Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Advertising can be an effective way to help grow your nonprofit’ s digital footprint, complement your current organic marketing efforts, and be an essential, part of your integrated marketing strategy. For example, if you want to reach Gen Z exclusively, you would run on platforms with a large and engaged user base for that demographic.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Simon Sinek A colleague recently referred to the time before the pandemic as “innocent.” Hopefully, our experiences can inspire organizations that want to evolve, transform, innovate—or whatever paella of words you care to use to describe looking beyond the moment.” It’s an example of changing but not changing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Let me give you an example. They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL. You can use the data to identify the channel donors came through, for example, or get a sense of which campaigns and messages are performing best. Example: utm_source=facebook. But for my social posts, I might set the medium to “organic”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A lot of time, effort, and preparation goes into ensuring end-of-year campaigns produce all the funds needed for organizations to sustain their important missions. Keeping donors connected with the mission ensures the best possible donor retention rate for an organization. December is an important month for nonprofit fundraisers.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The road to implementing new technology can be a long one, but your organization can smoo th the way with business process mapping. Read our blog to learn everything you need to know about b usiness process mapping and prepare your association for implementation success. What is business process mapping?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

Leveraging analytics will help you identify if there is value in continuing hybrid or online events for your organization. For example, you may have wanted to ask questions like: “What if we hosted our event for free?”. The pandemic gave organizations an opportunity to execute these abnormal events.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To help you build your CSR strategy, we’ve gathered five corporate philanthropy examples that you can use for inspiration. Each of these examples uses a unique tactic to engage employees and increase impact on the local, national, or international community. ExxonMobil is one example of a company with an active matching gift program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

To confront these challenges, a nonprofit should ensure that its digital storytelling adheres to four essential guideposts: Transparency speaks to a nonprofit’s ability to demonstrate its legitimacy as a good steward of donated funds by, for example, sharing its audited financial statements and other, similar information. 2) Information Hub.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 21, 2023

Your organization does much to advocate for industry issues—petitioning local and federal level politicians to generate support for association-backed programs. Some examples of social media assets can include images, videos, photos, hashtags, and thought leadership topic ideas.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Build Evergreen Resources Find useful content that your audience may use as an ongoing reference. For example: history, facts, glossary, background, how-to, tips are all the kinds of things that will still be relevant in a year (if written correctly). Good examples are WordPress and Drupal. Take the Course 5.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These tools suit your modern audience, who expect to interact with nonprofit organizations like yours across a diverse media landscape. Determine what functions are essential for your organization and what are “nice-to-haves.” For example, does a CFO need a full seat, or can she get the visibility she needs without one?).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s the good news: with preparation and a pulse on the right data and information, it is possible to get a handle on the task and get a big picture of your organization’s needs. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2023

As a result, more organizations are looking for ways to implement an omnichannel fundraising and marketing strategy. Keep branding consistent Strong, consistent branding is the key to improving awareness for your organization, and consistency only gets more important as you branch out to different media channels.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Here’s a familiar scene: your nonprofit organization just won its first big grant, and you’re ecstatic. For background, SOC 2 is a framework for organizations offering information and technology services (e.g., For example, if you’re a research organization, learn about your studies to identify applicable regulations.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

For example, your campaigns should reduce the number of unqualified leads your development team has to sift through. Solicitation: At this point, your organization makes the ask. Engagement level , or how much they interact with your organization. For example, you would treat a five-year donor differently than a new prospect.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2022

B reaches are highly detrimental to all organizations. The dos and don’ts of data security at your organization . Follow these tips to secure your organization: . Empower everyone in your organization to become a data steward. Consider including your AMS vendor and security providers in your plan for easy reference.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

They must have full confidence that we and the organizations we serve are going to do what we say we’re going to do and fulfill their philanthropic intent. I think the best way to illuminate the day-to-day application of ethics in fundraising is to examine actual examples that arise among fundraisers, management, and donors.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

