Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the top platforms you can leverage to get the word out about your business, including: Your Website Social Media Mobile App A well-designed marketing plan can give your business the fuel it needs to bring attention to its services, products, events, campaigns, and more.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They give their time freely, often with no expectation of recognition or attention. In this article, we’ll show you examples of how to demonstrate your appreciation and best practices to maintain a consistent volunteer appreciation program. Be creative and keep your volunteers in mind when thinking of ways to thank them.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re like every nonprofit on the planet, you’ve got one thing on your mind: acquiring new donors! A smart online donation form is more likely to retain potential donors’ attention and encourage them to complete the process. Include donation buttons or text links at the end of blog posts or articles.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. What if you didn’t need a highly trained designer every time you needed an image for an article or report? These images could be used for a wide variety of storytelling and attention-grabbing hooks for content.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Keep these in mind next time you are self-editing, and you may find your ideal lede lurking a few lines in to your draft. People who care, yes, or they wouldn’t be your audience — but who very likely have other things on their mind. They might not get breaking news alerts on their phone. Remember: you are not normal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I’ve been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. This particular study attracted a lot of media attention and I read through about 50 different online articles and posts.

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Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

To better understand how your donation payment processor can continue building trust between millennials and your brand, this article will walk through the following topics: The importance of transparency . Telling a story can inspire Millennials to pay attention to the issue you are trying to solve as a nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

Now that task has been checked off my to do list, I am ready to pay attention to technology wellness again. The first thing I did was to take a walk at the Stanford Dish , a nearby nature hiking area, without my mobile phone. Last March, I tucked my mobile phone into a sleeping bag (see above) and turned off the screens.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

You need a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) to attract tons of attention and support for your cause. Has the blog been updated recently with a new article? How does my nonprofit’s website look on a phone? Here are 8 fundraising tools that should be sharpened and ready to go in your fundraising toolkit. Clear, magnetic BHAG.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

You must appeal to an audience that consists of young people who barely know how to address a letter, older people who are unfamiliar with WiFi and still clinging to their 2007 flip-phones and everyone in between. If you ship out a magazine, set up a version where people can pay to access the articles online. The solution?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 5, 2022

In this article I will share with you the same steps that I’ve followed myself in order to write fundraising letters that have helped organizations raise over $75,000 in just one appeal letter. You’ll also want to strategically use bolding or italics to call extra attention to key points in your letter.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

But, one of the things that has the biggest potential to drive more ticket sales right off the bat is having an amazing fundraising event invitation that captures your audience’s attention. If you take nothing else away from this article, remember this: inviting people to your event needs to happen multiple times and in multiple ways.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll discuss the following six concrete steps your nonprofit can take to boost revenue and grow your organization: Track your organization’s retention rate. As you focus your efforts and attention on growth, be sure to create a fundraising plan to help stay organized. Focus on building relationships.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

To help you get started, this article will explore four ways you can plan ahead now, including: Create a research-based fundraising strategy. Keep in mind that your Giving Tuesday strategy shouldn’t only focus on the day itself. Start testing your outreach plans. Get a head start on prospect research.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As you explore the different apps, pay attention to the highlighted features and consider how each could make a difference in how you fundraise. With both nonprofit-facing and donor-facing technology, they make it easy to manage all aspects of your next event right from your phone. Let’s explore both kinds of apps in the next section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

As a follow up, we published the following article as part of their newsletter. Meetings harness the energy of multiple minds around a topic. They nudge people to think more expansively and creatively than any one mind is likely to do. Many meetings today have both people at the table and people on the phone or Internet.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. And even though it may be more work in the short term, it will save you time in the long run by focusing your attention on the things that matter most. See this article for more tips on calculating your ROI.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

While you should be sending out more than donation appeal emails to your donors, when you do make those appeals, pay attention to your subject lines. Keep in mind that, at its core, your appeal email is an appeal. A number they can call to make a donation over the phone. If you don’t, your recipients won’t either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Being Present means paying attention to the people in front of us, focusing on the tasks at hand, and managing our emotions in the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This article shares insights from nonprofit marketers. . 16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. With the recent changes Facebook is making to the algorithm, this makes our videos all the more important since we have our most passionate supporters in mind when creating them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The gesture that prompted quite a bit of discussion and debate was someone on their mobile phone during a meeting. The debate boiled down to – “Just because someone is on their mobile phone does not mean they are not paying attention, they could be looking up information versus checking out.”

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This article originally appeared in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. Shattuck suggests it’s easier for smaller organizations because they probably have a smaller list than huge NPOs because it’s cheaper and easier to make a few phone calls.

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. It's this month's topic here at NTEN (and you should subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive the compiled "best of" version of these articles later this week). From the article: ". Should they alphabetize the names?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The extra attention you provide will empower you to connect with them on a deeper level and foster memorable experiences that minimize the distance. However, the last thing you want to do is take users’ attention away from completing the task at hand. Set suggested giving amounts. These give users a frame of reference.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

White in a TIME Magazine article in 2018. During this call, the gift officer can share their mobile phone number and suggest donors call if they need anything or just want to talk. All attention should be on retention. At that time, COVID-19 was not on the tip of everyone’s tongue.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This article offers suggestions to help churches like yours grow giving with church fundraising events. For instance, if there’s a religious holiday centered on giving, like Christmas or Easter, incorporating those themes into your giving day and hosting it ahead of the actual holiday can get congregants in a charitable frame of mind.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

Also, to maintain the strong attention span of that core 20 percent of your list, you'll need to keep bringing on new engaged subscribers every day. Furthermore, consider how people visiting your website with a mobile device such as a phone or smaller tablet will view the widget and fill it out.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Consider how much you should raise to effectively help your mission while keeping your budget in mind. . With that in mind, you’ll want to optimize your main organization’s website to be easily navigable and to make your 990 and impact reports easy to find. Phone calls. It’s important your fundraising team sets up a: .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you're just starting out, paying close attention to the aforementioned tools on the rise section is key to informing the direction of your visual strategy. Start by downloading an app like Instagram to your phone, and start experimenting without feeling the pressure to publish amazing art. It doesn't have to be scary.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

In order to optimize your site to receive the most traffic (and conversions), pay attention to how your site is currently performing. Are users from Google spending more time on your website than those who found it via a recent news article? Are social media users reading the blog posts that they click through to from Facebook posts?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

Think of the words "overhead" and "nonprofits" and what comes to mind? In an interview, Ghaffari also called out the accounting profession for not doing enough to direct nonprofits to accurately report overhead and programmatic costs: "Audit firms do not pay sufficient attention to cost allocation and assignment.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

You experience it at a high-end restaurant when they send you a complimentary appetizer because your entrée is late, or when the agent you’re on the phone with at Zappos doesn’t have your shoe and they find another retailer who does. Read less minds, ask more questions. We get great cultivation from our favorite brands.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If fundraising is a top priority for you, make sure you're capitalizing on their attention by putting an online fundraising ask in the imagery they're drawn to! With this in mind, it's important to understand that people are busy! Remove Obstacles to Action. So make it easy on them. Perform a Simple A/B Test.

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