The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In my mind, the optimal time-frame for your year-end fundraising strategy is about 6 weeks – you spend the final two weeks in November laying the groundwork (building on the cultivation work you did all year) and then make your asks during the month of December. This phase will constitute the “meat” of your year-end fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In relationship building, trust is the place to start. A participant at.orgCommunity’s Leadership ColLAB event* made this comment about the importance of building confidence with your constituents. We had a roadmap for how to advance the organization and prepare for the next phase of growth.” An annual survey is a good start.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

While each nonprofit is different and each donor relationship has its own intricacies, there are three general phases that define the donor journey: cultivating, soliciting, and promoting stewardship, and in each phase, there is the opportunity to promote a strong fundraising culture. The Cultivation Phase.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is is often something tangible or material, like a new building, renovation project, or equipment purchase⁠, and it’s often primarily funded through major gifts. If it’s a go, you’ll enter the private phase of your capital campaign, which is generally where your major donor engagement comes in.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the strategies that make capital campaigns successful is that they are designed to involve many volunteers over the life of the campaign through ad-hoc committees. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Capital campaigns are intended to raise money for a specific project, issue, or program, or to meet an overall, designated fundraising goal. The capital campaign lasts for a set period of time, and is generally broken up into multiple phases. What is the public phase of a capital campaign?

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Candid

JULY 9, 2021

The gift will launch the next phase for the campus and includes support for construction of a 175,000-square-foot bioengineering and applied science research building with core research facilities and flexible lab spaces.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Major Gift Fundraising Phases and Strategies 1. Nurturing Potential Major Donors Designate a Major Gifts Champion A dedicated major gifts officer can develop and maintain close relationships with potential major donors, ensuring personalized attention and engagement.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What makes a successful Fonteva implementation Designing and building a tech solution is only one part of making a successful Fonteva implementation. You also need one who can bridge the gap between the system and the business outcomes it has to achieve, and design a solution that leaves nothing on the table.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dear Charity Clairity, We just launched the very beginning phase of a capital campaign to create ADA handicap access in our Studio Annex where art classes are held. One option is to secure a capacity-building grant for this purpose from a foundation. We hired a Campaign Consultant. Per FASB ASC 958-720-25-4].

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. To set your next campaign up for success, we are breaking up the process of building a campaign into five simple steps. This is where a communications campaign can come in handy.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

A well-designed, professionally executed direct mail conveys professionalism and legitimacy. This builds up your reputation as an established, trustworthy organization. Let’s take a closer look at each stage of designing a direct mail campaign. Mail enhances trust and credibility. Research and exploration. The market landscape.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ongoing support can be especially helpful for organizations interested in completing their project in phases. Rather than finding a new consultant for each phase, you can partner with one consultant who is already familiar with your technology and can ensure your system remains cohesive. Explore a few of our past web design projects.

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Forum One

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once the website is built—the scaffolding, structure, and design—your content is what brings it to life. While the bulk of the hands-on work of content migration will happen near the end of development, you should start planning for this phase as soon as the project starts. Head into this phase with a marathon mindset.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Why You Should Measure Impact in Addition to Outcomes A Collaborative, Inclusive Approach to Brand-Building How to Choose Diverse and Inclusive Photos The Phases of Service Design What Does Digital Transformation Mean for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Training Design. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Solicit and share stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Visual Design : How we articulate the creative vision for the site and combine the aesthetic with the solid foundation of User Research and Information Architecture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. Jean is also a freelance consultant who works on digital strategy, marketing and design for non-profits. It’s very expensive to run these kinds of tests if you’re reliant on an agency. .

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Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks. Through this service we aim to support continued learning in the field by supplying a publicly accessible full-text collection long after spend/phase down. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together. It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. However, to have data requires intention.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you feel your website could serve visitors more effectively, you might contemplate revamping it or even building a new one. Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly. Tell your organization’s story. Optimize the user journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

build effective presentation skills. When you can identify who you’re speaking to, what their perspective is, and the knowledge level they bring to the table, you can design your presentations to be more appealing and relevant. Design appealing visual elements. connecting with younger donors. Individual donors. Grant funders.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Be prepared: the research phase may take weeks or even months to complete, but it’s important groundwork to lay for an effective nonprofit rebranding effort. It may likely take longer than expected, so it pays to build in extra time for any unanticipated bumps in the road. Consider creating a detailed timeline for rebranding.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. Do not let looks deceive you though as these are possibly the most important deliverables in the Web Design process!

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Note: This is the ninth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. It’s best to get buy-in on wireframes first so we can truly focus on creative look and feel during the visual design phase of the project. These are the basic wireframes you’ll need to provide for the visual design to commence.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 13, 2021

In this phase, we start by questioning and seeing what gives us pivotal knowledge. During this phase, it’s important to spend time determining and designing solutions for specific goals. Success | In this phase, we evaluate. The process flows like this: Insights | This is the beginning of the process. Saving lives?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Here’s how Solis views the three phases of where we’ve been and where we’re headed: BC = Before COVID. Now the only thing normal about the phase we’re in is everyone is in this same transitional space, focused on politics, new social behaviors, and the associated socioeconomics. Think back to how different things were.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Here are the top three grantmaking tools to use in place of foundationConnect: Track, manage, and deliver funding programs — all in one place Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is designed to maximize your impact. See if your organization qualifies for free or lower-cost options. Learn more 1.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It might surprise you, but as Media Cause’s Director of Advocacy, I’m on board with a fundraising-centric approach to nonprofit strategy and journey building. And all mobilization programs have an important part to play in building up that bottom line, even if they aren’t directly responsible for fundraising goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration. Build a trusted network. Start building relationships of trust with other nonprofit leaders and across sector lines. Recommendations.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product.

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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

With Analytics 4, you can use “consent mode,” which was designed for websites that have to obtain end-user consent to collect analytics data. Third-party cookies are being phased out and as a result, Analytics 4 is adapting with the times. Google will continue to phase out third-party tracking in Q4 and indefinitely by January 2022.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

We know that technology is at the core of capacity building and that the social sector is severely behind the for-profit sector in investing in and fully utilizing technology. Q: Describe the biggest challenges and/or opportunities to engaging technology talent for nonprofit capacity building.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

First off, a huge thank you to Matt Cheuvront , the designer who made all of this happen! As part of practicing what I preach, I wanted to recap the process Matt and I used for this redesign to offer to you as just one of the many options for engaging with a designer and a community. Phase 1: Finding a Designer.

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