Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

The clinical definition of burnout is “a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion that occurs when we feel overwhelmed by too many demands, too few resources, and too little recovery time.” The good news is that once you know the signs of burnout, you can take steps to stop it. But don’t limit your shut-eye to your bed.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising by Beverly Browning. These classics will help you find the right words for every fundraising situation. Get the skinny on the essentials of nonprofit leadership, boards, fundraising, and social media marketing. Happy reading! to help you get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the honor of teaching a master class at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) on avoiding burnout for fundraisers with Corinne Aartman in Amsterdam. Richard Sved, a fundraising consultant from the UK, participated and wrote a reflection on the UK Fundraising Blog.

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Because mid-level donations play an essential role in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, cultivating and stewarding strong mid-level donor relationships is vital. Remember to extend your communications beyond donation appeals to avoid donor burnout and demonstrate to mid-level donors that you truly appreciate their ongoing support.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Organisations across the world are responding to the devastating pandemic by using everything at their disposal to make lasting change in their communities, and Giving Tuesday offers a significant fundraising opportunity for the sector to recruit new supporters and volunteers. Get Planning Now. Know Your Audience.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Fundraising. A successful fundraising plan has every aspect down to a science. But we can teach you how to avoid some of these issues! Most fundraisers go into the planning process with an idea for what they want to do. Even with a thorough, step-by-step plan, taking on too much inevitably leads to burnout.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 1, 2023

GiveButter reported that burnout is affecting more than half of all nonprofit employees. If you’re torn, you’ll definitely want to read these before -and- after LinkedIn articles about a young fundraiser named Kathleen. If you’re considering quitting your nonprofit job, you’re not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We are heading into the most stressful time of year for nonprofits, especially for fundraisers. If you are short on time, we published this very brief article on GuideStar, Four Smart Ways to Avoid Burnout for Nonprofit Professionals that offers some basic self-care tips that will help you get through this very crazy time of year.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere. You want to collect the data you need to make informed decisions, support your grantees’ success, and demonstrate your impact. It’s getting buy-in.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

We recently convened a cross-section of leaders in the for-impact sector to discuss best practices for implementing innovative strategies and tools to support constituent engagement, fundraising, and reporting. ALSAC , the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Below are some of the key takeaways from our conversation.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 5, 2023

From event landing pages and online volunteer registration to fundraising and integration with industry-leading CRM solutions , including Blackbaud and Salesforce. This automation can prepare your organization and avoid exposure to unnecessary liability.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Get expert advice on a variety of topics to keep your organization moving forward, including interpersonal skills, fundraising strategies to start leaning into, avoiding burnout and what your organization can learn from Gen Z, in the new Rethinking Change webinar series from sgENGAGE. Register today.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Did any of those organizations begin fundraising in January 2020 because they knew more people would need their help in the next few months? It helps organizations avoid a fragile state, which can compromise program quality or quantity. Probably not. Not-for-profit” does not mean “no surpluses allowed.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

How to optimize the time, resources, and energy spent on fundraising? How to cultivate collective leadership to sustain the organization and avoid burnout? How do you tell your story with data? How to create a culture of testing and get funding for experiments? How to create a highly engaged board?

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An organization in London raised five times its original fundraising goal on a particular project. A fundraising professional from Texas crafted a monthly giving program from scratch. A Nepalese fundraiser started the very first conference for fundraisers in his country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday, I honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event. (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). ” Darian authored the best-selling Nonprofit Fundraising 101 , the first truly comprehensive yet practical guide to all aspects of fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

” Staying curious keeps you going and avoid burnout. Lynne Wester, fundraising consultant and author of the Donor Guru Blog , offers a post called “ Ants Marching and Managing Your Workload ” provides some great systems for managing projects and deadlines. Self-Care, Avoiding Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Jacobwith of the Fire Starters Blog offers up some terrific ways to avoid burnout that are free or low cost. As many of you may know, Aliza Sherman and are working on a book called “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Impact without Burnout.” 7 No Cost Self-Care Actions by Lori L. Stress Reduction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Most do not require a financial investment, but preliminary results on the 2014 fundraising season are strong and if your nonprofit did well in 2014, investing in staff development in 2015 is a wise decision. Launching a crowdfunding campaign is a simple way for nonprofits to add creativity and variety to their online fundraising campaigns.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You’ve probably read our excellent year-end tactical guidance on how to succeed at year-end fundraising , but if you haven’t, I recommend them. Avoid feeling like it’s too late and start from where you are right now Time has a way of slipping through our fingers. Therein lies your power. Whether it exists is up for debate.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The best way to learn about virtual fundraising events is to hear from those who’ve experienced them. Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. 13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways from Four Marketing Professionals.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When you work in fundraising, the last thing you may think you can do is take time off from work. Fundraising has a round-the-clock urgency, the feeling that you always need to be planning the next campaign, sending a report to a funder, or whipping up social media graphics. How Many Days Should a Fundraiser Take Off?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Simultaneously, I was struggling with burnout related to work-life imbalance and feeling overwhelmed by all the digital technology in my personal life and professional work.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And like I say very often on these sessions, I always look for folks with that firsthand fundraising knowledge. I look at the fundraising and the revenue aspects and Brian’s team of construction experts really brings value and creates a streamlined process for the actual project itself. We’ve been prudent fundraisers today.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We had outgrown our legacy CRM system and decided to implement a new system that allowed us to achieve our goals of supporting the university’s growing fundraising needs and empowering users from across all 11 colleges with a consistent, comprehensive user experience. How to Avoid Pushing Go Live.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 30, 2022

With more nonprofit professionals working in the office and big fundraisers in full swing, a healthy work environment is critical. Here are five simple tips you can do every day that won’t cost a dime to maintain healthy habits and avoid burnout. Micro-breaks throughout the day. Ensure future success by managing stress now.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Year-end fundraising is crucial for many nonprofit organizations, with an estimated 1/3 of annual giving occurring in December alone. Especially during year-end giving, donors can also become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of fundraising appeals they receive. Looking for fundraising templates to make your job even easier?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Crowdfunding and social fundraising campaigns. Fundraising via smartphone apps and mobile wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. And speaking of celebrities and fundraising , Frogloop, tells us how to leverage them to raise more dollars for nonprofits. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools."

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A content plan will help you produce your emails, social media posts, and fundraising videos in small, manageable steps instead of cramming everything into a hurried day or two that ends with pushing other important tasks down your to-do list. For fundraising, this message often ties back to donations and the reasons people should donate.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly and the way funders want to work with nonprofits is too. Mallory Erickson will help you start your 2022 off fundraising in the right way. She’s a former fundraiser herself. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly and the way funders want to work with nonprofits is too. Mallory Erickson will help you start your 2022 off fundraising in the right way. She’s a former fundraiser herself. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” Mallory: Do it.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Try to pull as much as you can from existing content across your other communications channels to avoid duplicative efforts. The post Annual Report burnout is real. . #2 Plan your stories ahead of time, and be judicious in how many you actually need to include. We’ve got the antidote. appeared first on Media Cause.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And that’s what you’re here to do today because it’s such a fast moving, wild space of the fundraising pie. And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

She’s a former ED, she’s a former fundraiser. We’re told that our volunteer boards should do the fundraising as though it’s this separate thing that’s not really connected to the rest of the nonprofit. You should fundraise really, it’s fantastic. . I see that a lot. They have to feed.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You want to get rid of all that burnout if we can. I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. Yes, Chris, the curse of competence, you’ve been stuck in that zone before, that is the HOV lane to burnout. Sorry for the early start or the late start, but we’re going to get going here.

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