NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Active readers? For those long-term donors, you could instead share a survey asking for their feedback on why they first donated to your cause and what motivated them to continue supporting your mission. . When you invest energy into your community, you’ll likely receive that energy and more back from community members. .

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Give people several ways to participate, such as games, tasks, and rewards. Engagement tips Your virtual event requires more than just activities and virtual shows. Key strategies Get ready to open the doors to active communities, louder messages, and a world of opportunities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The problem has gotten worse.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Active collection methods, like paddles or Text to Give , are generally more effective. This not only rewards your donors for participating but also leaves them with a feeling of joy and accomplishment. Public recognition not only honors their generosity but also motivates others.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 24, 2023

According to the OneCause guide to school auctions , these high-energy events are perfect for schools because they are: Highly engaging and flexible for all audiences. If you’re looking for an engaging event where participants take an active role in the fundraising, an auction is an excellent choice.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Or, perhaps you’ve invested a lot of energy into recruiting new donors and engaging existing ones, but your fundraising efforts aren’t yielding the results you were expecting. . Your donor data helps you learn about supporters’ interests, communication preferences, giving motivations, and more. Collect donor data.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Talk about how to use the event energy and goodwill to carry the momentum post-event for additional fundraising opportunities. These types of events will run for a few hours and include food, drinks, entertainment, and a fundraising activity such as a live or silent auction. Auction activity can occur while socializing and mingling.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JULY 28, 2015

Read our Q&A with Derrick below: Network for Good: How can organizations use your research to activate their Millennial donors and volunteers? Derrick Feldman: One of the most beneficial uses of this research is that it offers an intimate look at how Millennial employees engage in cause-related activities, especially in the workplace.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

For example, volunteer management software can close communication gaps around activities like scheduling and training, resulting in a smoother experience. For example, giving volunteers the skills they need to participate in the activities they signed up for can be enough to cultivate high volunteer engagement. .

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Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation 59

Fundraising Coach

APRIL 23, 2019

In my Quadrant 3 Leadership training, I show participants how our hardwiring can impact our leadership: abilities, behaviors, and motivations. The DISC model comes from an ancient Greek behavior theory that classifies human beings based on two axes: the active/reserved axis and. I's - Active/People-Centered People.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

When your volunteers feel like their contributions are acknowledged and appreciated, they’ll feel much more inclined to continue participating in the future. Prioritizing volunteer appreciation not only motivates your volunteers but also contributes to your nonprofit’s long-term success. Let’s dive in to learn more!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Well, think again, overworking will not only steal your clarity, but it will zap your creative energy and resilience. A bedtime ritual of bath, reading, a cup of herbal tea, meditation, or other calming activities, can bring your brain noise down a few notches and allow you to settle into a less agitated state to get some rest.

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Marketing Marketing Energy Participation and motivation 76

Fundraising Coach

APRIL 23, 2019

In my Quadrant 3 Leadership training, I show participants how our hardwiring can impact our leadership: abilities, behaviors, and motivations. The DISC model comes from an ancient Greek behavior theory that classifies human beings based on two axes: the active/reserved axis and. I’s – Active/People-Centered People.

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Participation and motivation Leadership Activism Energy 52

The Agitator

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In a nutshell, Gladwell argues that social media merely enable a sort of faux activism … not the “real thing&# of social transformation, a la the sit-ins of the civil rights movement. As he puts it, social net activism “doesn’t require that you confront socially entrenched norms and practices.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Making a little progress every day is really important to staying motivated and happy in your work. Actively Manage Your Decision Points. You’ll find lots of advice about meditating or taking a walk to refocus your energy during the day. Experts recommend that you develop “progress rituals.”

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Recruiting and screening volunteers might seem like just another time-consuming task to add to your already massive to-do list, but our guest blogger Addison Waters of Galaxy Digital outlines four key pointers that will help you find people who are motivated to put in the effort that will ease your overall workload. Take a 5K for example.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Recruiting and screening volunteers might seem like just another time-consuming task to add to your already massive to-do list, but our guest blogger Addison Waters of Galaxy Digital outlines four key pointers that will help you find people who are motivated to put in the effort that will ease your overall workload. Take a 5K for example.

