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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

Media Cause

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. Remember, the contrast ratio between text and a text’s background should be at least 4.5:1.

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How to Build a Strong Digital Presence for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofits Source

Maintain a colour contrast ratio of at least 4:5:1 to facilitate a positive reading experience. If your website has video content , provide closed captions that are in sync with the audio content. To make your website more accessible, explore the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for a complete list of standards to follow.

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Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits: 6 Key Strategies

Nonprofits Source

Work within your CMS to update your content according to Google’s guidelines. Once nonprofit users integrate the matching gift software into their online donation form, donors will input their employer, and the software will seamlessly submit the request and amplify the gift by a 1:1 or even 2:1 ratio.

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Leveraging Your Board for Nonprofit Fundraising: 10 Creative Strategies and Tips for Success

The Modern Nonprofit

If employees or retirees who serve on a nonprofit board make contributions, they could receive higher matching ratios or limits on their matching gifts. Tips for leveraging board members as social media influencers: Develop a social media strategy for board members, including guidelines for posting, messaging, and engagement.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know it when we see it?” ” UpWell Content Curation Guidelines - The Mobilisation Lab. .” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell.

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

Get Fully Funded

Provide tours either one-on-one or in small groups, or show a video on a big screen that explains what your nonprofit does. Host an open house at your facility or offices to give people a personal experience with your nonprofit’s mission. Be sure to include basic information about who your nonprofit serves and how lives are being changed.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. The shelter will lose sight of the true cost of this program.