ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. The two key words are “meaningful impact.”

Arizona 40

Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. And as fundraisers, this is really important because it grounds us in the value of building relationships with people. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Communicating the results. Unique Blog Readers.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode. And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful.

Design 20

Design Data Artist New York 20

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . Make sure your messages are inspiring, specific, relationship-building. So one of the charts is individual giving by category.

Video 89

Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 89

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

Video 129

Video Giving Gift Donor 129

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. What we want to emphasize today that most of the work is relationship building.

Money 104

Money Question Raise Video 104

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? If you’re not sure where to focus, like, what’s the important program, which strategic relationships should you be building? It’s hard.” Long-term goals I’m seeing.

Video 90

Video Goal Method Impact 90

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. to build that case like we would expect to raise this much more money, or, you know, make up the cost of that software after so many months? You read my mind exactly, Jennifer.

Technology 100

Technology Video Nonprofit System 100

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings. We build deep connections.

Authoring 46

Authoring Marketing Change Interview 46

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Follow up, say thank you, and start building the relationship. Are you a real fundraiser?

Story 54

Story Nonprofit Social Media Content 54

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. I’m not talking about mind tricks or anything.

Product 68

Product Video Donor Structure 68