Sat.Mar 21, 2020 - Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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How to Be Relevant Now (And What NOT to Say)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Nonprofit communicators are full of anxiety right now about messaging, from what to say, to how often, and where to say it. Let’s get two common questions out the way. Should we stop messaging if our work has nothing to do with coronavirus? No, you should keep talking about what you know best and what your supporters still care about too, even if it’s not necessarily top of mind right now.

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REPLAY: Future-Proof Your Nonprofit with Audience-Centric Fundraising [WEBINAR]

Selfish Giving

We had a great webinar yesterday! We had over 300 registrants and 225 people showed up live! If you were one of those people in attendance, thank you! The team at Accelerist will be sending you a link to the FULL webinar soon. Brittany Hill had a lot of great suggestions and insights on what to do with your partnerships moving forward. My presentation, which followed hers, was all about how to strengthen fundraising for your partnerships AND your nonprofit.

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Making Your Messages Stand Out is More Important than Ever

Ann Green

Getting your messages out is never easy. But in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, just like everything else, it’s gotten a whole lot harder. Your nonprofit organization needs to continue communicating regularly with your donors. Information overload is an understatement right now. Besides, your donors are going through a lot. They may miss your initial message, if they’re even looking at their email and social media platforms at all.

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5 Reasons Your Board Should Switch to Google Drive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. Most nonprofit board members volunteer because they want to support a worthy cause. While a board’s priority is always governance, its members may also be the organization’s best spokespeople, fundraisers, volunteers, and technical experts.

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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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COVID-19 and Media Relations: A Quick Guide for Nonprofit Communicators

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

COVID-19 is quickly rewriting the rules for how all of us are approaching our communications. It’s also forcing all nonprofits — no matter the mission — to rethink their short-term media relations strategies. Here are five tips to consider as you think about how you want to communicate with the media during the coming weeks and months: Rethink Your Calendar.

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Newsletter: COVID-19 & Growth Strategies for Partnerships ; Joann Craft Stores Open Doors for Mask-Makers ; Cowboy Museum Guard is Twitter’s Hottest Influencer

Selfish Giving

Today is the day! We have 200+ people registered. At 2pm ET, Brittany Hill at Accelerist and I are presenting. Future-Proof Your Partnership Program (and Your Nonprofit) for the New Normal Brittany will be giving you a roadmap to help your partnerships survive the next two years. And I'll be showing you how to build an asset that will help you raise money NOT JUST FROM companies, but from individuals and foundations as well.

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What Are Gaming Fundraisers and How Can They Raise Donations for Your Nonprofit?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Kayla Matthews , writer at ProductivityTheory.com and journalist dedicated to helping others better their productivity. The rise of the livestream, combined with the growing popularity and widespread appeal of video games, has created an attractive new opportunity for charities — gaming fundraisers. These events are an exciting new kind of fundraiser in which gamers raise money for charity by livestreaming themselves playing video games.

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Make Your Office More Comfortable – Wherever It Is Now

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Kivi originally shared what hygge is and this helpful list back in November of 2018. But first off, let’s define hygge: Hygge is the Danish concept of coziness, comfort, warmth, and charm that gets Danes through the long, cold, dark winters. It’s about enjoying and indulging in the small things, even when the environment around you is much less hospitable or pleasurable.

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Welcome to the Participation Age: Is Your Digital Brand Ready?

Pam Moore

You are the media. Yes you. You, your friends, your mom, your dad, your kids, your pastor, your teacher, your hair stylist, your car mechanic, and even your cat has the opportunity to be the media. We all know cats steal way too much time from the inter webs. Each of us has the opportunity to be the media. We can launch a blog, start a business, embrace video live streaming, get on snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and everything in between and within a short time steal media atte

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Find the Silver Lining: Connectivity During Coronavirus

Mission Minded

If there’s a silver lining, we’re going to find it. At Mission Minded, Amplify the Good isn’t just our tagline, The post Find the Silver Lining: Connectivity During Coronavirus 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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6 Nonprofit Storytelling Tips to Multiply the Impact of Your Charitable Marketing Strategy

