Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

While your audience probably receives marketing materials and updates from your organization, these communications aren’t always the most effective at fostering close relationships. Ensure that your podcast's audio sounds crisp and clean by purchasing a high-quality microphone. Some sounds tend to sound harsh and jarring in recordings.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s How Your Org Can Adapt – and Flourish Educate and Engage Your Donors Communicate openly with your donors about any changes and what they might mean. Now, you might be thinking: “This all sounds well and good, but how can we implement our own system, especially with budget constraints?”

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

Communications and fundraising are seamless. The good news is that there are many communication tools to connect with donors and prospects. The challenge is to most effectively integrate all of the different communications activities so that they truly reinforce each other.

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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. Keep that in mind! Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Boardable — Top Fundraising App for Board Management Boardable is powerful nonprofit board meeting software that enables your leadership to communicate virtually. They need intuitive tools that enable communication and that work right when they’re needed. Chapter communication. Plus, pay your chapter’s bills from the same app.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Studies show that around 72% of consumers only engage with marketing that is personalized to their unique needs and interests, and those preferences can carry over into communications about fundraising. Businesses most often give through matching gifts, corporate and volunteer grants, or in-kind donations of free goods or services.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. Inadequate communication. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. Close off communication. When you hire an employee, you invest in their potential to strengthen your team.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here are some ways you can fundraise during year-end: Email “asks” A phone-a-thon Online crowdfunding campaign Peer-to-peer fundraising Direct mail pledges A one-day giving blitz such as #GivingTuesday Virtual events Incorporate a matching grant. Plus, here are #GivingTuesday Email Templates to inspire your communications.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

A matching grant pledge prior to the big day encouraged supporters to dig deep, resulting in a 40% revenue increase compared to the previous year’s total by the time the day drew to a close. A second matching grant offer enabled leaders to extend the giving via two more fundraising emails the next day.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. It sounds like a huge job, right? Yes, their manager likely has the big picture in mind, but who knows better how the changes in the last year transformed their world than the person doing it?

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Discover how to communicate why donors should make a gift with Nathan Hill, Marketing Director @ NextAfter. Find out how to take advantage of the $10,000/mo Google Ad Grant with Grant Hensel, CEO @ Nonprofit Megaphone. Want more details? Check out the takeaways you’ll get during our sessions this year.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Communications & Marketing. Giving Tuesday Communications & Marketing. You can’t have a successful campaign without communicating with your audience. How Nonprofits Can Get Free Advertising With Google Ad Grants. Digital marketing may sound complicated, but it’s more accessible than you might think.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

Segment Sign-Ups by Project When someone decides to volunteer with your organization, they often have a specific task, project, or campaign in mind. The other option is to keep the form short, but that makes it harder to collect detailed information and adapt your communications based on their interests.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2020

Data provided by IMPACTS Research and our good friend Coll een Dilenschneider shows that “n ot being thanked for a previous gift, not being asked to donate again, and lack of communication about the impact of one’s donation ” are among the top reasons why donors stop giving. Engage w ith Your Community Early and Often .

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

Cone Communications found that more than 9 in 10 millennials are willing to switch brands if the new one is associated with a cause. Multi Charity Challenges: Many corporations have generous grant programs. A genuine connection can be created by delivering an experience that is aligned with the brand’s core principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

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. More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

In terms of how these organizations are communicating with their stakeholders (e.g. 50CAN is an organization that drives the creation of stronger, more equitable schools in every state and community within its national network. Local communities were. the people they serve, boards, donors, etc.),

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sounds like you? If your CSR programs are not integrated across lines of business and support departments, keep in mind this is a journey. There are several areas to target for increased collaboration: Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Executive Team. Offer profile/success stories for employee communications.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

Cone Communications found that more than 9 in 10 millennials are willing to switch brands if the new one is associated with a cause. Multi Charity Challenges: Many corporations have generous grant programs. A genuine connection can be created by delivering an experience that is aligned with the brand’s core principles.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact or the Microsoft Ad Grant is a program available to eligible nonprofits to help transform their digital presence. Like the Google Ad Grant program , Microsoft is offering a monthly grant to advertise on their owned and operated websites (such as Bing, AOL, Outlook, Yahoo, MSN, and Microsoft Edge). .

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve talked about responding and communicating well during a crisis on Frogloop before, and I know there’s a lot more to say about this challenge. Sometimes it’s enough for your staff and board to know about the plan, and other times you need to share the plan more widely with your community. Have a Plan.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2018

But with grant funding, there is no prize for cutting costs; the goal is to do exactly what you promised you’d do within the given budget. Sound simple enough? Well, as Louis Pasteur said, “Fortune favors the prepared mind.” Communicate Results. Communication allows you to stop operating in secret.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. "Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. Close your eyes and imagine that promised land where you can produce reports by grant or program or by the combined entity as a whole.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2016

As we evolve into a society that increasingly relies on online—or cloud-based—software to manage everything from personal communications to banking needs, the debate over the pros and cons of configurable vs. customized software has arrived at the main stage. Much higher total cost of ownership.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

This is as easy as it sounds! By using a platform like Qgiv , you can create seamless text fundraising campaigns that allow you to connect with your donors to send simple, secure, personalized text communications. The purpose of remarketing is to keep your brand top of mind for consumers and re-engage them into the conversion process.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

Videos increase user engagement, boost traffic and time spent on websites, help boost SEO efforts, and are outright fantastic at communicating a company’s message. But if it sounds like a lot, don’t be discouraged! Research similar nonprofits: Find similar organizations to check out how they are communicating.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. If you are communicating without doing this analysis, you run the risk of appearing tone-deaf. What parts don’t? Let’s do it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

When you are brainstorming, your words might not sound so polished, which is fine. Yea us we got the $150,000 HUD grant! . That way, you’re clear about the content of your email and your key message is top of mind. We hope to start our pilot program next month with six moms. This is just brainstorming and anything goes!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? So I want you to keep that in mind that it’s not too late. If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts. Number 1, if this sounds like you, put a 1 in the chat. I want to hear it.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2015

She has been a leader in corporate communications and marketing for 20+ years. CRM software might not bring Superman to mind, but if you think that CRMs lack superpowers then you either need to take one out for a spin or you’re using the wrong CRM. Templates for donor communications. Is it a bird?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

What’s inconvenient is that there are so darn many of them: Venmo, Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Zelle are the ones that come to mind, but by the time you read this another one may have emerged. The more accounts you have, the more you have to keep track of and reconcile each month, so keep that in mind. A Word About Grants.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

We are here to talk about “The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication.” Hi, Steven, very glad to be here and chat with you again and featuring attendees about communication strategies. And it’s really how to communicate your cause in 2021. And ask anything about communication, what you’re focusing on.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . Well, what it means is that you’re communicating, right? And how do we communicate that from them? The goals changed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Aligned teams means better communication. All of the above sounds great, right? This is part of a vicious or virtuous cycle.

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