Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

Letting supporters know that their donation will help feed a family of four or send a child to school for a year is more impactful than asking for a specified amount of money. This also helps make raising money fun — a win for all! Add matching gifts to your registration forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. We hope our suggestions will spark ideas for additional hooks to feed your content strategy and engage your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Miriam who is a wizard at feeding and tuning her network was able to get an amazing thread of recommendations from her friends, but these recommendations were generative – pinging other people who added their own or other resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Sources: ^ [1] "Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector" from La Piana Consulting was commissioned by the James Irvine Foundation. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. It was completed and published in November 2009. Click here to download a PDF copy.

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BoardAssist

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Make it fun. They’ll come if you feed them supper!). Instead, donors want to help the kids, feed the hungry, make art, cure diseases, save the world. Gail Perry , MBA, CFRE, is an international fundraising consultant, trend-spotter, speaker, trainer and thought leader. Try a Thankathon. Not many people!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? Get creative. Plaque or award.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

100 feeds a food-insecure family of five for 2 weeks.” As you expand your giving opportunities, increase communications, and offer fun online events, you’ll ultimately become an organization known for offering an enriching donor experience. Frame the impact. About the Author. Craig Grella. Share This Post! Recent Posts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2008

--Interview with Guy Kawasaki on Lifehack.org As a nonprofit consultant, I am often asked, "Where can I find nonprofit-related blogs ?" Alltop is a site that aggregates news and blog feeds by topic from “all the top” sites on the web. Now I have a new resource to send folks to, nonprofit.alltop.com.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

The Collaboration Prize itself is a joint effort by several pioneering organizations: The Lodestar Foundation has partnered with the AIM Alliance , the Foundation Center , La Piana Consulting , and other foundation and nonprofit leaders to support the 2011 Prize. By working together, youre boosting the potential of both organizations.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. She really understood the organizations. She got it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

First, consult the research and data available on nonprofit CEO compensation. We are, after all, asking our nonprofit CEOs to take on enormous tasks: things like, "can you and your organization feed the hungry?—oh Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Two things come to mind.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. It's a nice mix as you have someone from a larger org, someone from a smaller org, and a consultant-type. I'm honored to have been invited to join some panels. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. I was on a panel two years ago as a last minute substitution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can be fun! Can having a blog benefit your organization?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) – Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. 11NTCbrand).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can be fun! Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant. Below are eight ways someone might read one of your blog posts more than once: As the original post on your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With an emphasis on informal, fun content rather than strict professionality, Facebook is a great platform for business news and updates posted in simple and interactive formats. This helps you stay at the top of people’s feeds without overwhelming them and turning them off your brand. Consulting. curated content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. And it seems that Summa is also involved in child care. All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. And, of course, a little fun!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

This system feeds back in on itself -- people who see praise become repeat supporters because they've been thanked publicly and been given attention they didn't expect. Leverage the inspiring acts to try to create more good acts. This balance between 1 and 3 -- deflecting praise but also driving your org's strategy -- simply works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. And then the fun really started! The “game show” conceit made it all more fun. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. And, of course, a little fun!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

We are a CDFI providing nonprofits with loans and lines of credit; we also organize financial training workshops, perform business analyses, and offer customized consulting services to nonprofits and their funders nationwide. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. All You Need is Love.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If you are in the social media space, let people know by providing a Twitter feed or YouTube promotion on your website which can update automatically. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Diversify Your Content. Once you've got fresh content, spice it up with a photo or video.

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BoardAssist

MAY 10, 2016

All of these are transforming the way we do fundraising today: new (and fun) social media tools, innovations in email marketing, the use of poignant images and video – I’m even seeing video embedded inside paper capital campaign case statements. We can even use technology to develop custom individual stewardship plans for donors.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. Feed your curiosity. Using stats to figure these things out can be fun, and can give you a valuable look at your users. [1] I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button. Yes, I do still have Lynx on my computer).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. Just reply to your @ or other) I've been actively searching Twitter for folks who are involved with philanthropy -- be they charities, professionals who work for charities and foundations, consultants, and those who simply care about social change.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it’s a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. Big Duck didn’t do this part due to budgetary concerns, but they have consulted with us to make sure we weren’t going too far off the rails.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They do a lot of really great consulting and placement if that is something that is of a need from you. I’m with Bright Street Solutions, a full-service consulting and placement firm in Birmingham, Alabama. You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Your supporters will sense when you’re having fun with your digital outreach methods rather than using them to mechanically promote your organization. . Aly Sterling Philanthropy’s guide to hiring nonprofit consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos. A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. What is a Widget?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

I'm excited to have been asked to partcipate in this event: please check the TechSoup site often during the week - As my friend Carl always says, "We'll learn a lot and have a lot of fun!" How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? The Impact of Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. ve chatted and consulted via the ning site. A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

That’s what keeps things fun and engaging! But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Schedule those posts then wait for the fun. JUST for fun! Many people scroll their social feeds and don’t turn the sound on. LearnWorlds. Call to Action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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