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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

Many of the text messages we get are personal messages between friends and loved ones, but there are also many major brands that capitalize on this communication medium to help reach their customers. There’s a lot to learn from them about text marketing.

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Lessons Learned from a Black Swan—Solutions Day Presenters Explore Pandemic Insights

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The post Lessons Learned from a Black Swan—Solutions Day Presenters Explore Pandemic Insights appeared first on.orgSource. Even online, the participants could sense the excitement. Presenter, Dean West, called the pandemic a black swan. The term comes from finance and is used to describe […].

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Leadership Lessons From Movies

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Toward the beginning of Joseph Lalonde ’s book, Reel Leadership , he shares, “We’re going to delve into the leaderships lessons we can find in movies. Question: What is the most inspiring leadership lesson you've learned from a movie? What leadership lessons have you learned from running? So, sit back; get ready.

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5 Social Fundraising Lessons That Can Influence Your Overall Development Strategy

NonProfit PRO

MAY 19, 2023

If major gift fundraising is Morton’s, social fundraising is McDonald’s. We’re not talking about the food; we’re talking about scale. The great thing about the scale of social fundraising is that you get a lot of data. So, here’s what the fast food of fundraising has to offer other income channels.

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7 Key Lessons Learned from Virtual Fundraising Events in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

With a solid year of virtual fundraising under our collective belt, let’s take a look at seven key lessons learned in 2020 to help your nonprofit continue reaching those goals and fighting for its mission. That’s due in large part to the ability to pivot fundraising efforts from in-person to virtual.

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The Southwest Airlines Flight Fiasco: Lessons For Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While you may never find yourself in a crisis of this magnitude at your nonprofit, you can learn from Southwest’s mistakes and use those lessons to prepare for a potential disaster. Let’s look at the following lessons. Lesson One: You need the right software and processes in place. Lesson Three: You need a contingency plan.

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Fundraising lessons we can use from Ukraine

Hands on Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2023

But as […] The post Fundraising lessons we can use from Ukraine appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising. It was an important moment, as he needs to constantly seek support for the attacks his country is experiencing from Russia. He knows the U.S. has the greatest means of support. This is definitely emergency fundraising.

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3 Lessons For Fundraisers From “Die Hard”

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now that I’ve either made you my best friend or alienated you forever with that statement, let’s get into the lessons I believe all fundraisers can take from this movie ! . This is perhaps the biggest lesson of all for those of us working as fundraisers. You can build relationships without meeting in person. .

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Discovering The Hidden Leadership Lessons In Movies

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Toward the beginning of Joseph Lalonde ’s new book, Reel Leadership , he shares, “We’re going to delve into the leaderships lessons we can find in movies. Question: What is the most inspiring leadership lesson you've learned from a movie? What leadership lessons have you learned from running? So, sit back; get ready.

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Movie Lesson Leadership Causes

Three lessons nonprofits learned from the pandemic

Candid

AUGUST 2, 2022

Whether you’re a new nonprofit or an existing one, understanding how to apply these three lessons from the pandemic can greatly benefit your organization: . Lesson #1: Be resilient and plan ahead. Lesson #2: Adapt your fundraising strategies. Lesson #3: Make your communications personal.

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Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 1000+ Clients

The Sponsorship Collective

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The post Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 1000+ Clients appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective. This has given me a unique perspective into sponsorship through the eyes of sponsorship seekers, a role that I myself haven’t occupied in more than 10 years now. You yourself […].

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12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down.

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From Transition to Transformation: Key Lessons from the Pandemic for Nonprofits

Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The post From Transition to Transformation: Key Lessons from the Pandemic for Nonprofits appeared first on Blue Avocado. Why it Happens: Surviving the pandemic required a prolonged sprint to pivot to online platforms, finds new sources of funding, and more. It is tempting to want […].

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Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 100+ Clients

The Sponsorship Collective

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The post Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 100+ Clients appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective. This has given me a unique perspective into sponsorship through the eyes of sponsorship seekers, a role that I myself haven’t occupied in more than 10 years now. You yourself […].

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9 Lessons Learned from Hosting Virtual Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

By Matthew Burnell , F ounder of ClickBid , a mobile bidding provider for online auctions, virtual galas, and in-person events. Fundraising has not stopped during these uncertain times. Since March, we have seen organizations take their annual fundraisers online and go virtual.

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10 Giving Tuesday Lessons from Organizations Like Yours

DonorPerfect

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The post 10 Giving Tuesday Lessons from Organizations Like Yours appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs. While it may feel like we’re out of the woods, many of us are still working hard to accommodate big changes the best we can. Wearing masks in public may be a thing of the past to some, Read More ».

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Pandemic Lessons Learned: 4 Tips for School Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s walk through four lessons we learned from fundraising during the pandemic and learn how your school can implement these tips moving forward: Leverage online fundraising tools. Ready to learn how to use these lessons from the pandemic to raise more for your school? Communicate frequently with your supporters.

