Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? The quiet phase is the first part of the campaign and involves meeting face-to-face with your top prospects to make individual requests.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, their values, and their concerns. Structure Your Message Effectively The way we structure our stories is key to maximizing their impact.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s another problem you may encounter: Let’s say you can clearly define what you want to do with your campaign and why, so you jump into the planning process, skipping key steps like a feasibility study and prospect research and cultivation. Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

This guide will introduce you to the concept and walk you through the process of planning and executing your own capital campaign. Why would you want to set aside a long chunk of time to fundraise in a way that’s outside of your typical structures? Generally a capital campaign happens in two parts: a silent phase and a public phase.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

It’s a matter of making sure your teams have the best tools and processes at their disposal, your members get the best experience possible, and you can deliver on your mission. Process challenges to digital transformation When you go through digital transformation, processes change.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

From Birth to Adolescence in the Nonprofit Lifecycle The process of creating an organization is messy, painful, sometimes almost tragic ( tragic flaws are as common here as in Shakespeare). If you understand the process in those terms, it might be possible to avoid some of the pitfalls, or at least, take comfort in their necessity.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. User Research.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Providing structure and encouragement improves the results. We recommend nonprofits follow a clear process that involves setting specific giving goals, soliciting every board member individually, and reporting the results. development director will organize and manage the process. Your executive or. Why This Approach Works.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

A robust discovery phase is recommended to understand both user and organizational requirements prior to selecting a particular approach, solution, vendor, or model. Each type of solution has benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important to understand the landscape and map the right solution to the use case at hand.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fonteva’s breadth of functionality gives your organization the capability to manage every aspect of the membership experience, from core elements like processing renewals to simplifying complex business processes like dual membership programs.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

The initial idea on paper may not capture nuances of day-to-day work rhythms, or it may collide with current processes or services. Maintaining a feedback loop to ensure that you as a leader know what is happening at pavement level will do three things: Creates confidence in your staff that they are a part of the change process.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Your sitemap is a visual representation of the structure of your website. To create a sitemap, we begin with the documents produced during the Content Strategy phase. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

Organizations need a structured and effective way of following their grants throughout the grant's lifecycle so they can easily manage this very important revenue stream and track these funds in the same place as major gifts and other sources of revenue. Keep in mind that the Grant Period End Date must be after the Start Date.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. Align perspectives across your staff and board.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Simplify the donation process.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

Will moving to NPSP change any of my existing business processes? There are some steps in your current business processes that may be indirect, or you may have some extra steps in your business processes because you’re dealing with the limitations of LCRM and the sunsetting process.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

These are steps you can take during the campaign planning process. This allows enough time for the pre-asking phase of the campaign and the asking phase of the campaign. . If you’re ready to take the next step in your story arc, watch this video tutorial I created on the story structure for individual stories.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. Do not let looks deceive you though as these are possibly the most important deliverables in the Web Design process!

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Many experts recommend grabbing a pen and paper to sketch out your presentation’s format and structure. After choosing your presentation’s structure, you can design your visual elements and brand your presentation with your nonprofit’s logo, colors, and fonts. . Design appealing visual elements.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Note: This is the ninth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. It’s best to get buy-in on wireframes first so we can truly focus on creative look and feel during the visual design phase of the project. Next month we’ll cover the specifics of the Visual Design phase. Other Posts in this Series. Introduction.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product. If your organization contains more than one internal structure (i.e. Analytics are an essential tool for digital marketers and there’s a big shift underway as Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is being implemented.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time. Your Board members with just a year’s experience can be very helpful in this process since they’re the last ones to come through it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. Including them in the process from the start assuages concerns and provides clarity around how they will be expected to learn and use the new technology. Reinforcements.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Fast forward to today….

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Can a screen reader process this content? With representatives from a number of departments, we assess the landscape of work we are doing now, identify where there might be gaps, and determine what should be streamlined and improved within our process. The more inclusive the process, the more accessible the outcome will be.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Because this process can be so extensive, it’s best to partner with a team of experienced marketing experts when launching a new direct mail program. Direct mail fundraising, sometimes called direct mail solicitation or direct marketing, is the process of mailing requests for support to existing and prospective donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, what their values are, and what are their anxieties or concerns. . Structure Your Message Effectively . The way we structure our stories is key to maximizing their impact.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Part of the process is to determine the people you will need to reach. Internal monitoring will be an ongoing process to identify narratives that have been used and to measure how well the narrative is moving in the public space in various channels.

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Classy

APRIL 19, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. Even more importantly now, meet your donors where they’re at to ensure a frustrating checkout process doesn’t discourage them from finalizing their gift. . Set them up for success.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

It can take several months to a full year to complete each step of the startup process, which we’ll cover in the next section. For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required. After a thorough review process, you’ll be ready to select your nonprofit’s board.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent webinar, we gave answers to some of the GA4 FAQs we’ve been asked and showed partners a step-by-step process to getting started. If you’re currently using UA on your website, Google has developed the ‘GA4 Setup Assistant’ which will guide you through the process. The next five months can be your learning phase.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Each nonprofit has its own unique needs and goals, and every type of assignment—from developing branding to creating campaigns to redoing entire websites from scratch—has its own process and requirements. This format allows us to do two very important things. How are style tiles used? Why are style guides used? What are stylescapes?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You can’t commit when you haven't processed the worst-case scenario and made provisions for it. Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Conducting formalized purchasing processes represents an essential aspect of any business seeking to maximize return on investments and improve organizational outcomes. Cloud for Good recently sat down with BWF’s Jason Boley, Senior Vice President of Systems and Operations, to discuss the value and best processes of the RFP process.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Web Courseworks’ Three-Phased Learning Business Approach. The three-phased approach that Web Courseworks follows includes: 1. This step helps us understand what level of support your team will need along the process. Organizational Readiness. Environmental Scan. Final Report. Choose an industry-specific consultant.

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