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3 Reasons Your Boss Didn’t Approve Your Social Media Budget and Plan

Pam Moore

Ever feel as if your boss, c-suite and colleagues just don't “get it?” Do you have what you think is an amazing social media or digital marketing plan? However, you just can't seem to get the budget approval nor the buy-in you need to be successful? You may have even been hired or specifically tasked with creating this fantastic plan, yet it seems nobody wants to support you to make it a reality?

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Digital Fundraising + Social Media: Your Guide to Raising More

Fundraising Coach

If you’ve been paying attention to recent trends in philanthropic giving, you’ve probably noticed that digital fundraising and online giving have become more and more popular among donors. But how can you make this trend work for you? Digital fundraising never stops innovating and changing, so how can you know what the best options are? While it’s true that the options available for online giving are constantly changing , you can make sure your organization is ready for anything by following jus

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Create a Communications Request Form to Make Life Easier

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Carly Matthew. Last month Kivi did a webinar called “Simple Rules” for Communications Directors: How to Create Easy Routines, Speed Up Your Work, and Get More Done, Painlessly. We asked if anyone had any examples of how they make their work easier and Carly Matthew at The Crisis Center in Iowa City, Iowa had a great one! She developed a Google Form that program staff use to tell her about a variety of things from social media post suggestions to events to graphic design requests.

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5 Reasons Nonprofits Need to Invest in Annual Fundraising Campaigns

EveryAction

Annual giving campaigns, sometimes referred to as “cornerstone campaigns,” form the backbone of many nonprofit fundraising programs for good reason; they provide a structure for the yearly schedule and a reliable and predictable source of income, making life easier for Development staff at all levels. However, just because they are a fundraising staple doesn’t mean that annual campaigns don’t require the same amount of attention, creativity, and work that other campaigns do.

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3 Reasons Your Boss Didn’t Approve Your Social Media Budget and Plan

Pam Moore

Ever feel as if your boss, c-suite and colleagues just don't “get it?” Do you have what you think is an amazing social media or digital marketing plan? However, you just can't seem to get the budget approval nor the buy-in you need to be successful? You may have even been hired or specifically tasked with creating this fantastic plan, yet it seems nobody wants to support you to make it a reality?

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Strengthen Your Brand, Strengthen Your Members

Mission Minded

When a coalition, association or any membership organization has a clear brand, the brand of every member is also made stronger. A coalition’s crystalized clarion call shines an even brighter light on the work of its members. Take the launch of one of our most recent clients. Village Movement California is a coalition of grassroots […]. The post Strengthen Your Brand, Strengthen Your Members appeared first on Mission Minded.

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For Robust Email Fundraising at Year End, Start Ramping Up the Volume Now

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

If you are excited about the prospect of doing more email fundraising around Giving Tuesday and Year End, but don’t normally send a lot of email to your list, you need a ramp-up pre-season strategy. . Sudden spikes in your email volume can trigger spam warnings. With lots of nonprofit email already going to spam at year end , you don’t need to do anything else to hurt your chances.

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YEAR END: One Year Ends; The Next Begins

The Agitator

Hopefully, this week has prepared you for your year-end giving season. You’ll get your communications set and you’ll watch the donations come in. And when, at 10:27 local time, you hit your online giving goal, you will celebrate the New Year in a way that makes you not want to give up until at least January 2 nd. Allow me to be the party pooper. Yes, you got the gifts.

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Let Your Networking Lead to Donations

NonProfit Hub

Working in the nonprofit industry presents its own set of challenges. Rather than gaining funds by selling a product or service, nonprofits rely on donations. Building better relationships with our donors is the nonprofit version of improving our products—it’s essential in order to sustain your organization’s output. Among the best ways to build those relationships with current donors and to gain new ones is networking.

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Build a GREAT Media Relations Plan from Scratch

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

The people who literally wrote the book on Modern Media Relations for Nonprofits are joining us to help YOU AND YOUR TEAM learn how to create a media strategy that will start getting you headlines. If you don’t have a media relations plan or your plan just isn’t working, then our next Nonprofit Marketing Accelerator is for you! EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS: If you register TODAY , you’ll get to participate in tomorrow’s live webinar, Yes!

