Tue.May 04, 2021

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Finding Stability in the ContinuousNext

.orgSource

Remember the good old days? Once every three years, you gathered the board and staff in a conference room with baked goods, a lot of caffeine, and a facilitator. They produced what was euphemistically called a strategic plan. Often this document had more in common with a laundry list than strategy. I hope that total […]. The post Finding Stability in the ContinuousNext appeared first on.orgSource.

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Why Your Board Needs a Technology and Infrastructure Committee

NonProfit PRO

Investing in technology and innovation is challenging, but can generate a significant return on the investment. Leverage the board to improve the organization’s abilities and successful mission delivery.

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Tag, You're It! Taking Your Digital Transformation To The Next Level

Association TV

We’ve come to the end of this series, where I slowly but surely, give you tools and insights that you can implement to bring your association into the future. But, since it’s been a while, I’ll sum up the major points.

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Daughters of the American Revolution’s Commemorative Scarf Campaign Yields Edge Direct a 2020 Gold MAXI Award

NonProfit PRO

In the spring of the 2019, the historic Banquet Hall at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Center in Washington, D.C., desperately needed renovation to remain a useful and valuable event space.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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The Core of Any Good Nonprofit Story – Struggle and Overcoming

Bloomerang

Imagine a story where someone was born, everything went perfectly from beginning to end, and then the story was over. Where is the intrigue? Where is the interest? Where is the excitement? Where is the lesson learned? Where is the transformation? When it comes to a good nonprofit story, struggle and overcoming are at the center. This is especially effective when trying to convince an audience why the mission of your organization is an important one.

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A Nonprofit’s eGuide: 11 Tips to Plan Successful Hybrid Events

NonProfit PRO

As nonprofits become more accustomed to virtual events and donors continue to participate and donate online, learn how to keep up virtual momentum and engage in multiple ways with these dual audiences and raise more with FrontStream’s free eGuide, “11 Tips to Plan Successful Hybrid Events.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. A volunteer handbook gives volunteers the information they need about the organization and its mission, and answers any common questions they may have. Without a handbook, volunteers may feel disconnected and unsure of their role and responsibilities because once training is over, there are no materials for them to reference later.

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Friend, teacher, fire-brand: Simone Joyaux has died

Hands on Fundraising

Simone Joyaux has left us. Her spirit never will. I knew of Simone for many, many years before I had the pleasure to meet her in person. Her website is a treasure trove for anyone trying to better understand the role of boards and fundraising. Especially when you were feeling frustrated or unsure of your […]. The post Friend, teacher, fire-brand: Simone Joyaux has died appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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Your Social Media Strategy: What You Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Your Social Media Strategy: What You Need to Know. Social media is essential to the livelihood of any organization, big or small. In addition to being a great way to engage with your supporters and followers, it is a free way to market your nonprofit and its campaigns. You can get creative with what you post when you post, and how you interact with supporter responses, discussions, and content from other organizations and thought leaders.

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Could a Recurring Giving Program Solve All Your Problems?

Qgiv

Laura Kruisenga, COO with Kennari Consulting , works with clients to build their annual fundraising programs with a particular focus on events, communications, and staffing. Laura’s practical coaching style and results-oriented strategies help her clients set realistic goals and achieve measurable results. Laura has over 20 years of fund development experience and is certified in the use of several databases, including Raiser’s Edge and Giftworks.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Web Accessibility: 6 Tips to Pass the Specialist Exam

Velir

With accessibility lawsuits in the news— like one against Dominos — more companies are recognizing the importance of serving the almost 20% of the people living with disabilities in the U.S. As a result, specialists who identify and fix website accessibility violations are in demand.

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Bright Idea: Hybrid Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser

Qgiv

Who they are. For more than 60 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. We make meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 13, in communities across Central Kentucky. We then help develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of our young people.

