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Creating a Unique Value Proposition for Your Nonprofit (Part 1)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

A UVP is created by private-sector marketing experts to help a business fine-tune its sales strategy. The tips below will help your nonprofit create your UVP. Ninety percent of the time, a nonprofit’s ideal audience for constructing a UVP statement is its potential donors/foundations. This is much harder for foundations).

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Dr. James Explains How Asking Permission Sets the Stage for “The Ask”

iMarketSmart

More time can help. More time can help. Options that take time and effort to construct feel more valuable. People tend to predict they will help. This prediction is higher than the actual help they would have given if asked immediately. Getting people to first predict their actions increases helping.

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How Restricted Gifts Can Actually Be a GOOD Thing — And Why You Should Embrace Them

iMarketSmart

A gift restriction can help. Story world: Restrictions help impact. Providing restricted gift options can help in two ways.[23] Construction is $10 million. The fundraiser could just pick an amount, such as, “Would you consider a gift of $6,000 to help this program?”. A compelling donation request does the same.

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

Some gifts may help reputation, while others won’t. This helps link the challenge to a victory. The gift helps my group. And it helps my standing within the group. Both of these help link the victory to an enhanced identity. Showing that “people like me make gifts like this” helps. It’s complicated.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society. This theory relates to what American economist James Andreoni calls impure altruism , the inherent tension between philanthropy and self-interest.

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Pro-Black Organizations Lead the Way for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

As such, businesses can play a major role in responding constructively to the US’ increasing mental health challenges. An example of this work is BEAM’s Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Training , which helps organizations increase their capacity “to transform, reimagine, and refine organizational systems.” [12]

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