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3 Common Problems in Nonprofit Event Planning

NonProfit PRO

With in-person events forced to move to virtual, the nonprofit industry has seen a complete change in operations over the last two years. Now, hybrid events are thriving as a way to provide the best of both worlds. During this transition, nonprofits are turning to new event software and tools to create the best experience for their audiences.

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Newsletter: Partnership Goddesses Answer Your Most Burning Questions???; Super Bowl LVI Ad Confirms QR Codes are Here to Stay ; MDA Shamrocks Celebrate 40th Anniversary ??

Selfish Giving

Two things this week. ?? Tomorrow morning is the big day for the only international conference dedicated to corporate-charity partnerships. It's called Corporate Partnerships Everywhere and they have a great lineup of speakers planned for tomorrow. Learn from the World's Best for Just $69 ?? The Cause Docs are back! Join us on Wednesday, March 2nd at Noon EST.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

As your nonprofit starts to blossom, don’t be surprised if you are conflicted over how much to spend on nonprofit administration, especially fundraising. Obviously, donors want as much of their donation as possible to go to your programs, to help change lives. But you have to spend some money on running your nonprofit. And fundraising. You may find yourself spending money on the tech tools.

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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits

Blue Avocado

When we embark upon what’s known in the nonprofit world as “donation season,” chances are that your organization thinks about putting together a fundraising video or other media that demonstrates the impact of your work. When I became the in-house Media & Communications Manager at my last nonprofit, I produced those fundraising videos, program photos, […].

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.

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3 Economic Elements of a Major Gift Caseload

NonProfit PRO

A major gift caseload is not just a bunch of donors who meet a certain giving or capacity criteria. Current giving and capacity play into the selection of a caseload pool. From this pool, you should qualify the donors who want to connect. Your caseload will have donors of different economic quality, which is why you should tier your caseload so you know where to spend your time.

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Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for March 2022

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Use the following writing ideas from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter for your newsletter articles, social media updates, blog posts and more. Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you in advance monthly. As usual, please double-check events to see if they are still happening. On the Calendar. 3/2: Dr. Suess’s Birthday. Have a favorite Suess story that’s really a bigger life lesson related to your cause?

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Demystifying LinkedIn for Social Impact Leaders

Bloomerang

LinkedIn is like a 24/7/365 networking event and many of the people who can make your social impact dreams come true are there. They might even be connected to you already. You know, the folks who can provide a transformational grant, refer your next client for services, interview you for their wide-reaching podcast, or get you up on a panel with your heroes.

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Lifetime Value Starts With the Second Gift

NonProfit PRO

The motivation that gets someone to take the first step to support an organization (donating or volunteering) is quite different from their motivation to continue to be engaged. We do not need any further proof of this than the lousy retention rates that nonprofit organizations suffer year after year.

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Growing Your Comms Team: How Much More Work Can You Do?

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

You know you need more help with your nonprofit’s communications. Your management team is listening and thinking about whether to add another person to your communications team. But they want to know what this person would do, and in turn, what else the comms team could do. So now it’s back in your court to formulate your promise for what you can deliver as your team grows.

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[PRODUCT DEMO] Eventgroove Fundraising Software

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Cost: Free. Presented by: Eventgroove. In this 30-minute product tour of Eventgroove, learn how your nonprofit can easily host online, in-person, and hybrid fundraisers, sell tickets for raffles and auctions, and accept donations online through your website. Built to help your nonprofit fundraise and run events, Eventgroove is an all-in-one integrated platform that embraces and a customer-first approach and provides superb support from

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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How to Increase Nonprofit Revenue with a Marketing Plan

Bloomerang

Want to plan marketing activities that support your organization’s mission and programs? In this webinar, we share the process we use with our clients to create an effective and efficient marketing strategy. The post How to Increase Nonprofit Revenue with a Marketing Plan appeared first on Bloomerang.

