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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

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In this article, we’ll explore several aspects of volunteer management: recruitment, coaching, relationship building, and retention. As far as the partnership conversation referenced above, this is a terrific way to help your volunteers understand exactly what it means to be in the volunteer role they’ve agreed to fill.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline. Engage Alumni in Professional Conversations Related To Their Careers. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. ” 3.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Sound familiar? Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

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Creating a nonprofit social media plan sounds like such a daunting task, doesn’t it? Whether your content is original (you’ve created it yourself) or shared from someone else, the goal is always to get your followers to interact and have a conversation with you. Lighting and SOUND matter. The key is to work smarter, not harder.

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Raise More Money: Incentive-Based Fundraising 202 — The Advanced Course

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Matching gifts are usually given on a 1:1 ratio, but they can be as high as 4:1! Walkathons, for example, could benefit greatly from donations of water bottles or food, or even a stage and sound system for a post-walkathon concert ( Booster’s walkathon guide can show you exactly how this can play out). Organically drawing new donors.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Increase Your Donor Lifetime Value

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The ratio may not be exactly 80/20 (i.e. After all, for most people $25/month sounds much more approachable than making a $300 gift. Entire books are written on this subject (two of the best are Monthly Giving Made Easy by Erica Waasdorp and Hidden Gold by Harvey McKinnon, ), so this article won’t cover the “how to” landscape.

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A special Q&A session

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per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. Q: Is there a good ratio of times to communicate with a donor and asking for donations? Keep it conversational – write like you talk. If you’ll look on my blog, there’s a whole category of articles about direct mail. It is what it is. I think $54.80

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