This is no surprise as recruiting talented staff involves making your organization stand out in a competitive market and maintaining clear expectations, which is an area of improvement for many hiring organizations. Soft skills refer to intangible qualities like communication , leadership, and adaptability. Necessary experience.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

This is no surprise as recruiting talented staff involves making your organization stand out in a competitive market and maintaining clear expectations, which is an area of improvement for many hiring organizations. Soft skills refer to intangible qualities like communication , leadership, and adaptability. Necessary experience.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Celebrate and Empower: Volunteer Orientation for Your Board and Committees during Volunteer Week This Volunteer Week, let’s not only celebrate the incredible impact volunteers have on our organizations, but also empower our Board members and event committee members to be champions for volunteer engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

There are so many tools out there and so many different options pulling us in so many directions that I’ve found many organizations, especially very small organizers, can feel like they are getting tied up in knots. Track your organization and your cause. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They focused on small gifts — pens, coffee mugs, or tote bags for example — offered as thank-you gifts to solicit charitable donations. Consider these examples of what works before you decide. By connecting the premium to your mission, you encourage donors to advocate for your organization while letting them enjoy the gift.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Recently, I’ve encountered a phenomenon among development staffs and non-profit executive directors that seems to effect organizations both large and small. The epidemic to which I am referring is “fundraising wanderlust,” or a failure to stay focused in your fundraising efforts. The Solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The principles were useful but I found it difficult to translate the case examples into concepts for the social sector. One example Christie gave was describing the origins of Louder. Upworthy was another example mentioned as a hypothesis tested by the MoveOn team to see what social issue content could go viral.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. Other stakeholders also want to know what an organization is doing to “go green.”

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to content management systems (CMS), WordPress is a stellar choice for a variety of organizations, including businesses and nonprofits. This page is where visitors will go to learn more about your nonprofit as a whole and to reassure themselves that they are supporting a credible and professional organization.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 5, 2023

Recently, there has been a rise in for-profit organizations building “community” as part of their business strategy. Let’s look at my career, product marketing as an example. Product marketing is a career that has completely evolved and grown over the last decade. Becoming a digital-first organization is an expectation today.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As you are noshing and the other volunteers trickle in, you’re invited to take a live quiz on Slido asking you several questions about yourself, what inspired you to volunteer, and what skills you might like to contribute to the organization. There’s a few things the second example does right that you can do, too.

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Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, did you know there are at least five different types of “years” when it comes to nonprofit data? For example, a nonprofit might decide that their fiscal year starts April 1 and ends March 31. That said, many large organizations choose June for their fiscal year end instead. February 1,592 0.31 March 6,409 1.27

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 12, 2023

Recently, there has been a rise in for-profit organizations building “community” as part of their business strategy. Because of this, the associations don’t view themselves as traditional member-based organizations, so they are playing by different rules. Becoming a digital-first organization is an expectation today.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

The overhead myth is a pervasive challenge for nonprofits, often leading to organizations that are under-funded, unable to make an impact that aligns with their potential, and rapidly losing high-performing employees. And, it can make organizations feel the need to limit their operating expenses to a detrimental degree.

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As we shift into the last quarter of the year, many nonprofit organizations are thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas, but campaign that should not go unnoticed is GivingTuesday. Organize a team that will oversee the GivingTuesday campaign. Some examples are: . This year, GivingTuesday is November 29, 2022. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized! For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. Link to online references and source material often.

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Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Additionally, women are often clustered in jobs predominantly filled by females, such as child care workers, home health aides, and nursing and medical assistants—a phenomenon referred to as “occupational segregation.” Given such obstacles, we must be intentional in undertaking concrete efforts to close pay disparities.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Receiving requests for funding can be both a crucial and frustrating part of being a grantmaking organization. You want applications from organizations that align to your mission, but the frequency of the requests can easily bog down your processes if you aren’t careful. Bring these reports to your decision meetings as a reference.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 1, 2023

A good orientation and training program will provide volunteers with a positive experience and first impression of your organization. According to reports, 69% of people are more likely to commit time to an organization with a structured onboarding program. For example, VolunteerHub offers email and text notifications.

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