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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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NTEN’s Membership Committee helps grow volunteering and engagement opportunities, increase NTEN membership retention, and engage new and returning members and connect them with each other as well as NTEN resources and programming. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Richard Dietz, Founder, Nonprofit R+D.

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Volunteerism Keeps Proving Its Value (Especially When Skills Are Given)

Connection Cafe

If you’re a philanthropy geek like me who loves to monitor what data tell us about engagement and investment in what I consider a part of our collective moral fabric, you’ll be even more thrilled to hear that some states in the US are even surpassing $23.56 (kudos to Massachusetts, California and New York for setting the pace we all need to run).

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . million and we increased donor retention from 36% to 56%. ” .

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. And I understand the impulse to avoid the subject, no one likes to face their mortality, but that’s not really what legacy philanthropy is about. And is just all over the place. No one escapes death.

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

Bloomerang

And I have my masters in philanthropy and fund development from St. And I’m on a mission to transform organizations through effective philanthropy. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Why do we need it?

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

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). Donor retention rates are depressing. We know that fundraising is all about asking.

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