Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In part two of this series on the skills you need to be a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about how to engage your audience emotionally through creative storytelling. In the first part of this series, I talked about why you need to define your goals, your brand and voice, and your audience before crafting your story.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. But the world is a noisy place: Donors are bombarded with constant messaging that can drown out a nonprofit’s attempts to reach them. paragraphs in your emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

Quinn – a consultant with more than 25 years working with nonprofits and curator of the Nonprofit Website Insider. It sometimes sounds as though tools like ChatGPT or Gemini could entirely replace humans in writing website content. And it could… if nonprofits didn’t need to write anything good.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Beyond choosing a fundraising idea, your nonprofit also has to decide whether you want to host your event in person or online. . In this guide, we’ll explore the pros and cons of virtual fundraising events so you can make the best decision for your nonprofit. What are the pros of hosting virtual nonprofit events? . According to.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Without a strong brand, you’ll spend your days reinventing the wheel, and your customers/donors/funders/audiences will struggle to connect. . At Media Cause, we work with nonprofits of all shapes and sizes, focused on raising awareness and driving donations for their specific causes. You didn’t invest in audience research. .

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Emailing Like a Pro: Navigating Gmail and Yahoo’s New Sender Requirements Imagine this: You’ve crafted the perfect email for your nonprofit’s big campaign, hit ‘send,’ and then… silence. Your message never reaches its audience, lost in the digital void.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

And securing more time in the future depends on how you pitch your nonprofit and whether your audience feels compatible with you. You know your nonprofit inside and out—which can both help and hurt you. Let your prospect feel like you are speaking with the voice of the organization. Let your audience feel smart!

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

Great content will help inform your audience and provide critical resources to both supporters and the people you serve. Develop your brand voice. Before you get started in building a content strategy, you should first ensure you know your brand voice. Are there any areas of your nonprofit you’ve never created content on?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Successful branding helps make your nonprofit recognizable, legitimate, and trustworthy to your audience. Through association with your nonprofit’s brand, your supporters and the general public will be reminded regularly of your organization’s distinct purpose, mission, and value in the world. Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them?

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Get all of your nonprofit’s stakeholders involved in this process.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ICYMI: We released a guide to help nonprofits develop creative that reaches your goals while living your values. Just as relevant creative begins by understanding the audience, authentic creative begins by understanding the speaker. All of the questions we asked about the audience to develop relevant creative apply here as well.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The world of social media is constantly evolving, and understanding social SEO is imperative for your nonprofit to make the most of organic content. What Is Social SEO and Why Is It Important for Your Nonprofit? Practical Implementation Does Social SEO matter for your Nonprofit? Does Social SEO matter for your Nonprofit?

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Kindful

JULY 22, 2021

Whether you have a person on staff to handle your appeals or you outsource your needs to a consultant, you should equip them with all the information they need to produce the content that will inspire your supporters to donate to your nonprofit. . The target audience. Provide as much info as you can about the target audience.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. Before anything else, make sure you understand who your audience is, and what the goal of your message is — whether that is revenue, petition signatures, clicks, education, or anything else.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? With the ever declining attention span of your audience, it’s necessary that you start appealing to a broader range of senses. The roundup below will get you started and help minimize those goodbyes. You should.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. Your nonprofit should invest in tripod for consistent streaming, such as the Accmor Rhythm Pro or the JOBY GripTight GorillaPod. Be cognizant of light and sounds in the area where streaming.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

But what really makes a story shine is a strong, concise message, told in a way only your unique perspective and voice can. Identify your audience and much will fall into place, including your word choice, mood, and tone. But also, it's important to know how you address your audience, if at all. Who Am I Talking To?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Obviously, I was flattered, but also anxious to deliver a lecture that could bring true value to nonprofit professionals. . Now I recognize that many nonprofit organizations may not be able to send their team to conferences, so I’ve rounded up an overview of the ten social media mistakes discussed at Planet Philanthropy: . was born.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Unfortunately, most nonprofits thank the donor as an afterthought. Your goal should be to write a power-packed thank-you letter that makes the donor think “I love this nonprofit – they do such good work.” Your thank-you letter should touch the reader’s heart, not sound like an academic paper. How would you say thank you?

