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Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Planning Your Year-End Fundraising: It’s That Time Again! If you haven’t already made a year-end fundraising plan, now’s the time to start. This is an important time for your organization’s fundraising, so don’t slack on your outreach! MORE
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These are questions with unpredictable answers, making time savings and flexibility more crucial than ever. Here’s how to leverage technology to plan a golf fundraiser in these uncertain times. This also makes it easy to handoff information to staff at the golf facility at any time.
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For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies.
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There’s another name for those types of events, and it’s not funraiser… It’s waste of time. Don’t waste your time. Photo Credit: Emily Garecht The post Fundraiser vs. Friendraiser vs. Waste of Time first appeared on The Fundraising Authority.
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When it comes to timing of email communications for your peer-to-peer events, there are three big levers you can adjust. Timing also varies by type of event, which breaks down into four categories. Let’s look at how peer-to-peer email timing levers vary for each event type.
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According to the Value of Volunteer Time, volunteers typically contribute nearly $200 billion to U.S. Reprinted from PND. Independent Sector has announced that the estimated value of a volunteer hour in the United States reached $28.54 in 2020, up from $27.20, or 4.9 percent, in 2019.
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When disaster strikes, timing is everything, and the best kind of relief is the kind that comes fast. Can employee relief become a team effort, giving employees across your organization the opportunity to support one another in times of need?
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That’s why I was thrilled to see The Nonprofit Times become an early adopter of this new technology with the launch of their Nonprofit Times TV Channel ( www.nonprofittimes.tv ). Most of us will be watching on our computers, but within the next year or two the technology will quickly evolve to allow us to watch channels like Nonprofit Times TV on our digital TV sets in our living rooms.
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We live in a time when many social and environmental crises beg us to rethink not just what we call ourselves, but more importantly, how we get the good work done. First is the perceived constraint in financial and time capacity, and the second is the internal culture.
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Asking Why multiple times helps you get to the root cause and helps your company to prevent undesirable results from occurring again or allows you to repeat a desirable results, explains author Michael Kallett in his book, T hink Smarter: Critical Thinking To Improve Problem-Solving And Decision-Making Skills.
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Hi everyone, happy December. I do a lot of speaking, and a question I get asked often is “If you. Personal
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Often, that means we’re pressed for time. That also means that we’re likely to devote less time to things that feel like they’re not directly contributing to your nonprofit’s bottom line. . How does this save you time? Then make time to execute them. .
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My friends, it’s crunch time. Time to take a deep breath, center yourself, and get ready for year-end fundraising! The post It’s year-end fundraising time. Year-end fundraising is here. Somehow, without asking permission, the calendar has flipped to October.
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AUGUST 11, 2021
Read on to discover my Top 3 Reasons to Consider Making Recurring Gifts instead of One-time Gifts. Maybe you've had one before or maybe you have one (or many) active at the moment.
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It creates a just-in-time kind of communication strategy that works beautifully. Even if you don’t have a magical software that knows exactly where people are in their journey with you and can do the right thing at the right time, you can still use drip sequences effectively.
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AUGUST 11, 2021
Boost your fundraising efficiency with a list of actionable time-saving opportunities to implement right away. . More time means more focus on impactful campaigns. Overall, refocusing your time makes a world of difference to supporters and beneficiaries. .
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OCTOBER 26, 2019
The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. BRAVE is a leadership framework that helps first-time leaders successfully build their team by uniting them around a shared purpose. First-Time Leader is, as the title aptly describes, for first time leaders, explains Bradt. "It
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