Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. While social media is now a common part of every nonprofit’s communication strategy, a common sentiment is that interacting on social media is a poor substitute to in-person interactions.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Hurdle 1: Limited Reach and Engagement While it’s important to have a core group of passionate supporters who are dialed into each of your fundraisers, it’s essential to consistently reach and recruit new supporters to grow your organization. Each of these methods empowers participants to make the fundraiser a huge success.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

The internet allows people to communicate with others from all around the world, spreading awareness of volunteering without having any restrictions due to physical barriers. For instance, if you help recruit volunteers for a school, you must understand what type of volunteers you need and how to connect with them. Boost donations.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

According to 360MatchPro’s employee engagement strategies , offering professional development opportunities is an impactful way to improve internal communications, productivity, and performance at your organization. Creating a mentorship program is an excellent way to cultivate a sense of community at your nonprofit.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2023

Animal yoga: Host an animal-themed yoga fundraiser in a local park where participants can exercise with animals eligible for adoption. Animal movie night: Host an animal movie night where participants pay to watch classic animal-themed movies alongside their own pets. Promote your fundraiser. Create consistent branding.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling is the practice of using real, compelling examples of your nonprofit’s work and impact in your communications with supporters. Reflect on how you currently communicate your nonprofit’s story, then tap into your creativity to start developing your own storytelling technique to maximize these benefits.

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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. . You might be tempted to focus the majority of your fundraising efforts on recruiting new supporters to widen your donor pool. Personalize interactions.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This means not only knowing the needs, passions, and motivations of your donors, but also matching them to the needs, program, and format of your event. To find the right event and audience, it’s important that you understand (and then align) both your donors’ motivations and your fundraising goals. Create a contact strategy.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Compliance Requirements: Participants must follow rules to stay eligible. After all, the program constantly evolves to ensure it stays valuable for participating nonprofits, web users, and Google itself. Ultimately, you’ll connect with motivated prospects, boost awareness for your mission, and drive users to act.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Knowing your audience members’ relative age range can help you choose how to communicate with them. 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. . Engage with your community.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hurdles like volunteer recruitment , volunteer burnout, and disorganized training can make your program less effective. This software can streamline tedious administrative tasks and make it easier to send communications to all members. As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program.

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Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2021, for example, the technology company Tencent, which supports nonprofits in various fields as part of its CSR practice, collaborated with D-Lab to recruit a small team of data annotators with physical disabilities. In addition, emerging fields that require skill but not a lot of physical mobility are opening up.

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Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 85

Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Let’s be real: Your organization is one of the many that can’t use kitty or puppy photos to raise money or recruit volunteers. In Part One of this mini-guide, I shared my take on why such emotional candy is so powerful in works so well to raise money or recruit volunteers.

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Getting Attention

JUNE 1, 2017

You face an uphill battle to recruit volunteers and retain them at ever higher and more effective levels of engagement. 3) Recruit your first team of messengers (Pilot). Get to know your messengers: What motivates them? For those of you with small or all-volunteer organizations, there’s absolutely nothing more important.

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Getting Attention

JUNE 1, 2017

You face an uphill battle to recruit volunteers and retain them at ever higher and more effective levels of engagement. 3) Recruit your first team of messengers (Pilot). Get to know your messengers: What motivates them? For those of you with small or all-volunteer organizations, there’s absolutely nothing more important.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MARCH 21, 2013

Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide just released a new study that delves into the perceptions, behavior and motivations for cause support (locally and globally) among digitally engaged American adults. Here are some of the most interesting findings.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Now you can develop your story, or case for support, in an evocative and compelling way, so that those hearing and telling it will be inspired, motivated, and clear as to why they should care. Key to a board member’s fundraising success is properly setting philanthropic expectations during the recruitment process. Not many, indeed!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 27, 2016

When you know what you could do, if…… There IS a way to move past this seemingly insurmountable barrier, and that’s enlisting your colleagues (start with staff, then expand to your board members, donors, volunteers, and program participants) as effective messengers. Bingo—expand reach and depth without any extra expenditure.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JULY 1, 2014

Peer influence plays an important role in motivating Millennials to volunteer, attend events, participate in programs, and give. They have become the norm for effective communication with all ages. ” Ready to recruit and engage Millennial talent for your organization?

