Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By Rosie Powers , a Strategist at Mission Minded —a branding firm that works exclusively with nonprofits, foundations, and independent schools. As summer fades into fall, end-of-year fundraising season is top-of-mind for nonprofits. This analysis can help guide you towards what best engages your target audiences. 2) Review Your Goals.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s one of the most overlooked places to seal the deal with your donor: the fundraising landing page. . This valuable piece of online real estate is where the donor goes to take action and give your organization money. And that strong connection is what motivates people to give. If it’s done well, you’ll get a gift.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

By having tags in place, you can start building personas around your member’s behaviors and demographics and begin to learn what types of products and services they are interacting with and when. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s a word that deserves a prominent place in every management team’s playbook. It gives you some control when the external environment is rapidly changing, and people are looking to you for leadership. Understanding the potential futures steers decision-making away from reaction and towards positive action.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. This could be done annually or just one time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

people who want to help. A good CRM like HubSpot or EveryAction can help you do that, or if not, pulling available data into a centralized “source of truth” is a good place to start. Your most passionate volunteers have a lot of useful data floating around in spreadsheets, e-mails, texts, and minds. That is a GREAT start.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Among the sixteen are: Collaborate and Connect Lead with Calm Purpose Gather Your Generals Communicate, Communicate, Communicate Protect Your Cash Learn From History Put Your People First Seek Help Supercharge Your Creativity Rest, Reward, Review The sixteen methods make up what Burstall calls, The Flexible Method.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. . I’m Steven.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Understanding the tipping points and which behaviors lead to them allows you to take deliberate actions to encourage more engagement and build customer loyalty. Tipping points can include: Acquisition – when people move from interacting with your content to actually joining your association.

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Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

One way to achieve this is by implementing an email strategy where you send a series of emails that educate and inspire your target audience and provide them with a clear call-to-action. If your click-through rate dips below 1%, it suggests that your call-to-action may be buried or unclear within your email.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

Let’s take a look at a few ways you can shift challenges into opportunities, keep your association top of mind, and maintain your revenue stream in 2023. Look Beyond Top Line Revenue Most people define success by revenue generated, but in today’s economy, we need to go beyond the numbers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

That’s why peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns do so well – people want to give to their friends, or their friends’ friends, and rally around their loved ones. Most texts are read right away, so the easier it is to get involved, the more likely donors are to take action then and there. Start crowdfunding with birthday fundraisers.

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Association Analytics

JULY 27, 2021

If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. With a taxonomy in place you’ll be able to: Analyze performance : Look at the specific performance of one piece of content against other pieces. Take action with your data. Keep your audience in mind as you create content.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

People with this way of thinking tend to see challenges as opportunities, embrace failure as steppingstones to success, and persist in the face of obstacles. But how do you translate amorphous “growth” into actionable steps? This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

In fact, 55% of people who engage with nonprofits on social media decide to support them in some way. Millions of people participate in Giving Tuesday, and billions of dollars are raised annually. In order to prioritize the right people, it’s imperative that you know who they are as people and where to find them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

One way to do that is to come from a place of humility. . When you share that in your messages, you inspire them to take a desired action. . There’s your organization, the people you’re hoping to serve, and the people who play a role in helping you do just that. Don’t victimize the people you’re working to help. .

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. Shared stories bind all sorts of people, from families to religious groups. Nonprofit storytelling lets donors and volunteers know that they are making an impact and making life better for real people. Again, words matter.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I stick by them as a place to begin. You want to inspire them to take action and feel a certain way after they make their donation. . In order to inspire the donor to take action, you need to create a sense of urgency around the ask. . With that in mind, the focus should be on them, not on you or your organization. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Although there are many benefits to holding a nonprofit focus group, the main goal is to collect specific data from a certain group of people. Once you have those results in hand, you’ll have actionable insights that can inform what your nonprofit does next. With that in mind, when should you hold a nonprofit focus group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Making a real big difference demands that leaders do interior work to gain a self-understanding of themselves, develop relationship building skills and facilitating the work work of groups and leveraging their professional and organizational networks, and a clear and actionable understanding complex systems change. It made a dull sound.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding your nonprofit audiences—their hearts and minds, wallets and worlds—is critical to successfully communicating in an election year. Three —Mind the Calendar + Communicate Precisely The months nearest to the election, October especially, are going to be some of the toughest times to reach your audiences.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