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Digital Fundraising + Social Media: Your Guide to Raising More

Fundraising Coach

If you’ve been paying attention to recent trends in philanthropic giving, you’ve probably noticed that digital fundraising and online giving have become more and more popular among donors. But how can you make this trend work for you? Digital fundraising never stops innovating and changing, so how can you know what the best options are? While it’s true that the options available for online giving are constantly changing , you can make sure your organization is ready for anything by following jus

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Year End: Ideal Asking Amounts

The Agitator

Do you really know the best “ask amount” for each donor? Many fundraisers really don’t know. They guess, or resort to traditional, tribal wisdom ask strings like 1X Highest Previous Gift (HPC), 1.5 X HPC, 2 X HPC and Other $ _. The result? They’re often leaving massive amounts of money on the table. The ask string –also known as ask array, ask ladder, or suggested gift amount–is one of the more underappreciated parts of a direct response piece.

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One Simple Tactic You Can Use to Be More Effective at Everything

Fundraising Report Card

I wish I didn’t have such a “clickbait” title. Even I’d think twice before reading a blog post that suggests it can make you more effective at everything. But, before you press the back button or open a new tab, please hear me out. The post One Simple Tactic You Can Use to Be More Effective at Everything appeared first on Fundraising Report Card.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Cindy Schrauben

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Cindy Schrauben. Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. A BIG THANK YOU to those of you who submitted your Day in the Life when I asked (begged?) last week! We’d love to feature YOU in this series! Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.

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How are you doing compared to your peers?

iMarketSmart

Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE (an expert on fundraising, social media, and nonprofits) pulled together these nuggets from my Fundraising Report Card app. For that, I owe her a huge ‘THANK YOU’!! The Fundraising Report Card is now being used by almost 3,400 nonprofits to analyze and visualize their metrics. Then they output their visualizations for board meetings or simply use them to set strategy.

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YEAR END: War on Christmas: Donor Preference Edition

The Agitator

I’ll get my personal politics out of the way first: I’m a firm believer in stating the reason for the season. I hate, because of stupid political correctness, to not be able to say things like “Merry Saturnalia,” hold my feast of Natalis Invicti and my Zarahosht No-Diso festival, or publicly display my Festivus pole. The point I’m (poorly) trying to make is that people believe all sorts of things.

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So you want to start a do-good business? Avoid this dangerous trap.

Care2

By the time Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta made it onto the hit show Shark Tank, they’d been hustling their product, LuminAid , for half a decade. The design students turned entrepreneurs invented the solar-powered, waterproof lantern with a mission: to help people through power outages after major disasters, like the Haiti earthquake. After being featured on the program?

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Newsletter: L.L. Bean Counters Bad Press with $3M Donation ; Move Over Millennials Here Comes Gen Z ; How Hurricane Harvey Relief Was Spent

Selfish Giving

Thanks to everyone who supported my fundrasier for John Haydon last week. We're over $14,000! ?? With Labor Day right around maybe you or someone you know is looking for a new gig. Be sure to check out the two jobs I posted below for my client ServeMinnesota. They are smartly leading with content marketing and are looking for two wicked awesome professionals to work with me in becoming a content-driven organization.

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5 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Behavioral Science to Raise More Money Online

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Behavioral Science is a powerful area of study, and can be a serious tool in the world of nonprofit fundraising. By understanding how people make the decisions they do, your NPO can take strategic steps to raise more money and drum up more support, without running yourse

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Year End: Preparation Potpourri

The Agitator

This week’s series aims at tying content from previous Agitator posts and current research into your preparations for the year-end fundraising season. Our selection is a bit eclectic. At our weekly editorial huddle, we decided to forego the usual year-end checklists available elsewhere. Rather we decided to cover areas that are too often overlooked.

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The Ins and Outs of Content Creation

NonProfit Hub

We’ve been receiving a number of inquiries about our content creation process at Nonprofit Hub, so we thought we’d share some of our expertise. Nowadays, content—stories, pictures, graphics, even music—is at the center of nearly every organization’s marketing strategy, so it’s important that you do it right. Nonprofit Hub’s content team is small but mighty—just a handful of writers and designers are in charge of all the content you see throughout our website and publications.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – August 31, 2018

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Minero, Atlanta, GA. Can you believe tomorrow is September?!? If only the weather knew that. No matter the heat, I have gathered the hottest articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising just for you. Today, we’re getting into new ad rules on Twitter and Facebook, SEO and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… John Haydon gives you 5 Questions to Ask Before Sending That Email Blast.

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Year End: Optimizing Monthly Giving

The Agitator

It’s not too late to take make adjustments to your monthly giving progress that will boost recurring giving returns in this year-end quarter. Even if you’re overwhelmed and can’t take these key steps right now, there is a wealth of evidence you need to absorb and act on as soon as humanly possible. In a remarkable and remarkably practical exercise the folks at NextAfter became “mystery donors” by making recurring donations to 115 organizations across 9 different verticals.

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