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[WEBINAR] Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT (90 minutes). Presented by: Heather Mansfield , Founder and Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good. Cost: $10. This is the second of three webinars in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. Those who attend all three webinars will earn of Certificate of Completion from Nonprofit Tech for Good.

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47 Free Nonprofit Webinars for June 2020

Wild Apricot

Here are all the free nonprofit webinars happening in June 2020 that the Internet has to offer.

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A nimble approach to training and customer success

Nimble AMS

As you narrow your list of potential AMS vendors, be sure to consider their approach to training. Here’s how Nimble AMS training helps ensure your staff knows how to use your new association management software to the fullest. Your association management software (AMS) is the technology that helps your organization manage its membership and operations, so you can imagine how important it is for your staff to confidently utilize the system to its fullest.

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5 Building Blocks of Strong Nonprofit Brands

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit branding is all about how others view your organization and your efforts. If you know what American Red Cross, UNICEF, or AARP does regularly, you know that nonprofit branding works. Creating a brand leads to more recognition, clarity and potential donations ? all in all, making your nonprofit more successful. In a perfect world, charitable organizations would not have to worry about creating a strong brand image to have a successful 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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6 Essential Logo Design Tips for Nonprofits

Elevation

Your logo encapsulate your organization's identity, and it's what identifies you to the general public. Colors, fonts, shapes, and visual graphics should combine to be both eye-catching and memorable. A successful logo is simple in form, yet effectively illustrates a concept. Your logo should be practical yet original, and easily adaptable across a variety of platforms.

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9 Proven Ways to Increase Member Retention Right Now

Wild Apricot

Here are 9 proven ways to increase member retention — featuring expert advice, real life examples, research, and more. By the end, you'll have the blueprint to create a solid strategy to start increasing member retention at your organization right away.

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What is the Youtube Nonprofit Program?

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

What is the Youtube Nonprofit Program? by Olivia Warnes. Youtube offers some helpful benefits to nonprofits on their platform that can help you to increase outreach and gain donations. Youtube offers great tools and opportunities to nonprofits. We’ve discussed that a Google for Nonprofits account has a whole host of benefits and one of those is access to the Youtube Nonprofit Program.

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Why is effective upskilling and targeted learning getting difficult across companies and distributed workforces

Gyrus

With team members increasingly opting to work from home or remote locations, here are a few challenges for effective upskilling and targeted learning.

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May Update: COVID-19 Relief, Update from Support, and More

Wild Apricot

In this month's newsletter, you'll hear about our new COVID-19 Response and Resources page, as well as get the latest scoop from the Support Team and more.

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The Mind Of An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader. Their book is based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives.

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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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What is the Youtube Nonprofit Program?

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

What is the Youtube Nonprofit Program? by Olivia Warnes. Youtube offers some helpful benefits to nonprofits on their platform that can help you to increase outreach and gain donations. Youtube offers great tools and opportunities to nonprofits. We’ve discussed that a Google for Nonprofits account has a whole host of benefits and one of those is access to the Youtube Nonprofit Program.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged When Everything is Changing

Connection Cafe

One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Now more than ever, we have the opportunity to demonstrate how a strong donor relations effort contributes to fundraising. Are your donors engaged and have they stood by you through these unprecedented times? If you haven’t done a great job of communicating, engaging, reporting and thanking your donors prior to this pandemic, it will be hard to play catch up.

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Empathy-Informed Balance in the Age of Coronavirus and Beyond

Museum 2.0

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. Ellice Engdahl is one of those internet people for me. Every thoughtful medium post and every considered tweet, they also get me thinking. I will say since noticing her online, I've since met her. So, she isn't just Internet People, I assure you.

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Embrace Failing As A Way To Achieve Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“On the path to success, we trip and lose our footing from time to time. But stumbling and even falling is the best way to learn from mistakes and is critical to achieving goals,” says Bill Wooditch, author of the book, Fail More:Embrace, Learn, And, Adapt to Failure As A Way To Success. “We all fail. It’s a part of business, and it’s a part of life,” explains Wooditch.

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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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5 Tips To Drive Traffic to Your Donation Page

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

5 Tips To Drive Traffic to Your Donation Page. by Olivia Warnes. Increase your donations with these 5 tips for driving traffic to your donation page! Don’t miss out on donations by letting viewers bounce! One of the main goals of your digital marketing efforts is to get donations, and to do this you need to make sure your donation page is getting a lot of traffic.

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A Hack to Dramatically Improve Your Virtual Events

Connection Cafe

Many events are canceled and that’s a problem. Whether you are a university that can’t have alumni come to campus, a nonprofit scrambling to replace your gala , or an association coming up with an alternative to an annual conference, a large part of organizational revenue is at stake. So you turn to a virtual event. One small problem; You’ve never done one of those before.

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Top 7 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Be Using Email Marketing

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

Top 7 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Be Using Email Marketing. by Olivia Warnes. Email marketing can rapidly improve your nonprofits digital marketing strategy and help you gain donations. Connect With Supporters and Increase Donations. With so many new social media platforms to use to market your non-profit, you might think email marketing is a little bit outdated, but that’s just not true.

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Great Coaches Have These 14 Attributes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

For those who may have missed this posting from awhile back, I am pleased to share again a guest post from Garret Kramer about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today. Unfortunately, virtually all of them provide an external blueprint or "positive" guide to successful coaching and leadership.

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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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Virtual Engagement Strategies to Keep Employees Connected

Connection Cafe

It’s been roughly two months since most of us have last been in an office, but thanks to video meeting platforms, messaging services, and modern-day technology, we can still have some sort of face-to-face interaction and continue to work alongside our teams. While most day-to-day responsibilities and projects are moving along, there are aspects of not being able to go into a workplace that are hard to replicate.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 149: Raising Major and Planned Gifts in the Current Environment

Connection Cafe

COVID-19 has impacted fundraising in various ways. What will major and planned giving programs look like in our current landscape, and how can your organization adjust to see continued success with these programs? In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Eddie Thompson, founder and CEO of Thompson and Associates, and Russell James, Professor of Charitable Financial Planning at Texas Tech University, in an excerpt from a Blackbaud webinar.

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Raising Money for Universities during COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Tim Hill, Strategic Advisor for Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions, recently appeared on the Changing Higher Ed podcast hosted by Drumm McNaughton of The Change Leader, Inc. Listen to the episode or read the description below to learn what Tim and fellow guest Scott Roberts of the UConn Foundation had to say about being creative with donor engagement during the current times.

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6 Great Nonprofit Social Media Accounts

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

6 Great Nonprofit Social Media Accounts. by Olivia Warnes. 6 nonprofit social media accounts you should be following, and how you can improve your own. Increase Your Social Media Following. More and more nonprofits are utilising social media to gain supporters and share their message. These profiles are on top of their game when it comes to social media marketing, raking in likes and followers.

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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!