Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Capital campaigns require input from many stakeholders, both internal and external. Like it or not, if you’re planning or conducting a campaign soon , meetings will likely become a big part of your life for the foreseeable future. The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In capital campaigns, board giving matters. We’ve seen that contributions from board members often account for 20% or more of a campaign’s total donations. If you make board giving a part of your capital campaign planning from the start, you’ll help ensure your campaign gets off to a powerful start. Your executive or.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) declared a national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people on June 6, 2023, the first state of emergency ever declared in its history spanning four decades. Issue awareness campaigns and messages can be directed at existing or potential supporters, with the goal of educating them about a specific issue.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. This information can help inform their own ad campaigns and identify opportunities for differentiation.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

Instead, as you plan out your fundraising campaigns for the weeks and months ahead, now is the perfect time to get back to the basics. Political campaigns might raise $20 billion at most, whereas nonprofits raise closer to $500 billion at least. But you may need to think differently about the timing of your campaigns.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While there are risks of accepting in-kind donations, those risks can be offset by creating firm policies and guidelines surrounding the in-kind donations your nonprofit will accept. Not all gifts are made equally, and you won’t be able to accept them all if you don’t create an in-kind donation policy. What are in-kind donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2014

The site and toolkit was created through a partnership and support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and input from campaign experts. The site and toolkit was created through a partnership and support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and input from campaign experts. Evaluate the Campaign Climate.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

Consider hosting a capital campaign. Many major giving campaigns involve predetermined giving levels⁠ tied to unique and exclusive benefits that encourage participation. Consider hosting a capital campaign. A capital campaign is a fundraising effort that aims to collect significant revenue, or capital, for a key initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2020

Don’t forget to encourage supporters to make an extra impact by starting a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign before the event to raise awareness and donations for your charity. Many charities are dedicated to causes that are impacted by public policy. 4) Schedule in time to volunteer.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

Your concise guide to building a winnable campaign. Are you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies? Follow this roadmap to put successful campaign strategies in place. Advocacy advocacy strategy campaigns Program'

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EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

Update your database policies. Update your database policies based on your new software platform (your new vendor or implementation partner should be able to provide some guidance here,) and set aside time for initial and ongoing training. Schedule a training session with them to go over policies and procedures.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If your nonprofit is just starting out or doesn’t have solid financial policies in place, now is the time to start! Nonprofit financial policies An organization’s financial policies provide a framework for many of the essential aspects of managing funds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? Handling controversy: This quite possibly the most important part of any social media policy. How to write your policy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

#GivingTuesday 2020 is December 1 and below are important data about GivingTuesday donors to help your nonprofit create a successful campaign. Research and public policy – 1%. 8) 47% donate to crowdfunding campaigns that benefit NPOs, NGOs, and charities. Human and civil rights / racial justice – 3%.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Phillips, senior director of policy and research at Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, and Melissa Levesque, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Coastal Community Foundation, spoke with Blackbaud’s Sally Ehrenfreid, government relations lead, about implementing advocacy in foundations and their respective journeys.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 11, 2023

He likely didn’t have grassroots campaigns in mind when he uttered those words, but Twain’s advice is spot-on for grassroots advocacy practitioners as they make a plan to engage the new Congress. Many organizations delayed their policy agenda-setting until they were certain which party would be in control of each chamber of Congress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Last spring, I had the pleasure of meeting Ashley Boyd,Campaign Director, for MomsRising.org who told me about Joyful Funerals. Ashley and her colleague Anita – as well as the whole team at Momsrising does a fantastic job of reflecting after each campaign on how it could be improved.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 21, 2023

Member advocates are the backbone of your campaigns and the heart of your advocacy program. Within the subgroup, encourage your members to discuss current policies or share important documents to increase member engagement. Highlight any upcoming policies your advocates are working on.

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Advocacy Online Guidelines Social Media 118

Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. To build a meaningful advocacy campaign, it needs to start with a real, human story of why we’re here and why people should care.

