street.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Fortunately, we live in a time where technology can help bring people together in new and creative ways to fundraise without the requirement of being face-to-face with one another. Some programs focus marketing efforts on the event experience or awareness building. Develop online experiences for your participants.

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MARCH 30, 2021

These include ‘on-page’ and ‘off-page’ SEO activities. Off-page activities include setting up organic channels on YouTube, setting up your business in Google My Business, and link sharing across social platforms or via quality blog posts, to encourage customers to stumble upon your site. Is SEO truly free? Why employ an SEO agency?

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MAY 29, 2020

Recalling these moments and other interactions can help you pull together ideas of how to replicate this experience, even when everyone is working virtually. Despite being apart from one another, Blackbaud’s YourCause team has continued to plan community-driven activities, just through a virtual setting. Virtual Happy Hours.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Create a master community benefit cost center across the system so that financial transactions can be tracked and shared in real time. Furthermore, food-insecure individuals are 50% more likely to experience Type 2 diabetes and 60% more likely to experience heart disease. Obesity and food insecurity are intertwined.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Supporters have a disjointed experience with an organization they care about because of organizational silos. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work. What does this look like in practice?

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Top-notch donor cultivation depends on consistent activity, customized communications, and an excellent strategy. The time nonprofit fundraisers expend on the first two activities of donor cultivation – consistent activity and customized communications – greatly limits the time they can spend on effective short and long term strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

However , these often were only as a last resort and gave way to board retreat weekends filled with activities, catered meals and a focus on community building. The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . Have breakout rooms.

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APRIL 4, 2017

He was already an active volunteer and was passionate about helping nonprofit organizations raise funds. After all, t hey know social media and can quickly build an active presence on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, or whatever the latest social media fad is. They have life experiences that help them relate to your donors.

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JULY 20, 2017

Let’s take a look at the state of the industry: 64% of millennials participated in a fundraising event in the last 12 months – The key to attracting and retaining these younger supporters is by providing them with meaningful experience that connects their passions and interests to the mission of your organization. There are 1.8M

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Consider this 3-day experience a tremendous gift to yourself and your organization to access and connect with the leading minds in nonprofit technology around the world. To finish off Day 1, you’ll hear from Dara Torres, a mother, author, entrepreneur, and five-time Olympic veteran. Are you ready for bbcon? Day 1 – Tuesday, October 6.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

With more than 38 years of experience in higher education advancement, Dwight is an active participant in his profession, currently serving as a member of the board of directors for the Association of Advancement Services Professionals. While completing my degree, I had taken a part-time job working at the Edward R.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The pivot towards virtual events has been a particularly challenging but (hopefully) rewarding experience for many organizations. These events have proven time and again to be effective choices for organizations of all sizes because they’re more cost-effective and flexible than their traditional, in-person counterparts.

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JUNE 13, 2017

At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. So, over the past 9 months, we’ve taken a ‘spaghetti against the wall’ approach, experimenting with a wide variety of content ideas to see what sticks.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Above it all, we wanted the experience to be natural—not just UCLA inserting itself into people’s lives. Could we be relevant to alumni beyond sports and related social activities? Four years ago, before the CASE publication, we started an experiment. Then we started wondering if engagement had to be expensive to be effective.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Petition signatures or other advocacy activities. Duration goals (or session goals ) measure the percentage of users who stay on your website for a specified amount of time. Event goals are registered every time a user conducts a specific action on your website, such as a video play, file download, or button click. Event goals.

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JUNE 21, 2017

These types of constituent programs are formed at the intersection of clinical and philanthropic experiences and should involve hospital executives and foundation leadership. 10 key factors of a successful grateful patient program : Dedicated resources and staff time outlined from kickoff through implementation and evaluation.

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JULY 8, 2014

And chances are that “somewhere” will not be a happy place, since time and money will have been spent on outcomes that the staff and the board of directors find disappointing. Not Enough Time to Get it All Done. That’s right, there really isn’t enough time to do everything that can or should be done in nonprofit content marketing.

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APRIL 2, 2018

It’s time we had a little talk about strategic objects. Their office included a large whiteboard that prominently displayed the question, “How can we increase active membership by 30%?” The small experiments aren’t designed to undergo academic peer review. Start reading Analytic Activism.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Since nonprofits realize the critical importance of volunteers to help achieve their mission, it’s only natural that they’d have lessons to share about getting the most out of volunteers’ time. Put another way, avoid the dreaded, “OK, we’re here, what should we do?” kickoff to a volunteering event. Take volunteer feedback to heart.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. For years, Facebook has tweaked the News Feed to create more valuable experiences for people. Why did Facebook make this change?

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

While many senders were in the “spray and pray” mindset, Gmail was quietly setting the stage for the next era in email marketing and flipped the switch during the most critical time of year for many nonprofit organizations. Provide opportunities from time-to-time for users to choose their topics of interest. Make it personal.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

The value of transformational experiences. Millennials and other target audiences may actively express passions and devotion to particular causes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they know your organization, or how you’re tied to that cause. So what does this movement mean for your nonprofit’s strategy?

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