Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2015

I’m often asked what lessons nonprofit organizations can apply from the for-profit world. It’s not quite an apples to apples comparison, but there is huge opportunity for nonprofits to leverage technology to easily solicit feedback from donors and constituents. But what about our space, the nonprofit world?

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

What else have you noticed about Classy in comparison so far? You’ll learn content, do role-plays, and get feedback, all while mixing in some automated lessons. . We might even do a whole lesson on a specific topic, like storytelling and negotiation. Lauren: Sounds like there’s a path for everyone here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

I think this comparison, and context, is a great example of why local (read: non-global) organizations are still key in social change work, and why we need to be building stronger networks for data and information sharing. This is a great start. What do you think? What kind of tools would we need to accomplish this?

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Forum One

MARCH 11, 2021

We shared lessons learned from 2020 , including how to think about crisis communications differently, focus on internal communications, and ensure your actions communicate something to your organization’s audience. Now that you know you need to have a plan, here are some steps to help you build a communications response plan.

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BoardAssist

JULY 12, 2016

Reprinted below with permission from the Reports’ authors are some of the nonprofit community’s worst practices – with lots of lessons for all of us on how to avoid the pitfalls itemized. Important trends were masked by an exclusive focus on annual budgets, and year-to-date and year-over-year “rearview mirror” comparisons.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Our teachers taught us the harsh lesson that sloppiness has consequences. Compliance training ensures that employees, contractors, and partners have the right knowledge and understanding to comply with an…… How to Keep Your Training Data Neat and Tidy Under Pressure We’ve been told this since elementary school.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 22, 2012

While the two organizations do not exactly make for a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, it is true that leadership from both groups made controversial decisions, and each base of constituents responded very differently. Komen and the nonprofit sector as a whole. Be Consistent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After six months of trying and testing–and learning some hard lessons–Upwell has found a way to do big listening online, mostly using Radian6. We originally started campaigning on MPAs (marine protected areas), but then we realized that the conversation was really small in comparison to some other issues,”says Fitzgerald. “We

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

You’ll also want to include a year-over-year column or section to this dashboard for easy-to-reference comparison reporting. This will help you keep track of lessons learned and ensure you are prepared to take on FY17 stress-free. Want to keep the cross-channel conversation alive?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In reality, we all spend most of our time trying to avoid failure, because the unpleasantness can have significant repercussions we may not want to trade for a shiny life lesson. It's hard, it's painful, but you gain more than you lose--at least, that's how the story goes. Few people lose their savings, their job, or a relationship willingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. Five Lessons Celebrities Can Teach Us About Facebook Fan Pages from Mashable. Actually, this data will likely help you improve your overall web efforts! So You Want a Facebook Fan Page?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This is one of their most impressive offerings, complete with over 11 modules and 45 lessons worth of video and other exclusive content that will get you up to speed on best practices and more. In comparison with the other two vendors, Amply appears to own the lowest share of the matching gift technology market.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can make direct comparisons in real-time, and the speed of the exercise means no one gets too precious about their own question being "best." But doing exercises like these helps people learn rules of thumb (like "personal questions are good questions") through doing , and that makes the lesson more likely to stick.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. Five hundred people? Five thousand people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Keep It Multi-Channel, But Within Your Capacity To Implement: I have 1,500 friends on Facebook, although it pales in comparison to some super connected social media gurus like Chris Brogan and Robert Scoble. I hope Facebook Causes makes the ask a little bit more flexible.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

We typically see organizations that do peer-to-peer fundraising not only help create a sense of community, but they also raise about 2x as much in comparison to other digital fundraising initiatives. Peer-to-Peer fundraiser listing for Faith in Action’s Together We Give campaign. Crowdfunding. Check it out. Virtual Paint and Sip Night.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Leverage donation buttons on your videos, gain access to the Creator Academy for free video-creation lessons, and include annotations on your videos that direct users to your website. With more than 2 billion monthly active users , YouTube is the most popular video hosting platform, allowing you to connect with prospects across the globe.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2020

Benchmarking d ata, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 16 million donors who gave 56 million gifts for a total of $2.3 Top of mind for the meeting were the lessons from the past that could help us navigate the present. .

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

While that fundraiser went crazy viral in a way that no one could ever have expected (and that you shouldn’t hope to replicate), there is one important lesson you can take from the challenge to use in your own fundraising: The “Martyrdom Effect” states that people people feel better about something if they had to undergo adversity to achieve it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And implementing your plan along the way means capturing lessons and data as you go. Capture data and lessons learned so that the next time you do a campaign, whether it’s the same thing that you’re going to do again year over year or whether a new campaign is going to get launched, you can learn and grow.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink Gerhard Buttner wrote: Interesting comparison (and thanks for that oxfam link): obviously too simplistic as you point out, Steve, but it surely shows something is a bit rotten. That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. He quotes Dan Gilmour: “Tell the truth. . |

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites. Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% of Internet visits. White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much?

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