Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. So is almost every other nonprofit. To So Funded!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. There are three stages starting with ignition, what captures immediate attention. It is based on reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

While our book focuses on both what individuals can do and how organization’s can support it, we wanted to share some practical tips and techniques for individuals that worked at nonprofits to get more energy for 2016! The Practices: Create A Self Care Bill of Rights. Manage Your Energy and Attention. Get Moving.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. Calling in is bringing attention to behavior in a one-on-one setting to maintain the individual’s dignity while holding them accountable for the behavior. Calling out brings public attention to the behavior.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

These days, there's a lot competing for our attention ("Hey, is that a cat video?") It's an ongoing challenge to keep yourself focused, yet also capture and hold the attention of your supporters. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 11, 2022

Focus your attention on members who want to connect through certain events and redouble your attempts with inactive members by trying a new approach. Every month, pull a list of active job seekers and send them an email with tips and best practices for career advancement. Keep in touch. Activate your online community.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Ross Dawson ’s new book, Thriving On Overload , provides you practical insights and strategies to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and all your ventures. Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2013

These days, there's a lot competing for our attention ("Hey, is that a cat video?") It's an ongoing challenge to keep yourself focused, yet also capture and hold the attention of your supporters. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

GPT models, like GPT3 & 4, have garnered significant attention for their impressive capabilities in generating coherent, human-like text. For example, researchers can use data augmentation techniques to balance the training data and ensure that the model is exposed to a diverse range of perspectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Visualization Techniques.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice. People just don’t have an attention span for anything much longer, so it’s important to keep it short to get the most from your fundraising videos. So, What’s Your Story?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Leverage Multiple Marketing Channels If you want to attract the attention of as many supporters as possible, develop a multichannel marketing strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Use the five steps to engage with vendors, have practical, in-depth discussions, and make smart decisions to evaluate which one will be the best partner to help you redesign your organization’s website. ?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Pay attention to subject lines. Ultimately, subject lines serve a similar purpose as CTAs—to attract the reader’s attention. Use automated personalization tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2020

However, there are a few consistent best practices that can yield positive results for any size nonprofit, such as: Implementing donor management technology. Make sure you’re implementing these effective online practices to make the most of your opportunities! Fundraising Techniques. Setting up multiple donation platforms.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling is so important to your fundraising that you need to spend the time to practice and get it right. People these days literally have the attention span of a goldfish, so keep your story short to keep the donor engaged. Keep practicing and refining your technique. What’s Your Nonprofit’s Story ?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Ross Dawson ’s book, Thriving On Overload , provides you practical insights and strategies to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and all your ventures. Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

Tip number two: Even though proposal questions may seem exactly the same, pay attention to nuance or slight wording differences. Whatever technique you use, the key is knowing how to use and update previous content. Copying and pasting, updating, and tweaking is a best practice.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

They should know the topic area, but also understand practice of curation. The practice of curation is being able to sift through daily whirlwind of tweets, blog posts, and other content streams quickly in order to pick the right pieces that create an accurate view of the subject matter. I have been following her fpr six months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

Here’s the description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? I’ll be talking about the art and practice of good curation and also share some techniques for staying focused while doing working on social media for practitioners. Visualization Techniques.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

On November 16, I had the pleasure of facilitating a webinar through the European Foundation Centre entitled, Foundations & Practice in Data Visualisation. Cole offers techniques to visually tell stories while maintaining the data's integrity. to draw your audience's attention to where you want it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

This gives the capacity to pay attention to what people are saying and be nimble in responding. A lot of practice on how to move quickly when a disaster strikes. Here’s a couple of takeaways, but expect some more practical, how-to posts in the next few weeks. Listening in Practice. Over 1,000 mentions a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

The techniques that individuals can use to build resilience are a combination of mind shifts (from negative to positive) and mindfulness. The techniques help professionals build the self-awareness – so when work and life come to a full boil, you can bounce back. How do you practice it? ” offers some good tips.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Employing these latest trends and best practices can help you amplify your organization’s fundraising success! With the growth of online spaces, storytelling is pivotal for cutting through the digital noise and captivating new donors’ attention. Using nonprofit storytelling techniques will ensure your messaging hits home.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Let’s walk through some practical ways that you and your team can use data, content, and technology to attract new supporters (and I’ll even toss in some pro tips to help you with execution). A smart online donation form is more likely to retain potential donors’ attention and encourage them to complete the process.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re searching for industry best practices and inspiration, looking to connect with other fundraisers, or are on the hunt for practical tips leveraging the tools in your Neon One account, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for at Generosity Xchange. If you attend, be ready to pay attention and take good notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. Here are some of the tools that can help make better habits or break bad ones.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? Sharing useful information is engaging and will make donors more likely to pay attention to your messaging. These techniques can help. What Is a Donor Engagement Strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. In order to be loyal donors, alumni must feel that they are part of a thriving college community.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. In order to be loyal donors, alumni must feel that they are part of a thriving college community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

NTEN programmers carefully choose their venues with accessibility in mind, and the whole event is planned with great attention to inclusivity. With fundraising and technology at the forefront of the conversation, we’ll explore best practices and learn how to leverage the latest technology to raise more.

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