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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Year in Review.

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

Amy Sample Ward

It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience. Imagine that you are you, enjoying some personal, non-professional time, then go online.

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Sales Operations Demystified: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How To Do It Right

Wild Apricot

Sales ops professionals assume administrative and operational tasks to allow hard-core sellers to focus and get better on what they do best: selling. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from. Operations. The gateway (i.e.,

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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: Exciting Live Auctions & Appeals – pt. 2

Greater Giving

Without the traditional structure of a live, in-person benefit gala with a catered ballroom dinner, the line between “live” and “silent” matters less than it did. Keep it light, funny, and break up the broadcast in ways that will engage the remote audience as well as in-person guests. TIP: Make it a destination!

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The Ultimate Guide to Social Media for Nonprofits

Qgiv

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Social media gives your nonprofit the opportunity to broadcast your mission far beyond your local community. Engagement.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. Quiet phase - 6-24 months: During this phase, you’ll secure the bulk of your fundraising goal (at least 75%) through major gifts from lead donors and board members without broadcasting the campaign to the broader public.

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids). This made curious: How did Twestival get started? Micro donations using TipJoy.