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What Donors Want – Fundraising Advice Straight from the Donor’s Mouth

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What Donors Want – Fundraising Advice Straight from the Donor’s Mouth – Guest Post by Rachel Stephenson Sheff. Major gift fundraising is an intuitive blend of art and science, with relationship-building at its core. Advisors, I produce a podcast called What Donors Want where we ask donors questions just like these.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before.

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Non-Profit Leaders as Personal Brands

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In truth, however, your ability to effectively blend the two turns on how you frame your role within your non-profit organization. First, by building your personal brand, you develop the social media fluency and a critical understanding of the relationship dynamics between your organization and its donors.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fundraising – reach new donors – both small and large. Here's some points on that: Blend the numbers and non-financial factors into a concise and informative presentation. There are a couple of bonus slides in the deck about how to use metrics for podcasts and video. Go listen to his podcast session as part of this series.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

We are here to talk about how to tap into Gen Y and Gen Z donors. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. Again, I am going to talk about how to identify and pull from your philanthropic bench, really tapping into your Gen Y and Gen Z donors.

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