July, 2020

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The Importance of Having a Thank You Plan

Ann Green

I feel like the theme of most of my posts over the last several months is this is more important than ever. This could be a tough fundraising season, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a campaign this fall. Something that should help is having a thank you plan. Thanking donors often takes a back seat to fundraising when you should spend equal time doing both.

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Scrubbing Your Language of Racist Metaphors

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Oh, how we love, love, love good metaphors here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide! A good metaphor is a wonderful way to connect a new concept to something that people are already familiar with, making it that much easier to absorb the new idea. The right metaphor can be extraordinarily helpful in communicating a message. We love them so much, we wrote an e-book about metaphors nonprofits can use.

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Newsletter: Meet the Queen of Cause Marketing ; Mountain Dew, Country Time Cut Stimulus Checks to Causes ; Time to Rethink the Humble Press Release ??

Selfish Giving

Tomorrow is our next virtual book club meeting! Join Megan Strand and me at 4pm ET (1pm PT) to discus How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Register via this Zoom link to be part of the discussion. Or, watch the Facebook Live stream in our Read With Purpose group. This is going to be a great meeting! Even if you haven't read or finished the book, join us.

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Irresistible Content: 10-Point Checklist for Content that Converts to More Customers [podcast + ebook]

Pam Moore

SocialZoomFactor · How to Create Irresistible Content 10-Point Checklist. As brands struggle to rise above the sea of status quo social media updates, videos, podcasts and blog posts, the digital and social web is beyond noisy. Yelling louder into the digital echo chamber of spam and noise is not the magic answer to your lack of attention problems. Though many marketers think the answer is to create mounds and mounds of content and publish it everywhere for everyone to MAYBE see, this is also no

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Moree Lambeth , Senior Content Creator at Water.org. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way organizations execute their social media plans. Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf. The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level.

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Shopworkers struggling with mental health in lockdown, survey reveals

Fundraising Coach

Almost 40% of retail professionals admit that they have struggled with their mental health during lockdown, new research reveals. A poll by job board CV-Library, which surveyed 2,000 UK retail workers, found that the most common concerns workers in the industry have had during lockdown are about: losing their job (44%), not being able to.

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Mid-Year Check-In: Are You Taking Care of Yourself? #NPCOMMLIFE

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We are a little over halfway through 2020 and it is just one s**tstorm after another, isn’t it? But wherever you are right now, it’s important to take a step back and look at how you are taking care of yourself. As I was recently reminded: If we can’t take care of ourselves, we won’t be able to take care of others. Sara Fabian, The Ultimate Reason Why Self-Care Is Not Selfish.

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Newsletter: How Shoppers Hear About Brand-Supported Causes ; Help for Partnership Professionals Looking for Work ; Aldi Sells Lemony Products to Benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand

Selfish Giving

Are you a corporate partnership professional that's out of work? I want to try to help in two ways. 1. Let me know that you are looking. I've heard from many of you already and have forwarded several jobs to people - usually in advance of publishing them in my newsletter. I'd be happy to do the same for you. Just hit reply and tell me what you are looking for and include a link to your LinkedIn page so I can see your background. 2.

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How to Blog (And Why it Matters)

Mission Minded

Blog posts are a key opportunity for unique, timely, impact-driven storytelling that reinforces your brand. The post How to Blog (And Why it Matters) appeared first on Mission Minded.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Kayla Matthews , writer at ProductivityTheory.com – a blog dedicated to helping others better their productivity. Instagram can be a powerful tool for nonprofits wanting to connect to a broader audience. The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Nonprofit Donor Management: 4 Awesome Best Practices

Fundraising Coach

Proper donor management is the key to effective fundraising. When you have accessible data about your donors that is stored well and easy to sift through, your nonprofit will have the tools you need in order to build relationships with those supporters. . Relationships, now more than ever , are key to lucrative fundraising strategies. Some donors find themselves, very much like many nonprofits, stretched thin financially.

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How to Engage With Your Donors by Using Visual Stories

Ann Green

Getting your donors’attention in the best of times is hard enough and we’re not in the best of times right now. In my last post, I wrote about the importance of telling your stories. Written stories are great, but donors may not have the time or energy to read a story right now. . This is why you also need to use visual stories. Some people respond better to visual stimuli, anyway.

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Adding First and Last Names to Your Email Database

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s a great question that came in this week. “I’ve inherited an email list that has been populated with a form that collected only email addresses. In order to add these people to our new CRM, I need first and last names. Do you have any recommendations for email strategy to get people to share their names?” First of all, this is not uncommon.

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3 Essentials for Fundraising Technology: A Beginner’s Guide

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

3 Essentials for Fundraising Technology: A Beginner’s Guide. We all know the power of Fundraising for Nonprofits, but how do you get started with the right Fundraising Technology? Check out this starter’s guide and learn more. Fundraising is hard work. Between planning events and organizing information, everything you’re doing should serve to make the donor experience easier.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Are Your Brand Values Inclusive?

