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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

ASU Lodestar Center

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

Who is responsible for each objective and what activities they will complete to work toward the objective. Donor stewardship leads to better retention rates and better fundraising results down the line. Who at our organization has repetitive tasks that take time away from more important activities? Donor-centric stewardship.

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Marketing for Every Moment of the Student Engagement Lifecycle

Connection Cafe

There’s so much ground to cover when you’re planning an engagement strategy for much of your target audience’s life. Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Its response rate is 5-9x more than email , paid search, or social media. Here’s where to focus at every stage. Attracting Students.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Steven Shattuck, Bloomerang’s Chief Engagement Officer , found that when donors give a recurring gift their retention rate increases to 90%. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? In putting on those sweatshirts, we all agree to stand together, so that we can be active participants in what happens to us and around us.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Click To Tweet. Host a Community Clean-Up. World Environment Day (June 5). Eat for Good. Host a Prom for a Purpose.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Additionally, 70 percent of the older users rated their communities as very important or extremely important, compared to 58 percent of younger users. They've always been connected.