NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 234

Bloomerang

JUNE 6, 2024

Understanding what flips the switch for your members to transform them from participants to passionate donors is the key to boosting your fundraising efforts. This sense of empowerment is crucial—it transforms the act of giving from a passive donation to an active contribution to a cause they care about.

Psychology 93

Psychology Participation and motivation Retention Technology 93

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2023

Animal yoga: Host an animal-themed yoga fundraiser in a local park where participants can exercise with animals eligible for adoption. Animal movie night: Host an animal movie night where participants pay to watch classic animal-themed movies alongside their own pets. This could include animal-themed games and animal training sessions.

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Fundraising Fundraising Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 200

Ann Green

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The goal here isn’t that you should immediately start participating in every activity we’ve listed. If your nonprofit has a monthly giving or membership program , you can recruit current participants to promote the opportunity to their family members and friends. Participate in cross-blogging.

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Participation and motivation Education Education Activism 174

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 7, 2023

Tina James​ Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.

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Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Race and Ethnicity 244

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Guest Post by James Vineburgh, PhD, Director of Research and Marketing at Converge Consulting. To provide education, which has been strongly associated with salary levels, employment rates, participation in civic activities, and perceptions of self worth, it takes the almighty dollar. What do you think? James Vineburgh, Jr.,

Education 173

Education Education Non-Profits Participation and motivation 173

Affnetz

APRIL 30, 2024

Impact Storytelling: Hopefully, you’re having conversations with your donors and seeking to uncover their motivational triggers for giving to your Nonprofit. Identifying a donor’s motivational triggers and then segmenting your communications to donors based on their deepest interest is essential to keeping a donor’s attention.

Retention 264

Retention Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Management 264

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

As nonprofit marketers, we can all probably relate to the situation Alice finds herself in during the first two chapters of Alice in Wonderland. While in hot pursuit of the white rabbit (our organizational goal), we come across a room filled with doors of various sizes (our marketing goals).

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Participation and motivation Associations Children Communication 190

Getting Attention

MARCH 14, 2013

Spend some time here, even if you think you’ve got this down—this distinction is crucial to setting goals that move your marketing forward in the right direction. Needs to build participation. Increase participation in our relationship and parenting classes and counseling programs. Marketing Goals.

Participation and motivation 83

Participation and motivation Marketing Marketing Retention 83

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

By Sarah Suarez , Founder and Social Media Strategist for The Social Puzzle – a boutique social media marketing agency which solely focuses on nonprofits so they can concentrate on what really matters, their mission. Reshare this content to show appreciation for their participation and to highlight the faces within the nonprofit’s community.

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Participation and motivation Collaborations Nonprofits Activism 122

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 16, 2024

Nonprofit Social Media Marketing: How to Make an Impact Are you constantly struggling to post on your nonprofit organization’s social media channels? We get it – a social media marketing strategy that can resonate with your goals and audience and yet drives successful results can be quite daunting. Relies mode on organic reach.

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Non-Profits Marketing Marketing Participation and motivation 96

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 19, 2023

In a walk-a-thon, participants create individual online fundraising pages to gather pledges from their family members and friends. These pledges represent promises to donate a certain amount of money based on each unit of distance the participant walks during the event. Promote the event. Thank donors after the event.

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Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Advertising 147

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 23, 2017

It’s easy to wrap our minds around how to get people to sign up to participate in a walk or a run. Luckily, we’ve watched our clients try some pretty amazing tactics to boost participant fundraising in peer-to-peer events. Tell it to your participants! And that second part can be a real doozy. What’s your story? Or intimidating.

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Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Recruitment 128

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 12, 2024

Participants kickstart the pledge process by setting up personalized online fundraising pages. Fun runs follow the same concept, but participants run instead of walking. Utilize email campaigns and social media blasts to capture the attention of potential participants.

Participation and motivation 130

Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Disaster Relief 130

Getting Attention

JANUARY 7, 2013

The first round of trends I shared with you came from big-name marketing experts, were strategic in nature, and all centered the single most important must-do for 2013. The second round featured predictions on activities, challenges and hopes from nonprofit marketers like you. Get beyond your Facebook presence.

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Marketing Marketing Participation and motivation Activism 79

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Active readers? You can gather this information through a market research provider or by sending surveys to target audience members. . For those long-term donors, you could instead share a survey asking for their feedback on why they first donated to your cause and what motivated them to continue supporting your mission. .

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Participation and motivation Energy Retention Recruitment 147

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 17, 2023

In this short guide, we’ll walk you through a few strategies that will help you boost participation at your next virtual event, and make it more memorable: Invest in the right tools for virtual events. To get them eager to engage beforehand, tease your most exciting items in marketing materials.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Marketing Marketing Production 52

Ann Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

While one of the main attractions of nonprofits are live fundraising events and other experiences, it’s challenging for ever y member to participate and attend. Active efforts to engage your members online will increase their chance of renewing their membership. It all comes down to how you market the event beforehand.

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Nonprofits Participation and motivation Management Communication 154

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You’ve invested in the right fundraising software , planned your event activities, and conducted a trial run to make sure there are no technical issues. The key to navigating this issue and producing a high event turnout is marketing. What kind of activities can supporters expect if they attend your event? Let’s begin.

