Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I’ve come to believe that there is one key skill that can boost your personal and professional success. It requires excellent communication, organization, creativity, and problem-solving. If you’re a nonprofit fundraiser, you might be doing all of this already without even realizing it.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. Nonprofits need to take an informed approach to appealing to them and beginning to cultivate a relationship toward a “lifetime donor.” Host a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Remind your donors that they bring a unique value to your organization. Explain your motivation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Nurturing nonprofit relationships Effective nonprofit management is anchored in building and nurturing relationships with board members. By recognizing and addressing their unique requirements, you create an environment in which they feel valued and invested in your organization’s mission.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re starting a new nonprofit, you already know that you need to raise money. No two nonprofits are exactly alike. Your plan should also include what you’ll do when you’re NOT asking for money like donor communications, stewardship, and warm touches — all designed to give the donor a GREAT experience.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Volunteers are key to helping nonprofits stay up and running. From donating their time to help out with vital programs and initiatives to lending their professional expertise and skills, volunteers help keep nonprofits on track to complete their goals. Invest in volunteer management software. Make the experience engaging.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the past 30 years, it has made substantial improvements in the living conditions and social status of people with disabilities due to rapid economic growth, administrative and legislative actions, and the dedicated efforts of nonprofit organizations that champion the disability community.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. Donor stewardship—also known as stewarding your donors—is the act of building relationships with supporters after they make a donation to your nonprofit. What is donor stewardship?

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. Effective fundraising culture isn’t just different from the rest of the nonprofit. Risk management. Example: Nonprofit allows a broad range of donor-created gift restrictions. Example: Nonprofit allows only a few pre-approved gift restrictions.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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! Nonprofit Management. Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Our work studying local social networks, developing local social networking software, and experimenting with local social networks in partnership with local governments, nonprofits, and media has revealed a potential solution: networks that are values-driven, closely moderated, trusted, and local.

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Ann Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of your communication with donors has shifted to the digital space, presenting unique challenges for thanking your donors. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many facets of your nonprofit’s operations, including how you fundraise, host events, and communicate with your supporters. Try these virtual strategies! No problem.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2012

As I’ve been writing my new book on content marketing for nonprofits, I’ve tried to keep in mind the different stages that nonprofits go through as their communications and marketing programs mature. Communications work is often parceled out among program staff and the executive director. Stage I: Doing.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It means some part of one’s identity – one’s people, values, or story – will continue on after death. But to be meaningful, the impact must support one’s people, values, or story. It provides motivation. Examples include, “Would you be willing to consider including us as one of the nonprofit organizations in your will?”[18]

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

This then permits questions that: Connect the donor’s identity (history, people, and values) with the cause, the charity, or the project [ Original Identity → Challenge ] Define a personally meaningful victory [ Victory → Enhanced Identity ], and Make a challenge that promises the victory [Challenge → Victory ]. What does this look like?

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2015

Use social and other platforms to thank them publicly and to welcome them to your organization’s community. Show how a donor’s gift impacts your organization, its beneficiaries, and the surrounding community. “However, it’s extremely difficult to do when sending impersonal mass communications.

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The Agitator

OCTOBER 5, 2010

If you or your nonprofit are devotees of Facebook and Twitter, his article is sure to fire you up! Social networks are effective at increasing participation —by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. They inform their community, attend events, volunteer. Here are just a few excerpts.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. 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.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

For Nonprofits Who Want to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors, Supporters, and Advocates. Look for part 1 – What’s next for nonprofits and social media – and Part 2 – Where Should you Be on Social media? I think it’s fantastic when nonprofits want to measure social media success and document their results.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. A motivating flyer could inspire dozens of people to volunteer for your new program, and a per­suasive letter to a senator might inspire new legislation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides our webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). We publicize our salaries in job listings, of course. Often, culture is simply neglected.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In doing so, my job is to write and design to connect and motivate my audience: be it to volunteer, donate, sign a petition, engage, et cetera. Impact: Communicating impact effectively doesn’t just propose a solution; it also defines the audience’s role in implementing it. . Centering Community In Marketing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. These statistics hold true across time and national boundaries (Brennan et al.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

Giving is motivated by social emotion. Because giving doesn’t come just from motivation. It comes from the intersection of motivation and cost. Motivation must overcome the cost barrier. Giving results from the intersection of motivation and cost. With the promise of a victory for the donor’s people or values.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. But first what I want to do is just ask Steven to launch a poll to gauge where you are right now with regard to feelings about promoting legacy giving in your nonprofit. You can do it.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The manager says, “Things are tight right now. The manager hesitates. It is now,” laughs the manager. But they aren’t trying to deliver that much value. Often, it’s obvious.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The manager says, “Things are tight right now. The manager hesitates. It is now,” laughs the manager. But they aren’t trying to deliver that much value. Often, it’s obvious.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2012

On Tuesday, I shared a Theory of Change for nonprofit marketing. For example, what is “content marketing” and why should nonprofits shift toward it? Creating and sharing communications that are truly relevant and valuable to others outside your organization will require a major transformation within many nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. But don’t do that right now because I am so excited to have one of my favorite people in the nonprofit sector. I’m the nonprofit education manager over at Qgiv. So check that out.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

And more importantly, what makes someone give to YOUR nonprofit? Understanding the psychology behind giving can help you understand the donor’s motivation, which will help you plan your next campaign, your next fundraising event, or your next face-to-face ask. Many people live this value and it’s the main reason they give.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. It is time that community-based midwifery care be recentered in our communities. 41 Midwifery care is high-quality, value-based care that saves lives and money.

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iMarketSmart

JULY 10, 2023

They never even try to deliver value to donors. Community can support mutual sharing. But this happens only if the community is reciprocal. Enhanced identity “Sharing” delivers more value to the donor than just “giving.” It does this through shared membership in a community. Non-reciprocal giving can be deadly.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

Thousands of nonprofits have this challenge every year. This is why organizations need to guide and educate donors and foundations in evaluating nonprofits. Why do we set up our nonprofit sector like this???) By helping funders be more flexible, you are doing the whole nonprofit field a favor. This is bull!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars, we’re also a donor management software provider, so if you’re curious about that and want to check us out. So going to be a cool one for sure.

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