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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

are now integral parts of our online communications and fundraising campaigns and like any tools of value, they requite a minimal level of financial investment. 4) Read more books. Now I am lucky if I can get through a first chapter much less read an entire book in less than 6 months. Reading books does that.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

If all you’re here for is a list of email ledes you can use for fundraising or advocacy messaging, you can go ahead and skip right to that part. That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. Read time: Kind of a while, tbh, but there’s a shortcut!

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Streaming Headlines or Other Content from other Blogs or Links. - There are beer widgets that create foamy heads in a canned beer, with the first one patented by Guiness.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? How do you measure the impact of the crowd here?

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Our EveryAction Hero: Middle East Children's Alliance

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. So given that we’re in the midst of end of year fundraising season what are some of your strategies or campaigns for year end?