A Small Change

MARCH 25, 2014

It gives you a place to give a brief introduction to the organization (make sure your introduction is brief as the donor is there to see the non-profit not just hear about it). A donor tour is possibly one of the most exciting parts of fundraising. Tours give you the opportunity to show off your organization and talk to your donors face to face. They provide you the chance to share all your organization’s wonderful stories and provide a context for the work that you do.

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The Agitator

JUNE 21, 2018

Cost per donor acquired vs. number of new donors acquired: If you had to design a campaign to bring in one person, you could do it very inexpensively – probably at a profit. On Tuesday , I talked about how Simpson’s paradox means you shouldn’t use just overall retention as a metric.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 29, 2012

is a non-profit musical youth organization that teaches life lessons through music. A serial entrepreneur at heart, Sean King has been consulting with small businesses and non-profit organizations for over 20 years. a non-profit organization based in Allentown, Pa.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Over the past twenty years, I have worked with hundreds of non-profit organizations. In my experience, the majority of non-profits (and the vast majority of small and mid-sized organizations) are frustrated with fundraising. Does this describe your non-profit organization?

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JULY 27, 2015

Nearly every non-profit I have ever worked with has the same item on the top of its fundraising wish-list: find new major donors to give to our organization. Yet almost all of those non-profits have trouble finding mega-donors. 3: Hold Non-Ask Events on a Regular Basis.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ask any non-profit, and they'll tell you there's nothing better than a personal, heartfelt story to put a face on their cause. Be Prepared for Anything (and I mean anything) -Interviewing for non-profits is unique. a Kansas City-based agency that specializes in messaging for non-profit organizations. . Far better than organizational blah-blah or sterile statistics, stories help donors (and future donors) learn an organization's personality.

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Social Media Bird Brain

OCTOBER 2, 2013

When it comes to non-profits, it’s an impossibly effective medium for really. Here''s the second of three guest posts on the subject of storytelling for your nonprofit through videos. Guest blogger Madeleine Hammond is a Marketing Executive at Skeleton Productions, a UK based corporate video production company. An oldy but a goody - the storytelling arc is a proven staple to video marketing. video storytelling video production Madeleine Hammond Skeleton Productions Small nonprofi

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SocialButterfly

JULY 23, 2009

is hosting the 1st non-profit film festival July 31-August 2 at the University of Texas at Austin. I wish you, all attendees and the non-profit organizations themselves, the very best. If I could, I would be here in a heartbeat. Lights. Camera.

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Exactask Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

If your non-profit hasn’t updated its fundraising structure in several years, you may be missing out sources of income that will be easy to add on. Because of the always changing political climate, it can be scary to think about where funding will come from in future years.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Skills/concepts that translate: Marketing concepts are the same in for-profit as in non-profit. This is troublesome, because in the for-profit world, it’s a commonly accepted practice. In the for-profit world, it’s all about me, me, me. In the non-profit world, it’s about what’s in the best interest of the organization.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

MAY 25, 2011

For all of you newbies, the MARCOM Annual Forum is the only event in Canada that caters specifically to government, non-profit and association marketers and communicators. Let’s face it, the public and non-profit sectors often face unique marketing challenges , which naturally require unique solutions.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JULY 30, 2014

Webinar Title: The Major Donor Formula: How to Find, Cultivate and Ask Major Donors to Give to Your Non-Profit. About the presenter: Joe Garecht is a consultant, author and speaker that helps non-profits raise dramatically more money to fund their work.

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The Biddery Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

Does your organization have a compelling story to tell? Do you want to connect with your supporters, volunteers, and donors but don't have the funds to launch expensive outreach campaigns? YouTube and The Biddery can help.

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APRIL 1, 2009

User research finds significant deficiencies in non-profit organizations' website content, which often fails to provide the info people need to make donation decisions. Non-profits would collect much more from their websites if only they'd clearly state what they are about and how they use donations. In 2008, non-profits got about 10% of their donations online, according to a survey by Target Analytics.

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Nonprofit Consultant Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Is your non-profit succeeding in its mission? Large for–profit corporations spend millions of dollars each year gathering data to compare the success of different approaches in advertising, audience targeting and product offerings. Imagine what would happen to businesses if, instead of using a bottom line to analyze their success, they used the type of information commonly cited by non-profits: anecdotal evidence, raw output and how much they cared.

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Sea Change Strategies

APRIL 23, 2013

Non profits are organized in ways that don’t make sense to most external audiences. Still non profits stubbornly hold onto internal organizational chart silos that seep into everything organizations communicate externally. Do your supporters care that you have: A communications team; A development team; An advocacy team; A programs team; and. An operations team?

