Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Traditionally, capital campaigns are broken down into seven phases: Pre-Campaign Planning. The Quiet Phase. The Public Phase. At each of these phases, understanding exactly who your audience is and how you should connect with them will be essential, especially after a year of pandemic challenges and distractions.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

A new nonprofit begins as a figment, something fully realized only in the founder’s mind. That desire doesn’t change. You may resent their lack of vision or courage for change. But it can breed overconfidence, especially in light of changing institutional dynamics. Birth is an apt metaphor for the founder years.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With that in mind, Candid recently updated and refreshed our knowledge management platform, Issue Lab , doubling down on our commitment to connect people who want to change the world with the resources they need to do it. . If you're new to Issue Lab or haven't hung out on the platform in a while, here's what's on offer. .

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Before you commit to a complete overhaul of your nonprofit’s branding , make sure you understand what a rebrand entails: Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change. Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change. Focus your efforts on changing aspects of your brand that your supporters find less appealing.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

The tech might be a crucial component of it, but the software can’t succeed on its own if your business processes have aged or your organization lacks a culture that embraces change. Process challenges to digital transformation When you go through digital transformation, processes change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

With these insights in mind, we turned to ideating and designing new potential business models with V2I to engage and deliver impact in a scalable, digital way. Upon further refinement, we crafted a phased approach for implementation to support V2I in their execution. Volunteer Alliance Projects. Adopt A Project.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 9, 2020

With these ideas in mind, here are three things I would want to know before purchasing a new AMS system: The vocabulary. Keep in mind that the longer the list, the more complex the AMS implementation, and the more the AMS system will cost. Plus, pricing between any two AMS systems is not always an apples-to-apples comparison.

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Achieve

MARCH 31, 2021

Capital campaigns are game-changing undertakings for growing nonprofits. If you ultimately decide to move ahead with a new campaign, keep these additional elements in mind: Your campaign’s feasibility study. Give yourself plenty of time to plan and host them during your campaign’s public phase. virtual events. online auctions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Think about what changed for you, your nonprofit, and your constituencies. . Here’s how Solis views the three phases of where we’ve been and where we’re headed: BC = Before COVID. The next phase of business evolution is upon us, and it’s digital first. 2021 will be the year of transition. Did you host virtual events ? .

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

With that fact of the industry in mind, we've built out a new Grants Management feature in EveryAction to provide fundraisers with a beautiful, intuitive solution for their development needs. Keep in mind that the Grant Period End Date must be after the Start Date.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

With these ideas in mind, take a look at your organization’s development plan and search for any room for potential improvement. What are you aiming to change within your organization during your next fundraising campaign? Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Before we proceed to the final illustration, any and all major changes must be addressed in the sketch phase. Keep an open mind when receiving feedback . Knowing why the client is requesting any changes is important in helping to better understand the goals. This is why a descriptive paragraph can be helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? With this objective in mind, you’ll probably want an absolute minimum of a couple hundred dollars for your budget.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When we deliver a Fonteva implementation project, we also deliver plans for change management, communication, training and development, to help ensure that resistance to adoption doesn’t undermine your investment. On the technical side, data architecture is key to implementing Fonteva effectively.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Some donors might respond well to “just” announcing the goal while others might respond positively to watching a dynamic thermometer change as donations come in. . This is the reason many capital campaigns don’t go to the “public phase” until they’ve raised the lion’s share of their goal through individual major gifts. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

Sometimes the cultivation phase — forging a personal and emotional alignment between the nonprofit’s mission, vision, and values and the donor prospect’s philanthropic priorities — can be completed in months if there is enough quality interaction. Stewardship should be carefully designed with the donor’s personality in mind.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new year brings a commitment to change and improvement for many people. With that in mind, we’d like to kick off 2022 by actively questioning the use of certain words—and what is meant—so that we can continue to improve by phasing out terms that might be overused, harmful, or inaccurate. Reprinted from Big Duck.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

and identified many opportunities for change. Notably, the group debated the tension between short-term fixes and long-term systemic change. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. How might we inspire funders to work toward long-range impact? These ideas are just the beginning.