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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. You're in luck - not only do these supporters already give their energy and/or resources to your organization, they also probably have a great reason for doing so.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Sometimes we expect the energy and feelings that we need in order to build movements amid crisis to flow naturally as though they were embedded in our personalities. To practice active hope, we do not need to believe that everything will work out in the end. As Macy and Johnstone write, Active Hope is a practice.

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 14, 2020

The energy of year-end giving is palpable, but does it all end when December does? Let’s break down an example to highlight a few best practices when it comes to making these recap communications stellar: “Thank you for participating in our annual holiday gift drive. It doesn’t have to! In fact, it shouldn’t. Begin with a “Thank You.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. .

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

In some ways, I am motivated by winning, Cyndi—I simply want to win. It provided valuable visibility to the point where when I knocked on a door to cultivate a new relationship, people were interested and already motivated to open it. But what I do know is that there was so much energy generated from that writing.

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 14, 2020

The energy of year-end giving is palpable, but does it all end when December does? Let’s break down an example to highlight a few best practices when it comes to making these recap communications stellar: “Thank you for participating in our annual holiday gift drive. It doesn’t have to! In fact, it shouldn’t. Begin with a “Thank You.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do? Recognition/Appreciation. Touch the work.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At this year’s sector conference, organized by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people participated and considered where CDFIs needed to go and what they needed to do. Grzywinski conceded this was wrong: “We underestimated the passion and motivation of the people running not-for-profit organizations.”

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Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Alice Paul was one of few suffrage leaders who realized that a movement has to move, that power and energy come from moving forward not from standing still after a victory. On December 13, the ERA Coalition will convene a march from the White House to Congress and other activities to call attention to the urgency of publishing the ERA.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

The New Jersey pension fund confirmed that no new investments were being considered and voted to urge TPG to participate in negotiations with Puerto Rican advocates. We are motivated to run the campaigns that we do because we want to live in a world where Black people and people of color can thrive.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As discussed above, this understanding motivates us as funders to leave behind familiar but limited, single-point perspectives and work from a more whole and systemic picture. The first shift is therefore to actively engage a wider perspective. Indeed, the ways the sector gathers and deploys data can generate harm.

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Participation and motivation Health Culture Environmental 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A successful peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaign requires thoughtful planning and a strong understanding of how to motivate your fundraisers to meet and exceed their goals. We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal.

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Fundraising Fundraising Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 122

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

Of course, being “active” is one thing – but are nonprofits truly leveraging the power and potential of these channels to get results? What’s even more troubling is that while 38% of nonprofits spend 2 hours a week on their social media channels, over half (53%) are not measuring their social media activity. They are just tools.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 7, 2021

Program-Related Perks Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks. As a way of appreciating a donor and making them feel connected…seek their input, or participation in any process you have giving away scholarships, even if the donor is just there to observe the process.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Other Activities. The donor database tracks all of your supporters’ engagement activities and donation history so that you can make more informed outreach decisions and craft better fundraising requests. Then, you can track each of these activities and any communication that occurs in the donors’ specific profiles. Major Gifts.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The movement is motivated by the belief system that harm has been done that warrants repair and healing is necessary to prevent the drivers of our inequity from being repeated. “My In addition, the Bush Foundation actively involved its board for years in its equity journey to better understand how to serve the region.

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Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 137

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

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Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 92

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So if you’re planning to participate in GivingTuesday, just a heads up, my fundraising friends, you’ll want to keep your ears perked for that. . We’d have to do a poll to find out how many are participating in GivingTuesday. I’m going to talk to you about warming up your donors before you ask them.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re hearing it in a different way, and it’s not as motivating for them to give. ” Jackie: Now, the part where they kind of call out that maybe we’re lapsed a little bit here is in this Recent Activity Summary box here, right? And they just put it. It’s only 27 days into 2022.”

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Disaster Relief Communication Participation and motivation Retention 60

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the words of Kamau Franklin, an organizer with the Atlanta-based collective Community Movement Builders : “This is an arrest which is meant to, again, criminalize the movement, chill dissent, stop organizing, and stop activism from happening to stop ‘cop city’.” In so much as the work is radical, it will be under attack.

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