Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website is the center of your communication and marketing strategy. It’s what you use to drive engagement, donations, and awareness of your organization. When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Plus, understanding motivations, interests, and passions can help you connect with them on a deeper level. A nonprofit CRM helps you keep all this information organized and easily accessible. In this guide, we’ll cover what you need to know about nonprofit CRM solutions and the best platforms to consider.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here!

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 2, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors interact with your organization in a variety of ways, whether they’re giving online , volunteering, following you on social media, or attending your events. Donor engagement isn’t just about employing the right strategies. Your nonprofit can better connect with donors.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

Ensuring your nonprofit’s technology is in working order should be one of the top items on your checklist. The software your nonprofit uses to complete everyday tasks determines how well your team can function, from performing tasks efficiently to avoiding wasting resources on unoptimized processes.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Your nonprofit should have a clear strategy for managing memorial donations and building relationships with donors and the family of the deceased. When you can build relationships with families, friends, and donors, you can strengthen your nonprofit’s community and foster more legacy giving in the future.

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MNA Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you likely use data all the time to understand your donors on a deeper level and foster fundraising connections in your community. When you take the time to get to know donors personally, your connections with them will be much more genuine and long-lasting. Let’s dive in!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Can you do it? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Your plan will: Keep you focused on what works and stop you from chasing every shiny new idea.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website can play a key role in getting more support for your cause, whether you’re working to combat child hunger in your local community or supporting efforts to preserve endangered species around the world. . In this post, we’ll help you lay a strong foundation for fine-tuning your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. The short answer is, more than ever before, you have to embrace the pay-to-play nature of the platform. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 7, 2023

Donors have different expectations for nonprofits than they did just a few years ago. From virtual events to social media campaigns, technology allows your nonprofit to connect with more supporters, boost participation, and make a difference through online advocacy. Remove data silos to improve engagement.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 1, 2023

Best Practices in Social Media Engagement for NGOs Social media strategies for NGOs present three main functions: inform, socialize, and mobilize. Check out how you can increase engagement for your Nonprofit. However, non-profit institutions should consider an active social media presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

By Laura Bucher , Storyteller at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Your established experience in the nonprofit industry and your ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances have gotten you this far. Don’t wait for your supporters to find you on social media!

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 19, 2022

Let’s dive into all the new fundraising trends that have blossomed over the past year to help you present your nonprofit as a forward-thinking organization. This can establish you as an active presence in the nonprofit community and boost morale among your supporters. . Stepping up your social media strategy .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

Picture this: you’re scrolling through a nonprofit’s website, feeling inspired by the organization’s mission. As you browse their homepage, you’re wondering how you can show your support. Then, you see it: a bold, eye-catching button urging you to “Donate Now.” Your CTAs should: .

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Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 12, 2020

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important it is to cultivate deep and meaningful relationships with your supporters. Increasing communication, especially personal communication, will show your donors that you genuinely care about their connections to your cause. Ask them how they’re doing.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? If so, you may be interested in starting a volunteer program. To help you build a sustainable volunteer program, in this guide, we’ll cover the essential steps for starting a volunteer program: Conduct a community needs assessment.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Do you have an idea for an organization that will bring good to the world and serve a charitable purpose? You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. There are over 1.8

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mobile communication is becoming a central part of nonprofit fundraising and advocacy. According to the M+R Benchmarks 2023 report , 62% of nonprofits used text messaging for fundraising purposes in 2022. However, many nonprofits don’t know where to start when it comes to implementing text-to-give campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. Facebook Fundraisers are a relatively new fundraising tool, but they’re already driving a major boost in revenue for some nonprofit organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Small nonprofits can scarcely afford to lose any donors from one year to the next, given the expensive and time-consuming effort that donor acquisition represents. It can be tempting for small nonprofits to focus heavily on donor acquisition. This means that your nonprofit must first master the art of effective donor retention. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By Scot Chisholm , CEO and Co-founder of Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Without further ado, here are the top five trends we see impacting the nonprofit fundraising space in 2020.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“Maybe we should dissolve.” Without residency, I had no choice but to leave the country in 2017, although I continued to support the organization remotely while implementing an exit strategy and succession plan. “We appreciate all the support you have given us during this time,” they said in a statement.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 4, 2019

If you’re looking for new ways to keep your supporters engaged, consider launching a membership program. Keeping your supporters’ best interests in mind, decide on a structure and strategy for membership. Members as advocates: To most nonprofit advocacy groups, growing their cause is a larger priority than fundraising.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Cyndi Suarez: We are experiencing an increase in more explicit forms of racial injustice as racial equity gaps are actually widening along with the wealth gap, which overlap, as I’m sure you know. I’m wondering, What’s your strategy for doing that, in that context? So, this is a great question and something we get asked a lot.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A well-placed op-ed can help your nonprofit call attention to an important issue or change minds about a controversial topic. Here are 10 tips that can help you get your op-ed to the top of the pile: 1. If you’re a locally focused nonprofit, that will likely be your local newspaper. Be Targeted.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 28, 2018

That is the question your nonprofit should be asking as our nation’s political and cultural war intensifies. How you answer could help define how you are viewed by the public and your donors for years to come. Protest or persuade? Times like these are when your organization matters most.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 14 ) The green jobs program is grounded in Nguyen’s and White-Hammond’s longtime community-based youth advocacy and organizing that started in Boston over 20 years ago.

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Getting Attention

MAY 22, 2013

In the just-released Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community , Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward guide nonprofit staffers through developing and powerful integrated approaches to asking for money, time or support. Direct mail.

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 6, 2016

Too many nonprofits think that choosing a fundraising software provider is the end of a journey. And the tools keep changing, so it's likely that you are trying to work with lots of different types of software! And the tools keep changing, so it's likely that you are trying to work with lots of different types of software!

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2010

From Beth Kanter and Allison Fine’s presentation on the importance of having a “Networked Nonprofit&# to Sarah Dijulio’s session on Super Heroes of Online Fundraising that dived into strategies nonprofits should consider using when testing fundraising messaging, nonprofit campaigners gained valuable skills.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

If you calculated your ROI on your latest fundraising event, how would you fare? Here’s the thing to remember: Too many nonprofits see a fundraising event itself as the finish line when really an event should be viewed as a small part of your larger development strategy. On second thought, don’t answer that.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. Good morning, if you’re on the West Coast, I guess by two minutes, it’s still afternoon. But no matter when and where you are, I hope you’re having a good day.

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The Agitator

MAY 4, 2009

Interactive marketing consultant Heidi Cohen offers this useful checklist of things you should consider and plan if you’d like to execute a successful online video campaign. Develop your video content strategy; 4. Of course you should want both. Measure results.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this summer, I mentioned that we’ve been tracking the communications of pairs of national nonprofits working in the same space. Where are the organizations’ strategies in sync? What can you learn from their approaches? As you can imagine, both of these organizations get a lot of play on social media.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 26, 2024

To further your nonprofit’s mission, sometimes you need to take direct action. Whether that means creating a public petition or hosting a rally to draw attention to your cause, your supporters will play a vital role in the success of your chosen advocacy efforts. What is a grassroots advocacy campaign?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Spend time in another city.

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