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3 Ways to Drive a Culture of Philanthropy Instead of a Culture of Charity

NonProfit PRO

There is a lot of talk in our industry about developing a culture of philanthropy. It’s the hot buzzword these days at strategic planning sessions and board retreats. But what does developing a culture of philanthropy really mean in the day-to-day life of a nonprofit professional?

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3 Strategies to Find New Nonprofit Supporters Online

Ann Green

Are you ready to build your nonprofit’s online audience in the new year? Consider these three innovative strategies to connect with new supporters in 2022. By Cassie Losquadro, Solutions Executive at GoodUnited. There are many strategies for discovering new donors for your nonprofit. Perhaps you rely on word of mouth and encourage existing supporters to share their stories and bring their peers into the fold.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – February 25, 2022

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Outback Steakhouse. Prattville, AL. Who needs a drink? Well it’s still early here so we will just dive into the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have how to create inclusive content, social media benchmarks, TikTok insights, spring fundraising ideas and more.

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Emergent Asking – Get What You Need Now

Bloomerang

The post Emergent Asking – Get What You Need Now appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Facebook to Partner with GoodUnited for Challenges

NonProfit PRO

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced today that it will enter a co-development deal — centered around Challenges on Facebook — with GoodUnited, a social giving solution with a focus on Facebook fundraising.

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Stories You Tell Make or Break Your Fundraising Goals

Caring Truth-Teller

Stories you tell at benefit auctions, in your e-newsletter, and in all your nonprofit communications can make or break your fundraising goals. That’s what Erin Shipps, Director of Marketing and Communications for the National Auctioneers Association , wrote for a recent piece in their national magazine: Auctioneer. In her article titled “ Powerful storytelling for fundraising, ” Erin shared her report on the presentation I delivered at the 2021 International Auctioneers Confere

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4 Reasons Why Fundraisers Think Storytelling Matters

iMarketSmart

In case you missed my last post…. I wrote about my unease with the storytelling surge in our sector. It made me uncomfortable because I was taught that listening and investigation were the keys to success in motivating and inspiring exchanges of money. I promised to explain why everyone in fundraising was talking about storytelling instead of listening and investigating.

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How Often Should You Be Asking Your Donors for Money?

Joe Garecht

One of the most common questions I get asked by non-profit fundraisers is this: how often should you be asking your donors for money? In this article, I’m going to give you some simple guidelines to help you answer that question. The reason I’m going to give you guidelines, instead of just giving you an answer, is because there is no hard and fast rule.

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It’s Q1: Time to Start Year-End Planning

NonProfit PRO

Every year, nonprofit marketers focus on the sprint that is year-end giving from Giving Tuesday through the end of the year. And every year, we say this feels like it’s all happening sooner — and it actually is!

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Elevate

Bloomerang

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Top 10 Reasons to Enroll in the Donor Story: Epic Fundraising Ecourse with Dr. Russell James

iMarketSmart

You’ve seen enough. You’re ready to go. You’ve read about it, heard about it, talked about it, and thought about it, and you want to take the Donor Story: Epic Fundraising eCourse with Dr. Russell James. The only problem? Your boss won’t pony up the cash. Even though you are convinced that this course will help you raise hundreds of thousands if not millions more over your career as you implement and master the concepts, tools, and strategies it teaches, how do you get your boss to have the same

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Data Privacy Strategies for Modern Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

You think your information is encrypted… but is it? For over 20 years, nonprofits struggled to take data privacy seriously. And we’re now having to play catch-up on making sure valuable information is secure. This week on A Modern Nonprofit Podcast we discuss today’s biggest cybersecurity threat and how nonprofits can use technology without putting themselves at risk.

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Are You Marketing Your Brand or Your Mission?

NonProfit PRO

When you think of your brand, it can feel like a nebulous concept sometimes, right? You show up at your organization every day to fulfill a mission, to fill a need and to create opportunity for yourself and others around you. But is that your mission (your “why”) or is that your brand? And where does marketing come into the mix?

