Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

It may make sense to hire someone to give you that help, especially if that person has the skills you need and can work remotely. A virtual assistant is an independent contractor who provides services for clients while working from their home office. Be sure to ask for work samples if appropriate for the work you are requesting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

BoardSite’s features are designed specifically with nonprofits in mind. The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. Acknowledging these problems is the first step to improving your board’s operations and processes.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

We asked our Blackbaud Champions for their best tips on how to get a new start at work this spring. Read below for how to give your work a breath of fresh air this season. There’s no better opportunity to spring clean your work life than to take a break to tidy your space. Foster Mindfulness. Leave work at work!

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This looks different from school to school and only you know what works best for your environment. The goal was the same then as it is now: Use it to make something work better. Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan. Work with your development director to identify organizational goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! Throughout the year we'll be updating this calendar with even more conferences, updated ticket prices, and event hashtags. Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2018. to support our work. Name (A-Z).

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Media Cause

JULY 29, 2022

If you’re not an artist by profession, it’s easy to tell yourself that you don’t have room to be creative at work, but that’s not true. Here are four tips to help bring out those creative thoughts at work. If you have an open mind for trying new things, your creativity will expand and grow. Creativity has no bounds.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is one of those insightful people who discovers hidden opportunities and helps leaders outline a path and a process to seize the moment. The September 29 conference was a meeting of minds and a journey to discovery. Solutions Day exemplifies that idea.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

When the calendar turned to 2021, we all knew COVID-19 was not going to disappear. I came up with a process for matching volunteers with capacity-building roles that was very successful. The process boiled down to four easy steps: Step 1: Conduct an Assessment of Staff Needs. It’s not easy! Do not be afraid to try something new!

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Time to start the RFP process to make sure you find the best vendor for your organization. While creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, we've put together some tips to make the whole process go a little smoother. What expertise do we already have on our staff to handle this work?

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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. It’s much easier to be mindful and focused when you’re on a yoga mat than when you’re behind your desk with a daunting to-do list, overflowing inbox, and a day full of meetings. If not, what do I need to do instead?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The first step may be to change the way you work. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Understanding the upcoming changes Direct Donation Handling : Facebook is moving away from directly processing donations. This change means you’ll need to explore other avenues for processing donations. Processing Fees : Previously, Facebook covered the processing fees, meaning every penny of the donation went to the nonprofits.

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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. Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These tools help you see how your campaigns are doing in real-time, so you can optimize your marketing budget by spending your money on what’s working best. This could also help you justify implementing an email calendar across your association. Understanding this process is key. This is how you organize and describe your data.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

So, let’s get you working on a plan because that’s how you change things. Carve out some time free of distractions to draft a plan that will carry you through the year, one that will give you the confidence to make the Asks and work the strategies to raise money all year long. When you get to 1,000, start working on the next 1,000.

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DipJar

JANUARY 5, 2022

Choosing the date for your fundraising event is amongst the most important decisions that you will make during the event planning process. While some organizations thrive with their long-established holiday events (like a New Year’s Eve Ball) – in most cases – these holiday fundraising events do not work. Consider your Competition.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Your plan will: Keep you focused on what works and stop you from chasing every shiny new idea. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way. With a plan, you’ll: Be more productive because you’ll be working on tasks that move you toward your goals. Start the planning process by looking at what you have already done.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Though annual reports can come at any time, a key component of finishing the calendar year off strong is to ensure that you are reporting on what you’ve achieved and identifying where there is room to grow. Then you can begin looking at your data with a direction and purpose in mind. Goal setting matters a lot here.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your fundraising plan should include a detailed activities calendar showing all the various ways you plan to generate funds during the year. In short, they can see what worked and what didn’t, and use that to decide what to do in the coming year. Then you figured out that you needed funds to pay for the good work.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

We’ll help guide you along the process in this blog post. It’s also helpful to have in case you’re working with external writers, and in general, can help guide your company toward consistency. All of your content should be tied to your mission and work to move it forward. So, how do you create a content strategy?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Once you’ve strategized each of these steps, you’ll be able to create a volunteer management process that allows you to continually recruit, engage, and retain effective volunteers. Let’s take a closer look at each step of the process. Identify the organizations in your community (if any) that are already working to solve this issue.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When you work in MarTech, you have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across many departments and specialties and help the entire organization achieve its goals, as well as with many different clients to help their missions and campaigns prosper. Simply put, MarTech is marketing! New Tools Come Out Every Day; How Do You Keep Up?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

To ensure your campaign’s success and reach diverse audiences , tap into the reach and brand visibility of like-minded businesses through a corporate partnership. To kickstart your research process, you can ask your well-connected board members, staff, or volunteers for recommendations.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“When you’re working alone or as part of a small team, tasks big and small mount up fast. ” But, there’s a way out: “Small tweaks to your processes, simple automations, and some basic tools can help you shrink the number of small things taking up the biggest bites out of your day.” It happens.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. Before the start of November, give everyone involved with the fundraising process their “to-do” list. Delegate Tasks: Once you set your goal and plan, it’s time to delegate. Ah, but it’s not.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

There are many moving parts involved in the volunteer management process, and volunteer management software brings these activities under one roof. A successful volunteer management process ensures that volunteers are informed, engaged, and motivated, which in turn increases long-term volunteer retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. I’ve really enjoyed interviewing individuals about the self-care practices they can do for themselves to improve work life balance and their own well-being.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing content also needs to consistently tie back to your cause and the work you do. Increases volunteer engagement through public recognition of their work. Events and campaigns can help your supporters feel how important they are to work your organization can do.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But keep in mind that there is a right and wrong way to do marketing. . There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. TikTok has always been about video, but platforms like Instagram and Facebook are now also prioritizing this interactive content—because it works! .

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With employees working all over the country, or world, at different times of day and juggling competing priorities, effective project communication is not only helpful but necessary, creating cohesion and efficiency internally and with partner teams. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

GivingTuesday Donor Retention Makes Financial Sense… While you work on your plan to attract new donors on GivingTuesday, spend some time thinking about how you’ll retain them after the big day. With that in mind, let’s take a look at seven different steps you can take to retain your GivingTuesday donors. Here’s why.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

It serves as the digital face of your organization and is the main source of knowledge about the programs and issues you work on. This global ecosystem serves as the digital brand and voice of your organization, as well as the main source of knowledge about the programs and issues you work on, and the audience you are reaching.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

In 2021, Media Cause worked with 11 clients in partnership on their End of Year Efforts. In this blog post, we’ll compare performance, creative approach, strategies, tactics, and process. The calendar does much of the heavy lifting for you, and wallets are broadly open. The clients we worked with saw: S1.4M

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The Flexible start time so staff can bike to work, workout, etc.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s something to keep in mind when planning your communications strategy: 12% of giving happens in the last week of the calendar year. . This isn’t about your programs, services, or processes. People miss a lot of emails. Sending just one is a risky proposition. . Create a template for yourself that includes these elements:

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