ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

Illustration generated by DALL·E. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable). This data is necessary to ensure that everyone is thinking about and working toward the same goals. posted by Theresa Adkison Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Increased brand awareness: Galas generate publicity and visibility for your organization and its cause. Set realistic goals. Focus on storytelling. Engagement: Maintaining excitement and maximizing attendance requires effective marketing. Beyond these initial planning pointers, remember: Start planning early.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As a nonprofit, you should also use your marketing strategy to increase donor acquisition, spread awareness of your organization’s mission, and steward your existing donors for lasting engagement. Before you begin developing your nonprofit marketing campaign, don’t forget to set meaningful goals for what you want to accomplish.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have always tried to understand how to shift and modify their fundraising strategies to appeal to and resonate with the future generation of donors.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Your fundraising campaigns are usually geared toward reaching a specific goal. BWF’s steps to annual giving encourage storytelling through your annual giving campaign. At the beginning of your annual giving campaign, generate excitement with a kickoff event. Set a theme for each year’s annual giving campaign.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Once you know what qualifies as success, Amy suggests setting your goals based on benchmarks you've established for your organization, although this is a good place to start. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate. If your goal is to engage + build relationships with your audience (hopefully it is!),

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

These individuals harness their personal networks, reaching out to friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances to solicit donations and raise awareness for their chosen cause. Set Your Goal When setting your goal, it’s important to start small and work your way up.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why it’s important to plan ahead, set goals, and brainstorm some Giving Tuesday campaign ideas several weeks or months in advance. Wondering what kind of campaign would best serve your goals? Video] GivingTuesday.org: Goal Setting for Giving Tuesday. The Power Of Storytelling For Fundraising. Thanking Donors.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

When leveraged with other communication channels, direct mail can generate significant engagement and gift-giving from donors. This shows that appreciation for this communication channel is growing among younger generations. Consider incorporating these strategies into your preliminary concepts for the campaign: Leverage storytelling.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Spread awareness of your nonprofit’s mission. Set fundraising and supporter engagement goals for the auction. To maximize your fundraising, implement additional revenue-generating strategies at your silent auction. The Power Of Storytelling: Transform Your Fundraising Events.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

Charitable acts and philanthropic giving are often passed down generations and are part of regular traditions. . And now, a deeper look at what worked: Content and Storytelling for Year-End Fundraising Gains with Hope Services. Leveraging a generous matching gift offer. Familial Reasons – Charity starts at home.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

For each of your online campaigns, your revenue goal should tie into your overall fundraising strategy. So, it’s essential to understand how much you’re spending as well as how much revenue you generate per campaign, ensuring your efforts are well worth the spend. . You’ll also need to measure your outputs.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the book Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions For Financial Viability , authors Jeanne Bell and Steve Zimmerman offer a handy framework for approaching different revenue generation programs. Using this as a guide when assessing your revenue projections will help prioritize your investments.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2023

For events that have a high fundraising potential to start, such as live auctions, being strategic in your marketing efforts can lead to significant revenue generation. Videos are more engaging than text or images alone, hold supporters’ attention for longer, and provide a multimedia storytelling experience.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

volunteer fundraisers to brush up on your storytelling abilities. . As their generation ages, they’ll gather the resources to give even more to your nonprofit, which is why it’s critical to form solid connections early on. . In her role, she leads the charge with lead generation, content creation, and brand management. .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Although building a following online has its own challenges, digital tools have the potential to dramatically increase awareness about your cause and connect you with prospective donors who you might not have otherwise discovered. On social media, storytelling is a powerful tool that can draw in people who have stumbled across your platform.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

