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Fundraising Basics: What To Do When They Don’t Respond

Bloomerang

This applies to a multitude of characteristics including personality, work habits, reporting structure and much else. Some people prefer email; others texting, cell phone calls, landline calls, video conferencing, social media. I prefer email for several reasons, but perhaps I have grown old fashioned. Guess what happened?

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6 Tips For Creating A Better Donation Form

TechImpact

The other benefits a CRM adds to your form, is that when a donor submits a contribution to your charity, you can personalize a thank you email with a custom, branded template either immediately or a bit later based on the data the donor supplied. Proper form structure. Keep it simple. Keep the form distraction free.

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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

Bloomerang

For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. in regular conversation; in an email; in a blog post). turn a fundraising appeal letter into an email, text, and/or social media post; write a brief impact report using a storytelling approach to summarize key outcomes).

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6 Website Elements to Include to Drive Year-Round Donations

Greater Giving

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. For example, ensure all images include alt text, provide a transcript or closed captions for videos, choose text colors that contrast with the background, and use hierarchical page structure. ? Let’s dive in!

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Bridging Offline/Online: Tweetups

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Activities: If the event will be more than a networking event, have some structure activities or presentations. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Don’t forget to have an email list sign up at the event. Be creative. Keep in touch. Planning TweetUps.

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Ditch the Boring—5 Tips for Running an Effective Board Meeting

NonProfit Hub

Structure shouldn’t be optional, but too often we allow it to take a back seat. Phones buzzing with text messages or email are an easy distraction for anyone (even those that think they’re good multi-taskers). Don’t allow other laptops to be used, unless you’re using one to project the agenda or do other exercises.

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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

Like many kids with autism, she needs a lot of structure in her life. She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. Everything is nicely synced between my desktop computer, laptop and iPhone. She also has fine motor issues.

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