Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Embrace personalization : With the changes in donor expectations outlined in the report, prioritize the individualized touch in your fundraising communications. Fundraising costs should include your need for stellar donor communications, the appropriate staffing of the development office, and the next level of digital platforms.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 74

Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Volunteer tasks can range from simple to complex depending on how you wish to engage volunteers and how your organization is structured. This means your first step may be building out your committee structure or re-evaluating it, especially if you’re interested in using volunteers to help you with event or campaign management.

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Volunteer Management Help Tips 52

Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The fee structure for nonprofits, however, is competitive: $0.50 More than 1,000 organizations later and they still focus on simplified solutions with an attractive pricing structure. Founded: 2010 Designed with fundraising staff in mind, iDonate’s overall mission is to move overall giving from 2% of disposable income to 4% by 2025.

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Platform Donation Paypal Integration 98

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many website services promise quick and easy setup free of any long-term planning or custom coding, and—while that may sound alluring—it can cause certain roadblocks in the future that prevent you from scaling your online presence. In today’s ever-expanding online world, that’s important.

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Websites Practice Nonprofit Search 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. Sound familiar?

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

What would the structure be like? In the AIGA article, Michael Yuasa, founding designer at Antarctic, mentions how “Putting the donor first plays out in all visual communication.” This all sounds great, in theory. But the technical aspects were only one part of the challenge. What about content?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2017

Plus, in the grand scheme of your nonprofit’s structure, let’s just say the people you rely on most need to be rock-solid. At the forefront of your structure are the leaders of your organization. Keep in mind, that doesn’t always mean what’s best for the short team. Keep in mind that knowledge alone is not enough to lead.

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Leadership Structure Knowledge Mind 35

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Boardable — Top Fundraising App for Board Management Boardable is powerful nonprofit board meeting software that enables your leadership to communicate virtually. They need intuitive tools that enable communication and that work right when they’re needed. Chapter communication. Plus, pay your chapter’s bills from the same app.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

Here are three quick illustrations of how you can activate this dynamic duo: Integrate messaging: Marketing and fundraising communications should share a common agenda and voice. A mutual communication calendar can even facilitate logistics like consistent verbiage or timing of messages. That is how your whole organization wins.

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Marketing Fundraising Facilitation Calendar 27

Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

At Qgiv, we guide our work by keeping our core values top of mind, and one of those values is empathy. We all learned a lot of lessons from 2020 during our Navigating the Unknown report and we’re here to tell you that you absolutely need a crisis communication plan! Sound familiar? What will guests see, smell, hear, etc.?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. "Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. All Program Managers. All Accounting Staff (normally one person!).

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

Videos increase user engagement, boost traffic and time spent on websites, help boost SEO efforts, and are outright fantastic at communicating a company’s message. It follows a basic, yet effective structure – First, getting into the particulars of the issue and then portraying your solution. It just works. Your mission.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Jane Pearson,orgSource Vice President of Marketing and Communications Services, and Amy Williams, President and CEO, Brand Health Media, have been exploring the pros and cons. Large language models (LLMs), adept at communicating with human speech, represent a significant advance in computing. That bragging is not unfounded.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

But each tactic is rooted in a single overarching strategy: Writing with your donors in your mind. When you write a fundraising email, start with your donors in mind. Take it from a writer: Appealing to people is easier if you have an idea in your mind of who will read your fundraising email. You’re appealing to people!

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email Fundraising Story Storytelling 96

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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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

As I did at the one-year and three-year mark, here are some of the things I'm most proud of, mistakes I've made, and questions on my mind as we head into the next five years. THINGS I'M PROUD OF: Building a rigorous strategic framework under our creative, community-based work. I bridle under too much structure. I like change.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . Well, what it means is that you’re communicating, right? And how do we communicate that from them? The goals changed.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. The first step is to understand how your organization is structured, and how it views technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This can be challenging, but with the right support structure, nonprofits can thrive in this environment. Invest in excellent tech support: Tech support needs to deal with on-site lighting and sound issues as well as the online platform used to create a livestream broadcast for the online audience.