My goal is that these articles is to provide you with fundraising advice that will help you year-round and especially as we careen towards year-end fundraising season, which is like the Olympics of annual fundraising IMO. Specifically, what to do before and during the campaign to generate additional awareness.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Apply those lessons to general advertising. Remember your goal is persuading consumers. The goal is to develop sustained relationships through habitual positive exposures. Key Takeaway #4: Learn from Direct Response Many general advertisers used brief 30-second TV commercials that aim to build vague brand awareness in the 60s.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Creating a digital plan does that by aligning strategies to support your marketing goals. Step 1: Define your goals. Defining your marketing goals help to identify the primary strategies you need to accomplish your objectives. How would you then prioritize resources so they are spent on activities that work to achieve that goal?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

From ensuring equal access to education to advocating for mental health awareness to creating black history for future generations, all of these organizations inspire us, and we hope they inspire you too. Black Public Media emerged out of a need for more stories from Black storytellers. Black Teacher Project. Black Public Media.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

The keyword should simultaneously be something that’s easy for supporters to remember and relates directly to your campaign goals. Storytelling is crucial for fundraisers , and especially more so for smaller organizations like yours. Our goal for this month is lunches for 150 kids! Donate at www.example.com.”

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Diverse Goals. Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. With a bit of savvy planning, road-trips can be an innovative vehicle to align with your organization’s goals.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Not only is it an engaging donor experience, but peer-to-peer fundraising is often the push you need to reach essential fundraising goals. If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. Track progress].

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Creating an year-long strategy with clearly stated goals/. What are your goals? Raise awareness for your organization? . Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Does it ladder up to our goals? Are you trying to…. Volunteers?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In the digital age, where most traditional storytelling is done over the Internet, attention spans are ever shrinking. Of that 8 second average attention span, I can assure you that my generation is on the lower end of that count. So, when telling your story to my generation, is the pen mightier than the sword?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Our generation – those who have grown up with 9/11 memories, women’s marches, LGTBQ advocacy and milestones – have founded Benefit Corporations (B-Corps) like TOMS, launched nonprofit organizations like Period.org, and even won the Nobel Peace Prize for our actions on gender equality and education. But, we’ve chosen to take action!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2018

Sure, there are joint projects and special events that bring them together on a limited basis… …but for the most part, these two departments have their own goals, objectives, leaders, customers, and metrics. Throughout the industry, there is very little overlap between the two functions. Times have changed.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

While incorporating insights provided in our webinar with Maria Bryan, we’ll demystify the content planning process, discuss trauma-informed storytelling, unpack resources , and help you create content that converts. The Importance of Storytelling It’s no secret that a great story can generate movers and shakers.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We often hear about the doing good movement in the context of millennials , and oftentimes Gen Z’ers, two generations that have demonstrated substantial shifts in attitude surrounding the belief in their own power to create positive change in the world. Imagery can also be static or show movement based on the desired action from the donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

A significant outreach campaign to raise awareness of the nonprofit community and the local event. A series of one-day bootcamps that would share best practices of social fundraising that would help prepare them for the campaign.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That effort was concentrated around raising funds and awareness for the work that our national organization and local clubs are leading. We thought it was important to revisit our 2020 goals because the framework in which we do our work changed so drastically. The policy goal post moves, and we want to move with it.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This outreach to our followers solidifies our goal to listen and engage with individuals. We’re a small team of 12 people so it’s essential that we utilize each person’s creativity so we can best deliver our message and work toward our goal. Have a Brain-Dumping Session. Think Outside the Box.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Ebook The Annual Fund Giving Guide: Planning an Annual Campaign Learn More Setting Goals for Your Annual Appeal Your annual appeal’s send date might depend on your individual nonprofit’s mission. For example, a nonprofit focused on AIDS awareness and research may choose to kick off their annual campaign on World AIDS Day.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Depending on your goals and your work, you may want to use a constituent management tool that is really good at tracking actions and activists, but not as good at other things. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story. Raise awareness for your cause and projects.

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M+R

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To generate awareness, consideration, and conversions throughout the donor journey, we needed to build a full-funnel strategy. For many years, direct-response Search campaigns have successfully supported our goal of finding donors who were ready to contribute. At first, our team felt hesitant to expand our strategy.

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