Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The development team learned and grew a lot over the last year, and now they’ve done it again: their second virtual event, the 2021 Reflection Benefit, was a week-long festival of activities that inspired incredible generosity and reached new audiences everywhere. Nearly 600 people (300 households) watched their live stream.

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Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2021

Many nonprofits also reported struggling with event production and live streaming , which make up the foundation of a virtual event. Creativity, ingenuity, and a deep understanding of your audience are critical components of a virtual event program that keeps everyone entertained until the end. Are there a lot of parents? Grandparents?

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CauseVox

MAY 4, 2021

To celebrate our 50th year of service to the Minnesota autism community we invited our community to join us for a livestream event full of cooking demonstrations, personal stories, and drawings. These personalized connections helped us to bring on more fundraisers, and opened communication if they ran into any problems. We had stories.

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Classy

JUNE 7, 2021

Boosting your nonprofit’s recurring donor acquisition can help establish a consistent stream of revenue, improve cash flow, and provide much needed support during fallow periods. They use their story to forge an emotional connection with donors and motivate them to take immediate action. Identify the Right Target Audience.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

But with newsletters being so popular today, how can you stand out in crowded inboxes and create a member newsletter that your members open and—equally important— want to read? Consider Your Audience The key to creating a member newsletter that people keep opening and reading is to offer content that’s beneficial to them in some way.

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Greater Giving

JULY 8, 2021

Many nonprofits also reported struggling with event production and live streaming , which make up the foundation of a virtual event. Creativity, ingenuity, and a deep understanding of your audience are critical components of a virtual event program that keeps everyone entertained until the end. Are there a lot of parents? Grandparents?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Prompt: “Please write 3 energetic tweets for this article by the Eventgroove brand for an audience of nonprofit professionals and individuals hosting fundraisers. When asking people to share pictures, ask that they tag @PurrfectPets to be featured in our stories and site! Otherwise, ChatGPT will fill in its own copy!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

They don’t establish any future relationships or revenue streams. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. These competitions can be a lot of fun for both the audience and the competitors and can bring lots of new people into your sphere. You can read the whole story here. BUT the flip side? Keynote speaker events.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. Our event this year was four days, which, in retrospect, is a lot of time to ask people to dedicate. How to Measure Success.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

But they’re also one of the best ways to grow your nonprofit and diversify your revenue streams ! Here are just a few benefits of creating and running a nonprofit membership program: Diversified and stable revenue stream. Target audience. Read on to find out how a membership program can benefit your nonprofit. Dues and tiers.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

This is the story of the hybrid fundraiser. The change required major cuts to their programs, a new focus when working with sponsors, and a drive to make it more inclusive for a broader audience. Your silent auction is another area to adjust for an online audience. The Hybrid Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

For your organization, a leadership profile online for your executive director can help your organization reach a different audience that may not already be following your brand. On social channels, people don’t have to interact with you to develop an opinion of you as a person based on reading your social stream.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

You do not want to alienate any member of your audience. This person can encourage audience members by asking for their comments and questions that can be put in a live text chat and then relayed to the keynote speaker or presenter. Prime Your Audience. And furthermore, emotions are contagious. Use Storytelling. . . . .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s the story you tell potential and current donors. A successful fundraising strategy uses a multi-channel approach to spread awareness of your mission, announce important event dates, and reach wider audiences. Email campaign open rates: Are your supporters seeing your emails? And the list goes on.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 31, 2023

Online fundraising opens an additional stream of revenue for your organization and allows you to connect with donors where they are. Tell a story. Give something your donors can attach to, and make it simple enough that they can share the same story with others. These ads can reach different audiences that you specify.

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CauseVox

MAY 18, 2021

Sure, we may be slowly moving back to in-person events, but spending a year doing everything virtually has opened up possibilities that we can’t forget now that vaccines are here. Opportunities to tell your story and showcase your work to a captive audience. COVID-19 has changed the face of nonprofit fundraising forever.

