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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

Quick pre-RFP conversations are very helpful for getting better quality proposals. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Soliciting and managing bids Find reputable vendors through your network and in the larger circles of your trusted online communities.

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community. Presentation. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Do-It-Yourself.

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Reviewing Tweetnotes from The Extraordinaries

Amy Sample Ward

Tabs management : I wish that the administrators of a dashboard could create tabs (within reason) for separate resources so that you could have a separate tab for the slides or notes, and another for pulling in a google doc-survey, and another for a google doc for real-time notes or something.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

A warm, conversational tone: Your donation receipt, like all your donor communications, should have a casual, personal tone that makes the reader feel like they are having a conversation with you or reading a letter from a friend. Or You won’t believe what a difference your gift made!

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How to Write a Successful Annual Fundraising Plan in 6 Steps

Get Fully Funded

A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. You need to have these 1-on-1 conversations to get the engagement from them that you’re hoping for, turning your Board into a fundraising Board ! People get held up trying to decide what format to use. But you know what? It doesn’t matter!