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Know Your Numbers in Sponsorship 

The Sponsorship Collective

Over the years, I’ve talked with enough sponsorship seekers to know that almost all my clients are very busy people. Many of them don’t do sponsorship as a full-time gig. They have a nine-to-five job that drains them of their time and creative energies. Then they’ve got to go home and be supermom or superdad […]. The post Know Your Numbers in Sponsorship appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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Customer Story: The Autism Society of Minnesota Raises Over $25k For Their Virtual Event With CauseVox

CauseVox

Friends, I’ve been excited to write this post for you for quite a while. As part of the education team at CauseVox I love helping nonprofits improve their fundraising, but I don’t often get to do it myself. That’s why I was absolutely thrilled when my day job decided to host our first fundraiser of 2021 on CauseVox. It was my first time on the customer side of the experience, and I have to say: it’s as easy as we keep telling you it is.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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6 Tips for Maximizing Your Social Media Engagement

Network for Good

It was incredibly important to organizations looking to grow their engagement with donors pre-March 2020, but we know that now, engaging over social media is more important than ever. And while we may often think, “our donors are getting so much information thrown at them” or, “maybe we should go a little quieter and not have as much content out there,” we’ve seen from past examples that organizations that kept communicating and kept fundraising through crises were the ones that did best.

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5 Ways to Build Meaningful Board Engagement

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit work may be the one arena where you’re expected to inspire your bosses as well as provide them with ways to serve and hold them accountable. It’s a tricky business. If your board is operating on autopilot or hardly operating at all, try these methods for building meaningful nonprofit board engagement. Set Some Expectations. Telling your board to be engaged may be like telling a child to eat a reasonable amount of candy.

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Givinga Selected as Finalist of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

Givinga

Philantech® cloud technology, a fintech solution that unlocks the full potential of charitable giving, honored as part of the 5th annual awards that reflect innovation for good The finalists of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to […].

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Calls to Action that Get Results

Network for Good

It’s go time: Reinforce your donor’s decision to give by reminding them of the impact their support. Include a short but strong statement about how a donor’s support matters. This is also a perfect opportunity to nudge your donors to act now by underscoring the sense of urgency. In this lesson, you’ll: Learn why your call to action matters. How to craft an effective call to action.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Book Review: The Surprising Gift of Doubt by Marc A. Pitman

Top Nonprofits

Maybe I never really gave it any thought before, but once I began reading Marc A. Pitman’s new book, The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You are Meant to Be it occurred to me that I’d probably never considered the word “doubt” as anything positive. What’s more? When assigning that sense of being to the leader of an organization, I certainly wouldn’t consider that a good thing.

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6 Tips for Maximizing Your Social Media Engagement

Network for Good

It was incredibly important to organizations looking to grow their engagement with donors pre-March 2020, but we know that now, engaging over social media is more important than ever. And while we may often think, “our donors are getting so much information thrown at them” or, “maybe we should go a little quieter and not have as much content out there,” we’ve seen from past examples that organizations that kept communicating and kept fundraising through crises were the ones that did best.

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Givinga Selected as Finalist of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

Givinga

Philantech® cloud technology, a fintech solution that unlocks the full potential of charitable giving, honored as part of the 5th annual awards that reflect innovation for good. The finalists of Fast Company ’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

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Calls to Action that Get Results

Network for Good

It’s go time: Reinforce your donor’s decision to give by reminding them of the impact their support. Include a short but strong statement about how a donor’s support matters. This is also a perfect opportunity to nudge your donors to act now by underscoring the sense of urgency. In this lesson, you’ll: Learn why your call to action matters. How to craft an effective call to action.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Announces Partnership with Qgiv Digital Fundraising Platform

Qgiv

The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (the Consortium) and Qgiv are partnering together to help education foundations throughout the state of Florida! This special partnership will provide digital fundraising tools to the Consortium’s 64 member foundations so they have the latest technology to fundraise on behalf of Florida teachers and students.

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Four Leadership Books To Read This Summer

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Searching for good leadership books to read this summer?

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Candid’s year of systems integration

Candid

Combining the operations of two established organizations takes a lot of work. For Candid, much of that effort occurred behind the scenes. In this article from our 2020 annual report , Crystal Mandler discusses the myriad tasks her team accomplished to help Candid operate more efficiently and effectively. 2020 was a year of ambitious goals and gargantuan effort for Candid’s business systems team as we consolidated the bulk of the systems we need to operate effectively and deliver on our mission.

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