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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Keep in mind that a digital-first strategy doesn’t mean you give up on personal touches. Keep these questions in mind: . Is it optimized for mobile devices? .

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

Keep in mind that you may need to bring in some outside firemen or other professionals of your own. If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.) Firemen and Ladder. False Alarms are Dangerous. The Hidden Impact of Crisis.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

With the end in mind. For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? Start here. Where do all good things start? Start by clearly defining your organization’s impact goal. What’s BIG difference does your nonprofit exist to make? What specifically do you want to accomplish before the end of this year?

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. . And I’d love to try them out with you all as my guinea pigs to see what their tool is like and if I like it so I can tell others about them. And I know you won’t all have time to make 900 phone calls. I have a link here.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I sort of saw his participation and undercutting the democracy in my hometown as indicative of what Freeport-McMoRan was doing in Cancer Alley in Louisiana, which I later went and visited and saw their impact there, and in Papua New Guinea, where they have some of the worst mines and human rights abuses that we have documented on file, and I started (..)

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