CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Leveraging Tributes Donations for GivingTuesday and Year-End Campaigns As you consider how to wrap up the year with kindness, tribute donations are a meaningful gesture that not only boost your fundraising efforts but also strengthen donor engagement. Get Your Free Copy of our 2024 Year-End & Giving Tuesday Fundraising Toolkit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

In particular, peer-to-peer fundraising has found great success when it comes to pivoting to virtual, as its engagements already happen primarily online. And just because the events of 2020 may have necessitated virtual fundraising, that doesn’t mean it also didn’t come with its own great benefits. Need virtual fundraising ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We opted for the latter.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Every nonprofit website should include key features to optimize fundraising, promote brand awareness, and attract volunteers. Instead, a website is a space you can utilize to increase fundraising, promote brand awareness, and find volunteers. An online website isn’t just an advertisement for your organization.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

This helps sets one fundraiser apart from another. Whether you're hosting a walk-a-thon, charity auction, or soliciting online donations for an annual fund drive, the success of your fundraising campaign lies in the success of each of the individual participants. This becomes the "hook" that reels the fish in. Upload a personal photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

It is essential to adapt your fundraising strategies to engage and involve those age 50 and above effectively. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Provide clear instructions. Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

CRM software: Constituent relationship management (CRM) software tracks donor data and allows organizations to leverage the insights they uncover through data in online marketing and fundraising efforts. For many CRMs, you can continue to update and explore new features with applications and third-party integrations.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

For the foreseeable future, remote fundraising and virtual actions will be the norm, as evidenced by the 433% increase in virtual actions on the Mobilize platform in just six weeks. Tie in a strategic fundraising ask: Take advantage of a high-impact moment of engagement (e.g., You provide graphics and hashtags. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just like with any other type of fundraiser, food drives require lots of planning. Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. Are branding and design really that vital to the success of a fundraiser? Virtual pantry drive. Create your food drive logo. Keep it simple.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

If you’ve sent your letter using direct mail, include a paper copy as well as instructions for those who want to complete the form online. Fundraising event or volunteer opportunity. In that case, you should clearly and prominently display a link to fill out your online application form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation. One of things I've learned about social media and doing fundraising for causes is that you will be surprised! I'll also share some insights about instruction.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

You could also send a PDF with step-by-step instructions on facilitating employee matching activities or ways to promote remote participation. For example, share digital payment options they could use to make it easier for remote workers (like Qgiv’s donation forms ). Seek Out and Promote Local Partnerships.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

A well-constructed mobile campaign includes easy-to-understand instructions and clear calls-to-actions driving the desired reaction. There is a new application coming out from Acteva in a month to facilitate the event logistics and communication on the go. As an organizer, mobile phones can actually help you keep track of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. When we started this project, there were only a handful of instructional resources geared for nonprofits on how to use social media strategically.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING IN 2021. We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising for 2021. . Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors. Traditional Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2017

During this time, many nonprofits reviewed their email marketing programs for compliance, and Blackbaud ensured all of our products used to send email facilitated your ability to do so. However, time has shown that smaller, more engaged, email files are a positive for email deliverability and fundraising performance. Have you done so?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As explained in 360MatchPro’s matching gift auto-submission guide , “many of the world’s largest fundraising organizations already utilize Double the Donation to maximize matching gifts, which makes them contenders for auto-submitted gifts by donors who also qualify for the programs.”

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Will continue to do free agent fundraising for the Sharing Foundation and sharing my lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. May need to get some technical instructions on how to convert the file formats or use a service like hipcast. It isn't over yet, so do go check out.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the nonprofit realm, a change management process might also be necessary to navigate significant shifts in fundraising strategies or programming. Each member should bring unique insights and skills to the table to facilitate a well-rounded approach to change. And when the time comes to implement, they should help lead the way.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Fundraising. instructional video. See for yourself how affordable and easy it is to use: - Take a tour!

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

The magic happens when we connect the information from Student Information Systems to your fundraising, allowing institutions to see and use alumni information paired with fundraising information to make informed decisions. Arizona State Foundation’s fundraising commerce use case ), membership management, and child sponsorship.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here at Qgiv , we provide online fundraising solutions for nonprofit organizations. See how Qgiv can help you with your fundraising campaign! Determining each of these components can provide valuable clarification and insight for your team as you prepare for a specific fundraiser or general marketing push. Request Demo.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

For your membership program to be successful, you must make it easy for people to become members and facilitate their ongoing engagement. Similarly, you can use CTAs to streamline event registrations and provide clear instructions on other ways individuals can get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

You could display a bullet-pointed list high­lighting how the pro­gram doubled the amount of children it served, tripled the amount of time each child skied, increased the amount of one-on-one instruction, and how the program taught three children with Down syn­drome how to ski for the first time. Pretty good, but bland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Step 1: Find People.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So that is what we explore in depth in our certificate in philanthropic psychology at our institute, how can we, through fundraising in the charitable sector, facilitate the love that people can have, not only for those easily lovable, but also for the people that might be most difficult for us to love. Now, show your love.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

The Haiti response has indelibly impacted the way we now think about fundraising and individual philanthropy, and the role that social networks and mobile donations can play therein.

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