ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We are seeing more research reports based on convenience samples (i.e.,

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The end-of-year online fundraising opportunity only underscores the importance of this channel as a giving source. The steady increase in online fundraising continues despite challenging economic conditions and declines in other channels. Start by checking a sample of your own data. The Cannibalization Argument.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

" How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world. " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

." 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. When it comes to the year-end giving campaign, it’s time to haul out all your best practices and secret strategies, and go all in. Offer to promote them and their work or product by featuring them on your website or sharing on your social channels.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In my experience, I have found that outstanding healthcare CEOs see their jobs as providing the best places to practice medicine. Tip: Seek to have at least 3 patient stories for each medical and surgical specialty, as well as general practice areas. Letters to patients asking for their stories, including a sample.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2024

Even though donor attrition has been abysmal for over a decade, too few nonprofits are engaging in the best practices proven to improve results. Here are 10 first-time donor retention tips that channel gratitude Call first-time donors immediately and thank them. Send new online donors an additional thank you by mail.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Don’t forget about direct mail! When you use your donor data strategically, you can set attainable goals, identify new donor pools, choose effective communication channels, and personalize your appeals. To get the most out of your email newsletters, invitations, and updates, you need to have some best practices top of mind.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Email is a critical channel. This was a great way for EAC to create a meaningful channel into the discussions and to maintain transparency. House of Representatives; EPA just halted all new permits and ordered a review of the practice.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Practice your elevator speech so it rolls off your tongue easily. Your social media channels : Look for ways to emphasize your message in every post. Pull bits and blurbs from your messaging for fliers, invitations, banners, and snail mail appeals. Choose a heart-warming story, one that you can tell quickly. No exceptions!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Send all kinds of channels. This is very, very practical. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. So if you’re not on my mailing list already, you need to get on it. Get on my mailing list, julieordonez.com/list. Yes, build relationships. Yes, email.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari Trent Stageberg, MBA and Jackie Smith will equip you with easy, practical, and actionable steps to help you win back your lapsed donors, including learning how to identify, qualify, and communicate with them. ” But let’s show you how this looks practically. Kari: So we’ve got three sample donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. Many of them will do like a little sample screening for you so you can see what it looks before you make the investment. Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

When she isn’t playing with spreadsheets, she uses google analytics, tracking the traffic to their site from social sources, where they go and what they do. [Google Analytics recently integrated social analytics tracking and multi-channel funnels ]. MMM Tools: Measurement, Monitoring, and Management. Analytics Tools.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices: How to Get Started. The first 2 weeks of a campaign is typically when you’ll recruit the most fundraisers You’ll want to use multiple channels to recruit fundraisers (ie: phone calls, sms, emails, social media, and more) Consider doing a webinar training to help fundraisers get setup for success.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices: How to Get Started. The first 2 weeks of a campaign is typically when you’ll recruit the most fundraisers You’ll want to use multiple channels to recruit fundraisers (ie: phone calls, sms, emails, social media, and more) Consider doing a webinar training to help fundraisers get setup for success.

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Fundraising Illinois Campaign Raise 69

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 21, 2016

Then, with open channels of communication between your team members, others can step in where they have expertise. SurveyMonkey offers a number of solutions, including a sample size calculator to estimate the ideal number of constituent responses for you to record. Not Enough Experience Using Data. There’s probably a tool for that.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I could practically teaching this class. Are communication channels clear? Sometimes we forget to even like mail or, sorry, email them the final strategic plan. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julie. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Jeffrey Haguewood is calling it a best practice – making mission support tangible. In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. Every dollar helps. Connections. Have a listen.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I will say that it is not a problem whatsoever to find funding opportunities through multiple channels, organically through hearing about something, somebody emailing you an opportunity, etc. There are lots of great samples and guidance out there.” Unfortunately, a lot of funding practices are not ideal.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Happy new year!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So chatbots are very useful if you do have a list of frequently asked questions or if you want to direct people, say, to a hotline or to some other resource when you might not be directly answering e-mails. So it’s once assumed that TikTok is just a channel for kids. Then we choose our amplifying channels. Ask a question.

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