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4 Social Impact Lessons I Learned Behind the Wheel of a Car

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In no small way, good behaviors permeate all aspects of our lives. Behaviors like kindness, gratitude, and patience. These human practices are good in life and equally good in our nonprofits. These four I’ve learned over the years might help boost your work and your organizations.

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Study offers lessons on public health efforts to prevent gun violence

Candid

JULY 23, 2021

Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta And Milwaukee." Annie E. Engaging with local community leaders and residents early and often is key to implementing public health and racial justice approaches to preventing gun violence successfully, a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds.

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Nonprofit Leaders: Don’t Learn Lessons From the Great Resignation the Hard Way

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2022

Right now, frontline fundraisers (but really all workers) have the advantage. In today’s business and nonprofit climate, the rank-and-file workforce has the advantage for demanding better pay, benefits and working conditions. And, for many workers, they are getting it.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Change your thinking, change your work

Pamela Grow

APRIL 22, 2021

Our MotivateMonday guest, author, speaker, and consultant Nell Edgington offered lessons from her new book, Reinventing Social Change. You’ll see why I’ve been recommending this book, our April book drawing, to clients, colleagues, and subscribers.

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12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down.

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Leadership Lessons From The Book TouchPoints

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some of my favorite parts of Douglas Conant 's and Mette Norgaard 's book, TouchPoints , are these lessons for leaders: You need to have dual vision. You need to be able to address the most pressing need and do it in a way that makes your employees more capable and ready to take on the next issue.

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Leadership Lessons From Kent Taylor, Founder Of Texas Roadhouse

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. His approach to business was often out-of-the-box, however, his business lessons and leadership lessons from the course of his life and career and invaluable.

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What Did Nonprofit Fundraisers Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic?

NonProfit PRO

MAY 18, 2023

Here are a few key lessons that nonprofit fundraisers have learned. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the nonprofit sector and the way fundraisers operate. So, what did we fundraisers learn?

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The post 1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey appeared first on Salesforce.org. As a senior manager for Partner Success at Salesforce.org, she’s focused on educating consulting partners about implementing Salesforce with customers in the nonprofit, education, and corporate philanthropy sectors.

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Incorporating Last Year’s Lessons into 2021 End-of-Year Fundraising Plans

sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here are a few of the lessons learned in 2020 that have stuck with me in 2021, hopefully they can help you as throughout the last quarter of 2021. . While 2020 brought many new lessons, it also reminded us that what we already know still matters. What we know, or think we know, still matters.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Five Social Media Trends You Need to Know

Pamela Grow

APRIL 27, 2021

Related Posts: Lessons from MotivateMonday | Establishing Your… Lessons From Motivate Monday | Social media as an… Lessons from MotivateMonday | Change your thinking,… Lessons from MotivateMonday | Converting Your New… Lessons From Motivate Monday | What is a Gratitude Report?

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Converting Your New #GivingTuesday Donors to Monthly Donors

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Related Posts: Lessons From Motivate Monday | Retaining and growing… Lessons from MotivateMonday | Why monthly giving is… Motivate Monday | Bolster your back-end for monthly… Are you missing this key fundraising “system?”

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The enduring value of lessons learned

Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Lessons learned in the field have greater and more enduring value when others can build on them. Through Issue Lab, Candid meets knowledge seekers where they are, making discovery of and access to lessons learned effective and efficient for changemakers everywhere. .

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

Along the way, we’ve learned important lessons about balancing data protection and transparency. While it focuses specifically on grants data, many of the lessons are applicable to other data types as well. The post Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency first appeared on npENGAGE.

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Chantal Bonitto Shares Philanthropy Lessons from Black Women Leaders

DonorPerfect

OCTOBER 25, 2021

From Lessons for Philanthropy from Black Women Leaders by Chantal Bonitto Last week, Chantal Bonitto spoke in the DonorPerfect CommUNITY Conference keynote session, Strategies for Engaging Racially & Culturally Diverse Donors. This session was very compelling and enlightening. The session Read More ».

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Follow These 4 Steps to Determine Target Ask Amounts

NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are a lot of lessons to be learned about relationship building, strategy and the analytics critical to a successful program. One of those lessons is target ask amounts because if you don’t ask for a specific amount, you aren’t letting donors know what you need.

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10 Things I Learned From 30 Years in Sustainer Giving, Part 4

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve shared six of my top sustainer giving lessons so far. Today, I’ll get to the heart of sustainer giving, and probably the hardest lessons for nonprofit leadership.

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The Future of Events: 5 Lessons From 5 Associations

Association TV

JANUARY 19, 2021

The past year has been one of consistent change for every industry. Everyone pivoted to work-from-home, and digital solutions became the new normal. But that doesn’t work for everything.