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Sea Change Strategies

JUNE 17, 2013

For non profits, there’s a lesson to be learned here. Are you spending too much time trying to convert the non convertible? I have high cholesterol and about 5 weeks ago I did what I once thought unthinkable. I cut dairy and meat from my diet. That must be tough, you might say. But the truth is, it hasn’t been so bad. There are actually tons of dairy and meat substitutes that are pretty tasty and have made the leap quite easy.

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Sea Change Strategies

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Whether or not bourbon is your drink of choice or not, non profits can learn a thing or two from Maker’s Mark about authentic audience engagement. With so many companies and non profits failing big time in responding quickly and transparently online and losing audience trust and loyalty because of it, here are three things to learn from Maker’s Mark: (1) When announcing the decision to cut the whiskey, Bill Samuels Jr.,

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APRIL 5, 2009

Social Media is people using tools (like blogs & video) and sites (like Facebook & Twitter) to share content and have conversations online. Why should we care? In 2005, 8% of all adults online had a profile on a social network site. Today, 35% do. This slideshow from Cheri Hegi, Creative Director of Primal Media is a great introduction to social media nonprofits. In the presentation, Cheri offers 5 simple rules for social media for nonprofits. Listen. Social Media is not about you.

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Giving in a Digital World

JULY 19, 2009

I attended an interesting meeting last week, along with folks from a few other charities and non-profit-related organisations, to hear about the plans in place to introduce new Internet Top Level Domains ( TLDs ) to add to those you’ll already know – like.com,org, etc – and in particular to discuss what benefit might come from introducing a new non-profit-only community TLD.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

JUNE 11, 2007

The AMA Scholarship Program is available to a range of non- profit organizations representing the social sector across the United States. From The Foundation Center.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

JUNE 18, 2007

The AMA Scholarship Program is available to a range of non- profit organizations representing the social sector across the United States. Tags: Non Profits Leader to Leader Institute scholarships leadership the foundation center American Management Association leaders From The Foundation Center. [I I posted this announcement before, but want to support it, so here it is, again.]

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Giving in a Digital World

MARCH 29, 2009

Last week YouTube launched a new feature called ‘Call to Action’ for Non-profit Partner s , allowing them to place overlay ads linking direct to their own website on their YouTube videos - for free. So, if you’re a UK or US non-profit what’s stopping you?

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Giving in a Digital World

MARCH 29, 2009

Last week YouTube launched a new feature called ‘Call to Action’ for Non-profit Partner s , allowing them to place overlay ads linking direct to their own website on their YouTube videos - for free. So, if you’re a UK or US non-profit what’s stopping you?

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 13, 2018

Fundraising design for good graphic design for a cause graphic design for non-profit organizations pdf non profit design firms non profit graphic design firms nonprofit branding agency pro bono graphic design non profit yippa designMake the fonts at least 12 pt… 14 point is even better for older eyes. Even though you might feel that it looks chunky, remember, the printed items are for the donors, not you.

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The Biddery Blog

AUGUST 19, 2009

The eNonprofit Benchmarks Study provides a snapshot of key metrics and benchmarks for nonprofit e-mail communications, online fundraising and online advocacy, primarily taken from an in-depth review of statistics from 21 nonprofit organizations.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Professional Theaters Deadline: December 3, 2007 The Shubert Foundation ( [link] ) annually awards unrestricted grants for general operating support to not-for-profit, professional resident theaters in the United States. From The Foundation Center. Shubert Foundation Offers Funding for U.S.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 12, 2017

On today’s episode we discuss our second set of listener submitted questions. This time on if the approach to public and private school fundraising is different and how to determine what fundraising marketing channels to focus on. You can have your question discussed on the show by emailing me – tim@imarketsmart.com. The post Private vs. Public Schools and Marketing Channels (EF-0014) appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |.

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Donor Power Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Over the weekend, we came upon this segment from Current TV , discussing how non-profits are using social media in innovative ways to battle the economic downturn. Particularly interesting information on "aggregators." Enjoy!

