Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Aligning staff around fundraising with a suite of messages communicating impact to ensure employees at all levels are well-armed with an elevator pitch.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. While it may take time to open up those donation pipelines, put every effort early on behind your fundraising efforts. Create an atmosphere of collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

They keep it in structures that serve each platform and compel software developers to build integrations and connections (or not) so that their independent companies can sell in multiple markets. The inherent collaboration of nonprofit organizations globally drives the need for structures that facilitate exchanging nonprofit data.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

To celebrating its 5th year, North Texas Giving Day hopes to exceed last year’s fundraising results of 37,800 donations totaling $14.4 With attention being given to this model of inspiring community-wide giving, it is important to think in a networked way and don’t reinvent the wheel. … Read More Fundraising Philanthropy'

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What we’ve seen across all organizations, regardless of size, is that digital teams—their structure, leadership, and how they are affected by the culture of the institutions where they work—are the biggest predictor of online effectiveness. Most teams need more full-time help.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. The preferred structure that many projects move toward in crypto is DAOs, which deliberately pushes power to the community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Corporate support is today an indispensable component of the nonprofit organization’s diversified fundraising strategy. The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Some of the findings in this year’s survey included the importance of having leaders with digital experience, the connection between well-structured teams and outcomes, the challenges in restructuring digital teams, and the gap between the value organizations place on supporter engagement and how they are prioritizing managing and tracking it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Make it matter: Even though everyone on a nonprofit’s staff typically knows its mission well, team members’ experiences and goals can be very different – whether its seniority (entry level to executive level), department (fundraising, programmatic, finance and admin), location or another dimension of their experience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership. ” There are a number of innovative ways that companies and nonprofits can collaborate to expand their partnerships for mutual benefit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Says one survey respondent, "Our greatest challenge is building a strong Board of Directors that is willing to fundraise for the organization. Anyone who joins the Board now has clearly defined roles and willingly makes a personal donation in addition to actively fundraising.". Systems-level collaboration. signs of success.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

It’s hard for anyone outside the fundraising field to understand how profoundly different the cultures of major gifts work and direct marketing really are. Major gifts fundraising is a game of quantum leaps. But since the 2014 study, cooperation between this fundraising odd couple has improved. Unique Staffing Models.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The class was structured with lessons, followed by 20 minutes or so to complete an exercise. Each direction is very different, using a different data model (see below for lots more on that) and approach. So how is it always about the data model? A nonprofit typically has a very different ownership/sharing model.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. Nearly all of them now are cloud-based and available to us wherever we need them — at our fundraisers, service events, and off-site meetings. Benefit #1: Cost. It's closer to renting than buying software.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. Predictive Markets: The Iowa Electronic Markets uses an online wagering model to accurately predict political elections. Providing online infrastructure to aid grantee organizations in decentralized fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

Outdated organizational models that segment departments into their own distinct areas and with their own distinct messaging leave constituents confused and even less connected than before they first engaged. Focus on the supporters that make your work possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

At first glance, it sounds like user-generated content strategy but with a more disciplined story telling structure and intentional networked approach than getting your supporters to share your messaging points in their own words or activating the activists with social media or cause-related marketing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In the near future, I predict that the tech trends driving this shift will continue to place more pressure on peer-to-peer and “do it yourself” fundraising capabilities. And companies like Unilever are not only focused on their supply chain, but re-structuring their advertising practices to better support and promote gender equality.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? Challenging as it may seem, the payoff that comes from structuring governance according to organizational and lifecycle needs is well worth the time and effort. 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 1996, 370-73).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And like I say very often on these sessions, I always look for folks with that firsthand fundraising knowledge. I look at the fundraising and the revenue aspects and Brian’s team of construction experts really brings value and creates a streamlined process for the actual project itself. We’ve been prudent fundraisers today.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

The Head-office may also buy to serve their own centralized responsibilities in fundraising, advocacy, finance, administration or programs. The Affiliate (Chapter or Office) – who run locally and execute fundraising, advocacy, finance, administration or programmatic work in their respective geography. Data Conversion. Replication.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Fundraising. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Fundraising / #casesmg / @CASEAdvance. Fundraising. Fundraising / #caseadvdean / @CASEAdvance.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. They play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, advancing causes, and driving change across diverse industries and sectors.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Get creative.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And that’s what you’re here to do today because it’s such a fast moving, wild space of the fundraising pie. And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Like you got invited to a fundraiser or you said to your friend you’d go and sit at their table at an event. I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. They write a check, they sign up, they advocate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The key is breaking down the tasks into bite-size pieces and engaging crowds in the process.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We also are practical, and agile, and collaborative. So things like asking, will the organization be providing computers and mobile devices for all staff, or would there be a hybrid model where some staff would have organization-issued computers and other staff would have to rely on their personal devices? Yeah, I see that.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . I call this developing core narrative materials.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy.

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Management Work Video Slides 88

Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

His extensive work on effective leadership and organizational success offers valuable lessons for structuring boards that not only meet but surpass organizational goals. So, leadership must model the values and behaviors they’d like to see throughout the organization, setting a standard that promotes a positive and productive culture. “If

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