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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Crystal Dionysopoulou is the founder and Creative Director of Lucid Fox , a dynamic web design and development agency that puts people first. She draws on years of experience as a UX designer and front-end developer to guide the creation of the perfect website for your organization from start to finish. If 2020 taught us anything, it was how crucial it is for us to be able to think on our feet.

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Onboarding Online, Keep New Hires on Track for Success

.orgSource

Congratulations! Online interviewing didn’t make you skip a beat. You found the talent to complete your dream team. You’re probably feeling pretty lucky. But you might be less than enthusiastic about navigating those first months of learning to work together through the small screen. If remote interviewing took some adjustments, virtual onboarding requires more.

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Write a Perfect Welcome Letter to New Members with These 10 Tips

Wild Apricot

I once received a new member welcome letter that was so drab, it caused me to cancel my membership with the association. Well. there's a little more to the story than that. Let me explain.

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Free (and Cheap) Mass Texting for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Mass texting, or SMS (Short Messaging System) are generally 160-character–long messages that are sent, as the name would suggest, en masse. We love SMS because it boasts a 99% open rate, and users are more likely to respond. And with the advent of numerous SMS tools, so too comes the advent of free mass texting for nonprofits. Well, free-ish. Why should your nonprofit be using mass texting?

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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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10 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each year Nonprofit Tech for Good features a new set of online fundraising tools that are timely and relevant for the year to come. This year’s tools tap into fundraising trends that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, from t-shirt fundraising for virtual events to contactless in-person giving. 1. Bonfire :: bonfire.com. Bonfire enables nonprofits to easily design and raise funds by selling t-shirts online.

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Making the most of mid-level

M+R

Read time: 9 minutes. We have something to say that lands somewhere between an observation and a complaint and a call to arms: Not enough attention is paid to mid-level donors. Major donors get the fanfare, the galas, the special one-to-one contact. Small-dollar donors are often the solid foundation, the activists, the heart of the movement. And so, too often, the magic of mid-level giving is lost, especially in digital channels.

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8 Common Mistakes When Running Virtual Events and How to Avoid Them

AccelEvents

The COVID-19 pandemic forced event organizers to make a quick pivot from in-person events to virtual events. This transition forced a lot of planners and hosts outside of their comfort zone and left many wondering if they were even doing it right! Running a successful virtual event is easy if you are willing to learn from the mistakes that you and others have made.

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6 Benefits of Launching a Website for Your 2021 Golf Fundraiser

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By GolfStatus.org – an event management platform specifically for golf fundraisers. Free Webinar On February 23: How to Host a Successful Virtual or Hybrid Golf Fundraiser for Your Nonprofit. As virtual events continue into 2021 and the outlook for traditional in-person fundraisers looks bleak, golf tournaments have become especially crucial for nonprofits large and small.

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Leadership Quotes That Inspire Me

Eric Jacobsen Blog

These quotes truly inspire me : “The three common characteristics of best companies -- they care, they have fun, they have high performance expectations.” -- Brad Hams “The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.” -- Michael Phelps “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry S.

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What 2020 year-end fundraising can tell us about 2021 

M+R

Read time: 5 minutes. Yes, there are many, many things about 2020 that we’d just as soon forget. And yes, 2021 has already been roughly 7,000 days long. But the past is close behind, and there is plenty we can learn from the 2020 end-of-year fundraising season that will help improve our fundraising efforts in the year ahead. No matter how long the year ahead ends up seeming. .

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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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The Anatomy of a Great Sponsorship Program

The Sponsorship Collective

Your nonprofit or business has pursued sponsorship in the past, but never successfully. If you’ve lacked a strategy that’s part of a greater sponsorship program, that could be why you haven’t landed the sponsors you need for event funding and promotion. You want to work on your sponsorship program, but you’re admittedly not sure to […]. The post The Anatomy of a Great Sponsorship Program appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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7 Ways to Create a More Diverse and Inclusive Virtual Event

AccelEvents

Calls for diversity and inclusiveness have finally been heard. While our society has a long way to achieve real representation and inclusiveness, your virtual event can move in the right direction and take active steps toward presenting a more diverse and inclusive experience. The concerns over diversity and inclusion are nothing new. But we should make considerable effort to improve the experiences of everyone attending our events.

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Everything About Creating A Nonprofit Marketing Plan

NonProfit Hub

Regardless of what type of business a nonprofit organization does, it requires a marketing campaign. Like-minded people need to know about your organization, and the right marketing concept will help you achieve this. But at the stage of creating a marketing plan, there can be many difficulties since ordinary people united by a “let’s save the world” idea have to work on this issue.

