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! Or offer them a discount on membership?

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. We are delighted to report that we’ve raised nearly $2.8

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Associations Thrive came out of a marketing planning meeting I held with my team at the beginning of Summer 2022. 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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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. Consider how you plan on using the info you’re asking for and how to collect that info in a way that’s consistent so that the data will be usable.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Having a strategic social media communications plan in place is a must for nonprofits. At the heart of a strong social communications plan is relevant and compelling content. At the heart of a strong social communications plan is relevant and compelling content. Showcase Your Impact What does your nonprofit do and how?

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Event management: Plan, communicate and take registrations for your events. Let’s break things down into the two parts of putting on an event — planning it and running it. Room and floor plan organization: An event management system can help you organize room assignments, layouts and technical needs in one place.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Confirm your main challenges We’re exploring the most common challenges that organizations face when it comes to wrapping up the last quarter of the year and planning for the next one. Time As this year’s strategic plans head towards the finish line, you’ve got a ton to do. Start to plan (ahead!)

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

We also have a 20 minute deep-dive webinar on the topic you can register for here. If you read this blog, you’ve probably come across articles about artificial intelligence and predictive analytics for associations. Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics have a lot to offer associations. .

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Breakout Sessions for Higher Ed Professionals Our breakout sessions for education professionals include topics like scholarship management, fundraising, tuition, data security, and artificial intelligence. The post Why Higher Ed Professionals Should Attend bbcon 2023 first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Step 1: Set objectives and goals Start by outlining your campaign’s strategic purpose and objectives. Types of advertisements, topics, and content they respond to. Step 4: Equip your team for success With your plan in hand, start nailing down the details of how you will execute it. Explain the next steps.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

As you quickly grow and engage your audience , it can be easy to lose track of your campaign plan. That’s why planning is the most important stage in your advocacy campaign. Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data. It’s what determines your chances of success or failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

If using these new technologies effectively, nonprofit professionals can speed up their ability to build relationships with supporters, analyze donor data , and create sustainable fundraising plans. Of course, AI can still be useful in creating written content when used strategically. Generate topic ideas.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Check out our specially curated reading list of 16 free nonprofit books perfect for any summertime occasion: If you’re short on time… Is your calendar booked solid with fun plans between Memorial Day and Labor Day? Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In by Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. Just like anything else, you need a plan for fundraising online. But whether people will donate or not is another topic altogether.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2014

I was invited by Nancy Schwartz to participate in this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival: The Word Behind the Work. Stay tuned to Nancy’s blog for a round-up of all nonprofit blog contributors on this month’s important topic. Putting off strategic planning or long-term goals.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 5, 2022

Smart fundraisers are getting better at planning for uncertainty. A good fundraising plan should start with an analysis of development activities, either a formal audit or an informal survey of the current state of your program. Do you have strategies in your fundraising plan to intentionally ask them for their financial support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I attended the launch of the book, Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector by William F. As the authors describe, the practice of strategic leadership is not just doing good work but also doing the work in a highly intentional and effective ways. Source: Engine of Impact.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. The post A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022 appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

This guidance comes from almost a year and a half of hosting DEI experts and equitable fundraising practitioners on the Bloomerang blog and webinar series. If you’re new to the topic and how it affects the social good sector or simply have your interest sparked, we highly recommend doing some additional research about DEI for nonprofits.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s never too early to start planning for your nonprofit’s GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising efforts. In this six-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall. This week’s sixth and final topic: mobile messaging.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There are plenty of books, articles, and research papers (see, e.g., here , here , and here for just a few) on the topic of how people learn, but the reality is there’s a continuum. That’s why I always tell my clients to put their plans, policies, and procedures in writing. in regular conversation; in an email; in a blog post).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Idea Accelerator was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the finale event. Read more about the Idea Accelerator and pitched projects on NTEN''s blog. Who could use this?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2011

Topic : Community-Driven Social Impact. Session Takeaways: 1)Trends and best practices for community building 2)Tactics and strategies for community-driven work 3)Workshop your own strategic plan for community-driven programming, events or content. Blog post with slides and notes. Date : March 18, 2011. Session page.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. Think about how you build relationships with your personal network; build a written plan to do the same with your donors. And only 43% of all donors remain loyal?

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

This post pulls together insights and recommendations that we have made since last year’s appeal and organizes them into a helpful list, with references to past blog posts and other sources. Then plan for a thorough cleaning. We co-hosted a webinar event with 2 Dialog on the topic of strategic alignment and donor segmentation.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that when it comes to your blog or social media pages, strict adherence to this practice may be optional. This approach not only maintains a clean and user-friendly design for your blog and social media, but it also helps increase traffic to your website. .”

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

” In other words, your organization is using the data it captures – or better put, is over-using the data it captures – rather then strategically using the data it needs. In fact, it was this negative experience that got me thinking about today’s blog post topic. An example close to home. And no more.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

You must set aside planning for your brand’s marketing campaign and the event strategy while putting in place processes before, during, and after the event. . Therefore, be sure to plan these aspects long before taking your first steps toward your event implementation. This is because ROI doesn’t come about magically.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

I originally posted on the NetSquared blog. How should managers and staff plan for an executive transition at their nonprofit? The plan is to move these videos off the blog and into a web-based video reference tool that nonprofit managers and staff could access as needed. How would you define capacity building?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view. David La Piana has been a long-time consultant to scores of nonprofits as well as with the OE program, helping nonprofits develop strategic plans.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Create context for sign-ups – include options for people to stay informed about a topic from a blog post or an action alert by including a sign up form and a source tag (on the back end) for that topic.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

Many others, including me , have weighed in on the topic. For the fundraiser, this means building a donor love and loyalty plan that connects supporters (1) with multiple people representing your organization and (2) via multiple channels so no one is overlooked or diminished based on their communication preferences. Be a Change Agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

ProjectU are: To provide any college or university educator with everything they need to teach a strategic philanthropy course. To provide any giver—donating any amount of time, money, experience, skills or networks—with free access to research, learning and experience I’ve developed over the last two decades as a strategic philanthropist.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Use Buffer, IFTTT or native functionality on your podcast host (Libsyn/Podbean have this) similar app to plan our your social posts. Find the Facebook Group talking about your topic with your audience and join it. Guest podcasting is the new guest blogging” Seth Godin. Embed podcast episodes strategically. Be our guest !

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

You don’t need to spend hours searching the library for the best books to learn about specific topics anymore. Consider the skills you want to develop before searching for a new book because there are a seemingly infinite number of books available covering any number of topics. Journals and blogs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Michelle Gladieux Michelle Gladieux is President of Gladieux Consulting, a Midwest-based team known for the design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia.

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