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How to Use Trial & Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How to Use Trial and Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit As the world and how we interact with it changes, response to fundraising efforts evolves, too. Check out the sample of the book club below!) That said, some ideas sound promising as a concept may not be successful when implemented.

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

Ali was expected to make a training video from home on how to extract a bone marrow sample — without an examining room, without equipment, and most especially without an animal. That sounds pretty daunting, but Ali, is always up for a challenge so she improvised. Option B sounds more compelling, doesn’t it?

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Public Media Development and Marketing Conference

Amy Sample Ward

But you still need a clear strategy, a sound plan of attack, and a method of evaluating your results. Delivering our “mini-keynote” for the PMDMC Social Media Intensive is NTEN’s Membership Director, Amy Sample Ward, co-author of Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact.

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

Amy Sample Ward

That may sound strange, but let me explain: Consultants and others often advise nonprofits to focus on business objectives such as streamlining departments, minimizing overhead, and creating a results-focused organization.

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Applications for the Nonprofit Tech Academy are due April 8

NTEN

Does the following sound good to you? We still have a few slots available in our Nonprofit Tech Academy for spring 2014, but the application deadline is fast approaching.

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Turning Low-dollar Fundraisers Into Money Raising Superstars

NetWits

Sounds familiar, right? Include a sample email and talk about the impact of gifts ( Did you know just raising $25 can provide sick kids with a toy this holiday?). Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Register Now ! Tailoring your communication is key.

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How Research Creates Solutions

Achieve

When people learn what my job is, I’m usually met with, “Oh, that sounds awful.” From these findings, we then constructed a survey for distribution to a representative sample of teams within this company. In fact, when people are interested in knowing “my best quality,” I often say it’s my curiosity. This natural curiosity.