Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal? We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, their values, and their concerns. Once this is determined, it’s time to get researching.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Planning Your Goals. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. This will be your starting point for building your fundraising goal and budget. Don’t despair.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

This initial phase of research can give you and your direct mail fundraising partners a better idea of what your organization is working with, what the broader market of supporters value, and how you can stand out against peer organizations. Does it help fulfill your organization’s overarching goals (e.g., Choose impactful visuals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2020

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 14, 2021

Although it might have been successful before, those fundraising strategies could be outdated and negatively impact your goals. There will be time for more practical matters, but this phase is all about dreaming. Our goal was to use only a few words, but let the visual be really impactful. About the Author.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

When applying for grants, it’s important to consider your grant funders’ perspectives and goals. For example, your corporate partners would like to hear about the benefits they may receive from supporting your cause, while your grant funders will be interested in how your nonprofit’s goals align with theirs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Know your audience’s goals and mindset. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people. Avoid stretching images if they live next to content; you don’t want to end up with a skewed or blurry picture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, it wasn’t until my career took a turn into strategic communications and marketing that I learned just how integral a winning story is to the success of an advocacy campaign. . Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal? . We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Including them in the process from the start assuages concerns and provides clarity around how they will be expected to learn and use the new technology. Create a statement that paints a picture of a future state — the goal or outcome of the project. A “Why” Statement. Think of it as a mission statement for the project.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Each nonprofit has its own unique needs and goals, and every type of assignment—from developing branding to creating campaigns to redoing entire websites from scratch—has its own process and requirements. We encourage the client to take in the vibe, the tone, the big picture, and decide which feels right. Why are style guides used?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2017

The San Francisco Museum of Art recently launched an ingenious bot called “Send Me” that allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. According to the Mollica, that is more art than is currently on display.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 2, 2022

I start by getting a big picture things like the send date, the universe and targeting. Plus, it gives you the opportunity to see whether or not you’re constructing a strong argument long before you get to the editing phase. The goal of your writing process shouldn’t be to hit a homerun on the first draft.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2017

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

I not only learned a huge amount, but I was able to systematically apply and iterate with the techniques over the last year. The sessions focused on how to combine various techniques together to achieve a specific goal and while there was a lot of “ facilitating with sticky notes ,” the overall process was larger than that.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Most supporters visit your website intending to learn more about your organization and determine whether they’re going to donate. This is also the time when many organizations host their year-end gala or another major event to drive even more donations.

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Candid

MAY 20, 2021

There’s no reason why organizations can’t use the key principles of capital campaign fundraising to reach smaller goals over shorter periods of time. Figure out how much addressing that need will cost and develop a working goal for the campaign. Identify the 20 people you can reach out to for the top three or four gift levels.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The key part of a Moves Management report is the ability to see both big picture project goals and individual details. By looking at reports that group your grants into their different phases (e.g. Want to learn more about all these features in EveryAction? So, let’s start with the basics. Use data to your advantage.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Learn from us: Take a leadership course. Because the team understands the big picture there is clarity regarding how each individual’s contribution supports the goal. In the sprint planning phase, the team decides how to complete the work. As a team we move in the same direction towards one goal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A successful peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaign requires thoughtful planning and a strong understanding of how to motivate your fundraisers to meet and exceed their goals. Be thoughtful about your campaign pages, goals, and timeline. Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. Sure, we could have gotten a pretty new logo and brochure for what we spent on the research phase. We could change the description, profile picture, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. What are they learning from their experiments? What we learned: a snapshot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. In these early stages, it is more important to honor learning. But there is something else to add as well. We think that it is time to invite them to the “adults’ table”—even though this may entail a gawky “adolescent” phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. Our purposes for using Analytics as User Research are: To learn about current visitors to the website. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Research Questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And if you’re shopping before the end of the year or want to make a switch, you can visit our website, learn all about us. But don’t do the at right now because you are all on for a treat over the next hour or so to learn about capital campaigns from my buddies, Aaron and Brian. And so that’s our goal for today. .

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We’re still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally “out there&# and is well-received. Sure, we could have gotten a pretty new logo and brochure for what we spent on the research phase. We could change the description, profile picture, etc.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Nonprofit feasibility studies are a key part of the planning phase and for your next campaign you want to know that your team is getting all you can out of the process. Learn more strategies for annual fundraising success by checking out MobileCause’s annual fund campaign guide. Even better?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They are either embracing or embarking on innovation; launching and learning; or they are innovating and accelerating.” It is a method of project management that sets macro-goals achieved through a series of micro-objectives that must be accomplished along the way, each measurable and deliverable by a deadline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. The paper goes on to describe five general patterns: Birds of a feather flock together: nodes link together because of common attributes, goals or governance. Organizational reporting.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission.

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