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Life And Business Lessons From No One Succeeds Alone

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 3, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | The latest from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project

Pamela Grow

MARCH 11, 2021

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Communications Lessons Learned in 2020

Forum One

MARCH 4, 2021

Things are still changing and 2021 will have its own lessons, but as we approach the year anniversary of the COVID-19 crisis beginning here in the U.S., we wanted to look back at how the last year has impacted how organizations think about communications and share a few communications lessons learned (or reinforced) in 2020.

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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 14, 2022

While many nonprofits remain on a curve of continual learning and adaptation, there have been some unanticipated lessons learned throughout this tumultuous time. The post 3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic appeared first on Salesforce.org. Hybrid Work Emerged as a Staff Retention and Development Tool.

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Diversity Rules the Global Economy, Step Up to Success

.orgSource

JUNE 29, 2021

The proof that we are citizens of the world, no matter how fiercely we choose to localize, was one of the pandemic’s profound lessons. We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now. Martin Luther King, Jr. Technology has created an interdependent global economy. What happens in a […].

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Leadership Lesson: Self-Respect And Decision Making

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here is a terrific leadership lesson from the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees : “Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions” – Judith M. Bardwich – The Plateauing Trap.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | How to write your best fundraising appeal FAST

Pamela Grow

APRIL 15, 2021

Related Posts: What’s in my Mailbox | Free download: your… *Free resources* for writing your best fundraising… The Best Way to Write the Lead for Your Fundraising Letter Free Downloadables to Make Your Work Easier Fundraising Friday | September 14, 2018 The post Lessons from MotivateMonday | How to write your best fundraising appeal (..)

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8 Lessons Learned from Hosting Golf Event Fundraisers During COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 12, 2020

By Katie Casillas , director of marketing at GolfStatus.org , an event management platform specifically for golf fundraisers. There’s no doubting it: 2020 has forced organizations, industries, and entire sectors to adapt. Event fundraising is no exception and, within the category, the golf fundraiser has become especially critical.

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Decision-Making Lessons From History

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2021

Some of my favorite decision-making lessons from history and from the book include these: Own your decisions. You’ll learn decision making tips from Harry Truman , Margaret Thatcher , Mohammed Ali , Rachel Carson , Pablo Picasso and others who made decisions during war and peace, and in fields of science, commerce and invention.

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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Lessons Learned from a Black Swan—Solutions Day Presenters Explore Pandemic Insights

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Leadership Lessons From Movies

5 Social Fundraising Lessons That Can Influence Your Overall Development Strategy

7 Key Lessons Learned from Virtual Fundraising Events in 2020

The Southwest Airlines Flight Fiasco: Lessons For Your Nonprofit

Fundraising lessons we can use from Ukraine

3 Lessons For Fundraisers From “Die Hard”

Discovering The Hidden Leadership Lessons In Movies

Three lessons nonprofits learned from the pandemic

Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 1000+ Clients

12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

From Transition to Transformation: Key Lessons from the Pandemic for Nonprofits

Sponsorship Lessons Learned from 100+ Clients

9 Lessons Learned from Hosting Virtual Fundraising Events

10 Giving Tuesday Lessons from Organizations Like Yours

Pandemic Lessons Learned: 4 Tips for School Fundraising

4 Social Impact Lessons I Learned Behind the Wheel of a Car

Study offers lessons on public health efforts to prevent gun violence

Nonprofit Leaders: Don’t Learn Lessons From the Great Resignation the Hard Way

Lessons from MotivateMonday | Change your thinking, change your work

12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

Leadership Lessons From The Book TouchPoints

Leadership Lessons From Kent Taylor, Founder Of Texas Roadhouse

What Did Nonprofit Fundraisers Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic?

1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Incorporating Last Year’s Lessons into 2021 End-of-Year Fundraising Plans

Lessons from MotivateMonday | Five Social Media Trends You Need to Know

Lessons from MotivateMonday | Converting Your New #GivingTuesday Donors to Monthly Donors

The enduring value of lessons learned

Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

Chantal Bonitto Shares Philanthropy Lessons from Black Women Leaders

Follow These 4 Steps to Determine Target Ask Amounts

10 Things I Learned From 30 Years in Sustainer Giving, Part 4

The Future of Events: 5 Lessons From 5 Associations

Life And Business Lessons From No One Succeeds Alone

Lessons from MotivateMonday | The latest from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project

Communications Lessons Learned in 2020

3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Diversity Rules the Global Economy, Step Up to Success

Leadership Lesson: Self-Respect And Decision Making

Lessons from MotivateMonday | How to write your best fundraising appeal FAST

8 Lessons Learned from Hosting Golf Event Fundraisers During COVID-19

Decision-Making Lessons From History

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