Social Media Bird Brain

MARCH 6, 2013

HIPAA barriers healthcare social communication Small nonprofit medicineI don't know that I've mentioned it here, but I serve as a volunteer on the Santa Cruz County Emergency Medical Care Commission, which advises our County Supervisors on emergency healthcare issues. I got interested in this area when my late husband was going through a lot of hospital visits, some of which involved ambulances and helicopters. I've continued to volunteer (as the consumer.

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Getting Attention

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Welcome to guest blogger Joleen Ong, who is the Marketing & Publications Director at NTEN —the community of nonprofit professionals who put technology to work for their causes. Successful integrated marketing goes beyond the communications products you put out there in the world.

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SocialButterfly

MARCH 29, 2010

When, what they really need from us, is to help them remove the barriers blocking them from changing themselves.&#. Tags: Quote of the Week barriers change choices decisions empowerment perspective Quote

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The Agitator

MAY 4, 2014

Last week, in Overcoming Barriers to Growth , I previewed the DMA Nonprofit Federation’s Leadership Summit by the same name that kicks off this Wednesday.

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The Agitator

APRIL 27, 2014

If measured by the number of organizations, the nonprofit sector is growing quickly in the US. Up a whopping 47% over the past decade. But, if measured by the share of national income representing private giving to nonprofits, there’s been a decrease of 11%.

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Several hundred new Agitator readers have come on board since I first launched the ‘Barriers to Growth’ series back in May. Here’s a summary of all 10 Barriers along with a link for those particular barriers in which you’re most interested.

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The Agitator

MAY 3, 2015

Ken Burnett has now published Part 3 and Part 4 of his thought-provoking five part series on the Future of Fundraising. Our summary of Parts 1 and 2 found here , asking whether Agitator readers thought the future was ‘bright’ or ‘bleak’, generated lots of great comments.

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The Agitator

JULY 29, 2014

Look no further than how strategy is typically thought of by most nonprofits and their consultants and you’ll quickly understand why poor or no strategy is a major barrier to growth.

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The Agitator

JULY 21, 2014

Of the more than 1 million nonprofits in the U.S., nearly 75% post annual revenues below $500,000. This leaves little or no room for the ‘science’ part of fundraising, like data analytics and predictive modeling.

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The Agitator

JULY 21, 2014

Of the more than 1 million nonprofits in the U.S., nearly 75% post annual revenues below $500,000. This leaves little or no room for the ‘science’ part of fundraising, like data analytics and predictive modeling.

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The Agitator

MAY 18, 2014

Alfred Sloan was the General Motors Chair and CEO who led GM from the 1920s through the ‘50s and grew it to become largest corporation on Earth at the time. In a board meeting at GM, Sloan asked the board about an important decision: “I take it that everyone is in basic agreement about this decision?” Everyone nodded yes. Sloan’s response: “Then I suggest we postpone the decision. Until we have some disagreement, we don’t understand the problem.”

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The Agitator

JUNE 10, 2014

I decided to call out this thorny barrier to growth because I’m not alone in observing a dangerous pattern that’s emerging. A lot of what I’m about to say here will seem offensive to fundraising agencies and insensitive to their problems. I mean to be neither. Higher fees, lost respect, absence of serious innovation – all are trends that manifest themselves in the anger, frustration and angst expressed by clients over their agencies.

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The Agitator

JULY 14, 2014

I’m convinced that a major barrier to most nonprofits’ growth is that there is little understanding of an organization’s true potential. As a result, far too many organizations and their consultants set their sights far too low, settling for the average given in a benchmark like Giving USA , which year after year, for the past 20 years, has estimated the growth of giving at 2% of Gross Domestic Product. The first of the Easy Excuses arises from benchmarking.

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The Agitator

JUNE 18, 2014

You’d think a $300 billion industry like ours would have empirically based standards and practices readily available and accessible to all. After all, most sectors — ranging from apple growers to doctors and hospitals, and even zoos — have them. Fundraising doesn’t.

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The Agitator

MAY 11, 2014

There’s no question that the shortage of investment funds for fundraising is perceived as a principal barrier to growth. That sentiment was voiced by many attending the DMANF Leadership Summit last week, and it’s certainly a reason offered in a lot of the comments and email from Agitator readers. The solution to this problem may lie within your organization itself. Most charities have significant reserves. Which is no bad thing in and of itself.

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Mission Paradox Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

I like to think about it as a barrier breaker. My job is to identify and remove barriers that separate the people from the art.    Some of the barriers are obvious, price, description of programming, etc. Other barriers, like an overly complicated subscription order form, are less obvious. Either way, I need to identify the barriers and do what I can to remove them.

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The Agitator

OCTOBER 20, 2009

According to a 15-question survey Convio conducted between September 2008 and October 2008 of 60 nonprofits, the most common response regarding their organization’s top barrier to success was insufficient staff. Other barriers to online success noted by those surveyed were lack of coordination, lack of education of online marketing, database issues, integration of different Web tools/technologies and intradepartmental issues.

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The Agitator

JULY 29, 2014

Look no further than how strategy is typically thought of by most nonprofits and their consultants and youll quickly understand why poor or no strategy is a major barrier to growth.

