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Are You Stewarding Your Donors?

The Fundraising Authority

Simply put, stewarding a donor is what a non-profit does (or should be doing) from the time of the first gift, and lasting until that donor no longer has a relationship with the organization. Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. Read The Non-Profit Fundraising Formula. Engage them.

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Fundraising as Participatory Practice: Myths, Realities, Possibilities

Museum 2.0

"Fundraising is about relationships." "The The key to fundraising is listening." Anyone who has worked in fundraising has likely heard these missives again and again. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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

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Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Understanding it and employing it is essential to creating responsible fundraising messaging. It represents people positively, in a way that feels true and empowering to them.”

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Attention Fundraisers: Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Connection Cafe

When it comes to fundraising, we all know that there is no “one size fits all” solution, schedule or strategy. Each nonprofit has to consider its donor profile, budget, programming, specific needs and other factors that lead to the investment that makes fundraising as successful as possible. You’re a fundraiser.

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#ThankYouWednesday After A Successful #GivingTuesday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While my in-box filled up with many GivingTuesday requests from nonprofits that I support, I was struck by the creativity of how each organization incorporated giving Tuesday into fundraising or donor recognition campaigns. I gave the gift of girls education. kanter *Thank you* Beth! MomsRising (@MomsRising) December 2, 2015.

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. I also have a small pile of books sitting on my desk that I wanted to blog about.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, by asking its supporters to send pink panties to the Sri Ram Sena as Valentine’s Day gifts.