My webinar with Nonprofit Tech for Good went so well I wanted to share the slides with you! How to Use Social Media to Raise Money Online from Julia Campbell. Description of the webinar: Packed with practical, how-to advice and examples for small nonprofits on a limited budget, this free webinar will show you how to leverage your social media accounts to raise money and strengthen relationships with donors so they give again. MORE

How many times have you received an appeal or thank you letter that never mentions your past giving or that you’re a monthly donor? All you get is a generic, one-size-fits-all letter that doesn’t acknowledge who you are. MORE

Recently I checked my library account, and I checked out over 100 books in the last year. Did I read them all? But did I skim all of them? I read most of them. I love learning! When I started out in fundraising, I always wanted more knowledge. MORE

If you were a fundraiser at my alma mater seeking a donation from me for a new building, a progressive campaign might look like this: Step 1 – Awareness. The first step might be an offer (seemingly from you) to see if I’d like a digital version of my yearbook from my graduation year. MORE

While we know a lot of you are completely overwhelmed or stressed by your job, we also know a lot of you are out there kicking butt! Your campaigns get attention. Your advocates make change happen. Emails are being opened and checks are being mailed. You are on top of the world! So how do you handle that success? When things go right we tend to react in two very different ways – get cocky and complacent or think we just got lucky. MORE

Curious if your salary as a nonprofit communications director is in line with what others are making? There’s a huge range depending on the size of your nonprofit and where you live. Check out the salary data for U.S. MORE

It’s that time of year. The time when we descend on New Orleans to eat our way through all the beignets ( again ), pretend we’re bold enough to go on a cemetery tour, and most importantly, set up the most fun, informative, and least-boring show booth at the 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum MORE

Welcome to the seventh episode of Nonprofit Social Media Nerds , where we discuss and demo social media tools, tech, tips, and tricks. MORE

Join Catalist’s Brittany Hill for a FREE one-hour webinar on February 27th that will share the findings of reaching out to more than 150 CSR executives and capturing their thoughts, challenges and predictions for the upcoming year. Signup HERE. MORE

Measuring your organization’s fundraising performance against itself (year over year analysis for example), is the first step towards benchmarking. After that comes peer comparison. The post Fundraising Benchmarks — What Can You Learn from $40B in Donations? appeared first on Fundraising Report Card. Analysis MORE