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ALDA

Bloomerang

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10 Ways to Convince Boss to Pay for Epic Fundraising eCourse

iMarketSmart

You’ve seen enough. You’re ready to go. You’ve read about it, heard about it, talked about it, and thought about it, and you want to take the Donor Story: Epic Fundraising eCourse with Dr. Russell James. The only problem? Your boss won’t pony up the cash. Even though you are convinced that this course will help you raise hundreds of thousands if not millions more over your career as you implement and master the concepts, tools, and strategies it teaches, how do you get your boss to have the same

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Set Up a Nonprofit Chart of Accounts (Free Template)

The Charity CFO

If you’re brand new to nonprofit accounting, the Chart of Accounts might be the best place to start. Because even if you only have one bank account, bill, investment, or expense, you’ll need one. What is a Chart of Accounts? It’s a list of the accounts you use in your organization to track your financial transactions. Specifically, it tracks your assets, liabilities, income, expense, and equity. .

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How to Quit Your Job

NonProfit PRO

If you work in the fundraising profession, over time, you will find this job gratifying and energizing. You will also find your job tiring, demanding and frustrating. During my career in the fundraising profession, I experienced a sustained high and periods of lows when I thought seriously about quitting my job.

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How to Identify the Right Project Management Strategy For Your Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Identify the Right Project Management Strategy For Your Business. Having a project strategy puts you in a better position than not having one. Here’s how to Identify the Right Project Management Strategy For Your Business. To achieve corporate goals , project managers rely on tried-and-true project management approaches, each with its own set of rules and standards.

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9 questions to help you align your mission, fundraising and marketing to attract donors more effectively

Get Fully Funded

The marketing channel with the highest return on investment is email. It’s been shown that across all industries for every $1 spent, email brings a return of $40. Yes, it is also the most effective channel for fundraising (including a higher ROI than events). This means that that most effective fundraising starts by growing your subscriber base and using email to turn those subscribers into donors.

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How Good Intentions Turn into Lost Donations

NonProfit PRO

The willingness to give money isn't what causes online donations to fail, as you might think. Would it surprise you to know they fail due to a poor user experience? Not only many nonprofits don’t pay enough attention to the checkout process, but they also redirect visitors to third-party payment solution sites. The result? A loss of trust and donations.

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The Driven By Cause Podcast Featuring Susan Packard Orr

NonProfit PRO

Driven By Cause with David Blyer and Jay Fiske is an exciting podcast dedicated to showcasing thought leaders in the nonprofit space. We sit down with prolific philanthropists and leaders in the industry and find out who they are and what has made them so successful. Stream this series’ first episode on February 25, 2022, featuring Philanthropist, Susan Packard Orr, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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The 2022 Nonprofit Outlook for Inflation, Monetary Policy and More

NonProfit PRO

I regard this year’s financial picture as an opportunity for cautious optimism rather than fear or hesitation. As a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and co-founder of a firm that has served nonprofits for 30 years, I want to offer a few observations (not predictions or recommendations) on the present moment.

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Stream “Driven By Cause”, Featuring Susan Packard Orr!

NonProfit PRO

Driven by Cause with David Blyer and Jay Fiske is a podcast dedicated to showcasing thought leaders in the nonprofit space. We sit down with prolific philanthropists and leaders in the industry and find out who they are and what has made them successful. In this episode, we speak with prolific philanthropist and nonprofit technology innovator, Susan Packard Orr, who will be discussing fundraising, volunteering, and her achievements in the field.

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Virtuous Acquires Volunteer Management Platform VOMO

NonProfit PRO

Virtuous, a nonprofit CRM and responsive fundraising platform announced that it has acquired VOMO, the award-winning volunteer mobilization platform designed to recruit new volunteers, manage the volunteer experience, and activate volunteers to grow giving.