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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

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Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million, organizers at The Miami Foundation realized that Give Miami Day 2014 would be their most successful Giving Day yet. Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season!

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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

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I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Then, donors can click on the items on your site, “buy them” as a gift, and have them delivered directly to the community members in need.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum / Miami, FL / $945. Feb 11 - 14.

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Knight Foundation Launches The Giving Day Play Book

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They also can be a great tool for a whole range of goals, including reaching out to new donors, expanding a community foundation’s profile or helping nonprofits learn to use digital tools. However, many Giving Day organizers smartly narrow their focus to certain nonprofit and/or donor segments—informed by the goal they have set.

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A Playbook To Kickstart Your Nonprofit’s #GivingTuesday Campaign

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Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. When goal setting, keep in mind your target donor segment.

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Training Board Members As Brand Champions on Social and Beyond

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Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” Professional services for donors and nonprofits. Challenge nonprofits to grow and strengthen. Mark’s Vocabulary (Our CEO). Meghan Warrick (Our CFO). Education about philanthropy.