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Kindful

MAY 21, 2021

While that’s all good news for virtual events, the reality is that Zoom fatigue is real , and now many states are opening up and allowing in-person and hybrid events to become a reality. So, what can we do as fundraisers—both in person and virtually—to help these one-time event donors join the all-too-important stream of monthly donors ?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

To keep donors engaged and maintain a steady funding stream year-round, nonprofits are increasingly turning to their websites to help drive ongoing fundraising pursuits. Enhanced user experience ensures that your website is open and inviting for all members of your audience. A conversion-optimized donation page.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Imagine this scenario—your nonprofit wants to diversify its fundraising streams , specifically with planned giving. You meet with the donor, explain that your organization is exploring new types of giving programs, and ask if they’d be open to creating a bequest gift in their will. They have a lot of questions—how does it work?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. We're seeing tons of excitement around this project and a huge level of participation, especially for a museum just dipping its toe in the waters of open authority. Here are some reasons why I think Oh Snap!

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Targeting the wrong audience. Once you have a goal to guide your team, you’ll then need to find out who your target audience is and how best to reach them. Targeting the wrong audience. However, most nonprofits have a tendency to target more audiences than necessary. Operating without a clear marketing strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

What story should you tell? Who is in your audience and how many are there? And do you really want these 2 groups to be part of your regular mail stream? Make the letter as long as it needs to be to adequately tell the story. Envelope design can yield a better response, depending on your organization and audience.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

You do not want to alienate any member of your audience. This person can encourage audience members by asking for their comments and questions that can be put in a live text chat and then relayed to the keynote speaker or presenter. Prime Your Audience. And furthermore, emotions are contagious. Use Storytelling. . . . .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If you live in an area with some morbid history or well-known ghost stories, you can add a few stops on your scavenger hunt related to those creepy tidbits for your more daring donors. Ghost story contest. There’s nothing like a good ghost story when the weather gets chilly and the sun goes down. Haunted House fundraiser.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

In fact, 84% of Generation Z is open to becoming a fundraiser on behalf of your organization! . Participants can customize their pages, share their stories, and upload photos and videos to their page. Qgiv’s custom walkthroughs train supporters to create a unique, beautiful page that tells their personal story.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Once upon a time, the ability for a nonprofit to tell its story was handled through analog means. Social media, digital advertisements, websites, and email have improved nonprofit audience outreach and fundraising. Social media, digital advertisements, websites, and email have improved nonprofit audience outreach and fundraising.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Does the imagery we’re using visually tell our story? . Does your audience already understand your mission? When speaking to your audience it’s also important to: . Share impact stories. should be effectively sharing your story while laddering up to your goals. . Mistake #5: Not Engaging With Your Audience .

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Explore new fundraising opportunities: Open new doors by identifying untapped revenue streams, innovative approaches , or collaborative partnerships that can diversify your fundraising efforts. Develop a story that highlights your nonprofit’s impact and the importance of ongoing support from donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. It is also fun to re-mix presentations for an audience outside of the US.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. There are two parts to this.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

TechSoup asked for digital stories and you delivered more than 200 stories! Digital stories came in from all over the globe from all types of social benefit organizations throughout the month of February. The Audience Choice Award is your chance to pick the digital story you feel made the biggest impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

These reports will add up all of a person’s related actions on Causes into a larger story of how they are helping your organization. Some will adopt more quickly than others depending on perhaps generational context, how set they are in their routines, and comfort level with openness and serendipity.

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Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a variety of revenue streams and expenses to pay to maintain their daily operations. For a peer-to-peer 5K or fun run, your costs might include police for crowd control, permits from local governance to close off roads, EMT services, event t-shirts, snacks, opening ceremony costs (band, DJ, etc.),

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

And, we know a lot more about how to host virtual events and engage an online audience than we did last year. Take Advantage Of Video Conferencing And Streaming Tools. While we mentioned that calling donors is a great way to start your virtual engagement, you should also explore making use of video conferencing and streaming tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. What’s the context that you an share to help your audience understand it better. Jan practices what she preaches about engaging with your audience about the content your curate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

They’re masters at meeting their audience where they’re at and bringing them further along the ladder of engagement. Use a Unique HashTag: A hashtag is a keyword that opens up a public conversation on Twitter. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The neat thing about Fiver is that there is time is built in for program staff to collect and story bank client testimonials, which means they’re not scrambling at the end. A good story is an incredible tool and whatever quote or story you decide to use, make sure it’s relatable and clear. Your donors want to hear those stories.

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