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Attracting New Donors With Content That Serves (And Scales)

Bloomerang

What problems are you facing that we can help you solve? Source To assess what your donors desire, you can map out a persona or identity or run a survey on your existing network and ask questions like: What topics would you like to learn more about? What content would you be interested in subscribing to?

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

Have Fun - Do Good

Not listening is the root of most problems, personal and professional. Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. On their own, the member recruited 2500 people to the Cause.

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The Next Generation of Major Donors to Museums: Interview with David Gelles

Museum 2.0

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. Smaller, less marquee institutions may face problems going forward. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now. We have some mutual understanding and trust.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation. She made the clear point that teens use social networks to connect with people they already know, not to meet strangers.

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. An early talk-back in that conservation-minded exhibition asked, 'What can you do to help the environment?' How often does your enemy acknowledge you? What made these solicitations meaningful?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. No chase boat, no support, no film crew, no problem. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Jazz Jennings.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). They found one really big problem, and found one creative and relevant way to appeal to teenagers.”.

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