Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “How does your nonprofit measure success?” ” The entire Blue Avocado team was amazed by the number of thoughtful and enlightening answers that nonprofit leaders like you shared! Finally, did we meet our box office/financial goals?

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

from our friends at ParsonsTKO Selecting technology for a nonprofit or social good organization can take significant time and effort. Where does the organization need to make faster or deeper progress on our goals and mission? Let’s dive in. What technology change or improvement could be the magic wand to usher in positive changes?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Your nonprofit relies on storytelling to forge emotional connections with potential supporters and spread awareness of your mission. As technology evolves, your nonprofit should expand to tell your story in more engaging, shareable, and innovative ways, such as podcasting. Connect with nonprofit professionals.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

There are several points during the year when donors expect to interact with a nonprofit they support. If that’s the case, it may be time to create a “culture of fundraising” within your nonprofit. A nonprofit’s team of employees is its best asset when it comes to engaging donors. The Cultivation Phase.

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, every dollar matters. This phase can be the most complex and time-consuming part—and one of the most effective ways to get a strong ROI. One important goal of your steering committee is to document your organization’s requirement list for technology solutions.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. Phase 1: Prepare your Approach. In this phase, you will define what success, impact, and approach to the change looks like.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 7, 2024

The good news is that it’s possible to set up your nonprofit organization for success. Avoiding Roadblocks Coalescing every member of your organization around the same goals and expectations can help you avoid several common roadblocks before they get in the way of your implementation. But it doesn’t have to be stressful.

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Media Cause

JUNE 3, 2024

Discover simple tactics and how to apply them to better your nonprofit’s project management, and learn when you may need the help of experts to achieve project goals successfully as a unified team. Time Integrity One common challenge in nonprofit project management is time integrity—respect for other people’s time.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Your nonprofit is growing. Smaller gifts from individuals, events, and items like engraved bricks help support the campaign toward the end, when a small amount is left to reach the goal. Capital campaigns are a great reason to talk about the work your nonprofit does. It’s a big deal! Certainly not something to be taken lightly.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 8, 2024

One of the most common questions we receive from professional and volunteer nonprofit leaders is: How much should we ask for ? The more time that the donor prospect gives you to get better acquainted with the mission, leadership, stories, and especially the impact of the nonprofit, the more likely they are to make a more robust commitment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

posted by Syeda Hussaini Spring 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Diversity and inclusion are not new terms for the nonprofit sector. Unfortunately, in the nonprofit boardroom, this change has yet to be reflected. According to the Impact of Diversity study , nonprofit boards are 78.6%

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. Step 1: Set objectives and goals Start by outlining your campaign’s strategic purpose and objectives. Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. Nonprofits looking to reassess or develop a new technical strategy should consider partnering with a nonprofit technology consulting firm. Your nonprofit is unique, so your solutions and strategies should be too.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

While it’s not a new concept, digital transformation has become a hot topic for nonprofits in recent years. Whether it’s because leaders are driven to do things differently or that situations like the pandemic have forced much-needed evolution, nonprofit organizations everywhere are looking for ways to become more efficient and impactful.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the focus often falls on fundraising efforts and donor engagement as the primary drivers of success. While these elements are undeniably critical, the backbone of any successful nonprofit organization is its operational efficiency. The Symbiotic Relationship Between Operations and Fundraising 1.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

But what if you decide to rebrand your nonprofit? Rebranding can be used to improve public perception of a nonprofit’s organization, but it’s a major decision and significant project to undertake. If you think it may be time to update your nonprofit’s branding, it’s helpful to know what to expect from the process.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Nonprofits of all sizes have one need in common: funding. Without it, your nonprofit can’t operate and do the important work that fuels your cause. As donor behavior continues to change, nonprofits of all sizes must increasingly rely on the generosity of many instead of the consistent support from a few.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life. But for those toiling away in young nonprofits, it is often grueling and sometimes even cruel. And after all the difficulties of starting a nonprofit, the end of the beginning rarely goes well. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. Not all survive.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For smaller nonprofits, conducting a capital campaign is a great way to get the word out about your organization. Capital campaigns are intended to raise money for a specific project, issue, or program, or to meet an overall, designated fundraising goal. What is the public phase of a capital campaign? What is a capital campaign?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 13, 2021

How can your nonprofit organization increase its audience growth? In this phase, we start by questioning and seeing what gives us pivotal knowledge. During this phase, it’s important to spend time determining and designing solutions for specific goals. Success | In this phase, we evaluate.