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Create Strategy Fundraising Virtual 271

Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2016

As we evolve into a society that increasingly relies on online—or cloud-based—software to manage everything from personal communications to banking needs, the debate over the pros and cons of configurable vs. customized software has arrived at the main stage. Below I’ll break down my reasoning for you. Configurable Solutions.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Sound exciting? Build a Donor Data Migration Strategy in 10 Steps Migrating your donor data into your new CRM sounds like a daunting task. Not so much.

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Data Donor Map Test 52

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Museum professionals tend to be highly educated and museum experience results in a host of transferable skills such as project management, communications, and design. And note that budgeting for self-care may be a financially sound decision , as stress can cause people to make poor financial choices. A: Not that we know of.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. They’re able to tell a great story and they’re able to communicate a solution to an obvious need. It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. Yeah, looks like it’s working.

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Campaign Video Project Process 93

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If you want to handle event planning, ticketing, registration, communications, and fundraising by hand, we salute you—but you probably wouldn’t be reading this guide to event management software for nonprofits. Sound good? Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating.

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Software Management Guide Registration 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds. Fundamentally, virtual worlds are a new communication medium. In fact, at this point it isn’t even on the Web at all.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When you think about your nonprofit’s digital communication strategy , what comes to mind? Closed captions translate the various sound elements of a video into text as a visitor is watching it. Develop an Intuitive Navigation Structure User-friendly website navigation is also essential to designing for accessibility.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

In this webinar, Sarah Durham will focus on identifying who your audiences are, how to prioritize them, and other elements key to developing a smart communications strategy. So, for those of you who don’t know Big Duck, we are a communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. All right, awesome. So buy those books.

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Build Video New York City Communication 125

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

But when information is needed to develop a sound strategy, is the data readily available? Applying an assignment structure. Either through rising annual fundraising and campaign goals or increased donor retention and annual giving participation, success for frontline fundraisers often comes down to prioritizing strategy development.

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Product Data Metrics Knowledge Worker 87

EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bonus: get a free Nonprofit Donor Persona Template + sample to start building your communications strategy now! Fundraising reports Communications reports Digital Reports. Communicating with your teams. And don’t forget to keep location and travel considerations in mind when sending out calls for volunteers!

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, with a governance model in place, you will ensure that your support agents and technical staff are enabled and guided by the leadership within your university to make the right changes that are approved organization-wide, that comply with regulations, and that are technically sound. What is the communication plan?

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

While you may be thinking, “That just sounds like fundraising,” what differentiates it is its intensity and specific goal. It’s a structured yet collaborative process where you investigate the strengths and weaknesses of your campaign plan. During the meeting, you should have a specific ask amount in mind.

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Campaign Phase Guide Library 52

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Consistent, relevant content is key to keeping your campaign top of mind for donors. Try incorporating a leaderboard, raffle, gift package, badge, and other selective communication to encourage friendly competition and to recognize a job well done. Sounds like a good time to me. It’s expected and happens to the best of us.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Communicating with supporters. Most often, organizations develop technology plans when they’re in the market for new solutions, with the plan providing a structured approach to the research and purchasing process. If creating a new technology plan for your nonprofit sounds like a smart move, you’re probably excited to get started.

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Template Guide Technology Consultant 98

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? And nonprofits in the past, we often just talk about communications. But communications is only one piece of great marketing. It’s hard.” Long-term goals I’m seeing.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Keep in mind that many visitors will evaluate your website in seconds. Doing so may sound counterintuitive, but it can increase the trust your supporters have in your nonprofit.

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Websites Nonprofit Interaction Instruction 75

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? So just keep that in mind. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? So you got to make that case. What should it look like?

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Database Donor Video Mail 69

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. . So before I go into ARPA, are there any questions, Steven, that I should be mindful of? Rachel: Sure.

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