Elevation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This is a remarkable group effort, made possible through the combined support of all branches. Arguably, the strongest force in the entire house lies beneath all those helping above ground: your mission statement.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Make-A-Wish is all about personal stories and experiences, which makes compelling content that people really want to know about, as well as being powerful to convert supporters to donors. They use YouTube videos to show the world these interesting stories, driving support for their nonprofit. truth: #BigTobaccoBeLike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

MindTools Team Management Tools -Mindtools is a robust collection of resources to increase productivity, improve management and leadership skills, and support organizational development initiatives. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Support mentoring -- both informal and formal. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Be willing to change your decisions. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list. Don't delay tough decisions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The coach is not afraid to push you because she sees the best in you.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You can also access a huge and supportive user community through the online Trailblazer Community or through local Community Groups. If attending Dreamforce isn’t within your time and budget, you can still take part in other Salesforce community events, including the Salesforce regional World Tour or Basecamp events.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Supporting a family member running a marathon benefitting a local agency? These fundraising campaigns are fun and exciting ways to engage our supporters and their networks – enabling us to raise more funds and gain new donors. Dining out at a local restaurant on a charity night? Peer-to-peer fundraiser. Peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Creating a little DIY haunted house is a fun way to get support for your cause, and it’s easy to keep it under budget with a little spooky creativity. Everyone loves a good scare around Halloween. A few bloody chainsaws and creepy clowns can sometimes be a good thing.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A modern AMS system supports activities that increase non-dues revenue, including: An online store – Offer branded merchandise, event registrations, and other non-dues items. To keep your organization moving forward, revenue growth must remain strong. And you can’t just keep increasing the cost of dues.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The more supporters you have on your Company Page, the more connections you make and the broader you can reach. Commit to posting ideas to your newsfeed with helpful, engaging, and fun content that your network and prospects will love. If you have a productive talk/meeting with anyone interesting, connect with them on LinkedIn.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The importance of finding support from peers or coaches. The different perspectives of founders vs leaders who were passed the torch. The importance of continuous improvement. The key qualities leaders need to develop to be effective. How to help your staff develop. Listen Now: Resources: Marc Pitman.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The kind of support or assets organizations should plan to provide content creators to build relationships and aid them in fundraising. Topics Discussed in this Episode: What is Twitch? Who is a content creator? How to get started with partnering with a live streamer, or content creator. What makes for a good impact statement?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hildy Gottlieb, founder of Creating The Future , describes community engagement as “the process of building relationships with community members who will work side-by-side with you as an ongoing partner, in any and every way imaginable, building an army of support for your mission, with the end goal of making the community a better place to live.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the process of coming up with a nice design and captivating storytelling to capture potential supporters, you may be overlooking a few fundamental and truly effective steps to boost conversions on your online donation page. Supporters want to know that giving to your organization is making a difference. 1) Make Giving Simple.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Promote the good news with your supporters and stakeholders. Engage with the grantor before submitting the application – use social media, email, phone and ideally an in-person meeting. Read Grant Seeking 101: Thinking Like a Reviewer to make sure you nail Step 4. Step 5: Nailing grant management. Say “thank you”.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We also love the school tours, when we’re doing the annual reports and pitching program support to bankers. As a field, we have some mixed feelings on this, I think. We love when we teach with a capital T, like exhibitions and university classes. At the same time, we often pay educators less while expecting more.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A lot of online donation software will provide donation form solutions so that your supporters have a page to go to when they’re feeling generous. This way, each individual’s personal network will know that they are supporting a friend when they donate. Customizable Donation Pages. Event updates on the page. Post-campaign analytics.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Tell your board members, staff, and supporters about the grant. This recognition and appreciation help keep them motivated so they’ll work just as hard on getting the next grant, and they’ll be motivated to work hard on the tasks to see this grant to completion. Step 2: Shout It from the Rooftops.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Whether you are giving the gift of feedback to an employee, a manager, a teammate, a donor, a supporter, an advocate, a peer, a parent, a partner, or any other human, there is a process you can use to ensure your gift is better accepted. Simply giving feedback does guarantee behavior change. Preparing Feedback.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

You feel good about it, your friend appreciates your support, and the organization receives your contribution. And, there’s a little button right there on their Facebook post that will do it with just a few key clicks, complete with a personal message from you. Is it Easy Money? Like any successful fundraising, it takes work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Every powerful story consists of a challenge that the characters are facing and gradually guiding supporters towards the resolution of the problem. A story needs to provide enough context to the supporters to be relatable. It’s an opportunity to show your supporters and potential donors how their contribution can make a difference.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The presentation, hosted by Blackbaud and building on CFM’s TrendsWatch 2019 , touched on ways that museum workers can design their own self-care practices, how museums can support selfcare, and how museums can reform their organizational practices in ways that reduce the need for self-care. Readers can access a recording of the event here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

1) 90% of NGOs worldwide regularly use social media to engage their supporters and donors. Nonprofit Tech for Good will promote your blog post or article on Twitter and in our weekly email newsletter. Of those NGOs that use social media: 2) 44% have a written social media strategy.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

There’s only one version to support and maintain, so Salesforce can concentrate on delivering features versus maintaining older versions of the software. Does your AMS support the ideal product upgrade model? And, because the Salesforce platform is a true cloud-based system , all customers access the same version of the solution.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This is where most people will go to find out more about you and your cause, and is what your other digital marketing strategies are directing supporters to. Your site needs to work, look great, provide all the important information and stand out to potential supporters or those in need. Malala Fund. Comic Relief.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

“We need $50,000 to support a new initiative to provide breakfast to people in need.”. With the support of the National Breakfast Foundation, we could improve the memory, alertness, and concentration of 2,000 CCC students like Alyssa by providing a free, healthy breakfast each morning.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

NPQ ’s prior coverage has recognized the need for nonprofits to effectively screen donors and supporters so that they can avoid situations like these. Our internal review process continues, and what we learn from it will inform the path ahead.”.

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