Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Man, I am wicked scary excited by all of the cause campaigns coming up this year. Aren’t you?! With Halloween tomorrow, and Thanksgiving and the holidays just around the corner, it’s prime time for cause products, signature partnerships, point-of-sale fundraising and yep – Giving Tuesday. You probably have a few partnerships of your own waiting in the wings!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Presented by: Heather Graci , Behavioral Economics Specialist at Creative Science. Monthly donors give 42% more over the course of a year compared to one time donors. They also stick around longer with most programs enjoying donor retention rates north of 85%. If executed correctly, a successful monthly donor program can be a game changer for your nonprofit.

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Pam Moore

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As humans, instant gratification is in our DNA. We live in a society that is built on instant gratification. When we want something, we want it now. We don't want to wait in line or even wait for a mobile web page to load on our device. It's why you have 8 seconds to make that first digital brand impression when your dream customer visits your blog, website or social network profiles.

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Mission Minded

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This week, as Book Lovers Day approaches, our Mission Minded team members are thinking about one of our core values: The post Can a Book Make You Better? appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Nonprofit Fixer

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Continuing our series on “worst practices,” below is a partial list of mistakes to avoid when using nonprofit insurance. Forgetting to get Director and Officer (D & O) Insurance for your board. Board members should have an expectation that in exchange for non-compensated board service, a basic level of risk mitigation will be provided for their voting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The third edition of the Global Trends in Giving Report (the sister report to the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report ) will be published September 15, 2020 , and for the first time, we are conducting an open call for partners worldwide. Our partnership model is simple and innovative: in exchange for promoting the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Survey to donors and supporters of nonprofit organizations in your country from March 1 through May 31, 2020 , our partners receive the anonymized survey da

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TakeTwo Services

OCTOBER 26, 2019

If you are doing your job well as an Executive Director or Director of Development, you are getting pulled in a million different directions at the same time, all the time. That’s because you are, rightly, involving many different stakeholders in your work and giving them unique ways to stay invested. However, priorities can become skewed when everyone believes their project is most important.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Last week I shared several ways in which nonprofit communications staff get treated like doormats. If you recognized yourself in that post, I encouraged you to refill your tank, think about what you want, and identify your fears. Ready to set some boundaries so no one treats you like a communications doormat again? Last year, I took a “train the trainers” course with Sarri Gilman, author of Transform Your Boundaries.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This time of year is filled with tricks and treats. The end of October seemingly always has something in store for us, whether it be a new costume fad, wacky weather (too hot, or too cold), or the general “all hands on deck” push to execute year-end fundraising strategies. October is a month full of ups and downs, preceding the most important (and busiest) fundraising period of year.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The final two months of the year are a vital time for nonprofits to reach their fundraising goals. . Not only do these months hold the biggest fundraising day of the year for nonprofits (Giving Tuesday), but this trend of increased giving continues through December with one-third of all annual giving occurring in the month, according to Nonprofit's Source.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Inspiration is one of the most humbling feelings we humans can experience. And it was everywhere with the inaugural class of the Find Your Pajamas Nonprofit Business Intensive & Pitch Contest. We assembled on Saturday, September 14th at the beautiful New York City, SOHO offices of our host, Scholastic, Inc. Almost 20 years ago, a little girl asked me what pajamas were.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This little guy is begging you to join us! I have no more submissions for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator blog series. While it’s always a popular post, we can’t publish them if we don’t have everyone doing their part and submitting. So if you have ever read a Day in the Life post and thought “Yay! I am not alone” or nodded along knowingly when someone said they had to eat lunch at their desk: IT’S YOUR TURN TO SHARE!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here’s what’s happening next month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: You can attend all of our training webinars below with an All-Access Pass. You also get exclusive online courses and downloads, access to our Private Facebook Group and more for 365 days. Learn more and get your All-Access Pass. November Nonprofit Communications CHECK IN Webinar Series.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Ward 8 – Boston, MA. Happy November, Friends! Let’s warm up with the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. We have some goodies left over from Halloween, email marketing and LinkedIn news, and how not to pitch a guest post. It’s time for Mixed Links… In the spirit of Halloween, here are 4 Spooky, Scary Fundraising Statistics (And What to Do About Them).

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The final two months of the year are a vital time for nonprofits to reach their fundraising goals. . Not only do these months hold the biggest fundraising day of the year for nonprofits (Giving Tuesday), but this trend of increased giving continues through December with one-third of all annual giving occurring in the month, according to Nonprofit’s Source.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The last couple of weeks we talked about ways you can ask your community to get involved with your work in ways that don’t involve donating money. With year-end fundraising coming up, today we will focus on donations with another appearance from the fake organization The Center for Wayward Squirrels to provide some sample language. There are many, many ways to ask for money.

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