Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2019! Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Bonus Donor Retention Tips* by Chuck Longfield, Chief Scientist at Blackbaud. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Harvey McKinnon , Harvey McKinnon and Associates.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2014! Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Bonus Donor Retention Tips* by Chuck Longfield, Chief Scientist at Blackbaud. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Harvey McKinnon , Harvey McKinnon and Associates.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Here is Miller's specific advice for the overwhelmed nonprofit: Plan out your editorial calendar: It's like planning out your menus for the week or month. Use tools like Google Calendar to assign work and plan publishing in whatever time frame is realistic for you -- week, month, or quarter. Q & A Interviews.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

Main | Advocacy Online Unveils Social Networking Platform in Toronto » Thursday Jun 11 2009 Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:58AM | by Allyson Kapin Your nonprofit spends time and money growing your online list. June 11, 2009 | Tara Great list of tips! Check them out! Stay-tuned.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants tips to improve first-time donor retention: Dear Charity Clairity, What tips would you give to a small to medium-size shop to improve first-time donor retention? Encourage them to subscribe to your newsletter, and always thank supporters there. Build a relationship.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A board calendar with all board meetings, trainings, conferences, fundraising events , and program volunteer opportunities. Seek out their advice, thank them for investing their time and resources, and make sure you do a listening tour where you spend one-on-one time with each of them getting feedback and assessing their needs.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

They seek advice from experts who tell them that they need to “engage” more, or have more “engaging” content, or build more “engagement” strategies. Here are 6 tips to help you create content that stands out from the noise: Make somebody accountable for creating great content. Create a content calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Can you share some tips about for dealing with the stress that results from using technology, like email. I also carve out time to read articles or newsletters I find interesting. What’s your advice to nonprofit professionals? My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Use your email newsletter or social media platforms to spread the word about matching gifts and encourage match-eligible donors to fill out the necessary forms to get their gifts matched. Also, your nonprofit likely has a few special fundraising opportunities on the calendar for this year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Tips and Tools for Powerful Storytelling. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

We’ll review some of those tips in this guide: Tips for starting your monthly giving program. As you move through each tip and example, note the program elements you think will work best for your nonprofit’s audience. Tips for starting your monthly giving program. 5 excellent monthly giving program examples.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So we’ve got a true grant expert here to talk about some tips for you. . I see we have some additional questions about competitiveness and finding your right niche, and tips for getting unrestricted grants, and writing grants in a compelling way. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. And so when you have these questions in your mind, you can put things on your website, you can throw things in newsletters, you can start conversations with some of the core questions that donors really care about.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

We hope you find their advice for nonprofit multi-channel marketing helpful! Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate. Knowing this, you might focus most of your marketing efforts on digital outreach, sending out social media posts and email newsletters that include a link to your website’s giving page.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

But I’m here to tell you that mastering interactive calendars or sending photos on cell phones isn’t rocket science. Rather than remain a message in a bottle, I hope Momentum becomes a compass, like George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of An Elephant or Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Although you can find some exclusive advice from her on our blog as well, which we’ll link to if you’re interested in learning that. You want to make a note of this in your file, on your calendar, some kind of system that you have. You also want to profile legacy donors in your newsletters.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2014

What happens when 14 nonprofit experts come together to share tried-and-true donor retention strategies, tips and ideas? There’s no doubt in my mind that you’ll improve your fundraising efforts and boost retention rates if you take the advice each of these professionals are sharing. Philosopher & baker of pies.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Feel free to jump to a certain section if you’re looking for specific advice, or read through the full post. Additional ways to get involved, such as by signing up for your email newsletter or checking out your event calendar. Creating a secure donation process. Stewarding your donors throughout the donation process.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. One of my go-tos is I always love seeing those emails come in because there’s always great advice from Chad. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Chad, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Nonprofit communicators spend so much time producing newsletters and getting emails out and managing social media that sometimes you get into this routine of just producing the things, doing the tactics without stopping to remember, “Okay, this is the specific audience we want to reach. This is the specific action we want them to take.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. Each of those are assets. Okay, great.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. So let’s go into these three tips.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Pro Tip: Include a line item like “administrative costs” where you anticipate the actual costs will be much lower than what you’ve budgeted for. If this is the case for your event, our only advice is to start planning it as early as possible. This will allow you a cushion to move money around if another item ends up going over budget.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2014

Today, they have 1,145 followers, a 30% engagement rate, and were awarded the Gold Award for social media from Fundraising Success magazine – all because they took her advice and started telling stories differently. What else caught your eye this week? Yours truly, Madeline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Their website templates are mobile-compatible, built on WordPress, and include recurring giving, event and volunteer management, email newsletter sign-up, and blogging. Loomly :: loomly.com. WiseStamp :: wisestamp.com.

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