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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
And if you’re not in an arts organization, can you take these lessons and apply them to your own nonprofit? Share this on Technorati. fundraising realtime web social media allison fine arts chronicle for philanthropy museum nina simon participatory museum rob stein social media for arts organizations love this!
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Friday, July 24, 2009
If you can't figure out how to run your organization while allowing donors to designate their giving, donors will eventually pass you by. Technorati Tag: unrestricted funds. Tags: Fundraising If 10,000 donors all move their giving to one area of an institution what happens to the overall quality of the institution?
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
In his eyes, that stood for everything good his organization was working to accomplish. We said "civil society" a lot in his fundraising. Want to know how well that fundraising worked? Fundraising is about communicating with other people, not with ourselves. Technorati Tags: marketing , copywriting , jargon.
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Friday, May 8, 2009
If you like to succeed at fundraising, one of the best things you can do is plan your project by writing a brief. If you have some general goals and beliefs about how a project should turn out, just tossing it to a copywriter will usually not accomplish the miracle of organizing your thoughts for you. Tags: Fundraising
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
And each of these walls diminishes the fundraising effectiveness of those nonprofits. Fundraising becomes an exercise in evasion. Technorati Tag: fundraising. One of the reasons its hard to connect with donors is we build walls between ourselves and our donors. There are nonprofit versions of every one of these walls.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
How to Get out of Fundraising, and Into Something You Like More! Why Are Fundraisers Hated? for fundraising! What’s your fundraising plan checklist? Building the capacity of thousands of people to fundraise is not an opportunity that just comes along every day! Follow Wild Woman Fundraising on Twitter!
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Guess who made Fundraiser of the Year? Miriam Isserow, of WEAVE , an organization almost entirely dependent on government money, raised the organization out of penury by raising $85,700 in 10 days, and was fired for her troubles. Even after being fired, she continued to work as a consultant for the organization.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
know that sounds like relationship advice from a radio psychologist, but it needs to be said because so many fundraisers believe in the Myth of Self-Sufficiency. The Myth is expressed in a recent post at Sue's Muse, a fundraising blog, Do Donors Trust Your Brand? It is widely held by fundraisers who practice it every day.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Everyone wants to know a nonprofit's ratio of administrative and fundraising costs to program costs. Instead of bellyaching, live in the real world: If your organization is one that has a high ratio, trumpet that fact. Technorati Tags: efficiency , charity. Tags: Fundraising It's just frustrating. It won't work.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Consider the sad case of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), an organization with an innovative mission: to supply sturdy laptop computers to third-world students. Not bad for a new organization with an unfamiliar offer and marketing that relied largely on word-of-mouth. Virtually all fundraisers survive fierce and constant competition.
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