Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2024

A gift of life insurance is when a donor names an organization as the beneficiary of an insurance policy or transfers ownership of the policy to the charity. Here’s a 6 step strategy to asking for legacy gifts! Include information about legacy giving in newsletters, on your website, and in direct mail or email campaigns.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Then I’ll break down how you can apply 6 additional nonprofit fundraising strategies to grow your revenues TODAY. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) used this strategy during Giving Tuesday to maximize their year-end online fundraising. 7 Online Fundraising Ideas (That Actually Work): 1. Custom Facebook Audiences.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

However, with the right tools and strategies for tracking in-kind donations for nonprofits, your organization can benefit from them while avoiding potential pitfalls. That’s why all nonprofits should have a clear, established policy in place for accepting in-kind donations. What Are In-Kind Donations (and Should You Take Them)?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This week, let’s walk through seven steps to developing a policy to manage the use and replenishment of reserve funds. Once an appropriate target amount has been determined for operating reserves, the board needs to draft a policy that establishes the fund and sets forth guidelines for using it. Designate board contributions.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

There is still plenty of time left in the year -including important events like Giving Tuesday and end-of-year campaigns – to reset and get back on track. This can include external factors out of your control such as changes in policy, economic downturns, or shifts in donor priorities. Have you encountered new obstacles?

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Establish initial governing documents and policies. . You’ll need to create Bylaws and Conflict of Interest documents and policies because both are needed for your IRS application. . Develop a comprehensive communication strategy to include use of social media and online communications. . Understand revenue. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012?

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

While the benefits of a phonathon campaign are fairly straightforward, running a successful campaign is no easy task. To plan a successful phonathon campaign, be sure to: Focus on the larger mission. By adding matching gifts to your phonathon strategy, your campaign will see even greater success. Let’s dive in.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

If you’re like most nonprofits, you probably started planning your year-end giving strategy months ago. So, we’re going to cover the top tips your team can use to be successful when incorporating Facebook fundraising into your year-end giving strategy: . but this simple strategy can help you overcome it. Being inconsistent is.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

We’ll walk through some of the most important database management strategies, starting with why you should start using data management software. Additionally, establish clear policies and procedures for staff to follow when entering data. Use data management software.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

Text fundraising is a popular method of charitable giving facilitated by messages on a mobile device. This is because text fundraising empowers your nonprofit to accept an unlimited number of donations and create as many campaign keywords as you need. Text-to-give is a carrier-based mobile fundraising method.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

Your job is to figure out how to navigate policies for its responsible use, both for internal and for external communications. Nonprofit storytelling is the foundation of every successful marketing and fundraising campaign. 70% of people agree that direct mail feels more personal than digital methods. And that’s saying a lot.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible. You've developed e-advocacy tools to rush public policy action alerts to supporters who can advocate for fair and ethical local, national and global policies.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. The GAHC had been using Excel to manage campaigns but didn’t have a way to view each donor’s giving history and other crucial donor information.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. This plays a crucial role in setting the direction and strategy of an organization, and can help to ensure that the organization is serving the needs of the community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

AI was founded in 1961 on the inspiration of British lawyer Peter Benenson, whose article “The Forgotten Prisoners” launched the first Prisoners of Conscience campaign, which ignited overwhelming global support and marked the birth of AI.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s critical to stay on top of Google Ad Grant policy updates for the Google Nonprofit program in order to keep your grant. This change is accompanied by an update to Google’s Ad Grant policy. Ad groups with at least 1 active responsive search ad will be exempt from the “2 ads per ad group” policy. Clean Up Your Account.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Stronger Advocacy: There’s strength in numbers, and a strong membership base provides organizations with more voices to amplify their cause, advocate for policy changes, influence the community, and raise awareness for their mission. Every membership program needs a strategy to encourage membership renewals.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

A donor can name your nonprofit as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy. The primary benefit of this giving method is to reduce estate taxes while still ensuring that wealth can be passed to a donor’s heirs. Prior to that, he ran email marketing for President Obama and served as Campaign Director for MoveOn.org.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

How have you considered your donors’ changed perspectives in your fundraising and marketing strategies? What new strategies did you add? What strategies did you subtract? None of these strategies is necessarily good or bad per se. What communications methods will you use to reach them? And how did this work out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Others are working with graphic designers to commission infographics as part of campaigns. For example, last year, when the Humane Society reached 1 million fans on Facebook, they created an infographic as part of the marketing campaign. has just opened a site to match infographic designers with those who want to hire them.

