Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Risky, dangerous activities are what typically come to mind when you think about signing waivers. Which fundraising events require waivers? Activity-based events.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

By focusing on connecting with these donors, showing them how their investment in your cause is making a tangible impact, and offering alternative ways to get involved, you can support steady or increased retention at your organization. It may sound obvious, but many nonprofits simply never ask contributors to increase their donations.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the rise of COVID-19 cases and the second wave fast approaching, hosting a virtual school event is much more accessible, allowing your school to follow district, county, and state guidelines, putting parents’ minds at ease. While a virtual scape room space might not sound so appealing, think again!

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the rise of COVID-19 cases and the second wave fast approaching, hosting a virtual school event is much more accessible, allowing your school to follow district, county, and state guidelines, putting parents’ minds at ease. While a virtual scape room space might not sound so appealing, think again!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

Whether you are a university that can’t have alumni come to campus, a nonprofit scrambling to replace your gala , or an association coming up with an alternative to an annual conference, a large part of organizational revenue is at stake. One thing to keep in mind is that the role of an event is to get people outside their normal routine.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

When you hear the words “Nonprofit Board Meeting,” what comes to mind? ” Any of that sound familiar? But a Board member’s home can often be a lovely alternative, while still offering a private space for conversations. How do you feel? I’m willing to bet I know the answer. In one word, “UGH.” Then, they want to leave early.”

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Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

Segment Sign-Ups by Project When someone decides to volunteer with your organization, they often have a specific task, project, or campaign in mind. Automate but Personalize Appreciation “Automated personalized appreciation” may sound like a contradiction, but it’s completely possible as long as you get to know your volunteers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I truly wish I could have attended Facing Race , which sounded like a completely awesome and transformative event this past fall in Baltimore. You should go and tell us all about it. My sister attended, and I kicked myself about 87 times for not knowing about it or getting out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy was barreling up the Atlantic coast of the United States, a husband and wife in their early 90s, frail of body and mind though resolute (some would say stubborn) of spirit, finally gave in to the pleadings of their family. From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

Are you looking to explore options, or make a decision between two or more alternatives? If you’re seeking to make a decision between two or more alternatives, your research question might sound something like: Do our customers prefer product X or product Y? How satisfied are our clients with our services?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

While this sounds like a clear “no brainer”, organizations often struggle to implement these types of data-driven decisions. To truly leverage analytics the organization needs to become comfortable in challenging assumptions, debating alternatives but only if the challenge is supported by the data. Clear, specific and visionary.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For people who weren’t local, any park was a great alternative. We need you to Take Action with us so that, together, we can bring healing to girls’ hearts, minds, and communities.” If that sounds like a lot, that’s because it is. In 2021, they brought back the event, including all the lessons they had learned in 2020.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. But I couldn’t get there. I have so many one-offs that I enjoyed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

How to make the transitions smoother without that annoying burp sound or without it abrupting stopping midstream. I put the clip into another project, turned off the sound, saved it as AVI and brought into the original project.) lighting, sound, framing, etc.? Record good sound (this is the basis of your viewer???s

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you don’t have it in your budget to hire a professional to shoot your video for you, think of alternatives to get your message across, use animations, a slideshow, illustrations, or edit in other pre-recorded footage. Optimize your content: Keeping your goal in mind, write out your ideas and think of the story you’d like to tell.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

The staff member I worked with had in mind a particular feeling she wanted people to go away having--that kind of sense of community that comes when you've worked together to achieve something. For example, on Monday afternoon Inspectors were asked to make more interesting alternatives to all the signs and rules in the building.

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CauseVox

JUNE 23, 2022

The pattern will probably sound familiar: a large group of email recipients results in a smaller group of website visitors, resulting in an even smaller number of donations. Desired Action vs. Alternative Action : Your value proposition applies at every step along the donor mountain, not just with donations. The Donor Mountain.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Alternatively, you may want to include sub-restrictions for programs with many individual funds. In theory, it doesn’t sound too bad. Keeping these dos and don’ts in mind as you build your donation forms will help make everyone happy. But it makes the donor think—a lot —about their gift. Conclusion.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When you think about your nonprofit’s digital communication strategy , what comes to mind? To ensure these visitors can gain value from your multimedia content, include the following formatting elements on your website: Alternative text for images. However, the core of this strategy is your organization’s website.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

While you may be thinking, “That just sounds like fundraising,” what differentiates it is its intensity and specific goal. Those individuals also suggested an alternative area where prices are a bit more stable. During the meeting, you should have a specific ask amount in mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Climate change is on people's minds. Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right? It sounds pretty cheap to you and me. So, we're mindful of that. Needless to say, that's something that we at TransFair are always mindful of, and always looking to monitor. Are we being used?

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2022

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.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

However, a few accessibility design best practices you might miss are: Alternative text and transcripts. Providing alternative text and video transcripts can help these visitors engage with your content. Keep in mind that many visitors will evaluate your website in seconds. Color contrast.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

That was actually quite frankly a little bit of a relief because I knew and then I could move on and I could start making plans because being on the furlough and being able to receive some unemployment, I wasn’t necessarily looking for another job although I had my mind open to it because there was no promise I was being brought back.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So this is a different alternative to what you can do with fundraising, and it’s a lot easier because it’s focused on the funder lens asset alignment and then you’ve created this map and you know where to focus. Sounds good. ” You can do that with compassion, with empathy, still with the win-win in mind.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So this is a different alternative to what you can do with fundraising, and it’s a lot easier because it’s focused on the funder lens asset alignment and then you’ve created this map and you know where to focus. And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Keep this in mind when adding photos, infographics, audio recordings, and videos to your website, as these make a stronger emotional impact than text alone. To improve media file accessibility on your nonprofit’s website, make sure to: Add alternative text to images. That is, if all users can easily access these types of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

But here are a few that stick very prominently in my mind. Okay – so how can one ask seven times without sounding redundant or annoying? Even with the best of intentions other organizations, especially media organizations (even alternative ones), are viewed as with suspicion. In truth there are countless lessons every day.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

From 1971 to 1974 he was the founding editor of the excellent New Times alternative newspaper in Phoenix, where I first found out about him. I see social enterprise as a kind of benign stopgap — an approach whereby people can contribute to the good of the world, find people of similar mind, and make a living.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess. And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that? That purpose might be to grow financial well for a for-profit business.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

First thing in the morning here for me, I know it’s afternoon for you, but do you mind kind of reading the chat box as we go? That sounds great. . We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” Steven: Yes.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sounds cooler anyway. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. There are certainly a number of things that you might want to have in mind to do earlier in the process. Rachel: Yeah, you can say win rate.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

But just keep in mind that at the end of the day it’s really up to the donor to decide how much they want to trust you. So help to build their confidence. Trust is so key in this whole process. So that’s the self-custody or hardware. Matt: Yeah.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Throw in the real-time nature of a museum visit, visitors' reticence to participate socially in the museum, and archaic data systems, and this may sound downright impossible. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So just keep that in mind. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames. There are lots of other software systems out there, so no longer do you have to pay $20,000 to get Raiser’s Edge. You can have a database that fits your particular budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. Why Working Online Can Be Distracting.

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