Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Would love to hear if you have examples or tips to share! Principles of Community Organizing. Focus on Shared Goals and Shared Ownership. Here are the slides!

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

As every seasoned fundraiser will tell you, it comes down to building and sustaining a strong network of nonprofit funders. But there’s a catch: Relationship-building takes time. In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships.

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Qgiv

MARCH 4, 2024

Our latest eBook, the Digital Fundraising Guide: Ideas & Steps to Reach Your Goals , is a complete guide to help you choose the right digital fundraising solution that works for your specific nonprofit’s needs. Building a simple, secure, and well-designed donation form is key to your online fundraising success.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a critical element of your brand, your mission statement needs to represent your organization’s ethos but also be informative, succinct, and moving to your supporter base. A nonprofit mission statement is the messaging an organization shares, displays, and uses as a guiding principle. Here’s an example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. As a small nonprofit organizer, you want to do more good work. It may even be how your nonprofit has been building its contact list already.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Today we will talk about how to help your audience visualize the impact their donation can have within your organization and then how to communicate the results when a campaign has ended. Studies show the more you can break down your goals and results for your donors, the more success you will have in raising money. . For example: .

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. Here are six best practices your nonprofit organization should adopt to increase collaboration and enhance its relationship with your audit firm.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Every donor has a story to tell about their connection to __ (name the organization, institution, or mission). Example fundraising ask script for your nonprofit’s staff members. Ask: “[Their name], the reason I’m calling today is to ask for your help [accomplishing your campaign’s goal]. “We want to get your take on something.”.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 16, 2021

You must align your hybrid event schedule, features, and planning process with your marketing goals to maximize your hybrid event’s profitability. Let’s consider the following ways that you can incorporate your marketing goals during each planning stage so you can boost brand revenue and hit your marketing goals. So what’s next?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

One often-overlooked opportunity, however, is workplace giving⁠—a form of corporate philanthropy where companies give to and encourage their employees to support organizations like yours. Establish actionable goals and craft a plan to achieve them. These include the following practices: Understand typical workplace giving programs.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unlike traditional, linear modes of learning, emergent learning organizations like PEAK are dedicated to continually learning, sharing, and evolving , which is one of their guiding Principles. It takes intentional effort to recognize when that way no longer serves you, your organization, or your constituents. What are they focused on?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It takes time to build trust, and it can take time to find the right tool to build trust at scale. There is a huge opportunity in using the organization’s mission to support a TaaS model to generate revenue while also pursuing the nonprofit’s goals. LEED: How LEED Certification Became the Brand for Sustainable Buildings.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the most important steps in building a productive blogging strategy is creating content that engages and appeals to your audience. For example, you can answer these questions: What communication platforms do these individuals use? For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

4 Tips to Increase Patient Acquisition and Hit Growth Goals Patient acquisition is vital to your organization’s growth. To draw patients out of the market and establish enduring relationships with them, you’ll need a full-proof marketing strategy that sets your organization apart. Keep a Pulse on Reviews Reviews matter.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When you’re fundraising online , your nonprofit donation page is often one of the first interactions people have with your organization, so it’s important to create an effective donation experience. Here are some best practices to keep in mind when building an effective nonprofit donation page.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Why LGBTQ+ advocacy is always-on from here on It’s more important than ever for LGBTQ+ organizations to effectively advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ people. Key types of advocacy Issue awareness Before organizations can create advocates for their cause, they need to make people aware of the issues they’re trying to solve.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

And, when you properly steward and build relationships with these new donors, they can turn into lifelong supporters of your mission. Ask them to spread the word about your organization amongst their family members and friends. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Many organizations look to the end-of-year fundraising season as an opportunity to meet their annual goals. At Salesforce, we see the building blocks of trust as honesty, consideration, reliability, and follow through. For example, knowing if your donor is also a survivor might change your message to them. Consideration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

