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Ignore This and Fail

NonProfit PRO

I know this is personal. This is about you, how you work and what you pay attention to. And this is part of your work that has nothing to do with strategy, the quality of the donor or what you have to offer the donor.

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How to Use Data to Support Your Strategic Goals

Association Analytics

The post How to Use Data to Support Your Strategic Goals appeared first on Association Analytics.

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Zoom Cameras On or Off?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cameras off does not mean meeting participants are disengaged. It helps avoid burnout and improves attention. Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. They published “ Ten Rules Simple Rules for Meaningful Meetings.

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CADRE (Collaborating Agencies' Disaster Relief Effort)

VisionLink

Visionlink is excited to begin supporting the work of Collaborating Agencies' Disaster Relief Effort, or CADRE-- a leading network of organizations that provide community services essential in times of disaster. The mission of CADRE is to strengthen the coordination of the disaster response and recovery efforts of a variety of agencies in Santa Clara county, California, working closely with Santa Clara County’s emergency management community to build disaster resilience among service organizatio

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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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Peer-to-Peer World Offers Five Fridays of Expert-Led Education Sessions

NonProfit PRO

With more than 20 sessions scheduled over the course of the event, attendees can expect in-depth looks at various aspects of peer-to-peer fundraising Fridays from Sept. 10 to Oct. 8, starting at 9 a.m.

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9/8/21 – How to Use Data to Support Your Strategic Goals

Association Analytics

The post 9/8/21 – How to Use Data to Support Your Strategic Goals appeared first on Association Analytics.

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TikTok for Good: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Marketing on TikTok

Qgiv

At the beginning of 2020, a video app called TikTok exploded in popularity because it provided a way for people to connect during the pandemic. After amassing 800 million active users worldwide, TikTok is now used for much more than dance challenges and quick recipe videos. . Nonprofits and cause driven organizations just like yours are now marketing on Tiktok to help raise awareness and support for their missions!

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3 Ways To Leverage Text Marketing for More Than Soliciting Donations

NonProfit PRO

SMS messaging doesn’t just help with fundraising. Organizations have found other ways to incorporate text messaging into their operations. Check out these three ideas.

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So you want to write to donors

Hands on Fundraising

Here are some basic rules that I try to keep front of mind when I write to donors. Kind beats clever It’s tempting for a writer to fall in love with clever prose. We read it, we get it, we smile and nod. But if the purpose of your writing is to help people open […]. The post So you want to write to donors appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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Highlights and Tools from the 2021 State of Grantseeking Report

Tech Soup

GrantStation helps nonprofit organizations fund their programs and fulfill their mission. Many organizations struggle to find new funding sources. A GrantStation membership includes a curated database of carefully vetted grantmakers, providing you with a "hot list" of potential funders that accept unsolicited requests. GrantStation also helps organizations by publishing the in-depth State of Grantseeking™ Report.

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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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Giving Tuesday Resources For Nonprofits

Kindful

If you work for a nonprofit organization, you’ve likely heard that Giving Tuesday is one of the most important days of the year. In 2020, nonprofits raised $2.47 billion—just in the United States! Kindful customers raised more than $11.4 million in 2020, which is a 142% increase over the amount raised in 2019. Exciting, right? This is a huge opportunity to raise money and invite people to get more involved in your mission.

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Giving Tuesday 2021 Playbook: How To Execute a Campaign and Retain Your New Donors

NonProfit PRO

Believe it or not, the holidays and year-end are rapidly approaching. You’re probably working hard on your annual appeal, which will hopefully bring in lots of cash both by mail and online. But there’s a new opportunity for nonprofits to bring in that much-needed year-end money and promote the importance of the nonprofit sector: Giving Tuesday.

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10 Steps to Better Mobile Donation Forms

sgEngage

The future is now. In 2020, some studies showed that mobile website traffic surpassed desktop traffic. Hopefully, your donation form is already mobile-friendly, but here are 10 tips to make it mobile-friendlier from online fundraising pros : Eliminate all unnecessary/nice-to-have fields. Title, Middle Name, Suffix, Comments – get rid of them all! This tip will likely improve the completion rate on your desktop forms too.

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How Can Nonprofits Benefit from The Great Resignation?

Donorbox

According to Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index, over 40% of people are considering leaving their jobs in the next year. There is a range of reasons people blame for this trend. Whether you believe people don’t want to work because unemployment pays too much, or if you believe employees finally understand their power, the reality […]. The post How Can Nonprofits Benefit from The Great Resignation?

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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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How to Market Your Event On A Budget

AccelEvents

If you’re an event planner and need to market your event, you might want to take advantage of some free marketing techniques that can really help promote your event. . It’s possible to effectively market your event while sticking to a budget, it just takes a little planning. Before we can dive into this, your brand first needs to identify how much you can spend.

