Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

If you want to speed up event registrations and increase engagement among your members, encourage them to download our free Mobile App: Wild Apricot For Members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

(This is the third post in our New Year, New Heights development series. Need to catch up? Click here for practical tips on improving your email program this year and here for an in-depth look at three reporting tools every nonprofit should have to improve their fundraising strategy.). In today’s digital age, it might seem somewhat nostalgic to talk about direct mail.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

These days, it seems like everyone is talking about how blockchain is the coolest new thing—capable of changing everything, including aid and philanthropy. Case in point: Researchers at Stanford have been compiling a “ Master List of Blockchain for Social Good Projects ” that’s already 236 entries long as of this writing! With all that excitement, how should nonprofits think about this emerging technology and the opportunities and risks it might unlock?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The fundraising appeal letter is a difficult one to pen. At its foundation, you’re asking people to part with their hard-earned money , so you’re going to need to present them with a solid case that they’ll understand and connect with. Of course, there are a lot of charities and organizations out there that are writing these letters, but many of them fall into a trap.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The book, Step Up , shows readers how to step up to the plate during six critical leadership moments. Readers learn how to: Use anger intelligently in the workplace. Recognize and deal with terminal politeness. Make decisions when no one else is making them. Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. Identify and leverage pessimism. Inspire others to take action.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Less than half of Americans can name their Representative in Congress, and even fewer know who represents them in their State Legislature. For nonprofits doing political advocacy, this presents a particular challenge when mobilizing supporters for actions such as letter writing or lobby days. That’s why we’ve created Elected Officials Lookup Pages - a tool that allows users to find their elected officials based on their address.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

My staff and I recently noticed a shift in our SEO statistics and started looking at what our data analytics showed for our blog in 2017. The data showed that 49 percent of our readers are ages 18-34. This was a surprise to us. For years, our audience fell in the 45-54 age group. Now, as we learned, our audience is younger than it’s ever been, and we’ve been adapting.

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Donor Search

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If there’s one golden rule of university fundraising, it’s that the key to effectively engaging alumni supporters is making meaningful connections with them year after year.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

To learn how to stay motivated, read High-Profit Prospecting , by Mark Hunter. It's a powerful read that includes counterintuitive advice and cutting-edge best practices for sales prospecting in today's business world. Today, I share one of my favorite sections of the book where Hunter describes his seven things motivated people do to stay motivated : Motivated people ignore voices in their lives.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Some nonprofit communications and digital staffers may not have easy access to edit their CMS/website platform, but need to quickly spin up a basic page with information or helpful links for their supporters. We've recently built out Basic Pages on EveryAction to empower users to do just that. Basic Pages are available for all EveryAction packages, and allow users to display content without collecting information from supporters.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness …”. Does it seem like the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities sum up the times we’re living in today? We tend to view our lives in terms of superlatives. It’s never been worse… and perhaps it’s never been better. We have more means of communication than ever before, but often don’t even listen to each other.

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Donor Search

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If there’s one golden rule of university fundraising, it’s that the key to effectively engaging alumni supporters is making meaningful connections with them year after year.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

If you want to build the psychological body armor to achieve personal resilience, then the book, Stronger , is a must-read for you. That body armor consists of five factors of personal resilience : active optimism decisive action moral compass relentless tenacity interpersonal support According to the authors, these five factors of personal resilience are keys to improving your work habits and output in the workplace, and to achieving overall satisfaction from life.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Michael Hartman of Sandstorm Design will be presenting during our February eLearning Thought Leaders Series Webinar ! During this webinar, viewers can expect to learn about how usability testing can help drive a significantly improved user experience for your members. Michael Hartman leads the development team, information architects, user research, and usability studies at Sandstorm Design and is excited to share his expertise on the topic of usability in the association space.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Most of the research on digital advocacy is focused on the new types of speech we now see online. Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Having trouble getting that mobile phone out of your hands and checking it when you need to focus on work? There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun. The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. Here’s how it works. You open the app, you plant a digital tree and it will thrive for as long as you stay in the app.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

With clear caution against stereotyping people by age, Valerie M. Grubb has written an incredibly insightful book on how to manage the new workplace reality. A reality driven by the fact that by 2020, 25 percent of the labor force will be over the age of 55, and Generation Z is just now entering the workforce. All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Board members are your organization’s advocates, ambassadors and vital volunteers. It’s imperative that your board understands that their participation level sets the tone for community impact. The infamous fundraising expression “give, get or get off,” is a great rule of thumb to help guarantee board giving. It’s not intended to be harsh: non-profits have a limited number of board seats, and it’s important that they are filled with productive members.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

“What’s next?” is becoming a common question for digital fundraising strategists. We’re hearing it about online giving days, about crowdfunding, about email – and now we’re starting to field the same question about peer-to-peer or online ambassador programs. One of those organizations is the University of Minnesota. In 2016, they added an online ambassador program to their giving day and saw great results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Breaking through the Noise on Social Media: How to run a Twitter Chat That Spotlights Your Nonprofit’s Impact – guest post by Neil Parekh. Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are posted to Twitter. How do you break through the noise on Twitter to highlight your nonprofit’s impact and gain visibility for the good work your organization is doing?

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