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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Some organizations have explicit policies such as “no email between 7pm-7am. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate?

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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

The idea of getting on the phone with alumni to ask for donations can be extremely intimidating. This strategy will help you callers feel more at ease when it comes time to dial a real donor’s phone number. Append employer data and phone numbers to either your entire file or best prospects. Match ratios. Rob Schlitts.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Microsoft Ad Grants: An Overview for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofits Source

Various communication outlets such as emails, text messages, and phone calls are frequently used for nonprofit ad campaigns. Moving forward, there are a couple of registration policies that Microsoft enforces. Adhere to Microsoft’s anti-discrimination policy. . Welcome and Policies. Verifying Phone Number.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? You need to have a gift acceptance policy. Should I call you on the phone periodically? Will you make a phone call? Or they get on the subway or the bus and they’re scrawling furiously, or they’re talking into their phone.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency. And I saw some people asking about policy examples too.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests.

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