Sat.Mar 03, 2018 - Fri.Mar 09, 2018

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The Top 5 Social Media Fails You’re Still Committing (and how to #win instead!)

Wild Apricot

Stop committing these social media fails and learn how to boost your followers and engagement from the pros.

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5 Best Practices for Collecting Supporter Data

NonProfit Hub

When someone submits their email address on the ONE Campaign website , they receive a welcome email with a friendly message and a simple question: ”Do you think we’ll see the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime?” You’re also presented with three run-of-the-mill options. Clicking on any of the three takes you to a different form where you’re asked to take a 2-minute survey so the organization can understand your interests and motivations.

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Servant Leadership In Action

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Tomorrow, March 6, brings the release of the new definitive book on servant leadership. A curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Edited by Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell , Servant Leadership in Action , includes the personal stories from some of the most well-respected authorities on leadership: Patrick Lencioni John C.

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Upcoming: 7/31 @ 11:30 CTeLearning Myth Busters

Forj

Date: 7/31 at 11:30 CT. Register Here. Our profession requires us to be practicing in alignment with what science tells us about learning and more. What we don’t need is to be continually in the sway of myths, superstitions, and misconceptions about how our brains think, work, and learn. Yet, the evidence is strong that these problematic beliefs persist!

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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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Over 100 Museums and Historical Societies Use This #1 Museum Membership Software

Wild Apricot

Museum Membership Software can take all the administrative and membership tasks at a museum and automate them completely while you focus on what’s important — your members and your collection.

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Five Powerful Tips to Create a Nonprofit Marketing Plan

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Chris Giarratana Digital Media Strategy Consultant. Many nonprofits are amazing at building a compelling message and having an impact on their community. However, many nonprofit organizations are not familiar with how marketing works, so their ability to reach their community is often undermined and their potential is not fully realized. Nonprofit marketing is more than just making a sale or securing a donation.

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How to Maintain Relationships With Outsourced Staff

NonProfit Hub

Sponsored by Jitasa. Surely you’ve heard the overly cheesy “if you love something, let it go” parable. This may be sound advice when going through relationship troubles, but it should by no means apply to your decision making with outsourced staff. In fact, the opposite is usually true: if you love the work an outsourced staff member is doing, don’t let them go.

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Older Browsers Won't Support Online Payments After March 12, 2018

Wild Apricot

If your members and customers are still using older versions of web browsers, soon they won’t be able to process transactions online — including payments made through your Wild Apricot website. Here’s why.

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Microlearning: Fad or Fantastic?

Forj

Let’s face it, most all of us turn to Google to verify facts and learn something new. Recently, I watched a video on how to convert my garage florescence tube fixtures for LED blubs. Our ability to find what we need to learn on the Internet is ubiquitous; so much so that 70% of employees will turn to Google before their company learning files*. This format of learning has spawned the microlearning movement.

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Peer Coaching Works

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching to succeed? Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team. Peer coaching can be formal, informal or a combination of both. You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member.

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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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How to Use Nonprofit Apps to Keep Beneficiaries Happy

NonProfit Hub

Sponsored by Zoho Creator. Nonprofits thrive on people. Whether they’re volunteers or employees, people are your biggest allies and most sincere well-wishers. In addition to expending time and energy to your cause, some of them go even further by making financial donations. That’s why it’s important to keep everyone involved in your nonprofit happy—because their motivation uplifts you as well.

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Steal These 3 Growth Strategies From Top Fundraisers

Wild Apricot

Nonprofit experts Elizabeth Engel and Sohini Baliga reveal three strategies membership organizations can steal from fundraisers in order to create compelling campaigns that bring in money, build relationships, and attract diverse audiences.

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Cloud Optimization Starts with the People on the Ground!

Connection Cafe

It’s hard to read a magazine or website without hearing the advantages of moving to the Cloud. And with good reason! The Cloud is certainly where technology is heading and a great way to optimize your solutions. With that said, the Cloud is most effective if you have good old-fashioned engagement and connection on the ground first. As the wise philosopher Casey Kasem told us, “ Keep your feet on the ground but keep reaching for the stars.”.

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This is What the Participatory Museum Sounds Like

Museum 2.0

It's late in the afternoon. I'm cranking away on a grant proposal, when suddenly, a classical rendition of "All the Single Ladies" wafts up the stairs. In the office, colleagues lift their heads. "Is that.?" someone asks. "Yup," another nods. We grin. This is the magic a piano in the lobby makes. We've now had a piano in the MAH lobby for several months.

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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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Win at Multi-Channel Marketing with a Messaging Framework

Connection Cafe

How will you ever get to it all? With seemingly limitless channels available to nonprofit marketers to cultivate, your fundraising and engagement efforts now require developing messages for each medium. Email? Of course, but it’s not the engagement driver it once was. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, traditional direct mail, your web site, blog posts, even text messages – how will you come up with unique messaging for each platform?

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[New Report] Giving in an Uncertain Year

Connection Cafe

Across the world, 2017 was a year defined by change and uncertainty. We saw our landscape shaped by political divides, natural disasters, and tense reform. And the question all along has been: through all this tumult, how was philanthropy affected? This 2017 Charitable Giving Report gives us our first means of answering that question through data. The data supports many of the trends we saw shaping up over the year.

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