Mission Minded

With our goal of being an ever more inclusive organization, we didn’t change our values, but we recognized the need to change how we express them. The post Are Your Brand Values Inclusive? appeared first on Mission Minded.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Doug Scott , the founder of Tectonic Video , a leading video agency for nonprofits. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S. and around the world to create award-winning videos that drive results. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations.

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10 Reasons You Need an Audience First Marketing Strategy NOW [podcast + worksheets]

Pam Moore

SocialZoomFactor · 10 Reasons You Need an Audience First Marketing Strategy. If your marketing strategies and tactics are focused on trying to be everything to everyone, you are likely winding up being nothing to nobody. If you are targeting conversations trying to talk to everyone you are likely not talking to anyone. The #1 way to ensure that your marketing campaigns and programs perform at the highest level is to to make certain that you are targeting the right audience.

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Telling Your Stories in the Current Climate

Ann Green

We’re halfway through 2020 and it looks like this will be a year that will stand out in history. We’re having a global pandemic, along with a severe economic downturn. The horrific killing of George Floyd by a police officer spawned protests against racism and police brutality. Systemic racism is something that’s been part of the United States (and other countries) for centuries.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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6 Ways to Get More Value Out of Your Next Press Release

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Alvin Chua. Many communicators overvalue the importance of press releases. Yes, a press release is an important part of your nonprofit’s media relations toolbox. But it is just one tool. Most nonprofits that are successful in getting meaningful media coverage do so through building relationships with journalists and other influencers — and then leveraging those relationships into placements in stories.

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How Advocacy Fits Into Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Strategy

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns are becoming increasingly popular to help advance the mission of organizations. However, many organizations are under the impression that they must divide their attention between their advocacy campaigns and their fundraising efforts. In this case, many decide to ignore advocacy altogether. . However, they don’t need to be separate entities!

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3 Musts for a Stand-Out Admissions Campaign This Year

Mission Minded

Learn the three points of focus your school's admissions campaign must have to be effective in 2020/21. The post 3 Musts for a Stand-Out Admissions Campaign This Year appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Cryptocurrency Fundraising: A Beginner’s Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Pat Duffy , co-founder of The Giving Block. 1) Should your nonprofit fundraise cryptocurrency? Hundreds of nonprofits now accept cryptocurrency donations. Bitcoin is perhaps the fastest and most tax-efficient way for donors to support nonprofits, but not all nonprofits should accept cryptocurrency. Reasons to accept crypto donations: Simplicity: Crypto is significantly easier than accepting stock donations. .

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Innovate Your Marketing Strategy for the New Normal [podcast]

Pam Moore

SocialZoomFactor · Marketing Your Business in the New Normal. Many marketers feel as if the stable ground they were standing on just a few short months ago is now constantly moving like a digital earthquake. What use to be “normal” is now a distant past. The only guarantee we have is change. It's time for marketers to do what they do best… innovate and prepare for the future.

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3 Tips for Growing Leaders at Your Organization in 2020

Concord Leadership

The leader’s journey comes with struggles for everyone, and especially so during times of instability like now. With COVID-19 encouraging or requiring all nonessential workers to stay home, and the virus adversely affecting the global economy, you’ve likely had to rethink the ways you engage and compensate your employees. Being a leader involves pinpointing the […].

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – July 24, 2020

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

How was your week? Let’s start the weekend with the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have a lot of social media tips, virtual fundraising ideas and successes, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… You need to reach your supporters in many different places.

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How to Keep Your Team Motivated Through 2020

NonProfit Hub

The year 2020 has presented some… interesting challenges to say the least. But one of the most prevalent has been staying motivated at work. When you’re home, working in your pajamas and distractions just too close for you to ignore them, you have to think of new ways to be productive. It seems like working remotely is going to be our reality for the rest of 2020 ?

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.

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Do We Need to Be On Campus to Understand Your School?

Mission Minded

If the magic of your school can only be felt by physically experiencing it, your ability to attract families will be limited. The post Do We Need to Be On Campus to Understand Your School? appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Is Your Nonprofit Half Way to Your 2020 Fundraising Goal$?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing.

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Optimize Your Marketing Strategy for the New Normal [podcast]

Pam Moore

SocialZoomFactor · Marketing Your Business in the New Normal. Many marketers feel as if the stable ground they were standing on just a few short months ago is now constantly moving like a digital earthquake. What use to be “normal” is now a distant past. The only guarantee we have is change. It's time for marketers to do what they do best… innovate and prepare for the future.

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Make a Refreshing Jump Back into Business with Your Own Drinks Van

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Make a Refreshing Jump Back into Business with Your Own Drinks Van! As the economy is slowly creeping back to normality , many people have found themselves with a freshly charged desire to do something new and explore more interesting ways to expand their income potential. And there’s a good reason for that – one silver lining in the massive recent cloud that was the Coronavirus pandemic is that there is now a lot of opportunity for starting various types of businesses.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a