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

Email marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for nonprofits to drive supporter engagement and boost their overall fundraising efforts. By extension, it’s also one of the most impactful ways that an organization can promote matching gift opportunities to its audience. I’m not sure where to get started.”

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important fundraising is to the mission-driven space. However, fundraising events can be a source of stress and frustration for some nonprofits. Can nonprofits hold event-free fundraisers on a budget? Can nonprofits hold event-free fundraisers on a budget? Let’s get started.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. Listen, starting a nonprofit is NOT a “build it and they will come” activity. Your nonprofit is just the conduit for donors to accomplish their philanthropic desires.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Nonprofits have a significant advantage on Facebook. The nonprofit advantage comes from the fact that content that people engage with on Facebook (like, share, comment on, etc.) Nonprofits! That simple fact gives nonprofits a considerable leg up over other brands; with both organic content as well as promoted content.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

It is the main reason why so many nonprofits like yours looking to improve their digital marketing are turning to video. They allow you to showcase what your nonprofit’s all about, what you do and whom you have come to help. Now, let’s take a look at how you can create one that makes your nonprofit shine. It just works.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2013

While not every nonprofit needs to invest the resources to make scripted videos, we wanted to try the new format to better serve our audience, particularly the different learners coming to our site. As for the sound, I had an Audio-Technica AT899 lavalier microphone attached to record my voice. Processing and Production.

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Byte Technology

MAY 6, 2015

Like having a clean homepage, easy and effective site navigation is crucial to engaging your audience. People truly interested in a specific cause want to hear their own voice as part of the conversation. This may include a comment section on a blog—always a sound idea—or a community forum.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 13, 2021

Creating a marketing campaign might sound simple enough, but implementing a proper strategy with a multi-channel approach is easier said than done. Direct mail is one of the most successful methods of fundraising for nonprofit organizations in the United States to date, especially if you want to directly pursue your supporters.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Which means you need to boldly promote what it is your organization stands for and then empower your audiences to support that mission. Stop sounding like other nonprofits. Most nonprofits focus way too much on building a transactional relationship with their donors. Remember that when you are talking to them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 9, 2016

The bottom line may not be the driving goal behind nonprofit work, but, let’s face it, we all need money. Here are a few principles that can help you show your cause merits investment: Know your audience and speak their language. There’s a reason you work for a nonprofit. Your voice, conviction and story can set you apart.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. The most successful social media presences (nonprofit and otherwise) are in fact the result of a strong nonprofit social media plan!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Background: Why They Did What They Did The Henry Art Gallery exhibition we worked with, Vortexhibition Polyphonica , was intended to explore three big ideas: Different voices “intervene” or add new points of view to the exhibition at periodic intervals. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

I kicked off the session by reciting my favorite poem, Joyce Kilmer’s Trees and shared the rules of audience interaction and format in Iambic pentameter. I hope someday Mark Zuckerberg will return the favor,” said Soltani, echoing the frustration of many nonprofit leaders about Facebook’s pay-to-play policy. SMOP14 @TSFF.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Is your nonprofit funny? If your nonprofit feeds the creative flame with passion and storytelling, you'll start getting somewhere. He did so, creatively, by asking the audience to start clapping and wooing in excitement (over nothing). At the sound of our cheers, about 5 more people meandered in. Are you funny?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. But first, what is social love and why does it matter?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Donors lay the framework for sustaining your nonprofit. With ample experience under her belt, Strathy has figured out a key to successful donor retention strategies in the nonprofit sector. Strathy said that nonprofits should make a point to call at least one donor every day. Add Some Personality. So what’s the next step?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

To get started preparing for the most wonderful time of the year for nonprofits and charities, ensure you’ve covered your year-end fundraising basics with this year-end fundraising campaign timeline. Set a Goal: Hopefully, your nonprofit or charity has a clear, board-approved budget that you follow. Ah, but it’s not.

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