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7 Essentials for Your Nonprofit’s Branding Guidelines

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The most effortless place to start is with the typeface(s) used in your logo. You will want to be sure you have a typeface that works nicely as a headline and another for body text. You should include descriptive copy that explains both which typeface to use for headlines and which to use for body copy. 7) Photography.

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How to Promote an Event on Instagram to Boost Attendance

Bloomerang

For most event coordinators, one of the best places to reach their target audience is Instagram. This means investing in high-quality promotional photography is an absolute must for promoting your event. When you book a headliner act or keynote speaker, feature them in a sneak preview of your lineup. Share compelling imagery.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam).

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112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail

BoardAssist

Don’t use a lot of photography and fancy layout in your letter or accompanying materials. Artwork: 80%; photos: 75%; headlines: 56%; captions: 29%, and very little text! (~Tom Place your ask in the first part of a paragraph. Put a headline on the reply card such as “Yes! Pretend you are writing to your grandmother.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. And, a symphony orchestra, made headlines when they crowdsourced musician auditions for the Youtube Symphony orchestra. 3) Crowd Voting.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

Maybe you need to get some professional photography to tell that story. Your A team is a great place for any kind of strategic opportunity, especially, and my go-to is matching funds. That’s a hard place to be in. They need to see it and hear it from multiple places to be able to respond. That’s okay.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

Once you’ve got those all-important pieces in place, you’ll be ready to jumpstart your site design, borrowing a few creative ideas from these all-stars. ICA remedies that problem by placing a real-time campaign progress bar on their Create Amazing website. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts.