Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Sound proof the office. We had a dozen small groups that each brainstormed 20-50 ideas each. Here’s the list: Function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

By sitting down quarterly to review communication calendars, marketers and fundraisers can strengthen calls to action with educational, promotional, and fundraising components that reach all of their target audiences. A mutual communication calendar can even facilitate logistics like consistent verbiage or timing of messages.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, but it's a lot easier when you're not starting from scratch - so we've put together a template that you can fill out as you go, which already contains the structure, sections, and language you'll need.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” Any of that sound familiar? Use a Consent Agenda A consent agenda gives you a way of structuring your meeting so that you can handle the routine things quickly, leaving more time for important conversations. .” “Nobody shows up on time. Then, they want to leave early.” ” “Nobody comes prepared.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trello also has workflow automation features which include: Rule-based triggers Custom buttons Calendar commands Due date commands Why This Fundraising App Made Our List Trello works both from your desktop and from your mobile device with the Trello app. This whole online plan is mobile-optimized so that you can read the toolkit on the go.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. But you can structure your perks so that everyone gets the same perks, but donors get them sooner or delivered personally. Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So you got to make that case.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

That sounds good, right? SMART Fundraising Goals SMART goals give you a structure to follow in setting your goals. Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Set a goal!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

The 1-10-1000 Rule gives you a simple structure to guide your fundraising activities for the year and encourages you to focus on 3 streams of revenue: 1 signature event, 10 grant opportunities, and 1,000 individual donors. Getting to 1,000 may sound intimidating, but there are tons of strategies to find new donors , like: Mail appeals.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sound good? These features allow organizations to create event calendars, plan event logistics, and manage event timelines. Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating. What Does Nonprofit Event Management Software Do? Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s cover the basics.

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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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Instead of participating in a structured event, supporters raise money on your behalf on their own time. Once you’re a member, you may also be able to share your events on their community calendar. Sound interesting? Or a kickball tournament. Or an art festival. There’s so much room to get creative.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Now, this may sound like strategic planning, but I’m going to show you the ways in which it’s different. But I prefer to call them execution goals because it sounds like something you can execute on. It is as hard and as easy as putting the meetings on your calendar and showing up for them. .

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Doing so may sound counterintuitive, but it can increase the trust your supporters have in your nonprofit. But what constitutes a well-designed and successful website?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sounds cooler anyway. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. Really cool thing is she’s got like an 83%. Rachel: Yeah, you can say win rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is no better way to structure your thinking that the POST which stands for People, Objective, Strategy, and Tools. Now matter which type of story you choose to tell or what medium you use (video, text, photos), here is a simple storytelling structure you can use to create the first draft of your story: Once upon a time….

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

The other thing to maybe start sounding like a broken record is really to tap your network. ” Especially right now, our calendars are not what they normally are with events, and meetings, and activities like they are. And this time there was just so much uncertainty. ” She’s like, “Yeah.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. And that sounds kind of self-evident but it is often the case that sometimes tactics lead in communications. Well, in the book, I define six elements that power successful communications outcomes. Sarah: Yes.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And then start bucketing that time on your calendar. Sounds good. So much of this depends on kind of the structure of the organization, the relationship between programs and fundraisers, but I’ve seen everything from the lead fundraiser doing site visits every so often and capturing the stories because there’s a real capacity issue.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

” And then start bucketing that time on your calendar. Sounds good. Just think about how much more optimized your energy is going to be if you bucket your time in this way. And the funder map is what leads you to figure out, “Okay. This is what’s going to be my first bridge.” Steven: Yeah. But first, thank you.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You know, I imagine people listening to this webinar, they get it, maybe, you know, they want to dip their toes and do it, but maybe, I don’t know, the CFO, the board is saying, “This sounds a little weird, it sounds like a fad.” I think it depends on your internal structure, personality, you know, risk appetite.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You know, I imagine people listening to this webinar, they get it, maybe, you know, they want to dip their toes and do it, but maybe, I don’t know, the CFO, the board is saying, “This sounds a little weird, it sounds like a fad.” I think it depends on your internal structure, personality, you know, risk appetite. Matt: Yeah.

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