Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. You see, it means that hundreds of people are sitting on nonprofit Boards and have NO IDEA what they said “yes” to. If your Board members and staff aren’t clear about the Board’s responsibilities, the nonprofit is set up for a big mess. And this is a problem. It’s surprising.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail can benefit your nonprofit in many ways, from connecting with donors in a personal way and yielding a high ROI. After assessing how these donors already interact with your nonprofit, you can build target donor profiles based on demographics, psychographics, giving habits, and preferred communication channels.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’re ready to take your nonprofit to the next level, scale up its capacity, and make an even bigger impact in your community. Capital campaigns are among the biggest fundraising undertakings that nonprofit organizations tackle, and they only come around roughly once a decade. It might be time for a capital campaign.

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Qgiv

MAY 10, 2022

Growing your base of supporters is essential for growing revenue at your nonprofit organization. You can accomplish more when there’s a larger group of donors backing your nonprofit and making it happen. Prospective donors are folks who may not know anything about your nonprofit and its mission. The prospect stage.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We hope you like acronyms, because Google is making some big changes — and that means nonprofits will need to understand some important technical details in order to effectively reach, track, and mobilize supporters. GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective. We live in an information society.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. However, with the rise of online fundraising technology and virtual events, nonprofits are moving away from the traditional strategy of hosting just one larger event each year. A conversion-optimized donation page. A compelling “why.”.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

If you’re interested in further reading on story arcs, this post from Nonprofit Marketing Guide is great. . This allows enough time for the pre-asking phase of the campaign and the asking phase of the campaign. . Building audience engagement over time as you reach the climax of the story arc or campaign.

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

Many nonprofits receive anywhere from 10-90% of their revenue from foundation grants. Organizations need a structured and effective way of following their grants throughout the grant's lifecycle so they can easily manage this very important revenue stream and track these funds in the same place as major gifts and other sources of revenue.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

How nonprofits approach board giving. Nonprofits take a variety of approaches to board member contributions during capital campaigns. Providing structure and encouragement improves the results. This is how we recommend nonprofits handle board giving for their capital campaigns: 1. Our Recommended Approach: 6 Steps.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide explores the fundraising planning process and breaks down each of the necessary elements that will allow you and your team to elevate your next campaign. Fortunately, much of this information is likely to exist already. We created this guide to help you build just that. Choosing your team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore? Extra information is available further down the page, but they encourage action right away instead of trying to educate. 3) Start Early.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters As nonprofit professionals, we are all too familiar with the cycle of emergency fundraising. Don’t just make an ask, but keep new donors closely informed during the crucial period after a first gift.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

For many donors, your nonprofit’s website provides their first impression of your organization and subsequently influences how they’ll interact with your organization going forward. Marketing savvy nonprofits are well aware of this and make the effort to invest in their websites. What you need a consultant for .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. Information Architecture.

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Classy

APRIL 19, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. We’ve created two email templates to guide the way your nonprofit reaches out to your inner circle of supporters during your next soft launch. Provide all of the details. Clarify your call to action.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Your sitemap is a visual representation of the structure of your website. To create a sitemap, we begin with the documents produced during the Content Strategy phase. Information Architecture. Methodology. Deliverables. Card Sorts.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Lead Gift Committees often meet at least every month during the Quiet Phase of the campaign , and sometimes more often. It often includes powerful and well-connected people, and you’ll want to make sure that the meetings are well-planned and structured. Create a short and clear description of the purpose and structure of the group.

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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. So what does all of this mean for your nonprofit if you’re on the receiving end of a moodboard, style tile, style guide, or stylescape?

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Language Design Guide Phase 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2017

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) holds the power to make a significant difference for nonprofits and corporations around the world. The partnership between a corporation and nonprofit can be extremely complex and vary in participation, outcome and more, year by year.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit organizations look to outside experts for all kinds of reasons. Nonprofit consultants and their services can be serious game-changers for organizations. Here’s what we’ll cover: The Basics of Nonprofit Consulting. What is a nonprofit consulting firm? Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. Know What You’re Looking For: 2 Types of Fundraising Apps There are two types of fundraising apps you should be aware of: nonprofit-facing, and donor-facing.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofit organizations to custom-build a site that meets their unique needs. These services are often out of range for new nonprofits building a site for the first time. We’re going to cover the following topics: How to Create a Nonprofit Website: Frequently Asked Questions. Informing supporters?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. This phase is where the new web presence starts to take shape with a Sitemap and Wireframes.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Note: This is the ninth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. It’s best to get buy-in on wireframes first so we can truly focus on creative look and feel during the visual design phase of the project. Footer links, content and copyright information. Information Architecture. Introduction.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

We know from past disasters that the year after a crisis hits can be even harder for nonprofits. On top of this, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis is even more difficult for BIPOC-led nonprofits, which are disproportionately less likely to receive funding , even if their needs are greater and their work more successful than that of their peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

It’s certainly within our technical capabilities to provide a basic level of access to the information and communication capabilities of the Internet and web through broadband. Disability information clearinghouses have been set up in the past, and have failed to fully meet the need or realize the potential of such a solution.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

article published earlier in this series, we discussed information technology purchases, and how a central buying agency can represent— or fail to represent —affiliate interests. The premise is that when central office buys an information system solution it has many factors to consider. In the “ Who buys? Project Services.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

Nonprofit organizations are among the strongest bridges that connect global problems with solutions. In other words, the effectiveness of the charitable work ultimately falls to how the nonprofit is governed. Another contributing factor to the complicated nature of nonprofit governance structure is that of an organization’s lifecycle.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. Major giving inclination scores and giving capacity information can also be used to segment prospects for either inclusion in campaign feasibility studies or raising funds for a specific campaign. Campaign Planning.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. You will also want to determine if your idea is viable at all.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Hey, I’m Brian O’Neal executive director of Third Lens Ministries a nonprofit based in Atlanta. And we provide program management services to other nonprofits. The second one that I commonly see organizations struggle with is rushing through or rushing out of the quiet phase. As Steven mentioned, living in Alabama.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. A grant proposal is a structured document that outlines the need for funding, your nonprofit’s objectives, the proposed project’s scope, and the budget you need to accomplish your project.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Without a good plan in place, you’re going to spend your first month (or two) in the new system dealing with improperly formatted records that leave your nonprofit at a standstill. Set a timeline and milestones: Develop a realistic timeline that breaks down the migration process into manageable phases.

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