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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are 5 tips on how to use your website to retain your once loyal donors: Target content based on volunteer interest. Retaining Loyal Supporters Using Your Website. I think they could have done a better job with communication, particularly online communication, to help keep me a loyal supporter.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

BBCon took place outside the Beltway, but we had plenty of Beltway insiders …

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JULY 27, 2012

Social media is talked about so much that you probably think every other form of communication is dead (Ok, maybe your thinking isn’t that extreme). But that’s not the case. In fact, email is still the number-one way to connect with your supporters.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

c: Do you have any online fundraising tips you’d like to share? And don’t forget that reaching out via your blog is always smart – and Movember doesn’t end until December 15th, so I’m still accepting donations. (c:

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MAY 8, 2012

I have to admit when the whole Pinterest thing started, I thought to myself, “Oh great, now the internet is making me feel guilty about not putting my kids pictures in cute little scrapbooks.”. I just couldn’t see the business application.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

By now many of you have been working on your end of year campaigns, but if you haven’t started planning the good news is you still have time to put a plan in place to maximize end of year giving. Here are a few items to use in your end of year plan : - Optimize Your Home Page for the Holidays. Make Every Email Count. -

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MAY 24, 2009

Four tips to help you get started. Facebook also gives others the ability to share their affinity to you with their friends, family and co-workers. That said, you can’t just throw up a page and expect to be successful. You have to be thoughtful, strategic and knowledgeable.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

As you wind down for 2010, it’s worth having a quick think about what your priorities will be when you next step back into your office. Where will your focus be in the new year? How will you reinvigorate yourself, your work and your organisation in 2011?

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APRIL 5, 2013

Keeping Your Email Simple (and Mobile-Friendly too!) – Tips for sending more mobile-friendly email messages. Nonprofit Email Design: 20 Tips for More Effective Emails – Design and styling tips for creating email messages, including more consistent rendering across email clients.

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MAY 10, 2010

The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Donors represent one of the most important (if not the most important) segments of many nonprofit organizations. These donors are essentially the investors of your organization, and as such, they deserve full accountability from you to ensure their money is being spent wisely.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

With over 300 million users and over fifty percent of those users logging in daily Facebook is a platform that’s proven to be effective. It doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon either. Millions of people use the tool to stay connected with family and friends – sharing photos, videos, links, resources and personal day to day information.

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JUNE 17, 2010

How important is the internet? How important is the internet to you as a nonprofit? Currently, three quarters of Internet users worldwide visit a social network or blog while online — a 24% increase year over year according to the recent study by Nielsen.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Our own Allison Van Diest had the opportunity to lead a session at the DMA Nonprofit Federation's 2009 New York Nonprofit Conference entitled "The Right Message: Making the Most of E-mail Marketing in a Down Economy" where she shared best practices for creating strong email positioning and message architecture.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By now many of you have been working on your end of year …

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

At October's Blackbaud UK Relationship Management conference, I discussed Challenge Event Fundraising and the best ways to get the most out of these events. I'd like to share some of the findings but first some background.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

Nonprofits have become more sophisticated at driving traffic to their websites. Direct mail may use different friendly URLs to test response rates. Email may test different “Donate” calls to action to improve click-through rates. What happens, though, when visitors arrive at your website?

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JULY 20, 2010

You may have inherited a vast pool of web content written “before your time” … or you frequently receive lengthy “expert” articles and other contributed pieces to add to the web site you now manage. Not every expert who contributes to a web site is also an expert in writing for the web.

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JULY 27, 2012

Social media is talked about so much that you probably think every other …

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JUNE 26, 2009

There are few online vehicles better than recurring gifts for donors to show their appreciation and ongoing commitment to your organization. Not surprisingly recurring gifts are also one of only a few ways to secure ongoing sustaining support from your online donors.

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JUNE 8, 2012

If you missed the first 3 posts in the series, check out Part One (tip 1 & 2), Part Two (tip 3 & 4) and Part Three (tip 5, 6 & 7) to catch up! On to the last three tips for creating an effective nonprofit website. Keep Content Fresh. Users have short attention spans. Great web design understands this.

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JULY 11, 2012

Here are a few tips that will help you get started and/or enable you to take your Facebook community to new levels of engagement. You’ll find 10 of the 22 tips right here. Here’s a few tips on how to increase your Facebook EdgeRank. Pro Tip: Check out these EdgeRank tools - [link] and [link]. Videos: From graduation.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Frank Barry gives some great tips on creating a year-round communication calendar. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! That’s a challenging number to digest.

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MAY 15, 2012

Pro Tip : Keep donors – both scarce and consistent – up-to-date with information on how their money is being used. Pro Tip : Find a month during the year (not in Q4) – perhaps at the end of an annual year-long campaign, or during company events – where you can reliably increase online gifts. Learn from them. Imitate them.

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MARCH 11, 2012

CONTENT MARKETING PRO TIP : Figure out how to turn the unique ways your organization is changing the world into content that can be used online. CONTENT MARKETING PRO TIP : Allow the people you impact to tell their story through creating digital assets. So far they’ve covered six matches between Bigs and Littles.

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MAY 25, 2011

Below are 44 tips I’ve learned, organized by topic and ordered from easiest to hardest to implement. Provide fundraising tips so they know how to get started. Provide tips on fundraising with the corporate world. Offer tips for approaching the media. Offer tips and advice to receive coverage of their efforts.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently talked about how to Set up Your Social Media Listening Dashboard with the goal of getting you to run some basic searches on various social media web sites and aggregate them into an iGoogle Dashboard. Doing this makes it simpler for you to monitor and take action on the things being said about you.

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MARCH 25, 2013

npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS) is a a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. If you’re looking for Fundraising Ideas you’ve come to the right place.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers!

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JUNE 27, 2012

Here are a few tips from Google on how to Master SEO in 10 Minutes. It’s the number one way to drive more interested people to your website allowing you the chance to turn them into avid supporters of your cause. That said, search engine optimization doesn’t have to be that hard.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A few tips: Keep it short – people don’t want to read a lot and with the rise of email consumption on mobile devices the space they have to see your subject line is limited. Make it interesting – The title of this post could have been “Email Tips”, but that would not have been interesting at all. Then back it up with great content.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Register Now ! Register Now !

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JUNE 22, 2011

Provide tips, ideas and lots of examples from successful teams. – OK, now that you’ve heard my 3 big tips it’s time to share yours with the readers here. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Here are five acknowledgement tips most non-profits are forgetting about. You don’t have to use all of these tips all the time, but adding at least one or two will really help to keep your constituents engaged and help your organization reach its goals. Well, it shouldn’t be. 1) Really Thank Them: Saying “thank you” is not enough.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Avoid trying to fit “something for everyone” into your messages, such as including tips to get started, reach your goal, and be a top fundraiser in one email. Register Now ! Sounds familiar, right? Yeah, right.

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JULY 27, 2011

Addario Lung Cancer Foundation will share their strategies and practical tips for turning one local event into a national powerhouse that saw 50% fundraising growth. The’ll be focusing on two major components of their strategy … Housefile Growth.

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