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Advocacy San Francisco Story Digital 59

Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

Within just a few months, most associations had publicly posted recommendations and tips, provided amnesty for dues, created policies and procedures, and/or jumped to virtual tools to continue providing events. For instance, your association might consider creating advocacy campaigns and scheduling lobby days.

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EveryAction

JUNE 23, 2023

Whether your organization advocates for policy change on the national, state, or local level, mobilizing your supporters to place advocacy calls to their legislators is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal—and with support from the right technology, it can also be one of the most convenient. Building an advocacy campaign?

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Check out our last installment here ! Here’s what our expert partners said.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Crowdfunding platforms collect data and feedback from users to refine their models and policies. Some donors appreciate the option to tip because they see it as a way to support their cause and ensure campaign organizers can maximize their donations. Donors tend to focus more on the cause or project itself and its importance to them.

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M+R

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We know advocacy is key to winning—both elections and the concrete policy changes that will have an impact on people’s lives, which is why my colleagues and I will be hosting a webinar on November 9: Countdown to Election Day—The road to victory starts HERE. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we’re ready for the fight.

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Candid

JUNE 1, 2022

In this approach, nonprofits launch campaigns exclusively online, rather than using digital tools as a secondary source of revenue. . Not only were online campaigns convenient and necessary during the brunt of the pandemic, but they were also incredibly lucrative. Examine each processor’s policies. Data portability policies.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

. —– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nonprofit endowments 101 How endowments work Nonprofit endowment fund rules and policies Benefits of nonprofit endowments How to start an endowment fund Nonprofit endowments 101 Exactly what is an endowment fund? Investment policy For your investment policy, you need to decide what your organization can invest the endowment into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported last Friday, Apple’s policy has raised the ire of some nonprofits leaders and there is a online petition with almost 2,000 signatures collected so far sending Mr. Jobs at Apple a message. Here’s more about why it is important.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

However, you also know these cycles of boom and bust aren’t always efficient or effective at building a truly successful program—instead, retaining advocates year-round and between campaigns is what will help you build more power and make a deeper impact in alignment with your long-term vision and goals.

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sgEngage

JULY 26, 2023

The Requirements Provide Access to Privacy Policies and Other Privacy Resources Do any of your online resources need to include a link to your privacy policy, notice at collection, or forms to change privacy preferences, etc.? You may be required to delete demographic data after closing an event or campaign.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project? However, if your idea isn’t very large in scope, a one-time crowdfunding campaign or peer-to-peer fundraising event could achieve the results you’re hoping for. The answer could be “both.”

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M+R

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We truly believe that even in the heat of a campaign, we can stay true to our values, stand stronger for democracy, and lift each other up instead of tearing each other down. Worse, it has long-term consequences for our democracy. But here’s the thing: we’re better than that.

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Conversation California Structure Policy 52

OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

Nonprofit campaigns saw record breaking success in 2021, with $2.7 These unprecedented levels of giving represent a significant continued trend of increased generosity, especially in online methods such as peer-to-peer campaigns. The Many Risks of Poor Donor Privacy Policies. Billion raised in the United States alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

SMoP14 — Campaign for College (@CollegeOpp) May 22, 2014. Johanson discussed a recent user generated video campaign for Teacher Appreciation Day in partnership with Soul Pancake that invited teachers to share a letter they would write to themselves when they first started teaching. The campaign leveraged nostalgia.

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

The result was the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), based on the premise that you can not only train generations of college students about activism but win campaigns along the way. And he knew that the marriage of public affairs, media, and digital campaigning was the future. There is so, so much more.

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M+R

MARCH 1, 2024

We truly believe that even in the heat of a campaign, we can stay true to our values, stand stronger for democracy, and lift each other up instead of tearing each other down. Worse, it has long-term consequences for our democracy. But here’s the thing: we’re better than that. powell and M+R Win’s Christian LoBue first appeared on M+R.

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