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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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Let’s break it down: Logo: Your logo is an image that gives people a feel for what your organization is about. Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. An alternative is to use stock photos, but this too brings challenges. and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer.

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8 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Advance Your Mission

Connection Cafe

Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . Capitalize on this by using images to tell your story and evoke the donors’ emotions. Alternatively, allowing a smaller number of raffle tickets with a higher price will increase the donor’s odds. Include imagery to enhance the connection.

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

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Is it a mistake to reuse campaign creative and images from the previous year? I think it would be a mistake to use the same images of beneficiaries or programs because it could be interpreted by some that nothing has really changed. Your story and the images related to the story should change, otherwise your constituents will notice.

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Best Practices: Creating Alt Text for Social Media

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Alternative text (alt text) is used to describe non-textual elements, like photos, icons, and data visualizations. Just like images on websites, including alt text for social media images is important to make your social media posts accessible for people with disabilities and in low-bandwidth environments.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

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Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. Dull, choppy, and sloppy writing will smudge your image, taint your brand, and create negative impressions that steer people away from your nonprofit. We suffer writer’s block. It’s all very humbling.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

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For example, this image explains why The Tide is High was included: There are over 400 different tags used to relate songs in the Music Genome Project, ranging from “brisk swing feel” to “lyrics that tell a story” to “sparse tenor sax solo.” Pandora is a model for an alternative. new to me and b. For each song, I could click a “Why?”