Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group of artists. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. It is a great way to make a personal connection by giving a gift of love.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. Bring big-picture strategic planning issues into regular board meetings. 8) Interview the Executive Director. Occasionally consider allowing time for the board members to interview the executive director about what is on his/her mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. These exist already!

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Never let more than a week go by during the interviewing period without contacting your candidate. If a foundation asked you to submit a grant proposal for a large annual gift, most nonprofits would make that a top priority. Stay in touch. Give your candidate the same consideration. . Unplug the ATM machine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Here's my interview: 1. At this point in my life, I'm not worrying about getting business so much - I'm thinking a lot more about a bigger picture of things, and assuming that it will all work out in the end. Is there a downside to gift economies? I am a big believer in gift economies. What value do you get from it?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. Surveys and other types of feedback mechanisms are another strategy for assessing group dynamics and learning where skill-building is needed. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2011

According to a DonorTrends survey, 58% of donors say they research an organization online before they give a gift, though most of them don't give online. It will likely take qualitative research (focus groups, interviews, surveys) or web usability studies to get a handle on this. Photo: Roadside Pictures , CC license.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Matching Gifts. Interview Constituents. Why not organize a group of influential social media users who are passionate about your cause, and have them get the word out for you? Ask for a specific gift amount from supporters. Ask for a gift for a specific purpose. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. T-Shirt Fundraiser.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. So do you feel that you have found a community in any or all of these groups? . Hobbies or groups, charitable organizations, so that’s what the rest of America is saying. billion and above. . Perhaps it’s not.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

An interview with Katie Beth DeSchepper of StrategicOne. For example, they’re seeing the pictures of what’s going on in Japan – it’s on their mind all the time. Did they designate the gift? M: So…how hard is it though to get people hooked bigger picture? Author: Molly Brooksbank.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My fabulous friend Heather Meyer (pictured above) taught it, and it was awesome. It is a gift to be able to take a brisk, vigorous walk. Meeting amazing people while doing interviews for the Big Vision Podcast. Before the appointment, I decided to go to my favorite belly dance fitness class, ShimmyPop! at Hipline.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Using your CRM, divide your donor list into a series of smaller, more specialized groups based on different shared attributes. Then, craft different messages to send to each group. Then, reach out individually to major donors to keep them informed on the impact of their gifts. Connect with donors’ values and experiences.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Perhaps it will issue a giving challenge with a matching gift for its employees. Regardless of the tech tools you use, they should feed into each other so you can gain a complete picture of your volunteers and their relationship to your organization. This blog post is based on a podcast interview with Albert Vasquez.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. Here’s the industry that we’re trying to fill, and now here’s a list of potential candidates, let’s interview these candidates.” I may drop off a gift. They have helped us in marketing.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

You can also create a social media group to share information about your fundraising campaign. LinkedIn and Facebook are great places to create group pages to share important information with fundraising participants. Some may prefer group learning, while others may prefer individual, self-guided training.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information. Is it an evidence-based curriculum or process?

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, you may have a picture of the poet laureate being honored at a ceremony that you include as a small thumbnail image in the newsletter. For the literacy foundation in our previous example, you may decide to do a short interview with one of the volunteers who originally worked with Ada. Recurring donors are a good example.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So I can picture your office or your home office. She does batch gift entry. You could say, “Mary, I would love to get your suggestions of how we can improve our batch gift entry process. Some people call it like tech security group, right? Workgroup, action group. So, yep, this is me. She runs some reports.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This could be sessions with your CEO and board, interviews with your field workers/program staff and any initiatives where you have the potential to share information with your donors. This can also be done in teams, so groups can fundraise together to increase the sense of community. Here’s their virtual luncheon program: 4.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Content is one of the best ways you can connect with your audience, ask donors for a gift, and share the good news about your organization’s impact. A testimonial, for instance, could include a standard list of questions for a staff member to use when interviewing the client to help craft their story. That’s a lot of stuff!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’re going to talk about the bigger picture things as it relates to personal branding and making yourself memorable, so you can raise some more money and improve those donor relations. We’re going to start out kind of the big picture. But the big picture is, let’s put that in our heads for a second.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

That’s why we work with a group of like-minded strategic partners— BDI , DNL Omnimedia , Donorly , and Oneicity , who share our passion to help make a difference. Meaning on average 8% to 10% of unique visitors to a website will make a gift. This is a good benchmark against which to measure the performance of your donation page.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there are 12 team members on my group, and we have really expanded what we do. Is there something more quantifiable that you can gather and assess and look at as a group? And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

donors said that they’re highly motivated by knowing their donations are used wisely, understanding that their gifts made an impact on real-life people, and seeing positive testimonials from friends and family. Quotes and pictures from the case study appear regularly on their Facebook and Instagram feeds. Qgiv’s 2020 research report.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica, which you can also hear on the Big Vision Podcast. She made her payment and here's how her business is doing, and here's a picture of the new goat that she got. First, three really important groups are served through Kiva, and we really care about all three of these groups.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2009

There was no interpretative content in the room, and you were not allowed to take pictures. At the physical museum, visitors who wished to provide feedback on the skull were instructed to leave the building and walk into a temporary structure that served as both a For the Love of God gift shop and feedback environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Consequently, it is a special treat for me to share with you the transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. So, that's our kind of big-picture understanding of what is going on. So, for us, that is kind of like our bigger picture. Britt: You give a lot of talks and interviews. How do we make sure?

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