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The Agitator

AUGUST 31, 2017

There’s no question that solid recordkeeping and donor processing systems form an essential foundation for successful monthly giving programs.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JANUARY 16, 2012

Have you ever stopped to consider what the barriers are for a black woman with two kids? Wow, hello hate mail! Because of my posts about being a nonprofit wage slave , and being unable to make rent on a nonprofit “salary” , someone took issue with this.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

MARCH 9, 2015

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Wild Woman Fundraising

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

assessment to identify her specific barriers to independence (ie. First off, if you haven’t done it yet, please, for the love of everything, Take the survey here! If you HAVE taken the survey, very good, carry on, biscuits will be served at 3. Second: Are you in the Austin Texas Area? Do you want more donors? Yes to both questions? We have two slots left in this presentation.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Barriers that they must overcome. How they get beyond those barriers. In most cases, your nonprofit won’t appear in the story until Act 3 and then you are typically just part of the supporting cast that helps the main character get over those barriers. A few weeks ago I shared Why Stories Are Important for Nonprofits and promised some more ideas on how to actually write those stories.

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Fundraising Report Card

JULY 10, 2018

The biggest barrier to entry that I have discovered over the past 4 years isn’t being unsure what to measure, or having access to information. No, it is a lack of organizational culture that supports this new way of thinking. The post 3 Steps to Build a Data-Driven Organizational Culture appeared first on Fundraising Report Card. Culture

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The Agitator

JULY 15, 2014

In Part 7 of our Barriers to Growth series, I noted that the inability or unwillingness to take a hard and realistic look at an organization’s fundraising potential represents a significant barrier to meaningful growth.

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Getting Attention

JULY 17, 2019

I urge you to push through these barriers; it’s worth it. Learn how to ask, train, and support your team in this free webinar on July 23. Register now. We all have an incredible resource right in front of us — our colleagues, board, donors, volunteers, and members.

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EveryAction

JUNE 6, 2018

The organization also operates a Mental Health Fund for Queer and Trans People of Color, which provides financial assistance in order to increase access to mental health support and address the economic barriers many queer and trans people of color face within the healthcare system.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Talk openly about the barriers your nonprofit faces and how their volunteer help could help propel your mission forward. If you work at a nonprofit, you know what it feels like to have too much on your plate. You are eager to be as effective as possible, but you can’t do it all by yourself.

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A Small Change

APRIL 22, 2015

There can often be barriers to accessing decision makers to pitch the ideas listed above, but often times our Champions can be the very folks to overcome these barriers and develop partnerships. We’ve had some great responses and feedback on our recent post about finding and cultivating Champions for our agencies, and how their throwing a party can be an effective and fun way to acquire new donors.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

JULY 25, 2017

What barriers may we face in getting this story out publicly? What’s it like being on the other side of the barrier?

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Getting Attention

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every election season is a barrier to connection, with people overwhelmed by 24/7 messages from multiple campaigns via multiple channels. But connecting this fall—through the noise of so many contentious midterm elections—is particularly tough.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

JUNE 4, 2018

Additionally, because I have kids, I need to unlock my phone before I use the assistant which is enough of a barrier for me not to use it. It’s been six months now since I equipped my home with three Google Home Mini devices (one on each floor).

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Trust and user experience are traditional barriers to mobile commerce. With the popularity and constant data-driven evolution of massive online commerce platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba, user barriers have been greatly reduced.

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The Agitator

MARCH 8, 2017

In Part 8 of The Agitator’s Barriers To Growth series I cited “Insufficient Collaboration” as one of the principal barriers. Of the more than 1 million nonprofits in the U.S., nearly 75% post annual revenues below $500,000. I noted that “this leaves little or no room for the ‘science’ part of fundraising like data analytics, predictive modeling and other higher cost skills that can aid in growth.” ” “It shouldn’t be this way,” I lamented.

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The Agitator

JUNE 16, 2016

Chapter 9 of my book, Retention Fundraising: the art and science of keeping your donors for life, focuses on ‘Barriers to Retention’ The top two barriers? The real killers? #1: 1: Silos and #2: False Attribution. Silos. Those who work in organizations with more than one department are familiar with silos. The online personnel do little to coordinate with the offline folks. Major gift officers look down on direct mail fundraisers and vice versa.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This year marked a turning point for my business where I finally broke through the barrier that most small businesses never cross- the $50,000/year barrier. I also broke through a mental barrier where I thought I could not get sponsorships without a nonprofit behind me.

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The Agitator

JULY 15, 2014

In Part 7 of our Barriers to Growth series, I noted that the inability or unwillingness to take a hard and realistic look at an organization’s fundraising potential represents a significant barrier to meaningful growth.

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

One of the great barriers to growth is the idiocy of ‘testing’ Not because testing is bad, but because most fundraisers and their consultants don’t have the slightest idea what real testing is all about.

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MARCH 24, 2011

But there has to be a Barrier that keeps the hero from getting to the goal right away or else it's not very compelling. This introduces the barriers or obstacles the protagonist faces). There could be several barriers). Storytelling is the single most powerful communications tool you have available, bar none. But many good causes tend to have problems telling good stories even though people have been communicating through stories for thousands of years. .

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The Agitator

AUGUST 17, 2015

Without question the greatest barrier to great fundraising is a lousy board. Of course issues like staff quality, the necessary funds for investment, proper organizational structure, etc. are important. But none is more important than a board. Because at the end of the day it is the board that ultimately determines the quality and culture of the organization. Whether it will be mediocre or magnificent.

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A Small Change

APRIL 1, 2015

The main character’s older brother was an incredibly gifted designer and built a relentless, multi-functional, adaptive, and engaging robot whose only barrier preventing his unceasing efforts to complete his mission was – limited battery life.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 1, 2014

By allowing an exchange of stories you break through barriers with your donors (barriers you might not have been able to penetrate otherwise). I get it! I get it! Tell stories! There’s been a lot of talk about storytelling for fundraising recently.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 29, 2012

Removing a Barrier to Understanding. It’s removing a barrier to understanding,” he says. Infographics are all the rage, so I asked graphic designer Julia Reich to tell us all she knows about producing them.

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