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Launching a successful nonprofit communications campaign

Candid

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. Similarly, for display advertisements on websites, distill your messaging into compelling headlines and striking visuals to grab your audience’s attention. But managing a campaign’s moving pieces can be challenging.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. 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. Notice the similarities of the layouts: they have a headline, a description, an impactful statistic, and a link.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 3: Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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Engagement Tools to Prepare Your Board for a Capital Campaign

sgEngage

If you’re reading a blog post with the words “capital campaign” and “board” in the headline, you might be spiraling through questions that are keeping you up at night (hopefully, it’s not 2 a.m.): Is our board on track for the public phase? The Public Phase In launching this final phase, timing is key.

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112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail

BoardAssist

Describe your project as “innovative,” trailblazing ” or “groundbreaking ,” and your work as “ wide-ranging , or extensive.”. Artwork: 80%; photos: 75%; headlines: 56%; captions: 29%, and very little text! (~Tom Eliminate every possible word – including adjectives and descriptive phases – in your copy. “If Use headings.

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How to Plan Your University’s Best Giving Day Yet

Connection Cafe

Even if your success doesn’t make national news headlines, you can execute a great giving day that propels your annual giving program forward. By including them in the early phases of a giving day, they will feel invested in your strategy. These updates are not an opportunity to make an ask, but rather a time to share.

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Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation

sgEngage

Write an Inspirational Press Release Take the “working backwards” philosophy to its conclusion by writing a fictional press release with a headline that gives you shivers, one that celebrates your future accomplishment made possible by your innovative mindset. The objective is the destination; the key results get you there.