Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Also, with Facebook fundraising you give up the opportunity to bring donors to your website, where they will have other ways to engage with your work, such as signing up for your newsletter, reading a compelling story, and browsing through volunteer opportunities. Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Again, not ideal.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

Last week, I had the good fortune to speak with some great organizations doing historic preservation work in the Western United States. By and large, these are small organizations that frequently rely on volunteers and working boards to fill all roles the organization needs to staff. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). April 7 is National Handmade Day, but even if that date doesn’t work for your calendar, wine and paint go together like PB and J. Paint Night or Craft-acular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. In the end, it looks like all those all unrelenting emails worked ! Why did they release $7 million match all at once? ” or too many emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

As part of this deep dive, I’ve been getting lots of inspiration from the start up and innovation movements here in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere), especially the work of Peter Sims – Little Bets. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

There were more faux forwards in my inbox this year and except for a few, most don’t work. The Humane Society of the United States gets the award for Best-Email-That-Looked-Like-The-CEO-Sent-It-From-An-iPhone message. Sadly, there were a lot more mobile unfriendly emails than those that work well on a mobile device.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice. Reality 2: Commitments for this work were likely more performative than constructive.

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