Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Stay up to date with current advocacy trends.

Advocacy 59

Advocacy Strategy Nonprofit Volunteer 59

VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After years of meetings, dialogue, presentations, advocacy, (and yes, maybe even some proverbial hair-pulling in frustration), today was the launch of the Initiative for Strategic Volunteer Engagement and the release of landmark research about how organizational leaders and funders view and prioritize volunteer engagement. Nearly half (46.8

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Candid

JULY 8, 2024

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. Tackling root causes involves year-round voter engagement and policy advocacy.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At a time when higher education is facing public funding cuts, changing demographics and a challenging student debt environment, institutions are facing an uphill battle to sustain enrollments and stay relevant. Track trends in your industry. This translates into the negative national narrative that college isn’t worth it.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). As we’ve said before , advocacy is a must for long-term impact.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

While some work in formal partnerships, many more engage in informal ones where they align funding or work on a project together for a limited time. Oftentimes, local government agencies and other funding organizations like United Way participate. . 4) Comparing Current Funding to Community Needs to Identify Gaps .

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Tableau: This data visualization tool uses AI to help nonprofits analyze complex data sets, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. Rally Starter : This platform uses AI to help nonprofits efficiently create advocacy campaigns to engage supporters and create real impact.

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Practice Nonprofit Proposal Advocacy 105

Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” But is this the right question?

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Philanthropy has been in a reckoning about its role in systems of inequality, and calls to support advocacy, movement building, and shifting power to include community voices have been steadily inviting more and more funders to reconsider how they work. But the practice’s recent popularity has not occurred through circumstance alone.

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Problem Participatory Community Philanthropy 119

Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Like your goals, you can refer to these personas throughout the campaign to confirm that each marketing decision resonates with your core group of supporters. But what’s behind successful campaigns like these?

Marketing 52

Marketing Analysis Nonprofit Audience 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We serve as a safety net to assist people in getting the help they need by providing funds for nearly 70 diseases. We also work towards long-term solutions through advocacy and policy at the federal level. LP: In order to be eligible, patients must have a diagnosis that fits into one of the 70 disease-specific funds that we have.

People 69

People Virginia Cancer Foundation 69

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

By: Stu Manewith, Director of Thought Leadership and Advocacy at Omatic Software. According to Salesforce.org’s Nonprofit Trends Report (3rd Edition), 71% of organizations surveyed had to accelerate their move to digital programs or events last year due to the pandemic. Director of Thought Leadership and Advocacy at Omatic Software.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

Foundation does, including our calls for funding proposals and how organizations are invited to apply. Prioritizing women- and people of color-led grassroots organizations At the Ms. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. There is intentionality in all that the Ms.

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Relationship Build Organization Philanthropy 64

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Using the Wayback Machine – a website that allows you to view archived screenshots of your website all the way back to 1996, below is an exploration of how the World Wildlife Fund’s website and online fundraising campaigns have evolved since 2008. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

That data makes its way into various products and services to help: nonprofits find funding; researchers, advocates, and journalists derive insights into what is happening in the sector; and all types of funders to make funding decisions. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Taxonomy Proposal Comment Change 92

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, social media companies often treat inclusive design features like accessibility to the visual and hearing impaired as afterthoughts, and indeed, the development of such features are at the mercy of hiring and layoff trends. Understand how bias and power dynamics operate in staffing technology and social media positions.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Even as overall giving slumps, this increase is significant because it means that more organizations are receiving reliable funding on a monthly basis. To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Organize them into groups based on their gift sizes.

Analytics 52

Analytics Data Giving Metrics 52

Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

3 FAQs How Marketing Can Increase Donations Let’s get started by walking through the different people and groups you’ll ask for donations to your nonprofit. Contact Us 3 Individuals and Organizations to Ask for Donations When asking for donations, it’s key to tailor your asks to the person or group you are asking.

Donation 52

Donation Practice Fundraising Gift 52

Care2

JULY 29, 2014

Four out of five organizations — about 82% — said they’d never received funding to strengthen their abilities to raise money or mobilize supporters through digital tools. They also wanted to know how technology could help strengthen a group’s financial sustainability and reduce its need for continued foundation aid.

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Digital Impact Help Survey 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. This understanding led me to an approach for “datamaking” that I utilize with groups. On day one, we started with questions connected to knowledge work.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 76

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund. Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If your nonprofit is stuck in rut or relying on a few big dollar donors or granting institutions for a majority of your funding, a grassroots fundraising or advocacy campaign might be just the answer you’re looking for. This makes it more likely that they’ll take action, either through advocacy or grassroots donations.

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Advocacy Tips Fundraising Campaign 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. See www.nwf.mobi and www.wwf.mobi.

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Social Media Mobile Media Myspace 193

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Have you had any major changes in funding? This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors. The descriptive language to describe their nonprofit makes it abundantly clear that they are an advocacy organization that focuses on strengthening youth activism.

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Examples Language Iowa Nonprofit 95

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Mindful and creative development of this network of invested individuals and groups will create an environment of trust and mutual support that will lead to greater collective impact. These stakeholders should exist across all levels, from the CEO to the equally important community member, with lived experience of the issue at hand.

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Network Organization Change Social 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Recently, I've been getting a question like that goes something like this, "All this social media stuff is great if you're fund raising or selling something or running a grassroots advocacy campaign, but what if you're focusing on carefully vetted scientific research or want to impact policy? Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 .

Social Media 95

Social Media Policy Research Impact 95

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is a valuable day to engage new donors, reconnect with existing ones, and engage a group of primarily small-dollar donors. Group Identity Understanding why donors support your cause can lead to insightful campaigns like this one from Groundwork Jacksonville. Click here to see a larger version of this graph.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Our expert contributors covered a lot of topics this year across fundraising, marketing, social media, advocacy, corporate social responsibility, grantmaking, financial management and more – and the list of the fifteen most read mirrors that diversity. . But when done right, it has many benefits beyond the funds raised.

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Blackbaud Retention Advocacy Foundation 21

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2017

Job losses could amplify current trends of income inequality by automating many middle income jobs. However, it is also relevant for nonprofit missions that may be indirectly affected, such as safe driving organizations or worker’s rights groups.

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Challenge Technology Arizona Phoenix 56

Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Who wants to do fund rising programs.

Social Media 47

Social Media Online Advocacy Media 47

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. This year’s Women’s March and March For Science are just two examples of this incredible trend. Enter Susan.

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Offline Campaign Channel Cancer 44

Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

Social Media 28

Social Media Advocacy Fundraising Online 28

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For example, if my housefile is 10k and I send one email to everyone that’s 10k sends, but if I slice my file into two groups and send a total of three messages, I will have sent 15k total emails. In 2012, the afternoon email sent by the Aquarium resulted in a 49% bump of funds raised by email on the last two days of the year.

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email Strategy Spam Audience 34

Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Poll Social Media Grant Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction?

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