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5 Strategies to Implementing a Successful Employee Giving Campaign

Connection Cafe

Starting your own employee giving campaign is not for the faint of heart! The great news is that if done well, an employee campaign has many benefits beyond the funds raised for your programs. Before implementing any type of campaign, have the support of your hospital CEO and Foundation board members and get an approved budget.

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

Get Fully Funded

If you have a CRM with an analytical dashboard, like Little Green Light or Bloomerang , you are presented with this number daily. Campaigns: How many fundraising campaigns did you have and how did each one perform? If a campaign fell flat, do a deep dive as to why. But do you really think about it? Handwritten notes?

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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

Make sure your donation form is updated with the latest, most relevant campaign information. All advocacy campaigns, social media links, and other engagement opportunities should be relevant and available for your audience to get involved with directly on your website. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio.

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4 Important Membership Trends Every Museum Needs to Consider

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When it comes to mass direct-mail campaigns, that difference of 5 cents can accumulate quickly for organizations on a tight budget! According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Harry: A Green Geek. Interview with Jonathon Colman.

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Notes from Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp

Have Fun - Do Good

You campaign target is the person who has the power to give you what you want. The target audience is the people who can influence your campaign target. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. Target your audience(s).

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

The average donor doesnt want to pay for "frilly" stuff like accounting software, talented executives, and fundraising campaigns. News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. After all, people want their contributions to go to programming.

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