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Capital campaigns are multi-year undertakings that can completely reshape how your nonprofit operates. Traditionally, capital campaigns are broken down into seven phases: Pre-Campaign Planning. Defining your campaign’s core objectives and determining a working revenue goal. . The Quiet Phase. The Public Phase.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’re ready to take your nonprofit to the next level, scale up its capacity, and make an even bigger impact in your community. Capital campaigns are among the biggest fundraising undertakings that nonprofit organizations tackle, and they only come around roughly once a decade. It might be time for a capital campaign.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail can benefit your nonprofit in many ways, from connecting with donors in a personal way and yielding a high ROI. After assessing how these donors already interact with your nonprofit, you can build target donor profiles based on demographics, psychographics, giving habits, and preferred communication channels.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

The good news is that it’s possible to set up your nonprofit organization for success. Coalescing every member of your organization around the same goals and expectations can help you avoid several common roadblocks before they get in the way of your implementation. Avoiding Roadblocks. Configuration (days 30–60).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How & When to Create Custom AI/ML Solutions in Government As we approach 2024 and your digital goals, we genuinely appreciate your support in revisiting or exploring our content. Our gratitude goes out to the mission-driven organizations that we are honored to work with.

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Classy

JULY 9, 2021

If your nonprofit is looking to make a big investment in a particular project, you may have wondered if launching a capital campaign is the right path for you. Capital campaigns are time-limited efforts with a large fundraising goal for a specific need. Read Next: The 4 Phases of a Modern Capital Campaign.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Knowing the potential pitfalls and ultimate goals of your event makes a huge difference. We have been thrilled with the response to Tartan Tuesday; over time, it has really proven what the Maryville College community can do when everyone comes together and unites around a common goal. Set explicit measurable goals.

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TechImpact

APRIL 21, 2014

Here are ten simple ways nonprofit executives, or employees, can get more creative at work. Where do you want your nonprofit to be in 10-15 years? It is simply important that you have a goal and are actively working to achieve it. Industry News Leadership leadership nonprofit' Or buying the office coffee once a month.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each nonprofit has their own (usually very specific) mission statement. Before we proceed to the final illustration, any and all major changes must be addressed in the sketch phase. Knowing why the client is requesting any changes is important in helping to better understand the goals. Understand the target audience.

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Bloomerang

JULY 15, 2021

It’s unintentional group think, a mixture of both seeking out conclusions which confirm what we already believe to be true and letting unconscious preconceptions direct how we manage staff, volunteers and donors in our nonprofit workplace. Why does avoiding unconscious confirmation bias in the nonprofit workplace matter?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

posted by Karyn Cooks Fall 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. So where should nonprofit leaders begin? Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Recommendations. Build a trusted network.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 13, 2021

If you had just jotted down notes or concepts in the pre-writing phase, starting connecting them to form sentences. Remember the goals and intentions you have for your message. and Indianapolis-based nonprofit that fosters community programs in Indiana for the terminally ill, seniors, families and the home-bound. Drafting. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

The Salesforce nonprofit grantmaking solution, foundationConnect, was created over 15 years ago on the belief that we could support better collaboration among stakeholders in the grants management process. A point solution doesn’t have the built-in capability to reach these goals. Learn more 1.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Consider the evolution of nonprofit tech over the past year and a half. When the pandemic hit, you probably invested in video conferencing tools as your nonprofit’s team headed home to work safely. In addition, your nonprofit is focused on year-end giving from now through December. With that, let’s get started!

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Last time we shared how Marketing Cloud can impact the higher education industry and this time around we’re vetting it for our friends in the nonprofit space! . When nonprofit organizations come to Cloud for Good, we spend a substantial amount of time uncovering the specifics around their unique constituent lifecycle. Awareness .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. You see, it means that hundreds of people are sitting on nonprofit Boards and have NO IDEA what they said “yes” to. If your Board members and staff aren’t clear about the Board’s responsibilities, the nonprofit is set up for a big mess. And this is a problem. It’s surprising.

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