CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

If you’ve spent any time in the fundraising world, you’ve probably heard the phrase “capital campaign” before. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. Why would you want to set aside a long chunk of time to fundraise in a way that’s outside of your typical structures?

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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. Now it’s time to share your work! Shorter works serve better on social media. . Drafting. . Publishing. .

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

It might be time for a capital campaign. They’re major investments of your time and resources with potentially huge payoffs—an increased capacity to drive impact, strengthened relationships with donors and partners , and tons of valuable fundraising experience. Don’t underestimate the amount of time you’ll need.

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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. What is a donor pipeline? The retention stage.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the years, I have worked with many founder-led (or until-recently-founder-led) organizations. For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. As time goes by, you may begin to feel isolated, like staff are aligned against you. Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

The first lesson I learned while working in the healthcare industry was this: Expect change. Many of us have been in the position of loving an idea on paper but later realizing it doesn’t work so well in practice. Provides a sense of ownership in making the change work. Adopt a culture that supports flexibility.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

That said, it’s not only a question of keeping up with the times. As Salesforce found in their nonprofit trend report, digitally mature organizations are twice as likely to see improvement in efficiency, and four times more likely to achieve their mission goals. Are new members receiving welcome messaging at the right time?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

As a non-profit professional, it’s essential to come out of the weeds of individual storytelling so that you can be strategic with what you tell your audience over time. Over time, a season in the case of a TV show, a story arc reveals itself. Some organizations go further to work in 90-day increments.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Since you spend all day talking, it can be highly beneficial to set aside time specifically to. In this guide, we’ll cover the internal and external benefits your nonprofit will receive when you and other leaders at your organization work on developing better public speaking skills. connecting with younger donors. Let’s get started!

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

A robust discovery phase is recommended to understand both user and organizational requirements prior to selecting a particular approach, solution, vendor, or model. Each type of solution has benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important to understand the landscape and map the right solution to the use case at hand.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Providing structure and encouragement improves the results. First, avoid the potential awkwardness of having staff solicit board members by instead forming an ad hoc committee of board members to work on the board campaign. Once you’ve reached your goal, it’s time to celebrate! Why This Approach Works. Your executive or.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

So when working with your organization’s development strategy, it’s a great idea to: Work with your development director to identify organizational goals. Work with your development director to identify organizational goals. While this can be a frustrating process, it will be well worth your organization’s time.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the anti-rape movement, we see the work of ending violence as dismantling systems of oppression, like sexism, racism ableism, classism, homophobia, etc. Once this is determined, it’s time to get researching. We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. Structure Your Message Effectively .

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Have you taken the time to assess your expertise as a development professional from a leadership perspective? Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Organized recordkeeping is key.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters As nonprofit professionals, we are all too familiar with the cycle of emergency fundraising. Visual storytelling through images and videos from the field helps make the crisis tangible and show donors their dollars at work.

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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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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

Some organizations come to Cloud for Good ready to optimize and move their technology at once, while others want to take a more gradual approach by making a lateral move to NPSP to take advantage of all the benefits and optimize a little bit at a time. As we dove into what LCRM is earlier in the webinar, you see it is a very involved package.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But sometimes, managing campaign volunteers may seem like more work than it is worth. Volunteer committees do require lots of work to make them function well. And when they don’t work well, they can undermine the success of your campaign. But once you understand major gift work well, you know that that’s the quick and easy part.

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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. Over time, it helps build your organization’s change management “muscle” and helps your organization to stay resilient no matter what the future brings. Offer time off.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Does direct mail work? Yes, direct mail fundraising does work. Conduct research about your organization’s specific market, working to identify marketwide consumer and technology trends. Direct mail gives your supporters a physical object to connect them to your organization, making it a highly personal way to reach out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I believe I can forecast the success of an individual leader based on the amount of time it takes for them to change direction when the outcome is objectively inevitable. Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? That works for mundane undertakings, but birthing exceptionalism is a lonely endeavor.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you skip on preparation, you will end up with a house of cards that can come tumbling down at any time. Why is your organization needed if others are doing this work already? But have you looked at all the organizations in your area doing similar work? Are you sure no one else is working in this area?

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? Web Courseworks’ Three-Phased Learning Business Approach. The three-phased approach that Web Courseworks follows includes: 1.

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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. Learn how to introduce and motivate your biggest advocates to get involved, and how to follow up with the donors that didn’t engage with your appeal the first time around. Email #1: Introduce the Campaign.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Getting started with personalization can be broken down into three phases: Crawl, Walk, Run. During our most recent webinar, we took a quick poll to find out which physical service or program was most affected by last year’s move to fully remote work. With a bit of digital elbow grease, you can optimize your website in no time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In a year when suddenly everyone had to work from home, businesses and organizations required an up-to-date website to stay relevant. 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?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I believe teamwork is rare because our organizations are built in opposition to working as a team. The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every creative project we work on at Media Cause is different. Because of these nuances and our desire to ensure that every organization’s presence reflects its individual mission and personality, establishing an ownable and unique visual direction for the work is critical. How are moodboards used? Style tile examples: Style Guides.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. Another complication of continuing UA was that it works through cookies. In UA, the basic unit of collected data is referred to as a hit; UA records one pageview hit each time someone views a page. What happens to my existing data?

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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. At the same time, the first generation to grow up with digital outlets for their voices is turning them into megaphones for good.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

How to establish a working relationship with a consultant. This foundational knowledge may at times feel simple, but it’s best to make sure you have a rock solid understanding of nonprofit consulting practices before entering into conversations with potential partners. What you need a consultant for . How to research consultants .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

Still, with cases on the rise, mutations popping up, and a post-holiday wave, organizations across sectors are preparing for at least several more months of quarantines, safety measures, and virtual work environments. The work isn’t done yet, but as grants run out, they’re harder to renew in a changed economic climate.

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fusionSpan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If your nonprofit has a small staff, little technical expertise or limited time, a consultant may be just what you need. For instance, just because someone has database experience, does not necessarily mean they will know how to apply your association’s membership and accounting structure within an AMS. Find a good one.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

By doing so, you’ll avoid the extra time and energy required to redo this work and ensure your forward-facing messaging about your organization is consistent. Create a detailed outlook of the costs associated with your campaign: financial, allocated staff time, advertising/promotion costs, vendor contracts, startup costs, etc.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Forum One works with local, state and federal government agencies. This should serve as a foundation for your new website content and structure. Drafting a scope of work or a list of requirements can be specific or general. Here are the essential areas to focus on when taking on a government website redesign. IT Schedule 70 ).

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