Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this blog, we outline how you can use the same framework to improve new member acquisition at your association. Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility. One example of thought leadership is this blog!

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 11, 2024

Read our blog for seven tips to use your online member community to enhance your volunteer program! Create and manage different volunteer groups To encourage and facilitate conversation between your member volunteers, use your online community platform to create different groups. How would you rate your current volunteer experience?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 8, 2023

When you properly prepare for your next board meeting, you’ll keep the conversation focused on setting the right direction for your organization. Begin the conversation early. For example, are your employees currently feeling overworked and burdened by manual processes? How is our current member experience?

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

I am absolutely loving the conversations I’m having with my guests, some of whom are clients, while many are not. For example, Lindsay Currie of CUR has a Board that practices anticipatory planning and has an innovation fund. For example, CASE updated its strategic plan and created a new career journey framework during the pandemic.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When asked to write about this experience as the Organic Social Growth fellow, I held off as long as I possibly could. Aiming to learn more about what it offers and hear the real experience of a fellow. . Make sure to read Shirley’s experience ). What was my experience like during the program?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

Donor Experience . Pillar #2—No More Silos: Your Donor Experience Strategy in 2021 and Beyond. Improving the donor experience should no longer be seen as something modest in ambition. . If you want to keep your donors, you need to pay significant attention to the donor experience. It’s Key to Sustainability.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Let me give you an example. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? Knowing where your donors come from is the first piece to building an excellent donor experience, and growing your charity. Example: utm_source=facebook. Example: utm_medium=cpc, utm_medium=email. This is where UTM s come in.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Follow the strategies outlined in our blog to empower your organization for a successful AMS implementation. Stay focused on your association’s mission and goals to direct the conversation during your discovery phase. Doing so will ensure your organization gets the AMS it needs to empower staff and enhance the member experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

DonateStock has ignited a conversation in philanthropy with their innovative approach to stock gifting. For example, here’s how World Central Kitchen makes it easy for donors to make a stock gift: If your nonprofit does not have a stock gifting button, simply visit DonateStock and search for your nonprofit. About the Sponsor.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

They demand the online giving experience to be nearly instantaneous, easy, secure, personalized, mobile-friendly, and reflective of your brand and mission. Embracing Modernity: The Path to Frictionless Giving How can contemporary strategies and technological advancements redefine the donor experience for your organization?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 8, 2023

When you properly prepare for your next board meeting, you’ll keep the conversation focused on setting the right direction for your organization. Begin the conversation early. For example, are your employees currently feeling overworked and burdened by manual processes? How is our current member experience?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. Your next game-changing testimonial could be just a conversation away. This could include beneficiaries, donors, volunteers, or partners.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Shortened blurbs : The recent blog posts that appear on the home page have been shortened to no longer include the full post, but just an introduction. Clicking on 2010 Presentations , for example, now let’s you browse through individual posts for every presentation and speaking engagement from 2010 (so far).

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

As you incorporate these tips, work at fostering genuine supporter relationships, and strategize ways to improve the donor experience, you can generate more reliable revenue streams over time. For example, you can create groups based on supporters’ giving habits, such as donation recency, type, amount, frequency, and reason for donating.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

One form this input takes at Candid is User Experience Research (also known as UX research). To stay focused on our users’ needs, we’re creating a set of persona archetypes based on in-depth conversations with current and potential users. The post Centering the user perspective appeared first on Candid Blog.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

From gathering demographic data to understanding your grantees’ experiences, grantmaking organizations have been working through many multifaceted conundrums this year. She will discuss insights from our own research and discovery programs on the grantee experience, as well as conversations we’re listening to in the wider philanthropic space.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

I am absolutely loving the conversations I’m having with my guests, some of whom are clients, while many are not. For example, Lindsay Currie of CUR has a Board that practices anticipatory planning and has an innovation fund. For example, CASE updated its strategic plan and created a new career journey framework during the pandemic.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. If you want examples, ask for examples.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can ask your grantees for feedback through surveys, interviews, focus groups, or informal conversations. Are organizations of a certain size more likely to abandon an application or submit it late, for example. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, you might attract 150 new donors and retain 55% of your existing donors within a year. Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Conversely, amplify the strategies or messages that lead to the most conversions.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Personalized Experiences Create Lasting Impressions Treat each attendee as a unique guest, not just a ticket number. An example might be if they bid 76 times in the silent auction but didn’t win anything they have some discretionary funds you may be able to cultivate their support toward a particular program.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Grant writers are usually juggling multiple grant applications at the same time, so keeping those details in multiple places will save them time when having to verify how yours needs to be submitted, for example. The post 4 Ways Funders Can Help Grant Writers Submit a Great Application first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

She draws on years of experience as a UX designer and front-end developer to guide the creation of the perfect website for your organization from start to finish. It’s important to understand both the tasks that someone needs to do on a site—for example, donate, find resources—and the mindset they are in when visiting your site.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Embedding your social media feeds directly into your website allows site visitors to easily interact with your content as part of the web viewing experience, from video testimonials of your beneficiaries to pictures of your volunteers hard at work in the community.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences. Most consumers today expect an online experience that’s customized. Examples of basic personalization.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. And the more you’re able to understand member behavior, the better able you are to create an experience that meets their needs.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Tags: blogging blog redesign redesign round up strategy website.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 28, 2022

Salesforce recently shared its vision for the next generation of Marketing Cloud, one that would help service teams and marketers create more personalized experiences that drive lifelong customer relationships. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Key Takeaways from Salesforce Connections 2022. Our job is to deliver the how behind the wow.” .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Blog: www.wildlifepromise.org. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? Organization Size: 400 employees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. We also have an External Affairs Visita Volunteer who manages our blog space. You have to listen to what they are saying and not be afraid to jump into a conversation.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Matrix Group Creative Director Alex Pineda and Lead Front-End Developer Jaime Quiroz have suggestions for a few simple upgrades and updates you can make that will improve your user experience, give you more accurate data, and help you better serve your members. Pick one template that you use often, and update it.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

This results in potentially messy and inconvenient hybrid meeting experiences for hosts and participants alike. In this blog, we will revisit the basics of in-person meeting prep and provide suggestions for setting up successful hybrid meetings. The post How to run a successful hybrid meeting appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I’ve been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Blog: blog.nature.org. Secondly, we look at the traffic driven from these channels and if they trigger a conversion event on our site. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? Organization: The Nature Conservancy. Name: Amy Ganderson.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Intuitive user experience. A conversion-optimized donation page. By getting to know your supporters better, you can understand how they’re using your website and how you can improve their experience. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions.

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