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VQ Strategies

JULY 22, 2021

As I gratefully opened the bag of pretzels, I could have been thinking about what time I might eventually make it home or the plans I’d be missing that evening, but instead, my mind turned to volunteer engagement and how the past year has delivered so many unexpected changes in plans. Transparency.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work. Something that any geek that aims to do social good must keep in mind!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Lead Gift Committees often meet at least every month during the Quiet Phase of the campaign , and sometimes more often. First, keep in mind that most people—even seasoned volunteers—have a limited understanding of what it is to do real major gift work. The bottomline: It’s time to change your mindset about campaign committees.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Now that you’re started strategizing with your donors’ best interests in mind, it’s time to take things one step further by thinking entirely from their perspective. A critical leg of this journey includes the decision phase, where a donor commits their support to your organization. Integrate your processor with your donation page.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

This initial phase of research can give you and your direct mail fundraising partners a better idea of what your organization is working with, what the broader market of supporters value, and how you can stand out against peer organizations. Identify any major changes that come up if they have the potential to impact the campaign’s success.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

These five steps will help you plan for your first website with your organization’s future in mind, laying the proper groundwork and setting your site up for success for when you begin working with a consultant. Keep the following tips in mind when choosing the perfect domain name: Keep your domain name short and easy to remember.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2011

It assumes that consumers start with a large number of products or brands in mind and methodically limit their choices until they’ve decided which one to purchase. After purchase, their relationship is focused on using the product. The traditional marketing metaphor for many years has been a Funnel.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As you transition, keep in mind there are going to be headaches, things in your new system that you can’t do, and that soon it will afford you 100+ other opportunities that your old system couldn’t. Change is hard. The reality is that if you want to move your institution forward, then change is necessary. Lessons Learned.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

A prevailing myth in the nonprofit sector is that traditional mail has been phased out by the internet. Donors occupy a variety of different digital and physical spaces, and you must be mindful of both your traditional and virtual engagement strategies. Direct Mail versus Digital Communications . Tip #1: Personalize all appeals .

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Candid

MAY 20, 2021

As expected, the pandemic’s impacts on nonprofits and their responses to those changes have varied dramatically between organizations. These are exactly the same core steps of a longer campaign’s planning and quiet phases, but they don’t have to take months or years. Ask for the gifts, in-person or by Zoom as needed.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In the introduction to the Change Management Strategies Series I mention three major factors effecting change. Whether you are in the market for new Learning Management Solution (LMS) or have recently purchased new LMS, the implementation should be at the forefront of your mind. Communications for an LMS Implementation.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

You may also want to include any notable moments in the nonprofit’s history, changes in mission or vision, strategic partnerships, and other information you consider relevant to the campaign. The critical next step in this initial planning phase is to determine the assets your organization has at its disposal. Fundraising plan summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. AGI is a vehicle for positive social change ideas that connect people in need with people who want to help.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But keep in mind, if you’re going to use qualifiers such as “large,” you should assign specific quantitative amounts. With your overall goal in mind, consider what your goal for each individual prospect would be. Similarly, you’ll pursue gifts in the cultivation stage much differently than in the stewardship phase.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. Determine services and programs: This is when you hammer out how you plan to change lives. Build a solid foundation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

Consider, for example, that your constituent management system is a LTR (Long Term Relationship) whereas other systems and technologies may change faster, and services agreements may need to be rebid quite frequently – perhaps annually. Keep in mind that this agreement structure is relevant for a range of selections and choices in each area.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

A membership renewal letter is also a chance to put all of your program’s benefits and perks in the forefront of your constituents’ minds as they consider renewing their membership. Don’t beat around the bush during this phase of the letter. Get To The Point—Ask Them To Renew!

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