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101 Ways To Get New Members For Your Organization

Wild Apricot

Want to grow your membership? Here are 101 ways your organization can attract and recruit more members both in the short and long term.

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Nonprofits Are Adding Bots to their Social Media Teams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model.

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6 signs your association management software may be a dinosaur

Nimble AMS

Six signs your association management software may be outdated. . Is your association failing to keep up with technology? Here are the top warning signs you may be falling behind. . Just as your association grows and evolves, technology changes too. Failing to keep up with technology advances may cause your organization to fall behind in its ability to work efficiently and deliver the great experiences your members expect.

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How nonprofits can benefit from strategic planning

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by Nicole Salusky Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Strategic planning is essential if nonprofits are to achieve desired results and identify goals. Programs within a nonprofit can then use these goals to create individualized action plans that help serve the needs of the program while focusing on the global mission and vision of the organization.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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25 Solid Membership Website Examples & How to Create Your Own

Wild Apricot

Here are 25 great membership website examples from all sorts of different organizations. See how they've set up membership benefits, events, and more. Plus, learn how to easily create your own membership website in 3 easy steps!

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Nonprofit Website Redesign with Vaccinate Your Family and Elevation

Elevation

Vaccinate Your Family came to Elevation back in 2018 in need of a team to create and design their new website. Their organization works to spread truth and awareness on the importance of vaccinations throughout the United States. When they first came to us, VYF had three separate websites housing all different resources. Their goal? To combine all three sites into one cohesive website.

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9 Things about Learning Management Systems your Boss Wants to Know?

Gyrus

Investing in a new concept means investing huge bucks, which is certainly not preferred by any employer. However, being the head.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you have a manager who isn't the best communicator, you can suggest he/she read Jane Murphy's and Khatun Huber's book, What Could Happen If You Do Nothing? Actually, it's more of a handbook than a book, and it is best read by finding the section most applicable at the moment versus reading it start to finish. It's filled with mini-dialogues that demonstrate the impact of engaged listening, deliberative questioning, and animating suggestions to facilitate change and action.

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How to Include Matching Gifts in Your Fundraising Plan

Connection Cafe

As a nonprofit organization, the work you do is dependent on the generosity of your supporters. It is important to do everything in your power to engage supporters and maximize the impact of each and every donor. A clear and well-planned fundraising strategy is key to successfully raising the funds you need and retaining more support year over year.

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New E-Book: #AI4Good – Nonprofit Trends and Use Salesforce.Org Cases

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Salesforce.Org recently published an e-book, AI for Good: Nonprofit Trends & Use Cases. It is a good primer for nonprofits (non-techies) who want to understand what the heck AI is and how it might be useful to their nonprofit. Just a few insights: AI is already part of your life, although it might be invisible to the end user. AI makes your daily experience smarter, by embedding predictive analysis into everyday apps.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Xperience 2019: Discover Exciting Keynotes

Nimble AMS

Keynote sessions you won’t want to miss at Xperience 19. Xperience is the preeminent live technology show for associations, nonprofits, and schools. Created by Community Brands, the immersive digital experience is packed with inspirational keynotes, new product launches, a bustling expo hall, and valuable networking. It’s the place to be seen in 2019!

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How To Make Sure New Leaders Succeed

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“ It has been estimated that 40% of executives fail within the first 18 months on the job, regardless of whether they were hired from outside the company or promoted from within ,” explain Dan Ciampa and David L. Dotlich , authors of the book, Transitions At The Top. Leadership transition is more complex than many realize, affecting the company’s strategy, operating efficiency, and culture. “ The key people involved with C-suite transitions have the power to ensure that the transition is success

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 109: The Finance Team’s Role in a Connected Office

Connection Cafe

An organization’s finance team is often one of the biggest overlooked strategic assets. However, in a connected office the finance team is a crucial part of driving success for an organization’s mission. Joining the podcast today to explore this topic is Russell Pomeranz, President and CEO of Claverack Advisory Group. Listen in to hear Russell and host Steve MacLaughlin talk about the crucial role of finance in mission success, how and why the finance team should build relationships with other d

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The Best Way to Thank Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Fundraisers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Harry Gardner , Content and Partnerships Manager at GivePanel. Any fundraiser worth their salt knows they should be thanking people who donate or fundraise for their cause. However, there seems to be confusion around the best way to thank Facebook fundraisers, with many nonprofits not thanking them at all. The reasons for this vary, but usually, it is a mixture of a lack of time and resources as well as a lack of knowledge on how to find who has created a Facebook Fundraiser for your nonprofi

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Why Instagram Is A Great Platform For Nonprofits (And 7 Accounts That Are Crushing It)

Achieve

For many nonprofits, social media is a crucial part of their marketing mix. However, not all platforms are created equal. Take Instagram for example – a channel with over 400 million active daily users who spend an average of 53 minutes per day consuming content on the platform! . As most fundraisers know, the key to getting people to care about a cause is through storytelling that conveys not only the issues, but demonstrates the real-world impact an organization is making to solve problems.

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Tips For Leaders When Listening, Learning And Persuading

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Make good use of this advice from John Baldoni’s book, The Leader’s Guide To Speaking With Presence : When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as “Tell me about…” or “Could you explain this?” Consider the “what if” question: “What if we looked at the situation like this?

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Grant Seeking 101: Getting Started

Connection Cafe

In graduate school, they called me the queen of grants due to my ability to track down grants and help other people with their applications. In six years, I received over $160,000 in federal, state, and university grants to support my research, present and network at conferences, and conduct field work—all on a relatively niche topic (contemporary French literature, film, and graphic novels).

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Rowboats and Magic Feathers: Reflections on 13 Years of Museum 2.0

Museum 2.0

Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. Image via State Library of Queensland (an institution I love). Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 posts here, and you can follow me going forward at www.ofbyforall.org and www.ninaksimon.com.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Tips For Setting Goals For Team Members You Manage

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some great tips for how to set goals from the book, OnePage Talent Management , by Marc Effron and Miriam Ort: The Harder the Goal, the More It Motivates – There is a linear relationship between a goal’s difficulty and the amount of effort and performance the goal produces. Goals Aligned with Self-Interest Motivate the Most – Self-interest is a powerful motivational tool.

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The Leadership Playbook Of Bill Campbell

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. Authored by Eric Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg , and Alan Eagle , they share that from Steve Jobs and Dick Costolo to Larry Page and Sundar Pichai, these big names in Silicon Valley give credit to Campbell for much of their success.

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New Book: Unlocking The Customer Value Chain

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Earlier this year brought the release of the book, Unlocking TheCustomer Value Chain , by Thales S. Teixeira , the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He shows in his book how and why consumer industries are disrupted and what established companies can do about it—while highlighting the specific strategies potential startups use to gain a competitive edge.

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Today's Leadership Thought

Eric Jacobsen Blog

" Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered." -- Gerald Weinberg.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Two Crucial Themes from the GDPR Featuring in US-Privacy Legislation

Connection Cafe

2018 was a seminal year for privacy. India drafted its first data privacy bill. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, spawning nearly a dozen investigations by international and US regulators over Facebook’s data practices. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. Marriott suffered a data breach affecting up to 500 million customers—one of the largest breaches in history.