Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Donors who gave to you once will slip away. Even if your donor loves your cause, if your email hits on a day that they don’t have much time, the subject line is the key to getting your email opened. It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. If you stop there, you’ll short change the donor.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These nonprofit books provide sample messaging and practical guidance to help you write appeals that resonate with your donors and compel them to support your organization. Perhaps most importantly, it forges connections with potential donors and inspires them to action. Perfect Phrases for Fundraising by Beverly Browning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

You’ve smiled through back-to-back-to-back-to-back meetings with donors and your best donor prospect just cancelled on you, and now you’ve got to finish that grant report before you can go home. Maybe every little thing about a donor, a board member, or your executive director is rubbing you the wrong way.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

When I first got into fundraising, I executed campaigns without worrying too much about donors or spending a lot of time thinking about why or how they responded to particular strategies or appeals. Let’s face it: the brain is an economic weighing machine that makes hundreds, if not thousands, of opportunity-cost calculations a day.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 13, 2021

The brain dump. Just write whatever comes to mind. Are you ready to give your donors the content they deserve? Here’s a Donor-Centered Content Marketing worksheet you can use as a template to enhance your donor communication efforts. Pre-writing. . Drafting. . Start to put some structure to your ideas.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. By appealing to your donors’ sense of self, you can persuade them to take action. The Right Context. The Research.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

Foster Mindfulness. Blackbaud Champions recommend a spring cleaning for your mind, too! Kendrah Richards , donor stewardship officer at Tallahassee Community College. . Kendrah Richards , donor stewardship officer at Tallahassee Community College. Our office has a weekly mindfulness session. Leave work at work!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Check out what to listen for in donor onboarding from the Agitator-Donor Voice blog.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Forms can be used to survey volunteers and program participants about their experiences with your organization, gather opinions from donors about an upcoming strategic plan, and about 100 other things. You can create boards to manage your appeals, another one for grants, another one for donor communications, and so forth. It’s not fun.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So when it comes to inspiring your donors to support your cause, you might consider creating a nonprofit explainer video for your organization. But keep in mind that there are also free and low-fee tools that you can use to produce an explainer video on your own and at a lower cost. . What are nonprofit explainer videos?

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your donors are the fuel that keeps the mechanism of your nonprofit moving, from fundraising events to peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns to giving days. The key to strong donor relationships is creating a conversation between your organization and your donors. Connect with donors’ values and experiences.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

How much will it cost for you to accomplish what you have in mind? Include fundraising fees, the subscription costs for your donor management system and other online tools, insurance, postage for appeals … everything! The money you raise should come from a variety of sources including individual donors, foundations, and events.

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Kindful

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. A good story allows organizations to build those relationships, win hearts, change minds, and prompt action. It’s brain science. Once upon a time…. Notice how subconsciously your attention was just hooked?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The key here is to communicate that your donors and supporters have a critical role to play in helping address that struggle—and that by supporting your mission, the struggle can be resolved. That means you need to get creative about how you frame the struggle. . Incorporate humor into your story. .

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Over the past few months, I’ve been working to generate interest among potential major donors in our community for a new Nonprofit Hub initiative. I’ve been doing a “soft launch” of this co-working space concept with some major donors in our city, and here (in a nutshell) is how a typical conversation might go. That’s okay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

You finally got an appointment to meet with your Big Donor…now what? 6 Ways to Get The Most Out of a Major Donor Visit. Ok, you have the appointment with your Big Donor! Ok, you have the appointment with your Big Donor! Because they bore their donor. Just say you want to pick their brain.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wouldn’t your organization rather spend a little extra money on a website if it means finding more donors and volunteers? Using this valuable tool, you can extend the reach of your organization’s message and forge meaningful connections with existing and potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As more and more of our lives move online, nonprofits need an optimized, well-designed website in order to stand out and engage donors—and to justify the expense of maintaining one! Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Others do, too!

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

In fact, digital marketing’s prominence has actually caused direct mail to feel more distinct to donors of all ages. . Postcards don’t take up much space, and an attention-grabbing photo can convince supporters to hold onto it and keep your nonprofit in the back of their minds. . ?. . donor stewardship. , Thank you cards.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

You must apply strategic planning, knowledge of your donor base, and a forward-thinking approach to fundraising in your preparation efforts to create an attainable, yet ambitious plan. For example, if you want to raise an additional $155,500 next year, you will probably need to increase the number of donors you have.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. This allows us to clear our minds and focus on the present moment. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought. So why wait?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most organizations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

So, what do we do when our time is limited and we need to communicate with the community and our donors? Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. We tell stories.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions. Being adaptable will also require a lot of emotional intelligence, keeping an open mind, and dropping personal ego.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. It’s a question on the minds of thousands of small businesses, startup tech companies and—yes—nonprofits. If you’re trying to convince donors to give or volunteers to serve, the same specificity is required. and how will it be funded in future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

“Always Be Cropping&# – a very practical point for being enchanting with photos that stand out in social streams – and to mindful of good composition – which requires cropping. Here’s some other suggestions and tips for enchanting photos. Charles Porch, Facebook. Here’s some more tips.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Mindfulness' Personal Productivity in Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Everyone will pledge will change one mind in their organization. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. Only 4 out of every 10 tech-responsible staff report to leadership. Next comes the feeling.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Of the many things nonprofits need to focus on, recurring donors can sometimes fall by the wayside due to their reliability. Acquiring new donors is always an important part of your growth strategy, but engaging the donors you do have and building relationships with them can lead to more value down the road. recurring donors.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

Always keep in mind that your website has a purpose outside of looking cool. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. Allowing donors to share their donation experiences on Facebook and Twitter. 3) Keep it Focused. 4) Keep it Content-ed. Content is king.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Disorganization can cause you to lose donors, miss grant deadlines, and fall short of revenue goals. Keeping a task list can save you time and clear your mind. By batching calls or writing, you can actually be more productive since your mind is already in the mode for getting that kind of task done.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. Being able to emphatically and confidently tell your origin story will make a world of difference when talking to potential donors and volunteers. That’s where we, as nonprofit storytellers, need to begin.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

Always keep in mind that your website has a purpose outside of looking cool. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. Allowing donors to share their donation experiences on Facebook and Twitter. 3) Keep it Focused. 4) Keep it Content-ed. Content is king.

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