Elevation

Why are stories so powerful? Humans have been telling stories for much longer than we have been writing them down. We are hardwired not only to tell our own stories, but also to be drawn to the stories of others. It is through stories that we understand new contexts, relate to one another, solidify our learning, and perhaps most importantly, enjoy ourselves in the process.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – March 27, 2020

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

How is everyone holding up out there? I am still trying to find the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising, but heads up – it’s going to be a lot of coronavirus-related talk. We also some non-stock photo ideas, tools to keep you productive, and writing tips. It’s time for Mixed Links… Lisa Jenkins at Social Media Examiner talks about Marketing in Times of Uncertainty: Tips From Top Marketing Pros.

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The complete guide to social media listening for nonprofits

Socailbrite

Take advantage of social media monitoring tools to advance your nonprofit’s cause. Editor’s note: Awario is offering 50% off its Pro and Enterprise plans to any nonprofit. Head over to awario.com and let the team know that Socialbrite sent you. Post by Julia Miashkova. Social Data Analyst, Awario. D oing good requires goodwill — plus the right tools.

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10 Nonprofit Marketing Experts’ Best Fundraising Strategies

NonProfit Hub

Marketing and fundraising at a nonprofit is tough. . You’ve got a tight budget, a small team, a handful of tools, high expectations, and lots of people who want your organization to succeed. . Right now you’re likely dealing with a major crisis ? your most important fundraisers have been canceled or shifted online, you’re managing a remote team now, board members are growing concerned and the community you serve still needs your help. .

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to the Google Ad Grant

Elevation

Have you ever wondered how nonprofits have been able to launch successful campaigns via Google Ads when many operate with limited budgets? It's all thanks to the Google Ad Grant program, a program from Google that offers $10,000 a month in ad credits to eligible nonprofit organizations. While the program offers an incredible opportunity for nonprofits, many organizations find it difficult to run their account and remain in good standing giving Google's requirements.

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Leading through Crisis: Your approach to stress and what to do with it

Concord Leadership

To say we’re in a time of unprecedented change and stress doesn’t do it justice. This Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is causing seismic shifts around the world. Panic of this invisible killer is added to fear of not being able to stay in business. Many leaders experience sleepless nights at times. But wrestling with uncertain cashflow, […]. The post Leading through Crisis: Your approach to stress and what to do with it appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.

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Do you really need another Covid-19 message?

TakeTwo Services

Honestly, there’s not much we can say about the Covid-19 crisis that hasn’t already been said. But, here are a few things we want you to know: We hope you’re safe and well. That’s what matters. Oh, and practicing social distancing too! It’s a trying time for everyone, and for your nonprofit. We don’t know the future (if only!

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12 tips for fundraising during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

Fundraising Coach

With more and more countries, states, and cities enforcing at-home isolation and the financial markets falling, fundraising is definitely harder. But of the worst things I kept hearing from clients was “We don’t think this is the right time to ask for money.” My general response? How dare you make a giving decision for a donor! It’s up to the donor to tell you whether she wants to give or not.

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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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Covid buzzwords

Philanthropy 2173

Flatten the curve Shelter in place Mutual aid Caremongering Zoombie PPE Physical distancing, social solidarity zoombombing Sigh. The list just goes on and on. On the one hand, these terms don't seem to have anything to do with philanthropy or digital civil society, the topics of this blog. On the other hand, they have everything to do with those topics.

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Digital civil society's dependencies come into stark view

Philanthropy 2173

I've been arguing for several years now that civil society is dependent on digital systems, which are not neutral, designed with civil society in mind, or inately democratizing. Our dependence on digitized data, commercial software and hardware, and global communications networks lays bare the fallacy that nonprofits/foundations, donations of money, community organizations, political activism, informal associational life, mutual aid networks, kinship care - any of the activities that take place