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The Southwest Airlines Flight Fiasco: Lessons For Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

It started December 21st with a bitter winter storm: Winds, snow, and record cold temperatures swept across the United States and Canada. While you may never find yourself in a crisis of this magnitude at your nonprofit, you can learn from Southwest’s mistakes and use those lessons to prepare for a potential disaster.

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How Audience Research Is Keeping Up with a Changing World

Forum One

Contingency planning for natural disasters, pandemics, or other large-scale events is not entirely possible, but having a plan B or C helps to navigate uncertainty more quickly and confidently. Diverse research samples result in more inclusive outcomes. Who has previously been included in research samples in the past?

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Leveling up your major gifts program

Candid

As we emerge from the depths of the pandemic, we must remember that never in the history of the United States have we experienced an equitable recovery to a disaster or recession. Start by creating sample scripts for thank-you calls, emails, and cards and ask your team to thank your major donors. It has been quite a year.

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Giving USA 2021 Key Findings: How to Retain and Upgrade Nonprofit Donors Before Year’s End

Bloomerang

Fearing the sky was falling, they thought people would hunker down and fundraising would be a disaster. Total giving in the United States increased by 10.6%. Last year I had one of the most positive experiences ever after donating to a relief agency that was intervening in a disaster that had affected our out-of-state friends.

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Great reads from around the web on June 17th

Amy Sample Ward

" Amazon Patents Social Networking System, Winks at Facebook – "The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.&# Whether you want to watch the dynamic duo live on your computer or just chat with them on Twitter, the party will be a blast."

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It's Already September? (Or: Two Thirds of a Year's Worth of Fundraising Resources)

NTEN

A recap of fundraising resources of the first 2/3 of 2010 wouldn't be complete without some discussion of the incredible work that the Red Cross did using mobile and social media to raise funds and awareness about the disaster in Haiti. Amy Sample-Ward was kind enough to break it down for us back in February.

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Six Ways to Support Refugees on World Refugee Day

Saleforce Nonprofit

Donate company flight miles: This past year, Salesforce employee resource group, Latinoforce , partnered with Miles4Migrants to raise airline miles to help displaced people impacted by war, persecution, or disaster begin in a new home or reunite with their loved ones. Sign up to donate and learn more.

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