Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
On today’s show, Megan and I talk to Jeff Freedman , Founder & CEO of Small Army & Small Army for a Cause. Jeff and his agency are behind Be Bold, Go Bald! , an effort that has supporters nationwide wearing bald caps to raise money for 25 local and national cancer organizations. Since its inception in 2009, participants have raised $500,000.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
On Friday, I taught a workshop called Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising at the annual conference of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. I’m sharing the deck with you here. Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising from Kivi Leroux Miller. While everyone wants to focus on peer-to-peer fundraising in social media, you can actually use social media to support your fundraising in many different ways, including the six ways we focused on.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter.
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Studies continue to show that online giving is the fastest growing fundraising channel. But not every nonprofit is experiencing this stellar growth. The best way to grow online donations. So what’s the best way to grow online donations? A firm called Dunham+Company recently released a study that has counterintuitive results. The study says direct mail is a growing source for online gifts.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Get Fully Funded
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Did you know that most donors check out your website before they make a gift ?? And if your website doesn’t make a good first impression, you’ll lose the donor and the gift faster than you can say ‘goodbye online donation.’. Your website doesn’t have to be fancy. In fact, the simpler, the better. It just needs to look professional, clean, and inviting.
The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
Google last week released a remarkable study on how people access and use digital content these days. It’s an easy ‘must read’ with this excellent infographic presentation provided via TechCrunch. The bad news for all you old-timers out there … only 10% of our daily media interactions are based on old-fashioned radio, newspapers and magazines; fully 90% — 4.4 hours worth of our leisure time — are ‘screen-based’ We spend our digital time on four pri
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Nonprofit Marketing Guide
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
We often talk about nonprofit personality or brand, and how it’s more than just your logo and color palette. It’s also the style or voice or tone of your communications. But what does that mean exactly? If you were to look it up, you’d find some conflict among writers about the differences, but I like to think of it this way: Your Voice.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
@ NonprofitOrgs follows more than 120,000 nonprofits, nonprofit staff and nonprofit service providers. Now, of course it’s humanly impossible to follow the tweets of that many Twitter accounts, so to make the chaos manageable I organize my favorite nonprofits and those whose tweets consistently stand out from the rest into Twitter Lists. However, at least 10 times a day I go to my “Home” view and scan through hundreds of tweets hoping to find new nonprofits to retweet or list,
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
There have been some pretty high profile news stories of direct mail firms and telemarketers pocketing 75% to 85% of the money raised for a charity. The latest was reported yesterday on NPR reporting on a Bloomberg investigation of InfoCision’s work for charities like the American Cancer Society. 75% to 85%? That prompts the question: What were they thinking?
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Today I call your attention to a fantastic presentation by Google via SocialFish. It shows how consumers seamlessly shift among devices throughout the day - which is critical for those of us in nonprofit marketing and fundraising to understand. It is well worth your time and attention, so I’m including it in this post. Don’t have time to flip through the whole deck below?
Speaker: Dave Sackett
Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.
The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Each afternoon at around 2:30 the daily gem-filled missive from Jeff Brook’s Future Fundraising Now arrives in my e-mailbox. Part wit, part iconoclast, almost always spot on, Jeff is merciless on much of the foolishness – branding studies, focus groups, ‘creative’ advertising, laborious organization-centered copy – that destroys effective fundraising.
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
This was a fun segment I did with HuffPost Live last night. It was great to join Beth Kanter and Jack Ucciferri in discussing Chase Communtiy Giving and corporate giving in general.… Keep reading.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
“Content is King,” they say. While that may be true, “they” don’t mention how hard it is trying to come up with fresh ideas that resonate with your readers. Inspiration can be hard to come by some days, but that’s where our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts come in. Every month we send out an e-newsletter designed specifically to help you come up with ideas for your newsletter articles, blog posts and social network updates.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
I wanted to give some encouragement to all the small and medium-sized nonprofits out there on the Social Web that tweet, share and post regularly with the hope of growing their communities and inspiring social good – some feedback I received last week from Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Safe Kids Worldwide : Remember back when you came to present at our conference in 2008 and told everyone that 5,000 fans was the magic number – that once we go
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Yesterday, I sent my Fundraising Kick members 3 contrarian tips on writing successful fundraising letters. Here are three more tips that seem to go against what we’d expect. These tips come from an amazing new book by Jeff Brooks called The Fundraiser’s Guide to Irresistible Communications. I’ve been a fan of Jeff’s for almost ten years.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Does your nonprofit struggle with figuring out what percentage of your Facebook content should be promotional VS sharing other content from news or blog sites? Here are a couple schools of thought on finding your Facbook content sweet spot. The 70/20/10 rules for managing your content on Facebook as shown in the infographic below states that: 70% of the content you share on Facebook should be resource material and valuable content posts. 20% should be sharing others’ content. 10% should be
The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Each afternoon at around 2:30 the daily gem-filled missive from Jeff Brook’s Future Fundraising Now arrives in my e-mailbox. Part wit, part iconoclast, almost always spot on, Jeff is merciless on much of the foolishness – branding studies, focus groups, ‘creative’ advertising, laborious organization-centered copy – that destroys effective fundraising.