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Marketing Marketing Participation and motivation Activism 64

Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While GlassPockets has served to steadily motivate participating funders to share more information publicly, with only 112 participating foundations, the reality is that most funders opted not to participate. Well, there is very little in the way of market pressure to force transparency in endowed institutions.

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Participation and motivation Foundations Philanthropy Values 111

Pam Moore

JULY 29, 2024

From keeping up with platform changes to integrating the latest AI tools, and ensuring your team is aligned and motivated, the challenges can seem endless. With the right approach and tools, you can transform this chaos into streamlined digital and social media marketing success. Content marketing program really needs structure.

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Culture Technology Participation and motivation Leadership 133

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Use these 16 free email templates to create an efficient email marketing strategy that will seamlessly steward newly-acquired Giving Tuesday donors to your next campaign, and appeal to supporters who didn’t participate in Giving Tuesday. 2) Email Templates for Giving Tuesday Through Year-End.

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Fundraising Fundraising Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 129

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By Kevin Santiago , Marketing Director at Paybee – an all-in-one charity fundraising platform that specializes in virtual, hybrid, and in-person fundraising events. We’ll also look at how popular fundraising activities can be adapted to these different galas and what online platforms you can use to help build a better fundraising strategy.

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Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Activism 101

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 14, 2023

Social media contests and giveaways are marketing tactics used by businesses to engage with their audience and increase brand awareness. Contests and giveaways usually involve asking participants to complete certain actions, such as liking a post, sharing a post, or commenting on a post, in exchange for the chance to win a prize.

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Participation and motivation Marketing Marketing Activism 98

Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

Highlighting the impact of donor gifts on your organization’s activities. Use your donor database and communication tools–like an email marketing platform, if you have one–to segment or group donors based on shared characteristics. Give your supporters a variety of activities that strengthen their bond to your cause. .

Retention 111

Retention Participation and motivation Activism Energy 111

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 7, 2017

Making a little progress every day is really important to staying motivated and happy in your work. Actively Manage Your Decision Points. We know that music can motivate us and make us feel more successful when exercising, and the same can be true at work. Experts recommend that you develop “progress rituals.”

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Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Energy Communication 112

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So I wanted to follow up on two questions: What drives event participation and what are ideas for fun events? What drives event participation? They have a great five-point model to describe event participation. Similarly, many events use large corporate teams in which affinity to the corporation is the defining motivation.

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Participation and motivation Non-Profits Activism Nonprofit Organizations 80

The Agitator

AUGUST 4, 2011

In short, why aren’t donors who give you one donation not motivated to give you a second. Tom and I have long believed the answer lies in ‘commitment’ – the motive or intent to maintain the recently formed relationship with your organization. Clearly we struck a nerve. Clearly we struck a nerve. The process is detailed here.

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Participation and motivation Retention Fundraising Fundraising 74

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These days, in Long Beach, you will find Cambodian art walks, night markets, and other community gatherings. Participating youth help us in outreach events, get paid an hourly wage as interns to pass out information, run children’s art programs, paint murals, and facilitate public-participation art projects.

Race and Ethnicity 117

Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 117

Getting Attention

JULY 16, 2015

Hope: Brains work on stories, and humorous stories activate altruism and hopefulness. Relevance rules, and is the only path to empathy: Believe it or not, effective change is being motivated by Hollywood. If you’ve seen any of these films from Participant Media — The Cove, Contagion, The Help, Food Inc.

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Altruism and Helping Participation and motivation Environmental Food 75

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Guest post by Jessica King at Getting Attention Powering a small nonprofit requires you to make the most of every marketing opportunity, big or small. That makes the Google Ad Grants program a big opportunity for nonprofits — even more so for small nonprofits that need all the marketing power they can get!

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Marketing Marketing Advertising Participation and motivation 64

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Advocacy covers a range of activities for nonprofits and includes much more than just legislative lobbying. Invite your board to participate in these easy and impactful ways to advocate for your mission: Host behind-the-scenes tours. Motivate your board to join forces with local community groups, businesses, and other nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Only Paty, Lumi, and one other woman in the group agreed that there was gender inequity, and the other participants were astonished that the three of us aligned against their view.

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Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation 122

Getting Attention

JANUARY 8, 2014

As I combed the infinite number of 2014 marketing recommendations shared in recent weeks, I was surprised to see this one— review, revise and recommit to your privacy policy. But on further reflection, I realized how central a thorough, fully-implemented privacy policy is in our age of data-driven marketing. Now’s the time.

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Participation and motivation Marketing Marketing Activism 76

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

If you’re hosting a capital campaign, invite major donors to participate in your feasibility study so they can provide feedback on your plan and goals. First-time major donors will require your organization to conduct more research to determine their motivations and giving preferences. Feasibility studies.

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Participation and motivation Retention Communication Management 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. And can we really still call it “impact”? Does it have societal benefits?

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 105

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 26, 2023

7 Omnichannel Customer Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations When it comes to nonprofits, engagement is the lifeblood that fuels volunteer participation, donations, and advocacy work. Enhancing your communication: you need to effectively communicate your mission, values, and impact to inspire and motivate your supporters.

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Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Non-Profits Participation and motivation 98