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How to Write a Successful Annual Fundraising Plan in 6 Steps

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The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. Can you do it? Just do it!

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Intuit's Love a Local Business Contest

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Intuit , the company that produces the favorite accounting software QuickBooks and financial management software Quicken (and TechSoup donor partner) is running a contest for small businesses (and nonprofits) to win a total of $35,000 in products, cash and free advertising.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. Discussion: What is your learning process from social media? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits

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Start by mapping out what programs and services you plan to offer during the year. You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests. Once you have your year of fundraising mapped out, each fundraising effort should have its own 90-day action plan. How many will you serve?

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Public voting process. It isn’t right for every project or process.

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3 Channels to Use to Effectively Market Your Small Business

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Your small business needs a way to get on the map. For example, let’s say you’re running a social media contest to complement your upcoming talent show fundraiser. However, relying on digital ads can quickly eat up your marketing budget, and word of mouth might not get you the momentum you need to expand your reach quickly.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

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To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. What’s next?

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