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Qgiv

JUNE 25, 2021

That means texting is one of the most effective communication methods out there. Read on for tips and strategies you can use to engage and inspire your supporters with text messages! The first step to successfully marketing your text giving campaign is creating a good keyword. If you want your audiences to read (and act upon!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

7: Transparency and Replicability are Paramount to Sound Measurement: Measurement methods need to be shared as well as how specific metrics are calculated. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tokenism: According to Merriam-Webster, tokenism is “The policy or practice of making only a symbolic effort.” This is just one example of how storytelling impacts engagement and why it’s so crucial to build storytelling into your nonprofit’s strategy. For example, let’s say you’re planning a storytelling campaign.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

If your team are the type that want to know the exact number of campaign conversions that ranged a random timeframe from years ago, you may want to consider one of the more advanced options. The team at Whole Whale also has a method to handle exporting your historical Universal Analytics data using BigQuery.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

In a previous blog post written by Kestryl Lowrey (Managing Director, Technology Services) and Stephen Earheart (Director, Campaign Services ), Cloud for Good explored the role of data warehouses in nonprofit technology strategies. The best strategy, in this case, would be to house that data externally through a data warehouse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

In addition, to needing to get your Google Grant Application approved, you will also need to build out your Google Ad accounts with the appropriate campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, etc. You will also want to use multiple campaigns and in each you will want multiple ad groups each of which would have at least 3 ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

They do not view social media as fundraising strategy. They have a social media policy and handbook that provides the rule book for volunteers, staff, and affiliates to participate on social media channels effectively. Forensic Listening: Chris Abraham shared this method and is primarily for those who haven’t yet started.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2011

Netroots Nation , one of the leading conferences for activists to gather and participate in 70 panels and 30 training training sessions, caucuses and strategy sessions wrapped up on Sunday and had some terrific take-aways. Check out some of the highlights from some of Care2's Frogloop favorite campaigners. Tracey Conaty , AFSCME.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I got a text from my friend Kendra Hicks’ campaign manager. And so I get this text from her campaign manager with a PDF that says, ‘this is the mailer that her opponent sent out that hit doorsteps today. And has her campaign put it, it even makes her look menacing. And we know that’s a tactic people use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies. 1.) What is the objective your social media strategy? Our social media strategy is an integral part of our overall marketing and public relations strategy. Yes, we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

For some, the first action step is to develop a basic communications strategy or program plan. These organizations may need assistance developing a social media strategy to support short and long-term SMART objectives and to carefully identify the audience.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Whether supporters are donating through text or accessing your online donation page on their smartphones, it’s imperative that your organization has the tools, resources, and best practices to conduct a successful mobile fundraising campaign. Pick a word that is relevant to your mission or specific campaign. Have an opt-in policy.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Knowing how your fundraising campaigns have performed in the past is the first step to pushing yourself and seeing where your nonprofit has the potential to grow. Allow Alternative Payment Methods. Know Your Post-Event Communication Strategy Before Your Event Starts. And those possibilities are endless!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. As soon as I heard about it, I tracked down Wendy Harman who is responsible for social media strategies at the American Red Cross to learn more about how she did it. Can you tell me the basics about the Red Cross $100 million fundraising campaign for disaster relief?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

"It's the strategy, stupid." " Brian Reich of Mindshare Interactive Campaigns gave an excellent presentation on Internet/Online Strategies. Develop your strategy ??? The campaign was about 1 month. Going into it without a strategy ??? Download brian.wmv. " Here???s Constant contact???

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