Forum One

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we bid farewell to 2023 and eagerly embrace the coming year of 2024, we take a moment to reflect on the past twelve months and revel in the accomplishments. Engaging with our content drives our calendar, and we value your feedback and questions. It’s our pleasure to assist your organizations in transforming ideas into impact.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. You want to ensure all voices from the communities you serve are reflected throughout your organization, especially on your board.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the nonprofit world, tax summaries are the golden tickets that encapsulate a donor’s generosity throughout the preceding calendar year. The email contains a secure link for recipients to download a PDF containing a comprehensive listing of their tax-deductible contributions from the preceding calendar year.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The end of the calendar year is traditionally a time of reflection – looking back on the year’s achievements, challenges, joys, and losses. While 2020 is no different in that regard, our reflections are paired with an urgent desire to put this difficult year behind us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Reflecting on the past success of your fundraising efforts while also learning about emerging fundraising trends can help you decide how to best allocate resources for the upcoming year. Fundraisers can create social media posts, promotional calendars, and other helpful resources to amplify the celebrity’s time and support!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Start by reflecting on who or what is setting the destination for your current career trajectory and growth. How well are my values reflected in my career? If you need help figuring that out, think about an outsider studying your calendar and looking at your priorities. How can you do that?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

The latest resource from the Blackbaud Institute, Development Plan Toolkit: Your Three-Step Guide to Strategic Fundraising offers a pathway to reaching and retaining major donors: Step 1: Reflect on successes and opportunities. Step 3: Align those goals to proven strategies. Your strategy should: Clarify expectations, roles, and goals.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here ! Drink more water!

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As we say goodbye to 2021 and look ahead to 2022, we are reflecting on our work in the last year. Your feedback and questions are what drive our editorial calendar, and we love being able to help you and your organizations turn ideas into impact through the amazing work that you do to create positive change in the world.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close and we are excited for 2023, we have spent time reflecting on the past year and all we have accomplished. Your feedback and questions drive our content calendar, and we love being able to help you and your organizations turn ideas into impact through the amazing work you do to create positive change in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. The next exercise introduced participants to the editorial calendar and how to facilitate a brainstorming meeting. I encouraged them to use gestures to ask me to slow down or rephrase if they didn’t understand.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As Candid moves to more proactively promote equity in the broader social sector, we also continue to reflect on what our own role might be in supporting that effort. Equitable access begins at home Last year, Candid formed a new Equitable Access department to apply a long-term lens to addressing this question.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

The latest resource from the Blackbaud Institute, Development Plan Toolkit: Your Three-Step Guide to Strategic Fundraising offers a pathway to reaching and retaining major donors: Step 1: Reflect on successes and opportunities. Step 3: Align those goals to proven strategies. Your strategy should: Clarify expectations, roles, and goals.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels. Subscribe here and follow their calendar. Here’s how you can beat the odds. Take these steps to have a stellar post-GivingTuesday: 1.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Celebrating National Nonprofit Day: Honoring Leaders of Change August 17th isn’t just another day on the calendar; it’s National Nonprofit Day, a day to honor and recognize the monumental contributions of nonprofit organizations across the nation. Join the Conversation!

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Take a look at your own calendar for a moment. Here are a few ideas we would use to create relatable courses in this scenario: Scenery and visuals that reflect the organization. Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. Language and conversations that reflect the learner’s experience.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. If it’s an annual event, update the calendar with the dates and information for the following year (or a TBD notification) as soon as this year’s iteration ends. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Your site doesn’t engage your audience. Your site isn’t accessible.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Your social channels should reflect your mission and values. Here are easy-to-implement content ideas to help fill out your social media calendar. Your donors and supporters are on social media and you need to be too! At the heart of a strong social communications plan is relevant and compelling content.

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sgEngage

MAY 22, 2023

By using a shared calendar application or a project management tool like Trello or Asana, you can make sure the whole team is up to date on all finished and upcoming tasks. Making sure that these accounts accurately reflect real-world happenings also helps to ensure no surprises come audit time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

That’s her cue to go out side for a walk, get away from the screen, and have some reflection time to think the impact of her fundraising beyond the dollars. Mike blocks out time for solo thinking and reflection on his calendar and they avoid scheduling meetings one day week (Friday).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Does my website reflect my nonprofit’s Brand Standards Guidelines? Detailed activity calendar. A calendar of fundraising activities, including grant deadlines, newsletter send-out dates, and warm touches for donors will get you on the path to raising all the money you need to fully fund your programs.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

Set an operations calendar. Begin to update your website content to reflect current stories, current trends and a new call-to-action. Beginning in September, your website should start to reflect your annual campaign “theme” and messaging. . Choose two or three goals you’d like to achieve and build your strategy from there.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the case of smaller donors, you may ask them to repeat their giving by suggesting a string of amounts that will be reflected in your remit piece or donation landing page. Plenty of studies show most giving is done at the end of the calendar year, and you don’t want to miss out! And you’ll want to use a higher-end response device.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. This tool, which works with Google Calendar, let’s you export your calendar information to a spreadsheet. GTimeReport – We often feel time starved, too many tasks, too little time.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 1, 2023

Boost Your Credibility Your website can be the trusty sidekick that reflects your nonprofit’s professionalism and commitment to the cause. Stay Connected with Your Tribe Your website can double as a newsroom carrying the latest updates, blog posts, event calendars, and social media links.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

What photos or images best reflect our impact on our mission? Create a calendar for recruitment emails to begin signing up participants for your peer-to-peer fundraising event or campaign. Just imagine the time savings if you can create a communications calendar and schedule recruitment (and other) emails to send automatically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Basically, you take a notebook and a pen, and make it your calendar, journal and planner. Migration: a way to reschedule tasks following reflection and a reassessment of them. Among them: Have a place to plan, reflect and think offline. BuJo was designed by Ryder Carroll, a digital product designer. Reduce over-planning.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals? Ready, (Re)set, Go!

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2022

The dashboard’s visualization of the sector reflects these overlapping functions. 1] Includes all 501(c)(3) public charities registered with the IRS and present on a calendar year 2020 Business Master File. Corporations are expected to take a stance on social issues, and the government contracts out some social services to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Thanksgiving would be an opportune focal point to build on, when people’s calendars and media in general encourage feeling thankful and grateful. And invite others to reflect on their gratefulness this Thanksgiving week and holiday season. A campaign to help people feel grateful would be a gain for these organizations and the cause.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

your blog’s purpose should reflect the purpose of your entire organization. Use an editorial calendar. Create or find an editorial calendar, and more specifically, one that has the dates and events most important to your community. Here are 6 steps your nonprofit can take to reverse the trend. Understand blog’s purpose and goal.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

You don’t ever want to post blurry photos or pictures with content that doesn’t accurately reflect your organization’s values. While it’s always a good idea to be creative and mix things up sometimes, everything you put online should accurately reflect your organization’s values, culture, and mission. Develop a social media calendar.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’ Also, you should create a branded donation page that reflects the same message featured in your appeal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

One method for individuals is to schedule “ power hours ” by putting your planning/quiet time in your calendar and focusing on a key task. Another method is finding a “ Shultz Hour ” where you carve an hour before or after work for silent reflection, or maybe a Shultz ten minutes by closing your office door.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions. My Three Themes: .

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You can’t find the answer on a calendar, to-do list, or even in a three-year strategic plan. It means there’s more digging and self-reflection to do. What’s next for our mission? This one’s not as easy to answer. And that’s ok, because it’s not supposed to be. This one’s a biggie. Look at the big picture.

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