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Check out this video to get a look at Camp Blackbaud in action. It’s Pro Bono Week! What are you doing to celebrate? This is a big week for Blackbaud. MORE
It’s a shame because these pages are critical to a non-profits online success – all the action happens on them. If your goal is to get people to take the action you desire, making a donation for example, then getting as many people as possible to do it matters. MORE
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The easiest way to attract subscribers is to promote your text message call to action on all your existing media channels, advertising, and outreach. A text message call to action is how you ask people to join your mobile campaign. Make it easy to take action. MORE
Here’s one: ACTion Alexandria is an online civic engagement initiative with three main goals. ACTion Alexandria’s social fundraising initiative, “ Spring2ACTion ,” raised $104,156 in donations and matching grants for 47 participating nonprofits. MORE
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There is no better time to turn messages of hope into action—to giving time, money, talents, and voice. If you know me, you know I think “ good is for everyone.”. You also might accuse me of sounding like a broken record because I tend to say this a lot, but it needs to be said. MORE
Michael Wilson. CEO & Founder. Small World Labs. These five examples of nonprofit communities show the diversity of options and ideas for engaging people around a mission. Creating an online community to mobilize your supporters and further your nonprofit''s mission might seem like a big task. What to do? Where to start? A simple way is to look at what your peers are doing. This article looks at five examples of what some innovative nonprofits are doing with their online communities. MORE
In our new whitepaper Include is a Verb: Moving from Talk to Action on Diversity and Inclusion , Sherry Marts, PhD (S*Marts Consulting) and I tackle the challenge of turning associations’ powerful talk into equally impactful walk. MORE
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It’s very actionable for anyone. They are all really actionable and you’ll be amazed what will happen to your SEO just by doing these simple things. This post originally appeared on Leapfroggr.com and was written by Dennis Seymour. It is reprinted here by permission. ————– As you dive deeper into the world of Internet marketing, you learn that one thing is usually a constant: SEO takes hard work. It’s why people outsource it in the first place. MORE
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Does that element help your user complete an important task with a clear call to action? Look at the positioning of the most important “call to action”. Do these elements highlight content or actions that are critical to your organizational goals? Your website has a lot to say. MORE
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But too often non-profits have trouble seeing beyond the almighty dollar and miss the opportunity to publicize—through email campaigns, regular blog posts or in a highlighted fashion on their websites—the CTA: that is, the “Call to Action. MORE
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