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Before Publishing Your Annual Appeal, Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

Bloomerang

With that in mind, the focus should be on them, not on you or your organization. . Here’s a “you test” you can use from Bloomerang that also incorporates the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level reading test. Here’s an example: As you can see, the ratio of ego-centric to donor-centric pronouns is an astonishing 18:3.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

A new nonprofit begins as a figment, something fully realized only in the founder’s mind. A common example that I have seen concerns the ratio of unrestricted to restricted funds. That is the test of a true leader. One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end.

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5 Quick and Easy Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible

Allegiance Group

Be mindful that the tag should be able to be read in a timely manner but should also accurately describe the images. The higher the contrast ratio of text color to background color, the easier it will be to read. Go through your website’s media library and there should be a section where you can add alt tags to your images.

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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

NTEN

Appeal to the massive subconscious mind to help sell your cause. They have studied how to appeal to the massive subconscious mind, and there are some interesting and sometimes bizarre takeaways for those of us engaged in social good. Katya Andresen. Network for Good. Here are seven of the most surprising ways to sell your cause.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. For many of us, the devil in the details has actually poisoned our minds to think that those details are something other people must have.

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7 Ways to Get More Out of Your Online Fundraising Platform

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One important caveat to keep in mind, though, is that if you have a specific campaign that uses alternate colors and images, those alternate colors and images are what your supporters are expecting when they choose to give to that campaign. These gifts often come from a donor’s employer and match their donation on a 1:1 ratio.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. Be sure that you test, test, test to see if there are certain types of questions that work best for engaging your alumni. The exception is when there are many comments that are generic such as “Nice!” or “Love it!”

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