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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. Moving from theory to practice is heavy labor after all, and sometimes these dreamers falter in the execution of moving from abstraction into reality. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle.

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Best Practices: Creating Alt Text for Social Media

Forum One

Alternative text (alt text) is used to describe non-textual elements, like photos, icons, and data visualizations. When considering emojis in your social media post copy, here are a few best practices to keep in mind: Don’t include the same emoji more than once. Alt text: Illustrations of medical services. Additional Resources.

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

Connection Cafe

A Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) accreditation signifies and up-to-date knowledge of best practices and ethical guidelines for fundraising, and is obtained after an application citing 3+ years of full-time experience and passing a rigorous written examination. What other questions do you have? We’re happy to answer!

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their NoĂ«l celebrations differ widely. I didn’t realize as a child how traditions vary across the Christian world.

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31 Unique Ideas for Small Church Fundraisers

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Ask everyone to submit a fun story or tidbit about something from their childhood. As a virtual alternative , have each of your congregants set up a personal fundraising webpage. A “When We Were Young” guessing game is a great way to raise money for your ministry while also helping your congregants get to know each other better.

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