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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Marketing & Communications.

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The Importance of Asking Permission to Ask More Questions

iMarketSmart

The donor must participate. The classic text on these sales, SPIN Selling , explains, “there are many ways to open a call, but the common factor of most good openings is that they lead the customer to agree that you should ask questions … you want to establish your role as the seeker of information and the buyer’s role as the giver.” [2].

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

If you loved our 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2019 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Marketing & Communications.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

Or donors don’t want to meet. Or there are too many donors to meet. Questions can arise in Donor telephone conversations (one-on-one but not face-to-face) Donor focus groups (face-to-face but not one-on-one), or Donor surveys (neither one-on-one nor face-to-face). The reverse is “I can help or advise you.”

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Dr. James explains why “No” often leads to “Yes”

iMarketSmart

What amount would be easy for this donor?”) Next steps in the real world The donor says, “No.” And it’s bad. These bad emotions can lead to bad behaviors. It can make fundraisers avoid asking. Maybe I’ll stay in the office today. Someone’s got to choose the fonts for that new ‘branding’ effort.”) Or it can make them callous.

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

In fundraising, the “one big thing” is always the same: Advance the donor’s hero story. In the donor’s hero story, the fundraiser is the guiding sage. Connects to the donor’s original identity (history, people, or values), Promises the hope of a victory impacting the larger world, and. It moves from broad to narrow.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.