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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Keep in mind that a digital-first strategy doesn’t mean you give up on personal touches. Keep these questions in mind: . Is it optimized for mobile devices? .

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

When the fire alarm went off in my building this week, I couldn’t help thinking that the experience was a lesson in how organizations can effectively handle crisis. Keep in mind that you may need to bring in some outside firemen or other professionals of your own. Well, first I thought “Let’s get out of here!”

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. No matter how hard you try to make people happy with cosmetic changes, like team building, as Julia Kennedy mentions , these inherent workforce issues must be solved if the field hopes to continue to evolve fruitfully.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

With the end in mind. For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? As a trainer, she shows her students how to find ideal donors, connect through authentic messaging, and build relationships that stand the test of time, so that fundraising becomes easy and predictable. Start here.

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

Bloomerang

Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. Make sure your messages are inspiring, specific, relationship-building. If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. . That’s the place to put them.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

So we went out and celebrated, and then in the subsequent weeks, it became very clear that the developer who wanted to build on the watershed had no intention of abiding by the citizens' rule. At the polling place it passed by 75%, that we're wanted to protect this watershed, which 75% in an issue-based election is a huge margin.

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