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Supercharge Giving Tuesday Contributions with an Optimized Donation Page

The Modern Nonprofit

Crafting a Donor-friendly Giving Page If you’ve ever experienced the warm-feeling of giving to a charity, chances are it was through a fundraising page. Unfortunately, subpar formatting, uninspiring content, and other mishaps could be holding back your fundraising efforts. Sounds pretty smooth, right?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Free E-Book: NetworkforGood Giving Day Planning Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content you create doesn’t have to be from scratch for every channel, you are simply tweaking or optimizing it for the channel. The skill of writing good headlines is an important one to develop! Fundraising' Click to Download. While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th.

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The Crowd is Funding, the Crowd is Funding!

Connection Cafe

And now we have people pouring water on each other all in the name of fundraising. As a proud professional who works in the nonprofit industry, I am thrilled fundraising is making headlines. So why is this new wave of fundraising fraught with fear? It’s in the crowd that dares to fundraise for you.

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Get $10,000 for your nonprofit and a t-shirt!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I bet that headline got your attention. Yesterday, I facilitated a workshop at the Money for Your Mission Conference sponsored by CCSNYS. One thing I learned is that they just launched another widget fundraising contest over at sixdegrees.org - here's her blog post about it. And, I always learn something.

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Imagine what your donors and constituents would say if they saw your name in that headline. Massachusetts' updated privacy regulations went into effect of March 1, 2010, so if you have a MA donor on your fundraising list, you are also subject to this law.

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