CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

Why would you want to set aside a long chunk of time to fundraise in a way that’s outside of your typical structures? Generally a capital campaign happens in two parts: a silent phase and a public phase. The Silent Phase of Your Capital Campaign. The Public Phase of Your Capital Campaign.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 13, 2021

Start to put some structure to your ideas. If you had just jotted down notes or concepts in the pre-writing phase, starting connecting them to form sentences. Punctuation, spelling, sentence structure. Just write whatever comes to mind. Drafting. . This is the part where you start with your first rough draft.

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Qgiv

MAY 10, 2022

Ensure that you’re able to do your best work by setting up a donor pipeline: a structured way to attract, cultivate, and retain your donors. A donor pipeline, or donor funnel, in its simplest form is a structured way for nonprofits to convert more prospective donors into donors. Not sure what your donor pipeline should look like?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

This allows enough time for the pre-asking phase of the campaign and the asking phase of the campaign. . If you’re ready to take the next step in your story arc, watch this video tutorial I created on the story structure for individual stories. Step 2: Map out the beginning, middle and end of your story arc.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

In every organization, the fiscal structure changes as it grows, in ways that founders often fail to perceive. This seems obvious, but it is particularly vital in this phase that you hire seasoned finance and development professionals — and that you empower them to lead on decision making where the expertise is theirs.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Signals any needs to make future adjustments during planning phases. Flexibility and structure are not mutually exclusive. Maintaining a feedback loop to ensure that you as a leader know what is happening at pavement level will do three things: Creates confidence in your staff that they are a part of the change process.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Many experts recommend grabbing a pen and paper to sketch out your presentation’s format and structure. After choosing your presentation’s structure, you can design your visual elements and brand your presentation with your nonprofit’s logo, colors, and fonts. . Design appealing visual elements.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product. If your organization contains more than one internal structure (i.e. Analytics are an essential tool for digital marketers and there’s a big shift underway as Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is being implemented.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, what their values are, and what are their anxieties or concerns. . Structure Your Message Effectively . The way we structure our stories is key to maximizing their impact.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Simplify your page structure to make your site easier to navigate. ? Inspiring calls to action. Mobile-friendly formatting.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Providing structure and encouragement improves the results. This group will develop and implement a strategy and meet several times over one or two months in the early phases of the campaign. Providing pledge forms and gently encouraging they be returned by a particular date. These options are likely to yield different results.

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

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. Many nonprofits receive anywhere from 10-90% of their revenue from foundation grants.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And because you need to be sure project scope doesn’t get detached from budget, our discovery phase sets the foundations for what a functional, efficient and cost-effective Fonteva implementation looks like. As we build in two-week Agile sprints, you can see your requirements come to life and feedback on each iteration directly.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

Many of the LCRM customers are evaluating whether they move from LCRM and Luminate Online at the same time or take a more phased approach. We can help you take a look at some of those alternatives, look at how you might keep using some of those features, or how you might want to phase that approach.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Fast forward to today….

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

This initial phase of research can give you and your direct mail fundraising partners a better idea of what your organization is working with, what the broader market of supporters value, and how you can stand out against peer organizations. Identify and define specific parameters. Develop concrete strategies.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. Create a cadence of meetings and a timeline for them so they understand how the project will be structured. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

The post-emergency phase sees many organizations grappling with a decline in donations, a critical period where strategic donor engagement can make a difference. Do you have a well-structured monthly giving program to transition donors to recurring donations?

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. These six practices, thoughtfully applied, will continue to benefit the organization long after the exemplary development professional has moved on to the next phase of their leadership journey.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2013

I couldn''t hope to capture it all, but their structure for a metrics report - tied to strategic goals - struck me as a great potential starting point for a lot of organizations hoping to start making some sense of all those numbers. Which I believe means I can label these notes Hand-crafted for your safety.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

This way, everyone in your organization will be on the same page about what needs to be done during the fundraising phase of your development plan. Even if you think this phase could waste potential time in the future, proper communication often pays off tenfold. Align perspectives across your staff and board.

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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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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Mobilize your volunteers to share your cause with their friends and family using a team structure. Then by the community phase ($1,000 and under) you want everyone to know what you are building or planning with your campaign. We’ll be sharing details live in a free webinar on July 14 th @ 2011 at 1:00 ET. Annual Campaign.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. These are the existential questions that frame the best choices. Am I a creator or an executor? Do I want to spend my day thinking or doing?

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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. Use these soft launch email templates to help guide your email strategy and boost donor engagement so that your campaign can hit the ground running in the next phase of your launch.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In partnership with the Case Foundation, Achieve just published findings from the most recent research phase of this project, which is our ninth annual study of millennial cause behaviors and motivations. Organizations must ask themselves, Do we have the people and structure in place to use the voice of this generation for good?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. Well-written, well-structured content is one of the best things an organization can do to improve accessibility. Focus on content.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Getting started with personalization can be broken down into three phases: Crawl, Walk, Run. Perhaps your social channels are lacking substance and structure and could use some refreshing or strategy. Crawl: Audit, assess, and establish your strategy and segments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. In the sprint planning phase, the team decides how to complete the work.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Web Courseworks’ Three-Phased Learning Business Approach. The three-phased approach that Web Courseworks follows includes: 1. The end goal of this three-phased approach is to have a tangible item that will help you move forward with steps to create or otherwise improve your learning business. Organizational Readiness.

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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? If you offer many different paths on your site, a good strategy is to let users pick their own way forward. Is this a temporary or permanent change?

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

It is important to review content on blogs, videos, and other collateral materials to see what narratives are being used and if any need to be phased out. The process includes examining and reviewing the narratives that currently bolstering the power structures, in order to challenge them.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time. Determine the Organization’s Mission and Purpose Your Board is responsible for determining the mission of the organization.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

We often continue to create page designs after the style guide has been given to the developers, but it allows them to start the development phase while continuing with the design phase. . Why are style guides used? This format allows us to distill down most design decisions for a web project into one handy reference guide.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. While it may make it easier for an organization to structure the website according to their org structure, this can be frustrating for users. Methodology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. Be humble, and accept that you don’t know everything.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The next five months can be your learning phase. Beyond that timeframe, the data is less connected to your internal functions, like site structure and content, and to external realities, like changes in the ways people demand, access, and use communications tools. What happens to my existing data? Google has announced two key dates.

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