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How to Use Prospect Research to Improve Your Asks: 5 Tips

Achieve

Affinity (warmth): Affinity, or warmth, refers to the strength of an individual’s personal connection to your cause. Once you identify prospects with these indicators, note every relevant data point you’ve found in each prospect’s donor profile. This might involve: Standardizing address abbreviations (such as Road vs. rd.).

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23 Best Volunteer Appreciation Gifts to Show Your Gratitude

Bloomerang

Letters from your nonprofit’s staff members or executive director A letter straight from your staff members or executive director will leave your volunteers feeling happy and satisfied, boosting volunteer engagement and retention. LinkedIn endorsements Have your volunteer manager or executive director endorse volunteers on LinkedIn.

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What is a Donor Management System?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Picture this: you’re the executive director of a small but fast-growing arts and culture nonprofit organization. This post was originally published on 7/29/2019 and updated on 8/11/2022. Things are going well! In fact, you had two new employees start over the past month. It is certainly an exciting time at your office.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I am curious is how nonprofit marketing staffers are explaining this to their executive directors. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Let go of the concept of ???driving The web, it???

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Compassion Services International on Growing Your Nonprofit Email List, Donation Thank You’s, and Powerful Storytelling

CauseVox

Cylinda Nickel is the Executive Director at Compassion Services International. Resources can be free or low-cost but can really help raise the profile of your mission. Not a lot of nonprofits do enough on setting high tier reference points that donors can select from. Setting High Donation Tiers. Psychology of Donation Tiers.

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Cooking Matters

Have Fun - Do Good

Just the other day at Upwell we were discussing, over a yummy lunch made by Upwell's Director, Rachel Weidinger, that we feel like we know each other better than some of the other teams we've worked with because we often cook and eat lunch together. No lunch for them! I bet that would motivate them to be more tolerant and to work together.

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Blackbaud Partners for Your Nonprofit: 10 Top Picks

DNL OmniMedia

They also help refer new customers to Blackbaud products and streamline the migration and adoption processes for new users. Create new constituent profiles based on text interactions, easily flow new contact data into your CRM, and set up email automation triggers.