But long term, you can’t run an entire organization from the generosity of only a handful of people. The bottom line: you need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want. (Many founders do.) What Fundraising Plan Template is Right For YOU?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Loneliness is not defined by the lack of people, because someone can be lonely even while surrounded by others. Revealing, insightful, and packed with a good balance of science, statistics, stories, and actionable strategies, the book, Connectable , is an incredibly timely must-read for leaders. A signal we belong together.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With fewer people picking up their phone for unknown callers, phone-a-thons appear to be waning in effectiveness. Calling up a donor to thank them for their gift will keep your nonprofit top-of-mind when the next appeal comes around. You can put a thank-a-thon into action for your nonprofit in five easy steps: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

10-Year Thinking – Shift your mind from short-term thinking to thinking in ten-year time frames. Put Everything in One Place – Pick the one place you will capture every idea, commitment, thought, action item, and promise. Take Time Off – Take 130 days off per year and don’t think about on any of those days.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). Our goal is to expand our shelter so that we can help more women and children who need an emergency place to stay.

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

This can help improve your clickthrough and engagement rates and better solidify your organization in the minds of your audience. Consider using on-platform social data to engage your audience to learn more about upcoming initiatives or to inspire action. Are there organic posts that are performing well and going viral?

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Q: Does this copy start in the right place? Your lede (the first few lines, usually up to the first call to action) is the most important part of your message. It’s where you set the emotional tone, establish the context of time and place, and let the audience know that this content is for them. Is the call to action clear?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

The decisions your people make, and the actions your people take, translate into daily experience for your donors and supporters. Come from a place of service. With that in mind, fundraising should be framed as a revenue center, not a cost center. Build goodwill.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re like every nonprofit on the planet, you’ve got one thing on your mind: acquiring new donors! Finding people who genuinely care about your cause is like making a new friend; it takes time and effort. These people are already open to building a relationship with your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

To make a solid first impression online, you need a captivating web design that draws supporters in and encourages them to take action, such as by registering for your upcoming event, applying to volunteer, or donating to your cause. Fonts: Use the same header and body fonts throughout your content to create a cohesive viewing experience.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

She said: New email subscribers Event attendees Volunteers Advocacy action-takers Google Grant search ad-clickers Random local connections Are You Forgetting Something? Last fiscal year we had 3,967 people donate to a peer-to-peer campaign. New donor acquisition is always on our minds. Our conversation continued.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

Stories help non-profits illustrate their compelling reasons for giving in a way that makes sense to people who aren’t doing the work day in and day out. When you tell a problem story, here are a few key points to include: What is the problem facing the people or place your organization is trying to help? The Impact Story.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

Your communications need to provide information about your organization to people who are only marginally familiar with it. How can your messaging speak to the majority of people who are more curious than committed, and also deepen connection with your most dedicated community members? What tells you people are ready to move?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

So, what does it take to prevent donor fatigue and keep people giving? People get tired when an organization repeatedly asks without giving them a reason to keep giving. People aren’t sure how their money’s being used (lack of transparency). I’ll show you. What is Donor Fatigue? How Often Can You Ask for Donations?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Start with broader objectives, then narrow in on SMART (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Timely) goals that fall under each. 6) Use web-based tools to keep everyone on the same page and all the information in one place. It’s even harder when multiple people are involved, including volunteers and staff at the golf facility.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Clarify navigation and next actions. Use calls-to-action. Use automated personalization tools. Reference statistics when framing CTA content.

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