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Messaging Matters: Common Grant Writing Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Whether you are in the for-profit or nonprofit sector, everyone is talking about the message and why it’s essential, from fund development to overall visibility. . In the fund development world, messaging is your nonprofit’s pitch to funders. Consider the term homeless person.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

In their online shop , 100% of all sales proceeds go toward helping save the lives of homeless pets! This nonprofit organization is dedicated to saving essential habitats, addressing threats to Bonobo populations, and helping these amazing individuals closely related to us! . “We Friends of Bonobos. Susie’s Senior Dogs.

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Building Better Solutions for the Nonprofit Community

The Charity CFO

That’s the solution that Mitch Stein set out to solve as a co-Founder of Pond, a website that helps connect nonprofits to solutions and providers in a trusting environment. So how did a former VP at Goldman Sachs end up serving nonprofits? And what can the for-profit world learn from the nonprofit world?

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. What Platforms to Include in Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan If you’re like most nonprofit organizations, you use several different social media platforms. What are they interested in? Saving bears?

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The Beginner’s Guide to Writing the Perfect Fundraising Letter

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Writing and mailing a fundraising letter to your donors is a popular fundraising strategy for nonprofit organizations. For example, an animal shelter might use an offer like: “For just $6.20, we can provide a day’s worth of food, shelter, and medical care for a homeless dog or cat.” Your gift of $10.87

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A special Q&A session

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We house homeless women and children. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. What you want instead are donors who give because they care about the work your organization is doing. They want to see your nonprofit organization succeed in carrying out its mission. Unit of service.

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6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

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Some are from nonprofits you’ve already donated to while others are groups you may not have heard of that are looking for new donors, targeting you. We’ve all received a fundraising appeal letter in the mail asking us to donate. You may have given money to some of these groups after receiving a request in the mail. Lots of people do.