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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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10 Reasons Your Email Appeal is Being Ignored

NetWits

I volunteer with a small nonprofit called Fields to Families. For example, if I’ve indicated an interest in cancer research, failing to customize my appeal communications around an urgent need for cancer research funding.” – Mike Snusz. “ You don’t relate your work back to the life of your supporter.

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger. Prior to joining Care2, Ashley spent 10 years at the Student Conservation Association (SCA) where she helped hundreds of young people volunteer on public lands and start careers in conservation.

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5 Steps to Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign

Tech Soup

Do you have a volunteer staff or committee? Volunteers / committee available. Walk for Hunger. American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Are you running the Boston Marathon, and pledging to raise money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the process? Will you be running this campaign by yourself?

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. Connie Reece. tools and technology.

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Romancing the Donor

Connection Cafe

You have to put in the work all year round if you and your honey are going to live the good life. Applies to volunteers, advocates and donors (although there might be some privacy issues to understand). They have a hunger to make a connection – they have a hunger to make a connection with you. Recognize them!

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Brainstorm story angles with your Board, staff, and volunteers. Be consistent. Just make sure it’s a good story.

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