CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Try using Gamefly to rent games for the tournament for participants — it works just like the old Netflix (where they send you the game via mail and you mail it back). A virtual race can be based on any type of exercise. Tip: Check to see if the company hosting the campaign has a qualifying employee matching grant.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. For example, many consultants include fundraising appeals in emails to their mailing lists in support of their nonprofit clients. Most nonprofits take advantage of basic fundraising avenues like events, direct mail, corporate philanthropic giving, and grants.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Similarly, grant-giving organizations are more likely to vet nonprofits that have taken extra steps to ensure program functionality, reliability, and safety. This could include joining a mailing list, following your social media, or making a gift to your cause through your online donation form.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2011

For example, if your excuse is “I don’t have time to exercise&# then you are simply justifying your behavior to not exercise. “We tried direct mail (or fill in the blank) and it didn’t work.&#. “I don’t have time to write grants (or fill in the blank).&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside. Work to your energy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. Box so you have a mailing address for donors who want to send you checks. Sit down and write out the answers to these questions. This will help you gain clarity of mission. What need will you address?

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MARCH 28, 2022

This is an important exercise for every nonprofit. If you have never done a snail-mail appeal but are considering it, that’s a strategy that will bring in some revenue if you do it correctly. Grants: Don’t estimate grant revenue unless you have a commitment from a foundation and you know FOR SURE that the money is guaranteed.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Maybe they aren’t direct mail responsive, meaning they don’t give through the mail. I don’t recommend renting lists to mail to until you know what you’re doing because even with the right list of prospects, mailing a fundraising letter is tricky business. Maybe they don’t care about your cause. Foundation spam-a-thon.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

Data is everywhere today—in our fundraising, marketing, and communication strategies, discussed in the industry publications we read, and requested in grant applications. One of the most effective (and passive) ways to demonstrate appreciation is by not taking your donors’ attention for granted. Use data to craft more engaging content.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. But I know some of you have done this exercise, you know, at your board meeting. . Who do you exercise with? We are going to do one on foundations here from grant research. So individuals, that’s what we’re after. People give to people. May I have that?”

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Maren, German, and Kristie, Google Grants. On the Google Grants team, we receive a lot of questions from grantees on how best to evaluate their AdWords performance. We put this article together to give guidance around monitoring and evaluating your Google Grants account using a few strategies we find valuable.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. Grant proposals. Does that make sense? ” Yes.

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JUNE 13, 2022

For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. Grants: How many grants will we get this year? How much grant income? How will we get these grants?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Knight Foundation through their Knight Cities Challenge grant, Next Stop: Democracy! By using creative signage and art markerts to indicate polling places and help voters find their way, the project brought back a sense of warmth and vibrancy into Philly’s civic spaces, and encouraged citizens to robustly exercise their civil rights.

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MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you rely solely on a government grant, what happens when the agency changes its eligibility criteria and you no longer qualify? No private foundation grants. Cue the sad music.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Look at how much junk mail you get.” Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness. which often works with charities. But a lot of the intuitions don’t work. Matching gifts were another good example. People figured that they worked, because — well, how could they not?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” Have a sign-up sheet for getting on your mailing list, a jar for cash and check donations, and a QR code linking to the donation page on your website. Are they men or women?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your donor database is useful at this stage for segmenting your mailing lists, which can then boost open rates and click-through rates to your website. Google AdWords (available to nonprofits through Google Grants ) can significantly boost your site’s traffic flow. Digital advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions. The term was coined by Rob Cross, Adam Grant, and Reb Rebele in this HBR article. So, how do you account for that?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57

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JANUARY 24, 2022

You have several Board members with strong connections to bring in grant funding, . Let me walk you through an exercise that will help. Assess Your Team’s Fundraising Strengths Next, have everyone on your fundraising team go through the unique brilliance exercise and write down their strengths, too. Feeling stuck?

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

It was interesting because one of the exercises that I have people do is I will have them do their own Zoom video, as if they’re making the virtual ask. So one simple exercise that you can do, if you don’t know where to start, it’s your nonprofit’s website. So how do you tell it through a computer screen?

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Let me walk you through an exercise that’ll help called Unique Brilliance. Assess Your Team’s Fundraising Strengths Next, have everyone on your fundraising team go through the Unique Brilliance exercise in the video above and write down their strengths too. And this exercise will help you uncover that. Feeling stuck?

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Fundraising Create Exercise Local 59

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are mailing out dope boxes today, y’all. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. And so I invite you to join us for our retreat, which is in two weeks. It’s virtual. They are so good and delicious. I don’t know why.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes we forget to even like mail or, sorry, email them the final strategic plan. I think it’s a good exercise to pick up a strategic plan and look at it quarterly or annually. So I wanted you to just think about that, how your group addresses resources. They’re like, “What happened to that plan,” right?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

This is really where that awareness of who you are or that, you know, email you just sent them, that direct-mail piece you just sent them, that webinar you just hosted for your constituents, where that turns into action and people do something. Because engagement means getting people to take actions that advance the mission.

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