Sat.Jul 11, 2020 - Fri.Jul 17, 2020

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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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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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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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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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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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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – July 17, 2020

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Santa Fe, NM Photo Credit: Deena Davis. Another Friday and another round up of the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have how to get away from exploitative storytelling, tips for starting a podcast, and a book review of John Haydon’s last book. It’s time for Mixed Links… Debra Jenkins answers the question, “ How Can Nonprofits Move from Exploitative Storytelling to Justice-Oriented Story

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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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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 Long Will That 64% Open Rate Last?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Back in February, I told you how we had started to segment our email list according to engagement levels , and how we had been sending our weekly e-newsletter in four batches: Hot (5 flames in our lead scoring tool within our CRM), Warm (3-4 flames) Lukewarm (1-2 flames) Cool (0 flames — even though they score zero, they are still engaged in some small way or they wouldn’t be on the newsletter list at all anymore).

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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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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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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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8 Lessons Learned from Hosting Golf Event Fundraisers During COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Katie Casillas , director of marketing at GolfStatus.org , an event management platform specifically for golf fundraisers. There’s no doubting it: 2020 has forced organizations, industries, and entire sectors to adapt. Event fundraising is no exception and, within the category, the golf fundraiser has become especially critical. With other major events going completely virtual and, in many cases, being altogether canceled, nonprofits have looked to the golf tournament as a live event that’s

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The Award for Best Pitch Goes To…

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Chloe Greer. Rising Senior Chloe Greer! This is why… I’ve seen hundreds of good, bad and ugly nonprofit pitches as a media correspondent and former producer for the Public News Service. One report by Agility PR Solutions found that nearly half of all journalists worldwide receive more than 25 email pitches a day, while producing fewer than 25 pieces a month.

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A New Way of Working from Two Old Hands

TakeTwo Services

Nine (!) years ago, we started TakeTwo in part because we wanted to work in a new way: with flexible schedules, and without a centralized office. We’ve learned a few things about how best to make this, ahem , work. Here are our tips – and some questions – to help your nonprofit navigate the new era of ‘working from home.’. First things first: working from home isn’t simply taking the office home.

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Developing A Well-Rounded Compensation Plan: A Modern Guide

Concord Leadership

For HR professionals and leaders in any field, developing a well-rounded compensation package is a top priority. Your compensation strategy heavily affects employee retention and engagement rates and should be created to support your business as it grows. However, it can be tricky finding the right balance between your budget and your employees’ needs.

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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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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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A Day in the Life of a Quarantined Nonprofit Communicator – Punita Khanna

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Punita Khanna. Here is another submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Quarantine Edition. Let’s see how everyone else is doing out there adapting. Punita’s Bio : My name is Punita Khanna and I am Director of Community Relations for Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. In this capacity, I build relationships that “Inform, Inspire, Involve” individuals on behalf of the Foundation.

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Financial Systems Integrations:  It’s less scary than it sounds

NonProfit Hub

Imagine you’re a large, professional organization. You’ve been getting your revenue primarily from memberships, conferences for members, and fundraising ? and you think it’s time to upgrade to a new database system after 20 or so years. . Let’s say the system you decide on is well-known for how it managed members, events, and fundraising. But there’s one glaring problem ?

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Nonprofit Management Institute

NC Nonprofit

Purchase Option * - Select - Nonprofit Management Institute - Member [$400.00] Nonprofit Management Institute - Non-Member [$600.00] Prefix First Name * Last Name * Job Title * Organization * Preferred Email * Preferred Phone Mailing address (to mail session workbook) * City * State * ZIP Code * The following questions are intended to gain general information about you and your organization.

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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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Newsletter: Free Partnership Webinar Today ; Are Vending Machines The Next Big Partnership Opportunity? ; Your Fundraising Comms Should Create ‘Virtuous Circle’

Selfish Giving

That's how many people are attending today's webinar! Join me, Brittany Hill of Accelerist and Brian Lim , of the MS Society of Canada at 3pm EDT TODAY for How to Build Partnerships in a Recession. Plus, it's FREE ! See you at 3pm. ?? Partnership Notes 1. The next big cause marketing opportunity is. ???? 2. A nice summary of research that shows that corporate activism is more than a marketing gimmick.but it's still selfish giving ????.

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