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5 Tips for Using Big Numbers in Your Communications

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Four thousand (4,000) people died. Forty thousand (40,000) people died. Four hundred thousand (400,000) people died. Obviously, there’s a whole order of magnitude — that extra zero — on these numbers as they grow, so they are very different in size. But the reality is that most people have a really hard time comprehending the difference between these three numbers.

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Giving Tuesday 2021 Playbook: How To Execute a Campaign and Retain Your New Donors

NonProfit PRO

Believe it or not, the holidays and year-end are rapidly approaching. You’re probably working hard on your annual appeal, which will hopefully bring in lots of cash both by mail and online. But there’s a new opportunity for nonprofits to bring in that much-needed year-end money and promote the importance of the nonprofit sector: Giving Tuesday.

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Newsletter: Round-up, Fixed Request, Open-Ended Request: Which is Best in POS? ; 4 Questions Prospects Want You to Answer ??? ; What is Fair Use in Content Curation? ??

Selfish Giving

This is the last newsletter before Labor Day (aka "the unofficial last day of summer") and I just want to say thank you ! ?? Thank you to everyone who has emailed me this summer thanking me for publishing this newsletter every week. Folks - as Mark Twain once said - I can live for two months on a good compliment! I'm currently feasting on this one. "I just want to say THANK YOU for these e-mails - they are always packed with helpful, relevant content and information.

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Is Your Board Hiding From Fundraising? 4 Tips for Improving Engagement

Bloomerang

The executive director of the nonprofit was quite clear when she was recruiting me for the board of directors: Fundraising would be part of my responsibilities. This was written into the expectations document, and it was covered in my orientation by the board president. . Yet, I exempted myself in my own mind. . I figured I was too young, that I didn’t know anyone with money.

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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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Welcome to September! Let’s Talk Donor Comms and Microcontent

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: The Annual All-Access Training Pass. Attend live webinars and workshops (including the ones listed below), watch recorded webinars, enroll in exclusive online courses and access our entire library with templates, worksheets, e-books and more, and join our Private Facebook Group all with one purchase.

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Peer-to-Peer World Offers Five Fridays of Expert-Led Education Sessions

NonProfit PRO

With more than 20 sessions scheduled over the course of the event, attendees can expect in-depth looks at various aspects of peer-to-peer fundraising Fridays from Sept. 10 to Oct. 8, starting at 9 a.m.

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Donor Segmentation | Comprehensive Guide + Tips for Success

Bloomerang

When you started your nonprofit, you likely had a core group of supporters who provided donations and funding on a regular basis. This made it very easy to reach out to each supporter individually and personalize the communication. However, as you became more well-known in the community, the list of supporters who contribute to your cause continued to grow, making maintaining one-on-one personal communication increasingly challenging. .

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Burned Out from Talking about Burnout

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Most Mondays I try to put together some resources for you that make your #NPCOMMLIFE a little easier. But as I was doing some reading to come up with an idea for today’s #NPCOMMLIFE post , I came across 30 Good Morning Motivation Quotes To Kickstart Your Day. I got to “I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing” and literally just screamed “OH SHUT UP ALREADY!

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Ignore This and Fail

NonProfit PRO

I know this is personal. This is about you, how you work and what you pay attention to. And this is part of your work that has nothing to do with strategy, the quality of the donor or what you have to offer the donor.

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Sonia Torres Appointed as Mission Minded’s Director of Strategic Planning

Mission Minded

Learn how this new role will help our clients develop and lead inspired and actionable plans that put their mission and stakeholders at the center. The post Sonia Torres Appointed as Mission Minded’s Director of Strategic Planning appeared first on Mission Minded.

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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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Giving USA 2021 Key Findings: How to Retain and Upgrade Nonprofit Donors Before Year’s End

Bloomerang

If you’re wondering what the future holds for fundraising, you’re not alone. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re living through tumultuous times. So much of what we thought we knew about the world has been turned topsy-turvy. What might this mean for philanthropy and fundraising moving forward? There were many at the beginning of the pandemic who suffered a crisis of confidence.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – September 3, 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

The Corner Grille. Atlanta, GA. This Friday let’s just cut to the chase and get right to the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have social media ROI and tools, budget templates, why the system will never be complicit in its demise, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Sandy Rees tells you How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results.

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3 Ways To Leverage Text Marketing for More Than Soliciting Donations

NonProfit PRO

SMS messaging doesn’t just help with fundraising. Organizations have found other ways to incorporate text messaging into their operations. Check out these three ideas.

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Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions

Blue Avocado

With the pandemic ending, now is an excellent time to reassess your board’s performance. A check-up now can ensure that you are not just surviving, but thriving. To test your boards critical performance or to put in place practices and strategies for a healthy and reenergized board, the best place to start is with a […]. The post Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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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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Sonia Torres Appointed as Mission Minded’s Director of Srategic Planning

Mission Minded

Learn how this new role will help our clients develop and lead inspired and actionable plans that put their mission and stakeholders at the center. The post Sonia Torres Appointed as Mission Minded’s Director of Srategic Planning appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s SEO Results To Stand Out Against The Competition

Bloomerang

How To Win Your Donor’s Attention and Secure Their Gift. You’ve likely heard about the importance of search engine optimization (SEO), but do you know what it means and how it matters for your nonprofit? In this blog post, I’ll dive into that and how to make sure your nonprofit stays on top of your prospective donor’s SEO results. What is SEO and why does it matter?

