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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. You probably use cloud software to backup your files and share them with others on your team. Sound familiar? Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals . Create Device Free Zones.

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Get more done in a day (and boost your fundraising productivity!) with these 12 smart hacks

Get Fully Funded

So, find a system for keeping all your to do items in one place, whether that’s on a piece of paper, in a notebook, in a Word file, or somewhere else. Time-block your week with an online calendar. And if you share your online calendar with your team, they can see when you’re busy or help you set appointments.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

Connection Cafe

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! And they regularly maintain and update their database.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Email List Growth Honorable Mention: HSUS - Humane Society of the United States Winner: National Relief Charities Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks. This year they did something a little different.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2014

Connection Cafe

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! And they regularly maintain and update their database.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So it’s updating your data file with changes of address. Why do we need it? It can be things like events.