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Donations by Pledge App Can Turn Zoom Meetings Into Virtual Fundraisers

NonProfit PRO

Pledge introduced a donate button for Zoom through its Donations by Pledge app. The addition will allow any of the 300 million daily Zoom meeting participants to instantly become a fundraiser for any one of the two million verified charitable and nonprofit organizations in its worldwide network.

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How to Show Your Monthly Donors Their Sizable Impact

DonorPerfect

The most effective monthly giving programs show donors how their recurring gifts make them a hero before they decide to join. Don’t just provide donors an option to give monthly – show them exactly what their monthly gift will do. And once they become a monthly donor, be sure to continue to tell them the Read More ». The post How to Show Your Monthly Donors Their Sizable Impact appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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iOS 15 Email Marketing: Adapting to Increased Privacy

Whole Whale

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Here is what you can do to prepare for the impacts of iOS15 on email marketing. How will iOS 15 impact email marketing? The tl;dr: after the iOS15 and macOS Monterey update, users who opt into privacy masking through Apple Mail will appear as “opened” regardless of what the user do

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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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What does it look like to radically reinvent leadership?

Nonprofit AF

A couple of years ago, I stepped down from my position as executive director of RVC, a capacity building and.

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Classy Makes Moves To Improve Donor Giving Experience

NonProfit PRO

Classy, a giving experience platform, has made a commitment to streamline giving and connect more donors with appealing causes with new innovations, a new hire to lead that product development and two internal promotions.

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Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions

Blue Avocado

With the pandemic ending, now is an excellent time to reassess your board’s performance. A check-up now can ensure that you are not just surviving, but thriving. To test your boards critical performance or to put in place practices and strategies for a healthy and reenergized board, the best place to start is with a […]. The post Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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

Bloomerang

If you’re wondering what the future holds for fundraising, you’re not alone. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re living through tumultuous times. So much of what we thought we knew about the world has been turned topsy-turvy. What might this mean for philanthropy and fundraising moving forward? There were many at the beginning of the pandemic who suffered a crisis of confidence.

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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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Webinar: Understanding Corporate Philanthropy

DipJar

This webinar is presented by Double the Donation. With more than $2 billion passing through matching gifts programs every year, corporate philanthropy is a hugely underutilized resource for nonprofits. Understanding the different types of corporate philanthropy and knowing how to take advantage of each kind is crucial if your nonprofit is looking to reach its full fundraising potential.

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Q&A: Discussing the Rise of Black Giving Circles

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits insist every dollar counts, and that's true, but they're looking at the big picture. When all those dollars are combined, they can make a big impact with those collective dollars. The same is true on the donor side. While not discounting the importance of individual giving, if multiple individuals with similar philanthropic goals pool their money together, they can make a bigger difference in their preferred cause.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. UMass receives $50 million commitment from Robert and Donna Manning. September 2, 2021 The University of Massachusetts has announced a $50 million gift from alumni Robert J. ('84) and Donna Manning ('85, '91) in support of efforts to increase access and opportunity across the five-campus university system.

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Release Announcement: Stay on Top of Donor Outreach

DonorPerfect

To be a transformational fundraiser, focused on donor relationships and retention, you need to stay in touch with your donors. The new DonorPerfect Home Page compiles the tasks you’ve been assigned into a to-do list that you’ll see right when you log in. That way, you can always keep your donors at top of mind. Read More ». The post Release Announcement: Stay on Top of Donor Outreach appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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“A Wish Begins With Hope.”

DipJar

Since 1980, more than half a million critically ill children and their families have been given precious moments of hope and happiness by Make-A-Wish. While a global nonprofit today, the founding chapter was in Arizona. . The first wish , in 1980, was that of a young boy with leukemia. His wish was to become a police officer. The family worked with the local department of public safety to make him a police officer for a day.

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A Modest (But Really Important) Plea To Thank Your Donors

NonProfit PRO

I am writing this — call it a lament, a plea, a whine — not as a grant writer or as the co-author of a book about how to write grant proposals, but as a donor. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a zillionaire philanthropist. I do, however, donate relatively small (not to me) sums to numerous nonprofit organizations.

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Major Donor Fundraising: Effective Strategies for 2022

Donor Search

If you’ve been fundraising for a while, you already know how important your major donors are. Many fundraising professionals often say that around 88% of all nonprofit funds come from just 12% of donors— your major donors.

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Leveling Up Your Volunteer Recruitment Strategy: 5 Tips

Achieve

Nonprofits and community service organizations often rely on volunteers’ hard work and generosity to get their important work done. In fact, volunteers make up the majority of many nonprofits' workforce and are absolutely critical to their daily operation and goals. With such a critical role, it is important to find committed and motivated volunteers who will be able to help an organization meet its goals. .

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.