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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

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. Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. The Annual Campaign by Erik J.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. Visual Strategies for Focus In Age of Distraction. NpTech Fail.

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Fundraising Planning Guide, Calendar, Worksheet, + Template

CauseVox

The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. We have found that the process of listing your resources in a clear, organized manner can help you wrap your brain around how you can go about raising the funds needed. How much time can they devote each week?

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Planning and Implementation

Tech Soup

"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. Bring samples of these reports. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. Corporate Donations.

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Meg Worden, Feed Me Darling : How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. Or more accurately, learning that we can tell our own story. We can rewrite it as a beautiful adventure anytime we like.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. Waste of time , I would think to myself.

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