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Writing for Fundraising: Fundraising Appeal Writing Tips for Non-Profit Professionals

The Storytelling Non-profit

It’s the difference between seeing cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people on your to do list and seeing create guest list, send invitations, collect rsvps and food allergy info, create a menu, etc. Here is what my typical writing process looks like: Understand the goal and calls to action for the campaign. Source stories.

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How and Why Nonprofits Need to Think Differently

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit Hub is trying to serve as that nurturing parent who teaches their children—in this case, new or yet-to-be nonprofits—the right way to do things, the smart way to do things. If you have thoughts on how the nonprofit industry can think differently for the better, take them to the comments or shoot us a note at info@nonprofithub.org.

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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

While the benefits of a phonathon campaign are fairly straightforward, running a successful campaign is no easy task. To plan a successful phonathon campaign, be sure to: Focus on the larger mission. By adding matching gifts to your phonathon strategy, your campaign will see even greater success. Practice with mock calls.

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

Qgiv

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

Get Fully Funded

You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. Put your contact info in the footer and on the Contact Us page. Still, Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix offer an easy and affordable option, especially for your first non-profit website.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After gifting a copy of Y our Network Is Your Net Worth to every 11 th grader, students rotated table-to-table, in fifteen minute intervals, meeting a variety of mentors; including filmmakers, the CEO of Surf Air, the man behind Movember (a mustache growing charity campaign), a jeweler, an advertising executive and more.

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Your #nptech Community Events Calendar for July

Tech Soup

Naples, FL: How to Evaluate your Social Media Campaigns. Kakamega, Kenya: kakamega mozilla -teaching web development. Christchurch and Dunedin, New Zealand: NetSquared Info Meetings: Christchurch and Dunedin. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. New Orleans, LA: New Media Storytellers: How to get your audience to pay attention.