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Donations by Pledge App Can Turn Zoom Meetings Into Virtual Fundraisers

NonProfit PRO

Pledge introduced a donate button for Zoom through its Donations by Pledge app. The addition will allow any of the 300 million daily Zoom meeting participants to instantly become a fundraiser for any one of the two million verified charitable and nonprofit organizations in its worldwide network.

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Ask Rita: How Do I Navigate Requests for Religious Exemptions from a Requirement to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine?

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, With availability of Covid-19 vaccines, we, like many employers, opted to implement a voluntary vaccine policy, along with strong incentives for and encouragement of employees to get vaccinated. Then, the effectiveness of the vaccine became more widely accepted. Because our nonprofit serves a population with a large percentage of vulnerable people, we made […].

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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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The 20 Best Golf Affiliate Programs

Getting Attention

This is my MASTER LIST of the BEST Golf Affiliate Programs to Join This Year!Mankind has been hitting balls with sticks since time immemorial. Many games involve balls and sticks but few are as famous and as lucrative as the game of golf. Played by over 25 million Americans, golf is one of the largest […].

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. UMass receives $50 million commitment from Robert and Donna Manning. September 2, 2021 The University of Massachusetts has announced a $50 million gift from alumni Robert J. ('84) and Donna Manning ('85, '91) in support of efforts to increase access and opportunity across the five-campus university system.

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Classy Makes Moves To Improve Donor Giving Experience

NonProfit PRO

Classy, a giving experience platform, has made a commitment to streamline giving and connect more donors with appealing causes with new innovations, a new hire to lead that product development and two internal promotions.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

If you are ready to ride an epic wave of generosity with an airtight end-of-year fundraising strategy join our special guest Rachel Muir. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Rachel, I got two o’clock Eastern. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started? Rachel: Absolutely. . Steven: All right. Awesome. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Good morning if you’re on the West Coast.

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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

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Set the Right Fundraising Goal for Your Capital Campaign

Elevation

You might think that your capital campaign goal should simply be set to the amount of money you need. The reality is much more complicated.

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Toward transparent metrics

Candid

What we can learn about nonprofit results from Platinum Seal holders . How do nonprofits measure success? How do they know they’re making a difference? Questions about the nonprofit sector’s impact and effectiveness abound—and are inordinately hard to answer. But one source for answering these questions resides in data provided by GuideStar Platinum Seal holders. .

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Q&A: Discussing the Rise of Black Giving Circles

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits insist every dollar counts, and that's true, but they're looking at the big picture. When all those dollars are combined, they can make a big impact with those collective dollars. The same is true on the donor side. While not discounting the importance of individual giving, if multiple individuals with similar philanthropic goals pool their money together, they can make a bigger difference in their preferred cause.

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How To Collaborate with Your Community: Brainstorming For Greater Impact and Lower Expenses

Bloomerang

Joining forces with other organizations, rather than competing with them, can help you improve your bottom lines and create exponential reach. If you already have collaborations in place, it’s also important to periodically reflect on them to see if you can do more to maximize those relationships and create an even greater impact. . Don’t have any collaborations in place?

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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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Five Limiting Beliefs of Nonprofit Leaders

NonProfit Hub

Whether we recognize it or not, we all have limiting beliefs. You know, those less-than-truthful things we tell ourselves that hold us back. For nonprofit leaders, perhaps it’s the belief that you’re not qualified, or that you’re the best thing to ever happen to the cause sector. A limiting belief can be either positive or negative and still curb your individual and organizational potential.

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How Do You Tell Your Nonprofit Story to Capture Your Donor’s Heart?

Women's Non Profit Alliance

It has been said that recurring donors give 5 times more to an organization than one-time donors—FIVE TIMES MORE—which makes recurring giving one of the most important topics that a nonprofit should address for long-term sustainability. Attracting first-time donors, retaining donors and converting donors into recurring givers should be a priority. Yet how specifically does a nonprofit leader go about reaching her potential recurring donors?

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A Modest (But Really Important) Plea To Thank Your Donors

NonProfit PRO

I am writing this — call it a lament, a plea, a whine — not as a grant writer or as the co-author of a book about how to write grant proposals, but as a donor. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a zillionaire philanthropist. I do, however, donate relatively small (not to me) sums to numerous nonprofit organizations.

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Best Project Management Software for Web Developers

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Best Project Management Software for Web Developers. Project management software assists project managers and teams meet customer needs while staying within schedule, financial, and scope restrictions. This business application has advantages, mainly if it is appropriately selected to meet the needs of a company. In the domain of huge companies with enormous budgets and specialized personnel, technologies for managing projects of all sizes are now readily accessible.

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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!