Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2024

You’ve only got a few brief seconds to engage attendees as they browse item displays, making item descriptions one of the best ways to catch their attention. Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.)

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 10, 2016

Indeed, what started as a way to connect with people in an online world has now become the domain of all elements that drive our world: non-profit causes, e-commerce behemoths, social activism extraordinaire, political wrangling and, of course, lots and lots of controversy. Leverage the best possible imagery you can.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Essential Details for every gala invitation Headline: Captivate with a catchy title that reflects your event’s theme and purpose. Attention Grabbing Headline This is your chance to grab the attention of your reader and get them to pay attention to this special gala invitation. Let’s dive in!

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M+R

JANUARY 24, 2022

Good creative is essential because it’s how we seize attention in incredibly busy spaces. It’s how we connect on the deeply personal, emotional, human level that inspires people to support the causes that change the world. In many cases, we are asking people to take action on a topic that affects them directly.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Include the hashtag on every post related to the event so people can click it and see related posts. When you book a headliner act or keynote speaker, feature them in a sneak preview of your lineup. Allow event headliners or speakers to do an Instagram takeover. People enjoy seeing what it takes to make an event a success.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

These sentiments were echoed in the focus groups the Commission conducted: People wanted to give and thought it should be a priority, but they felt hindered by time, money, and a general feeling of helplessness,” according to the authors. “At the end of fiscal ’23, that had declined to 1.4 million, a 50% drop in that five-year period.”

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

One —Acknowledge Your Environment + Lead with Your Mission Yes, the presidential election is important and will be commanding the attention of the media and masses alike. There are, and always will be, other headlines, but your supporters are your supporters because they care about your work. They are real people.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As such, consider showcasing your mission statement as a sub-headline on your nonprofit’s homepage, appearing just after your nonprofit’s tagline or name, to immediately grab your audience’s attention. Another tip for success: People retain 80% of what they see, so thinking visually is an easy way to get ahead.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2024

Why AI is worth paying attention to It will soon be impossible to do your job without it. Most likely 80% of the work people do in business today will be AI-assisted, at least in part, within the next two years. More people are familiar with the former, where you use it to draft text. And the year after that.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Several of our Blackbaud nonprofit customers have recently had incredible success using a personalized approach to email: 1) An animal rights organization doubled click-through rates by personalizing an event email invitation with: The last year people attended. How much the event raised that year. Including last year’s gift amount.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The internet is a busy, crowded place, buzzing with almost 2 billion websites and millions of brands competing for attention. You can create website content that will boost your nonprofit’s site in search results and put it on people’s radar without a degree in copywriting or any technical expertise. Getting noticed is a challenge. .

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. Craft a minimum of three different headlines and use a tool like Advanced Marketing Institute’s Headline Analyzer to gauge the most effective subject line. Are you tired of feeling like a wee fish in the vast ocean of social media?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. The piece had started life as an announcement style press release that we rewrote to convert paragraphs about people into quotes by them. So how do you make the fact that you’re doing a 5K or walk into news that’s going to get reported?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us? Craft good headlines. Do you want people to click?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.” You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.” Go to “People” and search individually by name, or import your contacts from your e-mail address books.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

People are strapped for time. Their attention spans are short. There are only two headlines which, if read alone, give the following message: Bar pass rate continues to climb. There’s nothing else to break up the text or draw attention to important points. Is your appeal easy to understand? Our Incoming 1L class.”

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

And for the first time this year, we are turning our attention to a key fact: sometimes, when the numbers speak, they do so with an accent. For nonprofit digital ads, the unmistakable headline of M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study has been continued growth. Major donors get the fanfare, the galas, and the special one-to-one contact.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The challenge is grabbing your visitor’s attention. I have been moved to give by the simple, human decency of an organization that sends volunteers into the streets and under bridges to offer food, clothing, and tents to people who call the streets home. Some people will agree to be photographed if asked. It’s not much time.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Include an eye-catching image, interesting headline, details on how this particular form of involvement helps and then the form. Note the large image with interesting artwork that first grabs your attention. The layout is easy to follow, the colors are attention-getting and the content is engaging. It’s a pretty basic design.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Most people who’ve been doing email communication for any length of time understand that too many emails equals increased unsubscribes, lower open rates and lower click through rates. But so many more starving children need help” – The attention quickly shifted back to the urgent need. 3) In Case You Didn’t See This.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ask successful couples what their secret is and you’ll often year that effective communication and attention play an important role. Here are some great ways to communicate with and shower attention on donors for a long, happy relationship. Make sure the subject line is an intriguing headline, not “April Newsletter from Our Charity.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.” You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.” Go to “People” and search individually by name, or import your contacts from your e-mail address books.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By translating these lessons into the nonprofit context, we can gain valuable insights into crafting campaigns that inspire participation rather than simply grab attention. 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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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2017

Ever since the Internet became widely available, there has been an obsession with “going viral,” or producing content so interesting, or funny, or cute that millions upon millions of people view it. We’ve all seen those horribly clickbait-y headlines , which always seem to include “You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next!!”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A short vignette, such as this, will grab the reviewers' attention and encourage them to learn more about the issue. For example, you could use a series of headlines from the local news such as this (again, fictional): June 9, 2017 — The Daily News: Shelter Takes in 87 Abandoned Dogs. Her options for clean water are limited.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Luckily, there are affordable and effective tools you can leverage to spread awareness and get people excited about your fundraising efforts—namely, your website. The best nonprofit websites out there incorporate smart fundraising strategies into their designs to attract the most attention and support for their initiatives.

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See3

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As we often tell our video clients, nonprofits are ultimately competing against cat videos for their audience’s attention. But you have to pull people in emotionally first – make them laugh, make them cry, or make them think about something in a new and interesting way. What’s the first step to pulling people in?

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Sure, sometimes there’s a crunch to release something, or a customer support ticket that requires extra attention?—?but A: The people who work here. In the current news cycle, it seems like bad news makes it to all the headlines. A: The people. but those cases are few and far between. Q: What is your favorite lunch spot?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Pay Attention to Your Subject Line and Headline. If readers open the email, the headline will make a large difference in whether they read the entire email or not. On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy , but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

I invited Roz Lemieux is CEO of Attentively and founding partner at Fission Strategy to write a guest post sharing the best and next practices for nonprofits to use listening effectively as part of their social media strategy. Your People Are Talking. Are You Listening?” Segment your data and use your social listening skills.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

Write content that uses the words people are likely to use when they search for your mission or service. " If people are looking for "learn to read," use "learn to read" in your content. Load keywords in all the important places — page titles, meta descriptions, and headlines.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Auctions, casino nights, galas, golf tournaments, fish fries, 5ks, raffles, and walks—whatever type of event your organization uses to raise funds—require a lot of planning, coordination, attention to detail, and time to bring to life. But somehow you find the time, people, and the energy to make it happen. but was it really a success?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

With the oversaturation of social media and the challenges over fake news, people are turning back to receiving email from organizations they trust. With the oversaturation of social media and the challenges over fake news, people are turning back to receiving email from organizations they trust. Email Is Back.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

However, a little media know-how can help you get some attention for your campaign. Journalists are busy people, and they do not have time to read through an essay about how amazing your nonprofit is. The Northlake Public Library, in particular, got an incredible amount of media attention for its fundraiser.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. Who Is Giving?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Grassroots advocacy requires getting the word out to many different people across many different platforms. This can be a sign to reevaluate your approach to some platforms or to consolidate your efforts and focus your attention where it has the greatest impact. Market your advocacy campaign on multiple platforms.

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