Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By simply asking, “What food items would be meaningful as a gift to someone from XYZ country?” When they applied it to their actual work task, they realized they could design personalized gift baskets in minutes, not hours. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Blackbaud’s research, however, shows the average time from the first solicitation to a donor’s first gift is four years, yet the average development officer’s term is only 18–24 months. That’s why retaining top officers is so important.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

You’re able to see, for individual donors and for the organization overall, the number of asks made, gifts obtained, average size of major gifts and donor retention rate. Funders will make financial gifts if what you offer aligns with their philanthropic or personal interests.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

Four years ago, the only thing major gifts officers and direct marketing teams shared was the office bathroom. Mid-level giving programs exist at the intersection between major gifts and direct marketing. Major gifts fundraising is a game of quantum leaps. Unique staffing models are emerging. Engaged Leadership.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

NLP is useful for an AI model to identify the intent of a person based on what they say or what they type. As organizations have transitioned from a gift officer to a digital gift officer, they have had to reinvent their fundraising model to be a digital-first approach. Natural-language processing. In-house AI expertise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Twenty Hats

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They are collaborators and relationship-builders , each with a specialization that is needed to fully leverage community involvement. In this model, volunteering is not a less-then, it’s the most powerful of all three points of entry. For one thing, this model elevates your role. That is not how I see it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

A comprehensive solution will require a collective effort, and creative collaboration across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The result is a model for cross-sector partnerships that span the nonprofit, for-profit, and education sectors, and include the Numi Foundation , World Central Kitchen , and Eat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

The need for collaboration amongst a diverse array of community members has become a recognized focus within the nonprofit sector. This question does not come with a simple solution, and there are daily decisions made to work toward making contacts with community leaders, elders, agencies, and members who can collaborate and share resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It may take an experienced major gifts officer an entire week to complete this task. The use of AI for these tasks is not just for major gift officers from larger fundraising shops who focus exclusively on five- or six-figure gifts. Artificial intelligence can also predict donors who are about to lapse and need re-engagement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Awards and gifts. Plan opportunities for volunteers to have fun together. Examples of leadership need to be the given so the desired actions and behaviors are followed by the team. Celebrate the wins.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. Next comes a lead gift committee and a campaign cabinet or steering committee, followed by a range of additional ad-hoc groups assembled to tackle other needs as they arise in the quiet, kickoff, and public phases of the campaign.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

The data from these various sources are harmonized, and each record is coded according to Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System, either by Candid staff, our machine learning model, or a combination of both. . These gifts are not generally captured in our real-time data collection. What to know about real-time data .

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For instance, you’ll create a sustainable fundraising model and have reliable funding coming in throughout the year that you can put toward various budgeting needs. Matching gifts. Matching gifts. Make the individual donations you receive go even further by adding matching gifts to your nonprofit’s revenue streams.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Conflict management is also a must-have skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Responsive tech support.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. You can collaborate with your Board and other team members using Google Docs and Google Sheets and then store the final product in Drive.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education and industry leaders have been collaborating to respond and change course through this time of uncertainty. Revisit your delivery models: Campuses were thrust into new delivery models – how do these become sustainable over time, and how can they best be utilized?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." Target's data this year was drawn from 80 different nonprofit organizations, 38 million donors, 79 million gifts and $2.5 Or, depending on when you last ate, the nearest Indian restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I opened up one of Fundwriter’s appeal models ( Appeal – Human Impact ) and entered information as if Fundwriter.ai Major Gifts – If you’re a nonprofit major gift officer, then Fundwriter can help you write great donor-facing content like prospect outreach emails and meeting follow-ups. Fundwriter.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Then it was time to distribute the gifts , including Flip Cameras and books. We discovered that rowfeeder will scrape tweets written in Arabic!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. Jeremy Wang, Associate VP of Development at Temple University, shared real-life examples for increasing your gift officer productivity.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

The FY2018 analysis features median metrics from the over 200 institutions that participate in the annual donorCentrics Collaborative Benchmarking service. . For example, what are the trends of first-time donors who made their initial first gift at the $25 level? If you find that less than 20% of these donors returned (i.e.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Gifts from every type of donor increased. Notably, gifts from the category “other organizations” increased 13.5 % , nearly double the increase from any other type of donor. Seven different institutions received gifts of $100 million or more.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. You know, one of the things about being a donor, it’s not just giving a gift, it’s building a strong culture of philanthropy. Next is we want people who we can partner with.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Togetherness: The dream of the Web is a model maps our influence and values to appropriate collective action that has reached its tipping point.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. One of the rising trends in crypto projects are DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Crypto donors will probably give more.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I suspect there are two contradictory issues behind this confusion: While relationships are about giving and receiving, fundraising strategies frequently rely on a scarcity model in which gifts and thank you's are finite and defined. Fundraisers therefore want to sculpt the message as much as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. Many delegates brought gifts. Birds flew through the proceedings. The closing event was a wild dance party.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . billion and above. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

” I was lucky enough to collaborate with Janet McIntyre , a nonprofit leadership coach and Jeffrey Golde , Adjunct Professor of Management: Columbia Business School, along with Abe Flores from AFTA. Needless to say, I learned a lot and wanted to capture some of it here as well as the Tweet transcript.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

The official mission statement says “PENCIL is the leader in creating innovative and impactful models of ongoing collaboration between business and public schools.”. It’s evident through her words that the mission is only possible through the collaboration of like-minded people with a common passion. See the difference?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

Every gift you give away, you don't mail it somewhere. It's the power of each person individually to make a gift to one other person in their local community. That's the beauty of it, and that's why our motto is "Changing the world one gift at a time." I wanted to keep stuff out of the landfills. You are not alone."

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. Not being able to build out your gift tables. And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . Momentum is really important.

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