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Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards to yield success

ASU Lodestar Center

Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards can be divided into three broad phases. Phase 1: Triple A’s - awareness, attitude and action. Phase 2: Implementation. This phase starts with evaluating current board composition using a board matrix. Once recruited and interviewed an onboarding process can be established.

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. This was not the case before the tweetathon.

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How to Run a Capital Campaign

CauseVox

You’ll want to put together a list of questions to help you determine if your community is on board, and then interview all the stakeholders. Generally a capital campaign happens in two parts: a silent phase and a public phase. The Silent Phase of Your Capital Campaign. The Public Phase of Your Capital Campaign.

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Nonprofit Fundraising Videos Inspire More Giving

Get Fully Funded

By varying the styles of your videos, you capture your audience’s attention in different ways. Interview: In an interview video, someone from your organization interviews someone who has received services or has expertise in your cause. Here are a few different kinds of videos you can use.

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The Ladder of Love: Growing Facebook Fans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Getting people to click the “like&# button and join your Facebook is only the first step in a deep engagement strategy. You have to provide good content so people it will catch your fans attention and they will like your posts. I like to call it the ladder of love!

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. What sold us on Big Duck's Brandraising was the time and attention they were spending on research and deep understanding of what makes an organization tick inside and out.

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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week I published an interview with Lean Start Up author, Eric Ries, that talked about how the lean start up ideas apply to the nonprofit sector. In recent years, funders, practitioners and academics have been paying more and more attention to the role of social networks in addressing issues of public concern.