sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

By now, you have a clear picture of your opportunities and goals, so it’s time to build a work-back calendar and activate your organizations around a development plan. Outline specific actions and the necessary budget to achieve those goals. Your strategy should: Clarify expectations, roles, and goals.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

By now, you have a clear picture of your opportunities and goals, so it’s time to build a work-back calendar and activate your organizations around a development plan. Outline specific actions and the necessary budget to achieve those goals. Your strategy should: Clarify expectations, roles, and goals.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Did you know that nearly one-third of individual fundraising happens during the month of December and 12% of giving happens in the last week of the calendar year ? . People will be more likely to respond to your call to action or, at the very least, open your emails if they look like they’re coming from an individual.

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

The hope would be that your general past participant audience will click through to see teams that have already been formed, with participants already registered and fundraising for the new campaign — which is more likely to encourage them to take action as well. Target your coaching and fundraising emails too.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. If this is your nonprofit’s first #GivingTuesday, use this workbook provided by #GivingTuesday to help your team get started planning.

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

The hope would be that your general past participant audience will click through to see teams that have already been formed, with participants already registered and fundraising for the new campaign — which is more likely to encourage them to take action as well. Target your coaching and fundraising emails too.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. Have a clear call-to-action with an inspiring ask. Make sure to schedule periodic check-ins to make sure things stay on track. GT STEP BY STEP WORKBOOK.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. What actions do you want people to take? Who are the target audiences?

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Block off time on your calendar for fundraising planning. Follow up with action steps. . A plan for fundraising that doesn’t include action steps isn’t a plan at all. For example, if you have “Spring Campaign” on your calendar for April, and you plan to raise $8,000, how will you raise $8,000?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format. I like to start with a plan broken down by buckets and then break that bucket-driven plan out into a color-coded calendar, so I know exactly what I need to do every month. Take it month by month and write down every strategy that will get you to your goal.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Get inspired, mark you calendars, and enjoy the latest round-up of NTEN Members making news. Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Write down three changes you can make that will lead to more people clicking and taking the action you want them to take. When someone makes a donation, what actions do you take? It’s how I keep from leaving off something important, like putting a deadline on my calendar. Do you have compelling photos and videos?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. It just has to do with your actions, the choices you make, and the way that you see yourself.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their latest iteration, titled “Radical Impact” will bring together over 25,000 nonprofit professionals across three days and 75+ high-impact sessions to provide them with actionable next steps in their fundraising and marketing efforts. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Daily Musings in the Lounge include: Photo Gallery from PhotoPhilanthropy – browse art that drives action for social change. Mark your calendars for Monday, March 12th, at 11 am for the NTEN meetup in the Lounge. Sketchnotes by Mike Rhode. Check out the detailed schedule of events and follow @thebeaconsxsw for updates.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If it’s tough to get your Board members to come see your programs in action, bring the programs to them in video. Inviting a guest speaker can invigorate your Board members and introduce new ideas from a new voice that may resonate with them. Show a video. A good video can be educational and also reconnect them to your mission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2012

When I joined Convio after 5 years as an event fundraiser, I was first introduced to the Communication Calendar while working with the Events360 and Komen 3-Day Events. Check out two sample communication plans in our recently published Social Media Kick Start Guide for P2P Events. Author: Robyn Mendez.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Use prominent calls to action. The top two calls to action in a peer-to-peer campaign are “register” (for participants) and “donate” (for donors). Provide participants with sample social media posts to make it easy for them to share information about your campaign through their social media channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

ASW would argue that the platforms don’t own the relationships; the platforms do own the topic of conversation, or the point of interest—a point that should really be made explicit and especially viewed as actionable. calendar, call, sms, facebook, twitter, address book = level of closeness of social data. friend management.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Whether you are asking for feedback, sharing stories, or urging people to take action, providing a place for your community to share back with you shows your openness to feedback and interest in the community. Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. Test Drive It.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Prescriptive analytics (action): This answers the question of "What should we do?" Good for recommending one or more courses of action. This is just a sample of the secrets MacLaughlin revealed during his NTC session. Bad for making predictions without the right data or data science skills. More Secrets.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

Online advocacy doesn't work in a vacuum - it works best when it's part of a thoughtful integrated campaign that combines offline and online actions. DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Call to Action. JUST for fun!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: define goals such as raising certain amount of funds on a specific social fundraising campaign or set a goal of getting a pre-defined number of people to take action. Measure actionable items. All the metrics in the world won’t do any good if you can’t derive actionable meaning from them.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Democracy In Action in booth 11. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Democracy In Action in booth 11. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. that when scanned takes people to a page with the certificate, the organization, calls to action for the nonprofit, a donate button for the nonprofit so the donor gets credit for the gift, and images of the donor at the organization’s events. Swag or merch: shirts, tanks, hats.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Squarespace leaves out all the hubbub and gives visitors to your site a clear call to action. Squarespace makes it easy to add new pages and to include new content through galleries, event calendars, blog posts and more. It’s simple, clean and polished on the back end and the front.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Video of your work in action? We have our clients use a calendar so they can color code their Asks, Warm Touches, and Communications to make sure donors aren’t being overasked. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Finish with a clear call to action. Campaign collateral.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

To make it easy on yourself, create an annual editorial calendar so you know what you want the theme to be each month before the month arrives. Decide on your Call-To-Action before you start writing A Call-To-Action (or CTA) is anything you ask your reader to do. Less is definitely more. Asking people to volunteer is a CTA.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

The playlist also looked different for different types of nonprofits — every single environmental group that reported data in our sample experienced a decrease in year-over-year overall revenue. And inflation coupled with the looming warnings of a recession certainly didn’t help. Email revenue decreased by an average of 11.9%

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. You can also figure out quickly what you need to do to reach those goals and putting the action steps in place is pretty easy, too. Orient them and have them in place by April 15. See the difference? Now it’s your turn.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. So the way that you would do this in action is that let’s say that you are an after-school education program and you want to provide services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Prize and match incentives can help build excitement and be used to encourage particular actions by donors. The Giving Day Playbook has handy templates in the outreach section including blog posts, a social media calendar, sample tweets and marketing materials. Incentivize Donor Participation.

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