Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Climate Week , held every year in New York on the heels of the UN General Assembly, is a critical time to focus the world’s attention on solutions and progress toward shared climate goals. The AARP Livability Index , for example, presents detailed data on 61 factors affecting community livability, including environmental metrics.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Here’s a detailed breakdown of critical steps to prepare: Understand organizational goals and governance needs: Begin by peering into the core of your organization. Implement a board portal for communication and organization. Communicate the expectations. What are your dreams? Your challenges? Celebrate diversity.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Ph.D. ,

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

They’re a powerful tool for communicating your impact, but what makes an annual report effective? You don’t have to jam all of these components into your annual report if they don’t reflect your goals. It communicates how primary health services have been strengthened in the wake of COVID-19.

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Media Cause

JULY 14, 2023

Digital marketing is a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes to reach their target audience and achieve their goals. Use language and imagery that are relevant, culturally sensitive, and can resonate with diverse communities. Measure Impact: Define the metrics that will help measure the impact of your digital campaign.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

The latest resource from the Blackbaud Institute, Development Plan Toolkit: Your Three-Step Guide to Strategic Fundraising offers a pathway to reaching and retaining major donors: Step 1: Reflect on successes and opportunities. Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals. Goals may be dollar-based—e.g.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

email addresses are not allowed, and as a general rule, should not be used for your nonprofit communications publicly or internally. As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. For example: 1.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Wherever you’re coming from, here are 10 steps to help you make the most of the year-end giving season and reach your goals. Assess your previous year-end campaign and ask yourself the following questions: Did we reach our campaign goal? Determine this year’s goals based on past efforts. Start planning early.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” Could the decline in membership be a reflection of the decline in trust?

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Media Cause

JULY 11, 2023

Imagine having the power to communicate your cause, connect with donors, and mobilize your community, all while saving time and resources. Moreover, automating your email marketing translates to time saved, which can be strategically invested in other crucial areas like fundraising and community building.

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Candid

MARCH 19, 2024

A nonprofit can earn a Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum Seal for its nonprofit profile on Candid’s GuideStar by sharing information about its mission, programs, financials, leadership, and/or goals and metrics. Does having only a Bronze Seal reflect poorly on an organization? Not at all.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

A nonprofit marketing plan lays the roadwork your team must follow to achieve your goals. A nonprofit marketing plan is a detailed document that outlines your goals for a marketing campaign, how you plan to reach them, who is responsible for various tasks, what marketing channels you’ll use, and more. Cohesion across your team.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

The latest resource from the Blackbaud Institute, Development Plan Toolkit: Your Three-Step Guide to Strategic Fundraising offers a pathway to reaching and retaining major donors: Step 1: Reflect on successes and opportunities. Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals. Goals may be dollar-based—e.g.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example, transitioning from the Performance Zone to Learning Zone means moving from: performing activities and goals to improvement activities and goals. We also need to ask questions, experiment, solicit feedback, reflect on surprises or mistakes, learn from others, and habituate other Learning Zone strategies.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A great listener An experienced fundraiser Excells at setting and tracking metrics/ goals So, while your personal preferences may vary, the top qualities of a major gifts officer are pretty consistent. How do you ensure that your major donor communications are personalized and relevant? How would you move forward?

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Heading into the 2020 – 2021 academic year, UAB partnered with Cloud for Good in search of a better way to manage their communications, empower recruiting and admissions, and establish a centralized environment for management and engagement. Improving Internal & External Communications with Marketing Cloud.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Kania and Kramer developed the methodology to correct the practice of isolated intervention, choosing instead diverse partnerships aligned around shared goals. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together. Communicate openly and timely.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Start with the goals you set yourself Before searching for data, start with your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). What have you been tracking, and where do you stand on those goals? Setting your goals first allows you to anchor a reference point for success. Goal setting matters a lot here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Vikki Spruill, Ocean Conservancy 's President and CEO and members of her communications team, Laura Burton Capps, and Dove Coggeshall about their recent experiments and learning on Facebook. Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Board members should set personal goals annually for what they hope to accomplish each year. A key role great board members can play is helping nonprofit staff think about how best to communicate to the outside world, in an objective way, all the terrific ways their nonprofit is helping. Lend a Hand. Be grateful. Bring the inside out.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s that time when we reflect on our work over the past year and set goals for the new one. As Candid’s manager of digital communications, I’ve been digging through our social media analytics, researching broader trends, and determining our strategy and tactics for 2024. And it’s no different for social media managers.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Think carefully about the cost of your fundraising activities and the long-term impact your nonprofit potentially has on your community. Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. How do you communicate with them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . And where are the tensions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. I want to control the communication between staff and board.”

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

However, if no one knows that your event is taking place, you won’t be able to achieve a high turnout or meet your fundraising goals. By sending the right donor communications and reaching your target audience where they are, you’ll be able to successfully promote your event and expand your nonprofit’s reach. Social media.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. 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. How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Strategy.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Overseeing a fundraising campaign from beginning to end and meeting your organization’s fundraising goals isn’t an easy undertaking and takes time and energy to pull off. Set your goals Choose a type of fundraiser Plan your fundraiser Market your fundraiser Recap your fundraiser. Set your goals. Luckily, we’re here to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

My goals for the guest blogging program were modest: To keep my sanity during the move. If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly But, this conflicted with goal 1 - keeping my sanity during the move. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Your company might choose one program to participate in or several, depending on your goals and available resources. Set mission-centric workplace giving goals Before you can get started with workplace giving, you’ll need to determine the goals for your program and construct a plan for achieving those goals.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Paid social media can help you further your nonprofit’s reach so you can reach and surpass the SMART goals you set.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

You can create a communications cadence to reach out to these supporters, help them build stronger connections to your mission, and ultimately send them a personalized donation request based on their giving capacity and past donation amounts. Design and save direct mail communication documents like solicitations and acknowledgments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 1: Define your goal(s). How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. Step 5: Define your metrics. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. What are your measurable objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. The learning objectives were: make decisions about how to effectively integrate social media into organization's overall web communications plan. We had a lot of content to cover in two days.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals. N onprofits that set goals are more likely to accomplish them. . Here are some common nonprofit marketing goals to get you started: Increase donations. This will help you create personalized communications, which supporters prefer over generic messages. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

They can then use the information in the software to reach out to donors with personalized communications, ensuring they’re building genuine relationships with their supporters. Having this data in one place will help you create a more effective fundraising and communication strategy and build deeper relationships with your donors. .

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . 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. Show + Tell.

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