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Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Participation and motivation Culture 92

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If your nonprofit is anything like the 8,000+ organizations that participated in the 2015 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey , the answer is….not You’ll learn everything from naming your program to recruiting sustainers to increasing sustainer gifts. Need more motivation? How many of your donors came back last year?

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Getting Attention

JANUARY 24, 2017

Why not recruit folks already connected with your organization to help as marketing and fundraising ambassadors? 2) Design training to make it easy for your ambassadors to connect & motivate giving and the other actions you need most. Keep those lines of communication wide open. Credit: Rachel Calderon.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

MAY 6, 2023

Recruiting the right board members: The board should be diverse, with members who bring different skills and perspectives. The authors emphasize the importance of creating a culture that values and respects diversity and provides opportunities for all members of the organization to participate and contribute. Connors comes in.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2020

Kids are motivated differently than adults. By recruiting parental assistance in a variety of roles across the fundraising process and catering to busy, working parents, you increase the percentage of families that are able to help out. . This will ensure that all students are encouraged to participate and to engage their families.

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Fundraising Fundraising Children Participation and motivation 51

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Imagine if, instead of your neighbor sporadically moderating content according to his or her whims, a team of trained moderators, with roots in your local community, were dedicated to governing the space. Though participation has been limited, it’s been productive and healthy. We hosted dozens of comments and avoided toxicity.

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Nonprofit governance and management Governance Participation and motivation Values 84

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 17, 2012

If donor gifts actually depress donations, does that mean that fundraising incentives like t-shirts, tote bags, and custom jerseys are not effective in getting participants to solicit gifts from their friends? Is it the reward or the increased communication that has inspired the fundraising activity? Incentives beget more incentives.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Participants will learn the most successful fundraising strategies including: * Optimize your donation page! Create compelling, holiday-themed fundraising campaigns that motivate web visitors to make a donation on your website right now. Easy fixes you can make to your donation page, so that donors complete the donation process.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Marketing & Communications. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Marketing & Communications / #DigiStratNY / @IEGroup. Nonprofit Management.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2021

These campaigns are generally started by nonprofits, with the organizations recruiting volunteers to launch personalized campaign pages. Plus, you have motivated and loyal supporters on your side helping raise even more money for your cause! . Recruit your peer-to-peer fundraising volunteers. Engaging supporters virtually.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

They can ask for opinions about communications.[57] The researchers explained, “nonprofit organizations are condemned more drastically for using a deceptive recruitment technique than are for-profit organizations.” Keep your donors: The guide to better communications & stronger relationships. Ahern, T., & Joyaux, S.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 21, 2020

However, the biggest challenge of any peer-to-peer fundraising campaign is definitely recruiting the right volunteer fundraisers to drive it to success. Here are our top recommendations for recruiting the best peer-to-peer fundraisers for your next campaign: Look in the right places. Committee members and volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

By Melissa Russom , a communications strategist who helps nonprofit organizations clarify their brand and message to engage more meaningfully with the people who matter most to them. These are people who want to help amplify your message to increase your impact, share their passion, and recruit others to join the cause. .

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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). That may seem obvious, but we have all had our experiences with less-than-stellar situations.

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Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation 96

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 1, 2012

Did you know that the average participant in your fundraising races or walks recruits three to four donors for your cause? The burden is on you to pursue a deeper relationship and engage them outside of their relationship with the event participant. Show the donor that you want to get to know them with plenty of communication.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 1, 2012

Did you know that the average participant in your fundraising races or walks recruits three to four donors for your cause? The burden is on you to pursue a deeper relationship and engage them outside of their relationship with the event participant. Show the donor that you want to get to know them with plenty of communication.

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Participation and motivation Donor Motivation Recruitment Communication 71

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Since many industries are always evolving , employees must participate in ongoing training and education to ensure they are up-to-date and always able to do their best work. Once you have created a company culture that values its workers’ growth and advancement, you will find it much easier to recruit top-tier employees.

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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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