The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events As the vibrant tapestry of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month unfolds, the opportunity to celebrate, educate, and inspire through impactful events is immense.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

We are excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized as a 2022 Communicator Awards winner of 11 awards in seven different categories! The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three).

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

and around the world to create award-winning videos that drive results. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Volunteers feeling micro-managed and without a voice. Awards and gifts. Celebrate the wins. Brian Hetzer is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Research has shown that these reasons often fall into four general categories. Volunteers feeling overloaded.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts. A relatable human voice connects. It exemplified the gap between advertising awards versus tangible business results. Apply those lessons to general advertising.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

You may not currently have much of a voice in these touches. Find your voice so you can lead the charge for bringing together your organization’s donor-facing messaging and interactions in a much more cross-functional way—one that’s productive, optimized, donor-centered, and even joyful. Are they authentic?

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