Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is finding what works for your team, managing change, and maybe even changing the culture. As fundraisers, we spend so much time trying to connect prospective donors to the mission of our organizations, but we don’t always remind our teams how their own work is vital to the mission. Keeping officers motivated is tough.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. We may want to move toward treating reporting as a compliance tool to public reporting as an articulation of shared desires and advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. By applying this approach to program development or strategy, your nonprofit can get more impactful results. We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice.

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Candid

MAY 20, 2021

Nonprofits have overcome some serious challenges over the past year. We’ve walked nonprofits of all sizes through the process of determining whether a capital campaign makes sense for them at this particular time. We wanted to share a few common questions that we receive from nonprofits and offer our own thoughts.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Komen, Event 360, Peerworks Consulting, and our own Cathexis Partners team as part of the virtual conference, It’s a Peer-to-Peer World. Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Site maps : How we create research-based site maps and special considerations for nonprofits when developing site maps. User Research. Information Architecture.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Note: This is the tenth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. We like to post the final images online so the team can see how the pages will look in the context of a web browser. Methodology.

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

I don’t have a complete articulation of what that is yet, but two things got my attention recently that feel different. Here’s the new Mac ad format: Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. When we create personas for a nonprofit, we try to limit the number to 5 or 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

He then quotes Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, who has described this phase of the IT revolution with the acronym SOCIAL: “ S , he says, is for speed — everything is now happening faster. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. O , he says, stands for open.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Ready to learn more about Giving Tuesday and how your nonprofit can make the most of it? Let’s get started!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations. Really thrilled to be here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. First, there is a design and planning phase. Step 1: Removing Resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I am not new to the idea about what it means to lead when the tide has shifted, but what I really had to come to understand over the last several years was what it means to really lead and manage your time and manage your team when your reality continues to change and the only thing that feels constant is change. Oh, my gosh.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. Let’s begin with an overview of course authoring software before diving into the tools your team can access. The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

The debate surrounding nonprofit feasibility studies can sometimes pose interesting questions: Do nonprofits need to conduct them to host successful capital campaigns? But first — what is a nonprofit feasibility study, and how can you succeed in conducting one? Are they worth the cost? Planned gift donors. Board members.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

While clearly there is no secret formula for success in complex projects, here are some considerations that come up regularly in the nonprofit space, where resources are (understandably) spread thin and executive focus often tends toward Mission delivery rather than operations. Executive Vision and Involvement. Defining Requirements.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2014

When we design a nonprofit site, creating a responsive design is almost always a requirement. During visual design, we treated each breakpoint individually to ensure we articulated the ideal look and feel for each screen size. Going responsive just makes sense! Designs for each Break-point. Search Results. Quality Assurance.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

My last post covered a few common denominators I see in successful IT projects at nonprofit organizations: executive vision and involvement, defining requirements, and proactive risk identification and management, all of which provide a solid foundation for executing a project. What makes an IT project successful?

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a nonprofit leader, you’ll be delighted to learn that new research affirms what most of us knew: Americans are generous. Indeed, Phase 2 of our. For nonprofits that rely on donations from individuals, this poses a problem. What’s a nonprofit leader to do? This post originally appeared on. Philanthropy News Digest.

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