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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! Sharing photos from reunions or Alumni meetups on campus is another way to make that connection like this Twitter example above from Ramah Seminar.

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A Lesson on Budgeting from the Blackbaud Management Team

Connection Cafe

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. Remember to align your metrics and drivers with your long-term strategic goals, rather than focusing narrowly on “cutting postage expense in Q1”, for example. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation!

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20 Incredibly Easy Online Fundraising Ideas and Expert Tips

Bloomerang

Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track. For example, if your primary goal of a crowdfunding campaign is to raise $10,000, then you’ll know that total revenue is one of the important metrics to keep track of throughout the campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. But thats okay.

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