Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. Another thing I recommend: look at your calendar for the year.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Set explicit measurable goals. They should be measurable and align with the strategic or divisional vision of your Advancement Office. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. A big task can seem daunting when looking at the big picture – especially something as logistically complicated as a Giving Day!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

If you operate on a calendar year, your fourth quarter will be your most lucrative by far. Start with the Big Picture: How Much Money Have You Raised? . Remind yourself that you have plenty of time to make adjustments and additions to your fundraising calendar to catch up. What if your numbers are lagging a bit behind?

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Include your ad campaigns in your content calendar to maximize their return on investment. Use pictures with people in them for the highest engagement. People tend to be drawn to other people and pictures of other people rather than just text graphics. When designing graphics for Facebook Ads, remember these three tips.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals. Create a content calendar. A content calendar provides an in-depth look at your upcoming content, including when and where you will push it live. A KPI measures how effective your marketing efforts have been. Acquire new donors.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

With integrations, you’ll be able to analyze big-picture trends or access individuals’ history with your organization in the same place ! Here are just a few benefits of creating and running a nonprofit membership program: Diversified and stable revenue stream. How do I effectively grow my membership?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? A nonprofit self-audit is a chance to back up and look at the whole picture, to see how your marketing efforts are performing and where you can improve. Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. What’s working?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To help you build your content plan, Neon One has created a 2024 Nonprofit Calendar that you can download as a PDF or add to your existing personal calendar. To download the calendar or learn more about nonprofit content planning, here’s a quick overview of this article: What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar?

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

Yet working this way, we miss that "big picture" overview. . Gantt and/or clear calendar view that includes milestones and multi-day phases - bonus if it syncs with Google Calendar. For teams that are tracking a year-long editorial and strategy calendar for fundraising campaigns? Not so much. . Basecamp. .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Creating a separate budget for this event and measuring performance against this budget helps you predict what will happen in future years. Nonprofit Accounting Basic #4: Know the “Big Picture” of Your Organization’s Finances. This “big picture” information equips your team to answer questions from the public and funders.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

Yet working this way, we miss that "big picture" overview. . Gantt and/or clear calendar view that includes milestones and multi-day phases - bonus if it syncs with Google Calendar. For teams that are tracking a year-long editorial and strategy calendar for fundraising campaigns? Not so much. . Basecamp. .

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

This requires a database that can easily track a large number of students and measure their participation in a variety of different activities. Features like online sign-up forms and an integrated event calendar enable Student Activities staff to track events, hosts, locations, and attendance all in one place.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Getting an idea about the kinds of things you could post and the people who will post it will help you select the most appropriate platform to use and create an editorial/content calendar. Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. Test Drive It.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s a quantifiable, specific, measurable goal your organization’s team agrees is important and doable if everyone works together. Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format. Include Board members in big-picture discussions, but not in the details, unless they plan to help in a volunteer capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

The pictures don’t do it justice. Calendars & contacts were synced in what felt like seconds. No clunky calendar sync application. Mostly tech, but a few knitting and newsy ones thrown in for good measure. The screen is beautiful and large. It’s incredible how light and thin this phone is. It was only $2.99

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

This information can give you a clearer picture of how your fundraising efforts have grown or changed over the years. Your fundraising plan should include an event calendar so that you have ample time to prepare for each event. These indicators measure the prospect’s propensity to give to your organization. Average gift size.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 8, 2017

While most nonprofit directors report being satisfied with their board, in a survey done by researchers Larcker, Donatiello, Meehan & Tayan, (2015), nearly all nonprofit participants also reported some sort of serious governance-related problem within the previous calendar year that has negatively affected their organization.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission. Picture a passionate advocate valuing social impact or a digital-savvy donor who prefers online engagement. Move beyond basic demographics to understand motivations, interests, and communication preferences.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Instead of measuring size, new metrics such as deliverability rates, open rates, click-thru rates and conversions are used to assess the quality of your growth and help determine the return on investment. By developing a yearly campaign and communications calendar, you can be sure to lead your supporters on a meaningful journey.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You will also need to host all the pictures that you use for your landing page somewhere, and only reference their location in your code. It does not work to upload the pictures to your Facebook page, as then all of your fans and visitors will see this album of disjointed images - you can’t hide pictures that you upload to your Facebook page.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2013

Funders will want to measure the project’s success, not that of the organization. All of the clichés hold true: tell a story, paint a picture. Mark your calendar, gather needed information and do not ask for an extension on the due date. Master this and you, too, can be a grant writing phenom. Here’s my primer: 1.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

s not only helps you plan ahead, but gives you a baseline to measure success against throughout the year. Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

How you can use it: With Golden, you can run background checks, collect signups, and measure the influence of your volunteers automatically. What it does: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet— Google Workspace is a collection of Google productivity tools that help your team collaborate efficiently.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Here’s how to do nonprofit strategic planning in a way that will give you a clear picture of where your nonprofit is headed and how to get there. You may have an action plan for the next 12 months, but you need to look a bit further down the road to make the best program decisions, especially from a big-picture perspective.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. We like Google Calendar since you can see it on your computer or phone, and once you start building your team, you can share calendars. Start filling your calendar by scheduling any important meetings or calls. I’m sure you’re getting the picture.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 28, 2015

As the calendar flips to November, now is a great time begin looking to the new year. These explanations will be useful when presenting the information to the board of directors and later in the year when comparing how the actuals measured up to the budget. “If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Social networks are really engaging and it's so easy to become lost in low-value efforts when you're marketing to/on them that keeping to a rigorous schedule and measuring your results is the way to go. I also have a production calendar in outlook that maps out the week's social networking blogs. How do you avoid distraction?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

THE BIG DIRECT MAIL PICTURE – Top 10 Tips. If you use any pictures, be sure they are of people, not buildings. Share measurable results of what you have achieved with other donors’ gifts. Set up a calendar of mailings and plan ahead. Linking to and integrating with your web site. Using a reply card that sells.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you don’t have a metric for success going in, you won’t be able to measure how well you did or improve your strategies going forward. Look to your donor database to get a picture of the kind of event your donors might be interested in. Engaging prospective major donors. Have a strong volunteer base?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Staff & resource calendar. Because you can’t change performance without showing that you’re measuring it. BONUS POINTS: Should be given if the organization can identify 2 new types of information, or new attributes, that have been added to the outcome measurement system within the past year. Staff email.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

A website with multiple buttons to click, too many pictures with no clear purpose, and pop-ups every few seconds can deter visitors from exploring further. Members-only event calendar: Most organizations have private, members-only events. Imagine opening a website that is cluttered or confusing.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” Often new donor counts and retention are measured separately and can feel disparate from each other. Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Early preparation will also allow you to prepare your core campaign tools, such as: Your donation form Social media calendars Email series. Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not. Check them often!

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Do you have to change your existing plan because I know a lot of people are going through a strategic planning process right now, especially those who have a fiscal year that just started or perhaps you’re looking at the end of the calendar year and aligning those priorities with organization and client needs? Is it phone, e-mail?

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