Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? What is your position on the board? How long have you been a member of the board?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Why is Storytelling an Effective Tactic for Fundraising? Nonprofit storytelling is effective for increasing funding and engagement for several reasons. End the story effectively. Here’s a great example of video storytelling from The Girl Effect girleffect.org. Keep practicing and refining your technique.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. For nonprofits, an effective call to action is paramount. Email subscriber ask language.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this conversation , they emphasized how organizations are most effective when they aren’t trying to be all things to all people. Your value prop is an effective way of connecting with donors that goes beyond your mission statement. A highly effective value proposition may have the power to attract some people and repel others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

This system was extremely effective at communicating specific needs in a timely way that required very little additional infrastructure. Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web? It’s already happening, so go there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This will allow you to reward and recognize your most active volunteers and adjust the division of labor to complete your goals effectively. If emails are a common communication method for your program, consider effective formatting for email communication. Make certain images aren’t too large by scaling them down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The joyful funeral idea really resonated and promoted a discussion about killing off some less effective projects and activities to make room for social media. Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

What’s missing is a way to effectively leverage FB, Twitter and the like. With the right tools and techniques, social media can play a critical role in your campaign. From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media, Thursday, February 21st. You have the perfect campaign: the right ask, the perfect target, public support.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. Learning takes time, but it’s something that you can start to pick up very quickly and with daily or weekly work you’ll become effective in no time at all. Pretty simple eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. How effective is your website? How to Register: Registration for AFP ICON 2024 has yet to open. Take this short assessment to find out!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

And since it's a new year, let's all agree on a New Year's resolution: let's make ALL of our communications to Congress more effective. DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition. DO go local.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Don't Praise. How To Write An Employee Satisfaction And Engageme.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Stacey felt it was a great tool, but they didn't use it effectively. Epic Change is no different.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. This also gives your organization the opportunity to archive e-newsletters and allow web visitors to read your e-newsletters even if they don’t subscribe.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

This technique can draw readers in without a lot of effort on their part. Use a first sentence that pulls the reader in like, “Imagine having to tell your child they’ll get nothing for dinner.” Make your letter skimmable. Successful fundraising letters allow donors to get a very basic understanding at just a glance. Include a deadline.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively Roger Fulton’s book, Common Sense Management , offers these quick tips for how to be an effective leader: • Don’t Blame Others – When in a position of power, everything that occurs is your responsibility, even the errors. .

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The world is rife with marketing trends, techniques, and jargon. Thirty-five percent of nonprofit organizations think they are effective at content marketing (up from 26% last year). Those who do rate their organizations as more effective in all areas of content marketing (43% have a verbal only strategy.).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 How To Produce An Effective Company Blog If you lead a business and aren’t part of the 34% of U.S. ▼ November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

•and other essential elements you need to consider to ensure consistent and effective communication. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010 Tips For Conducting More Effective Performance Appraisals Im a big fan of Sharon Armstrongs, The Essential HR Handbook , and now shes released her newest book, The Essential Performance Review Handbook. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Thats what inspired her to write this book.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Often, an effective title (e.g. What are some of the most important ways to make a YouTube video compelling and effective? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Often, an effective title (e.g. What are some of the most important ways to make a YouTube video compelling and effective? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Check Out These Free Tips For Making An Effective Presentation Speechworks has published a free eBook entitled How to Create a Seven Minute Rifle Shot Presentation. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? To get the eBook, go to the Speechworks home page. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Be An Effective Team Member. Youll learn as a team member how to be effective on a team. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt. This process consists of three activities. Focus on the value. Additional Links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other techniques. Our sample was combined US and Canada populations). Please Retweet! Look at the friendly, smart and sexy people at #smdata panel!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront. The playbook includes a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. That sounds good, right? Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Want to lose weight? Set a goal! Want to get a job in a new career? Set a goal! Want to get good at yoga? Set a goal!

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