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Step-by-Step Plan for Activating Fundraising Ambassadors

Get Fully Funded

When you think of fundraising ambassadors, you might think of celebrities who use their fame to mobilize support for their favorite nonprofits. But fundraising ambassadors do not have to be celebrities. You probably have potential fundraising ambassadors who are already engaged in your work. Sounds great, right?

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Why Organizational Values Matter to Fundraising and Strategy

NonProfit PRO

At a recent strategic planning session, I was working with a nonprofit to create organizational values. As my team introduced the activity, a board member spoke up and said, “We’d like to focus on strategies and goals. Why should we take the time to focus on organizational values?”.

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5 Strategies To Nurture Active Board Engagement

Bloomerang

By recognizing and addressing their unique requirements, you create an environment in which they feel valued and invested in your organization’s mission. Acknowledging efforts: Expressing appreciation and value Board members within your nonprofit seek validation for their contributions, much like individuals in personal relationships.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

Interrogating how legacy social media platforms and their harmful content policies impact nonprofit communications, organizing, and fundraising can lead us to prioritize equity and safety when moving to new platforms—or choosing to stay on existing ones. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.”

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Newsletter: 3 Value Scales to Determine What Matters to Partners ?? ; Court Dismisses Challenges to CVS’s Donation Checkout Program??? ; 2,000 Year-Old Marketing Advice That’s Still True Today

Selfish Giving

Image via winnifredxoxo on Flickr This month's thought-provoking article in the Harvard Business Review is titled 3 Ways to Determine What Your Customer Really Values. Let's change the title to 3 Ways to Determine What Your PARTNER Really Values and see what we can learn about corporate partnerships. ⚖️ Commoditized vs Customized.

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2 of the magic words of fundraising

Jeff Brooks

Here’s an easy formula for making your fundraising more relevant to donors. It’s just two words: So That , from the Linked in newsletter, Fundraising Friday. It’s a listing of program activities. If you’re an organization insider, the value and importance of these things is likely self evident. No reason to donate now.

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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

But you can make an especially robust case that this is indeed the case in fundraising. What does it take to be successful in fundraising? Fundraising is a profession directed at nurturing friendships that culminate in gifts of time, talent, and treasure. I love the expression that fundraising occurs at the speed of trust.

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