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Phillip Haid , founder and CEO of Public Inc. , knows how to run a successful pinup program. Case in point: he just raised nearly a million dollars with a pinup program at Canada’s Winners and HomeSense stores for the Sunshine Foundation. That’s $300,000 more than they raised the year before without his help. I asked Phillip what made this campaign so successful. 1. ”We tried to take some of the pressure off of the sales associate by prompting the opportunity to Spread a Litt
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
It’s time for another free webinar, and this time it’s our ever-popular “Three Stories Every Nonprofit Should Be Telling” on Wednesday, October 24. Space is limited, to reserve your spot now. This webinar will be our annual Nonprofit Marketing Guide community fundraiser for Positive Wellness Alliance (PWA), an organization that helps low-income people with HIV/AIDS in the rural part of North Carolina where I live.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Launched today, LinkedIn Board Connect for Nonprofit Organizations is a new board member recruiting program that enables nonprofits to easily tap into LinkedIn’s 175+ million strong network of professionals. With nonprofits needing to fill approximately two million empty board seats annually, LinkedIn Board Connect could be the missing link in helping nonprofits make board member recruitment a much easier and more rewrding process.
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
If you’re like many nonprofits, you’ve sent a fall fundraising appeal this month and you plan on sending one towards the end of the year. You might want to reconsider that plan. NPR did a great piece on political direct mail. It’s definitely worth listening to, but here are two take-a-ways: It’s going to be noisy in the mail box.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
As a consultant to nonprofits who are looking to create social change in this world, I spend a lot of time reading through nonprofit’s online fundraising appeals. Even though many organizations have improved integrating their online and offline fundraising work, too many “goofs” are slipping through the cracks that can drastically impact response rates.
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.
The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Stacy Guidice at Grizzard sent us these interesting stats on the extent to which first-time online gifts are driven by direct mail. Analysts at Grizzard matched first-time online gifts against mailing lists used in parallel for one of their clients, Rescue Missions. A median of 35% of first-time online gifts could be matched back to direct mail appeals — with highs of 62% and 60% in two cases.
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Since I started writing Selfishgiving.com in December 2004, my site has undergone three redesigns. This latest is my fourth and the work of Kansas-based Mikhaela Craig and Boston’s Caitlin DiMare Oliver. The Kansas-Boston connection was a powerful one as these two gals have worked a lot together. I highly recommend both of them. I also recommend Headway Themes , the framework on which my WordPress blog is built.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you what kind of communications I received from twenty different national nonprofits after giving year-end gifts in the last days of 2011. The results were very mixed , with about a 1/3 of the organizations doing what I would consider good online donor retention, 1/3 doing it inconsistently, and 1/3 doing basically nothing.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
When nonprofits launch or consider launching a smartphone app, an iPhone app is usually their first choice with an Android app a distant second. Launching a third version of a smartphone app is extremely rare, but with the release of Windows 8 Pro on October 26 for desktop and tablets compatible with the design and functionality of the Windows Phone , nonprofits could very soon be adding a third option to their suite of smartphone apps.
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Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
A few months ago, my colleague Pamela Grow released a new book specifically for nonprofits with a “one person” fundraising shop. This isn’t just theory for her, she actually has been successful as a one person shop. So, since I love small shops-and even contributed a chapter to this book-I interviewed her about her approach. Here is some of the transcript of some that interview.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
I recently stumbled across the Infographic of Who’s Who of Social Influence Measurement and while it’s no surprise to see the social influencer industry growing, it’s a little worrisome. As nonprofit senior leadership starts taking social media more seriously to engage supporters, they are also starting to ponder their own organization’s influence.
The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Stacy Guidice at Grizzard sent us these interesting stats on the extent to which first-time online gifts are driven by direct mail. Analysts at Grizzard matched first-time online gifts against mailing lists used in parallel for one of their clients, Rescue Missions. A median of 35% of first-time online gifts could be matched back to direct mail appeals — with highs of 62% and 60% in two cases.
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Today, Megan and I interview researcher Stefanie Robinson of North Carolina State University on a recent series of studies about consumer choice in cause marketing campaigns. We learn that giving consumers a choice is often (but not always) a good idea in cause campaigns, particularly when the consumers are collectivists (Don’t know what a collectivist is?
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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