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The Biddery Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Create your own silent auction bid sheets with our list of FREE silent auction bid sheet templates specifically for non profit charity fundraising auctions. Do you need silent auction bid sheet for your event? Silent Auction Bid Sheet from Microsoft Silent Auction Bid Sheets & Live Auction Bid Sheet - golf tournament charity fundraisers 2009 CVIDS Silent Auction Bid Sheet pdf 2009 Silent Auction Bid Sheet pdf Auction Bid Sheet Template.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

MAY 21, 2007

This is the first time in American history that Congress' has laid down stronger expectations of the non profit world. It is a benefit to the donor, to the non profit field, and to our communities. King expects that the future threshold for non profits will be how effectively we use our resources to effect change.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Starting a non profit? The previous post "Start Up Non Profit? In this post I talk about how to receive grants before your organization has officially received it's legal non profit status (it's a 501(c).3, The process called fiscal sponsorship offers organizations who are not legal non profit entities to receive tax free dollars. The non charity entity then makes periodic reports detailing how, where, when, etc.

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Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 3, 2012

From time to time I introduce you to my friends on this blog. This post is from John Haydon, a great guy and a social media whiz! Enjoy! By John Haydon, www.JohnHaydon.com. If you’re like most people who work at nonprofits, you’re inspired by quietly changing the world each and every day. But sometimes it’s not easy to stay inspired – especially because you’re a human being with good days and bad days!

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Giving in a Digital World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Back in March I wrote about the launch of YouTube’s ‘Call to Action’ feature enabling UK and US organisations in its Non-profit Partners Programme to place overlay ads linking direct to their own websites from their YouTube videos for free – basically turning YouTube videos into simple interactive video ads. Tags: YouTube Annotations Bryan Miller Call to Action YouTube non-profit partner

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Giving in a Digital World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Back in March I wrote about the launch of YouTube’s ‘Call to Action’ feature enabling UK and US organisations in its Non-profit Partners Programme to place overlay ads linking direct to their own websites from their YouTube videos for free – basically turning YouTube videos into simple interactive video ads. Tags: YouTube Annotations Bryan Miller Call to Action YouTube non-profit partner

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Seeking Grant Money Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Getting a non profit off the ground is tough. If you aren't sure what a start up non profit is, read "Life Cycle of an Exempt Organization" on the IRS website. The sooner that your organization is on its feet, the sooner you will have cash flow, organizational growth, and success. __ While you and your colleagues started the organization and have been, without fail, doing important work in your community - a non profit organization is a legal entity.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

MAY 23, 2007

From Seattle's Non Profit Networking Yahoo Groups List Serve: KEXP.org, in Seattle, is a non profit radio station that began as KCMU on the University of Washington campus (also, then, a non profit radio station). KEXP is known, today, for it's independent, "listener-driven", and non-pop radio programming. Since we began the program in 2006, we have raised over $20,000 for local non-profit organizations.

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The Biddery Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Nonprofits are hiring--and there aren't enough applicants to fill the open slots. As they struggle to survive the economic crisis, nonprofits are hungry for donations. Many are hiring fundraisers--and there are not enough applicants to fill the open slots. In especially short supply are "major gift officers," fundraisers who can net the big fish willing to donate pots of cash or bequeath substantial sums to a charity after their death.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

DECEMBER 10, 2007

To demonstrate, let's say, hypothetically, that your non profit writes and mails an annual appeal each year to your donors. Let's say that you just mailed your annual appeal letter to 300 folks who've donated to your non profit, before. For instance, be sure that your non profit has a federal non profit bulk mailing rate for large mailings. As I always, I want you to do a few things. The up shot?

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Seeking Grant Money Today

MAY 29, 2007

Clientele, community members, donors, non profit volunteers and staff, and agency leadership, you may ask: "What is a well run non profit?" A well run non profit will garner community and donor support; but more importantly it will meet a need in the community successfully in an efficient and honest manner. A well run non profit agency is one in which: 10. 75% - 80% (or more) of a non profit's revenues are dedicated to core programs.

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The Biddery Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2009

AuctionStar ® is the only retail software that has used patented bar-coded methods to preswipe credit cards, place bids and checkout guests at auction events Auction 123 is a silent auction software program designed specifically for your silent auction event. It brings together all of your paperwork for your silent auction vendors, inventory and bidders and makes managing your silent auction easy and enjoyable.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If you’re like most people who work at nonprofits, you’re inspired by quietly changing the world each and every day. But sometimes it’s not easy to stay inspired – especially because you’re a human being with good days and bad days! Re-inspire your sense of mission by participating in the Heart & Soul grant. The CTK Foundation has just launched the 2012/2013 Heart & Soul Grants , with over $55,000 to assist nonprofits like yours in accomplishing your mission.

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Giving in a Digital World

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Twitter feeds are starting to run hot with requests for Followers to vote for the various sites nominated for the 2009 People’s Choice Website of the Year Awards , with the full line-up of shortlisted nonprofits looking like this: rednoseday.com. ifaw.org. unicef.org.uk. redcross.org.uk.

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