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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Craft good headlines. Here’s an excellent cheat sheet that can help you write more engaging headlines. Here’s more tactical tips from Upworthy: Find or create great content. Write at least 25 headlines —simply because your first one will likely suck. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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Before Publishing Your Annual Appeal, Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

Bloomerang

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin. You’re writing to one donor.

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Meet the EveryAction Team 2018

Everyaction

A: I am the Senior Director of Sales. In the current news cycle, it seems like bad news makes it to all the headlines. A: I'm the Director of Major Markets. I work with nonprofits to evaluate our fundraising and marketing platform and help them dream about a world filled with higher conversion rates and increased fundraising.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: Network Effectiveness Tides and Tables

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Bart Maguire Note from Beth: I invited Stephanie to publish her blog post about the network evaluation discussion we had with Michael Quinn Patton yesterday. Our Evaluation Director Gale Berkowitz invited Michael to spend a day at the Foundation while he was out on the West Coast. Coordinate ? a disaster?

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Don’t Set and Forget Technology–Regular Assessments Deliver Peak Performance

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A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Any of the following objectives and concerns might trigger an evaluation.

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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We ran an evaluation after the event and found that the majority of those who had asked questions during Ask a Curator were encouraged by the event to visit the museums they had exchanged tweets with. It also sparked a conversation on Twitter among some classical music people. Of course, there are challenges.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. A new Executive Director. A retiring long-time Executive Director. Write an op-ed piece from your Executive Director about the issue your organization works to address.

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