BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Last month we turned to fundraising guru and guest blogger Gail Perry for advice on how to make your board members a little less BORED. 3) Focus on problems, challenges, or broad issues. Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. 12 Ways to Liven Up Your Board Meetings – And Your Board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). There’s no reason why nonprofits can’t capture some of that buzz, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. And there is another problem here also. The Death of the PDF.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). There’s no reason why nonprofits can’t capture some of that buzz, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal. Roberto Evaristo suggested: When selling to executives, many times I start by showing a picture of a produce section of a grocery store and ask: What is missing here?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Don’t let the big picture get away from you! This gives you someone specific to picture as you plan your marketing. Depending on your cause, you might picture an upper-class, middle-aged businesswoman or a young father with school-aged children. Relevant: Align your goals with your cause and your mission statement.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters. We hope you find their advice for nonprofit multi-channel marketing helpful! Why is it important for nonprofits?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So if you get interrupted, or you have to bounce early, no problem. ” If you’re not moving for the right reasons, it’s a problem because moving is expensive, it’s time-consuming, and it takes a lot of brainpower. So I can picture your office or your home office. So my advice for you here, low tech.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. “Fighting for 25 years.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

And a poorly run gala could create reputational problems down the line. If this is the case for your event, our only advice is to start planning it as early as possible. If your team will have problems running the event, that’s an issue. The earlier you detect problems like these, the easier it will be to correct them!

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Now I’m in the office because nobody’s traveling and that’s not going to be a problem. One of my go-tos is I always love seeing those emails come in because there’s always great advice from Chad. It’s my problem. We didn’t paint the picture of who potential supporters are for our organization.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

The thought leadership, the advice, these are the intangibles that major donors often bring to the table. If your current fundraising is limited to direct mail appeals and writing for grants, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Oh, you look at this picture. That’s really good advice. Steven: Yeah.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The problem is that data everywhere! She advices subjecting your data to the so what test. Shari warns that there’s a lot of data points to collect,”so choose a few things to monitor or track, and then develop a workflow that will allow you to gain a big picture view. Why is that so hard? She checks three times a week.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

During this time, naturally, Tech Impact received a lot of requests for support and implementation projects and things like that—and also advice. The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. I don’t have a standard way you can do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

As I think about my own children getting to the age when they will use the web, I'm trying not to get too depressed about what educators have said about this growing problem of cyberbullies over at the Stop CyberBullying site. Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: about civility!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. Sometimes we forget to even like mail or, sorry, email them the final strategic plan.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

People like pictures, video over words. Because when you think about, when you’re on social media and you’re scrolling, you stop when you see a picture or video quicker than, say, words. Your vision is the future picture of what you see happening as a result of your mission, you fulfilling your mission.

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