Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Hopefully by now, all fundraising practitioners and development leaders at impact organizations large and small have begun testing and seeing success. Set a dollar amount goal, tie it to a specific impact measurement, and hit go! Speak the Language Your Donors Speak. Lean into Corporate Partnerships & Matching.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Because you have such a small amount of time to grab your reader’s attention, you need to catch their eye immediately. Test it on various browsers and on a mobile device, just to make sure. Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

However, if you want to keep your audience engaged, it’s also important to show and tell them exactly how their support has helped your organization accomplish goals directly related to its mission. Define Your Goal + Have a Clear Call to Action. Is the goal of your email to get readers to sign a petition? Test, and Test Again.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Set SMART goals. The first step to creating your social media strategy is to establish your social media goals. How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Strategy.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. When it comes to reaching your fundraising goals, email reigns supreme (after direct mail and face-to-face, of course). Test your subject lines. Body Copy: Every email that you send should have a goal. The numbers don’t lie! Engagement?

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

I clicked a link to an article on Upworthy , a viral news site always on the forefront of testing stickiness and psychological hooks. What We Tested. Because of my dislike for modal dialogs (unless the message is critical), I looked for a way to catch the user’s attention without monopolizing it. Variable 2: Language.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

They may be evaluating their financial and philanthropic goals, and thinking of ways to leave a lasting impact. I always test my written and/or visual messages with a small group of five to ten trusted colleagues before disseminating them more broadly. A short, high-quality video would also serve well.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Planning Your Goals. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. This will be your starting point for building your fundraising goal and budget. You’ll want to build those costs into your goal as well. Don’t be afraid to set an ambitious goal! Planning Fundraising Tiers.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 4, 2021

This means you should think about what you want out of the Google Ad Grant and create a strategy to reach your goals. Starting off, this should be a realistic and achievable goal. The success of your Google Ad Grant can be measured by whether you meet these goals.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

A strategy will keep you on top of your marketing goals and tell you when to post your social media content for the highest impact. Clearly establishing your objectives will help you fine tune your ad’s details to meet your campaign’s goals. Use catchy words to grab the reader’s attention. Keep your words to a minimum!

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We have something to say that lands somewhere between an observation and a complaint and a call to arms: Not enough attention is paid to mid-level donors. Goals + strategies. For many of our clients, our goal is not simply more revenue—it’s to expand and accelerate the pipeline. Read time: 9 minutes.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The inability to create a variety of different contexts in our lives including different social roles, relationships, activities and goals. Because we are not in full view of each other compared to face-to-face meetings, it is harder to pay attention because we are tempted to multi-task (reply to emails, etc) ( Theory of Zoom Fatigue ).

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

How to improve operational inefficiencies that are stopping your nonprofit from reaching its goals. Ask yourself the following questions to narrow down your research objectives: What are your goals as an organization, from both a mission-driven and operational perspective? What do you do really well? Where would you like to improve?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Set your goal. Rather than thinking of a random dollar amount, think of a goal tied to tangible impact. Of course you can continue to tweak these, but it’s a good idea to have a framework for when you plan to send them and narrow down on the language you’d like to use to encourage maximum support. Plan your social media posts.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

Growing the size of your email list is an important strategic goal for your nonprofit's marketing, communications, and fundraising programs. Also, to maintain the strong attention span of that core 20 percent of your list, you'll need to keep bringing on new engaged subscribers every day.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Sometimes, methods of fundraising that worked in previous years don’t work as well when the economy shifts or a big news event pulls people’s attention away. The wonderful thing about email marketing is you can do A/B testing. Language about your annual campaign or broad fundraising goals won’t cut it. We need money NOW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Don’t Put People on the Defensive : Instead of “Did you make your sales goal?”

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. Use language and conversations that are reflective of what learners will encounter. She lives alone, but that doesn’t mean her work-from-home attention span is stellar.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Gemba walks help to see people in action, see their movements, their projects, their goals, their roadblocks and hear their conversations. Empathy is the language of nonprofit donation requests, annual reports and case studies. The goal of Lean is not to cut resources (staff or financial) out. Lean is a leap.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact!

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What if you took those grueling 8 or 10 or 12 hours and divided them into manageable 2- or 3-hour sessions, each of which has a contained set of goals and builds on the one before? Some of these include: Working with more clear and defined goals for each session groups go further faster. You’re mentally and physically spent.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Personalized content may be what catches their attention, establishes a connection and keeps them reading. How to Test.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

The goal of a promo video is to give people a tease and make them want to sign up, buy a ticket, and attend. By varying the styles of your videos, you capture your audience’s attention in different ways. Communicating with your supporters in an unexpected way is a great way to get their attention.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A ‘Web Engagement’ is a broad term that simply refers to any occasion where a person or business seeks outside consultation, including swot analysis , assistance or collaboration in achieving online goals. From the first time you meet, try to get a sense of whether you speak the same language. Communicate Specific and Clear Goals.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Your users have miniscule attention spans. Limited Attention Spans. In 2000, a study by Microsoft showed that the average human attention span was 12 seconds. What happened between 2000 and 2015 that would account for a 33% reduction in attention span? using the Flesich-Kincaid readability test. Words matter.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As first-time parents, they are the focus of most attention, almost to a fault. The classes sold, but it took me away from what was the real goal of our program, connecting people to collections through action. I tested the waters. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Creative engagements will be the key to capturing attention and keeping virtual audiences active and engaged with your brand. By using inclusive language and including accessible options, like closed captioning and real-time language translations, you can welcome a diverse audience and expand your reach. . Offers flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. It forces you to draw a line in the sand and have clear goals. After you’ve identified the key problem on which you want to focus, you need to set goals. Quite the opposite: failure that comes from planned, methodical testing is simply how you learn.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. One nonprofit used online channels to surpass their year-end fundraising goals. Use multimedia to engage and retain visitor attention. So how do you get those first page results? With search engine optimization. Write long form content.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Your goal should be to communicate the message with as few characters as possible. Consider including urgent, actionable language to capture your donors’ attention. Donate now” or “Help us reach our goal” are clear and actionable phrases. Donate now” or “Help us reach our goal” are clear and actionable phrases.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2016

Like most nonprofits, you’re going to spend a lot of time, attention, and money on fundraising to reap the rewards of a giving season that’s expected to see more than $30 billion in donations. Your response device or online donation page should reflect the language, giving options, and segmentation details of the rest of your campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That planning must include a specific goal focused on a solvable problem. But the competition isn’t for money – it’s for attention. In order to reach your fundraising goal for Giving Tuesday, you must break through the noise, like a clear bell ringing above the din. What should a Giving Tuesday plan look like?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. The goals of any online presentation are for your key takeaways to (1) be cemented in the minds of your attendees, (2) be shared with other interested parties, or (3) inspire action in support of your cause.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Donors want to know what good their money is doing in changing lives, not helping you meet an arbitrary goal or purchasing a new soap dispenser in your building’s bathroom. Use “you” language. Make sure you test your process, whatever it is! The letter is dry and boring. It’s the emotional connection that keeps donors onboard.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Track Performance Using KPIs Before any fundraising campaign begins, you should set goals and track them with key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs give your organization a way to measure the success of campaign-specific goals and your nonprofit’s long term goals. Goals S.M.A.R.T. Set S.M.A.R.T. By setting S.M.A.R.T.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We had a vision, a short list of goals for the first year, and an energetic (if underfunded) attack. We tried and tested and played and worked our way forward, and we’re still doing it. Events generate media, focus public attention, and catalyze social energy. Conflating financial trends with financial position.

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