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4 Powerful Marketing Tips for Fundraising Organizations

Elevation

Refining your marketing techniques is key for reaching your nonprofit fundraising goals, but organizations often put marketing on the back burner. With all the other tasks you may supervise in your leadership role, from managing volunteers to retaining the support of major donors, it’s common for marketing to take a back seat in your nonprofit's overall strategy.

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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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2021 Technology-Enabled Operations Report

NTEN

Nonprofit staff across the U.S. and beyond have been affected in myriad ways by the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year now, including the quickly increasing needs of communities without access to income, health care, or other necessary supports. NTEN partnered with Unit4 to identify the realities, challenges, and plans of nonprofits specific to technology and operations.

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How to Create a Nonprofit Website Homepage That Gets Attention

Bonterra

This is the second to last post in a series of articles on the topic of digital marketing for nonprofits and creating the perfect nonprofit website. In the first four articles, we discussed creating mission pages , impact pages , volunteer pages , and the all-important donate page. In this fifth post, our next to last article in this series, we will discuss creating the perfect nonprofit website home page.

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10 Ways To Improve Your Connection Skills

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. "Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." Based on shared identity, empathy, and understanding , connection moves primarily self-centered individuals toward group-centered membership.

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8 Common Mistakes When Running Virtual Events and How to Avoid Them

AccelEvents

The COVID-19 pandemic forced event organizers to make a quick pivot from in-person events to virtual events. This transition forced a lot of planners and hosts outside of their comfort zone and left many wondering if they were even doing it right! Running a successful virtual event is easy if you are willing to learn from the mistakes that you and others have made.

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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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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every area of our lives. The topics we’re discussing, the ways in which we’re discussing them, who we can connect with— it’s all viewed through a pandemic-era lens. So, it’s no surprise that your nonprofit’s staff and the training they receive is also evolving because of the pandemic. When it comes to training, your staff has new questions.

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How to Create a Nonprofit Website and Integrate it With Other Tools

Bonterra

This is the final post in a series of articles on the topic of digital marketing for nonprofits and creating the perfect nonprofit website. In the first four articles, we discussed creating mission pages , impact pages , volunteer pages , fundraising pages , and your homepage. Using the lessons learned in those five articles you can create an extremely effective nonprofit website that engages your audience and creates volunteers and donors.

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The Essential Core Components Of Storytelling

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Being a good storyteller will serve you well in your leadership role. "A story with a business impact can be as short as one sentence. Or, it can be a three-minute introduction or a thirty-minute product demonstration," says author Esther K. Choy. "Whatever the case, it will have maximum impact if it includes the following core components," according to Choy: Structural : A story has a beginning, middle, and end.

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7 Ways to Create a More Diverse and Inclusive Virtual Event

AccelEvents

Calls for diversity and inclusiveness have finally been heard. While our society has a long way to achieve real representation and inclusiveness, your virtual event can move in the right direction and take active steps toward presenting a more diverse and inclusive experience. The concerns over diversity and inclusion are nothing new. But we should make considerable effort to improve the experiences of everyone attending our events.

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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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Build an Engaging Compliance Training Program in Just a Few Steps

Gyrus

Create an impactful and engaging compliance training program for your employees with our simple yet dynamic compliance management software now!

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Today’s Talk with a Big Announcement!

NonProfit Hub

We’ve got quite the announcement this week: Nonprofit Hub is merging with DO MORE GOOD ! Randy sat down with Bill McKendry, the founder, and Katie Appold, the executive director of DO MORE GOOD to talk about what this means going forward. DO MORE GOOD was formed to help nonprofits move from good to great through their content, ideas, training, and access to world-class thought leadership.

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Are You Spinning Your Employees In Circles?

Eric Jacobsen Blog

A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles , slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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Be represented in the 2021 digital future survey!

Care2

We need your help to understand the nonprofit sector’s biggest digital challenges and opportunities in 2021.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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How businesses can future-proof learning

Gyrus

For businesses, LMS has become an aid that saves them not just money, but time as well. Here are the top benefits of future-proofing your workforce through upskilling and reskilling.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 181: Interpersonal Skills for Today’s Changing Workplace

Connection Cafe

Interpersonal and communications skills are essential skills that are vitally important for achieving success in the workplace. But what are the most important interpersonal skills for the way that most of us are working now? And what are the best practices for communication, especially virtual communication? Today’s episode answers those questions.

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Make This Your Leadership Guidepost

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Today's leadership thought is John Wesley's Rule : Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. We never seem to detach from our devices because they provide the most direct pathway to colleagues, donors, our communities, and our friends.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.