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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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The benefits of strength-based messaging Strength-based messaging encourages long-term and recurring giving, rather than a one-time gift to meet an immediate need. Example: A gift of $50 today can help a neighbor (not a hungry family) who faces food insecurity. Consider lived experience and amplify community voice.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Also, when they see your mailer come through asking for donations, they’ll remember their friend who was enthusiastic about your standards and will make a gift. If it’s possible to introduce people from these areas, all the better.

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“Donor retention by the numbers”: Q&A with Caity Craver and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

CAITY: There are two predictors that we use to determine committed, casual and episodic donors: probability of gift and predicted gift size. We use these to determine a net gift value. Other solutions worth consideration for smaller nonprofits might be Neon and Little Green Light. Then we tier the results.

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? After your web guru gives the green light, open up Ads Manager and create a new campaign.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If

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Mother's Day Donation Ideas

Have Fun - Do Good

If your mom is the kind of person who prefers a donation to a physical gift, below are a few ideas. Please feel free to add more do-good Mother's Day gift ideas in the comments. World Food Programme to help a mother feed her child. . A Kiva.org gift certificate so your mom can choose a woman entrepreneur to give a loan to. *