A major motivator for generous giving to nonprofit organizations is contributing to a solution and changing something for the better. A thank you note shows supporters that the organization acknowledges and is grateful for their contribution, and that they aren’t just a number. 2) Give social media shoutouts. 5) Give numbers.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 16, 2021

You must align your hybrid event schedule, features, and planning process with your marketing goals to maximize your hybrid event’s profitability. Let’s consider the following ways that you can incorporate your marketing goals during each planning stage so you can boost brand revenue and hit your marketing goals. So what’s next?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Is your organization feeling the changes in our economy, society, and communities? In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to pivot to survive. Why data should drive your decisions Many key industries, including retailers, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations, use data to inform decisions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ve been put in charge of leading the revamp of your organization’s website. A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome. Who will help with hands-on work?

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether you’re running a marathon to raise money for mental health or you are a nonprofit considering hosting a peer-to-peer birthday fundraiser , building an effective personal fundraising page is the first step towards creating positive change in the world. Start your appeal by explaining what the organization does.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Advertising can be an effective way to help grow your nonprofit’ s digital footprint, complement your current organic marketing efforts, and be an essential, part of your integrated marketing strategy. Clearly Define Your Goals + KPIs What are you hoping to achieve with your paid advertising campaigns?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

As a major source of your recruitment income, sourcing and securing new members for your organization is a top priority. Marketing campaigns dedicated to membership recruitment can help you build brand recognition, reach the right audience, and grow your networking opportunities — increasing your membership’s value in the process.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

We’ve got your back and by “got your back” I mean we’ve put together this complete guide to building the plan for your capital campaign. Planning Your Goals. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. Choosing a project is more than simply saying “we want to purchase a new building.”

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Forum One

JULY 18, 2023

With smaller budgets, competing demands, and fewer IT specialists in-house, many mission-driven organizations struggle to optimize cloud services. What goals do you have for data and operations that you haven’t yet achieved? If you’re confused about how to approach the problem, you’re not alone.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Of course, we’ve spent the year sharing tips and tricks to get your virtual fundraising to the next level all year long, but let’s be real: few things are as helpful as seeing real examples of real nonprofits doing it right. So here it is: our favorite 7 crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. Let’s take a look.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Instead of asking for an increasing lump sum each year, your organization can ask for a smaller monthly donation that adds up to a larger annual total. This introduces operational challenges (particularly for smaller organizations). 3) Improved Cash Flow. 4) Better Long-Term Planning. 5) Cost-Effective.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

from our friends at ParsonsTKO Selecting technology for a nonprofit or social good organization can take significant time and effort. While the C-level and managers will probably lead your organization’s tech selection, you can think of the board as the ultimate executive sponsor. Let’s dive in. Focus on improving your operations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

By Lyn Chamberlin , President at Lyn Chamberlin Leadership – an award-winning nonprofit brand strategist who works with organizations and successful women to create transformative brand narratives. Your organization’s brand story holds immense power, especially for nonprofits striving to engage donors, volunteers, and partners.

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Kindful

MARCH 8, 2021

Here are the automated email examples we’ll cover: Welcome email. Now that you’re committed to optimizing your email marketing strategy with automation, let’s discuss how we do that and look at some examples of recurring emails that benefit from automation. New subscriber. Volunteer thank you. Fundraiser thank you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

Here’s why: It boosts the donations of almost any fundraising campaign, helping you to reach your goals. According to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , “The median amount raised by events in which attendees raise money on behalf of an organization through peer-to-peer fundraising pages, typically is 4.5 Sounds good, right?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This is a time when many organizations are raising as much as 30% to even 50% of their total budget. . Here are example phone scripts a staff member can use to ask for a gift: . I’m calling to thank you for [ an example of how their donation helped your nonprofit carry out its mission ]. Need more than example phone scripts?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Volunteers can have an enormous impact on reaching your goals. The team at Giveffect , comprised of former nonprofit professionals and technologists with experience working closely with nonprofits to build the best all-in-one nonprofit software solution, compiled the top three tips to increase volunteer engagement.

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