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4 Tips for Recruiting and Engaging Virtual Volunteers in 2021 and Beyond

NonProfit PRO

The value of virtual volunteers has been escalated for many nonprofits in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If your organization is looking for new ways to recruit and engage virtual volunteers, here are four tips that can help create a smooth process for both your organization and volunteers transitioning to a remote setting.

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Kivi and Sarah Talk about Nonprofit Marketing Trends [Podcast]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

I always enjoy talking to Sarah Durham of Big Duck. It never fails to be a conversation that is both intellectually stimulating and fun. Give a listen to one of our recent conversations about nonprofit marketing trends for Sarah’s podcast, The Smart Communications Podcast. You’ll find the transcript and how to subscribe here. And if you still need a copy of the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report, get that here.

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Newsletter: How to Scale Your Biz Dev Team ; What 25 Companies are Doing for Pride Month ?? ; Everyone Loves Plain Language - Except Nonprofits

Selfish Giving

Join the Cause Docs Tomorrow, June 3rd at 2pm EDT as Lauren Lawson-Zilai , Senior Director of Public Relations & National Spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, will be answering your questions on how to identify and work with influencers. She'll be sharing her prescriptions on. Tools to help you pinpoint the the right influencer The process of working with influencers from initial outreach to contract negotiations to payment Lessons and learning experiences to be prepared for y

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How Nonprofit Organizations Can Leverage Digital Marketing

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Nonprofit Organizations Can Leverage Digital Marketing. Are you looking to grow the number of Donations, run a Fundraiser or improve your Nonprofit’s Brand? Here’s how Digital Marketing can help. Running a nonprofit organization is a time-consuming, painstakingly challenging process that demands commitment and passion from everyone involved.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Taking Your Facebook Relationship to the Next Level

NonProfit PRO

If the most you’ve done at this point is to ask supporters to start Facebook fundraisers, you’ve just scratched the surface. Your Facebook social fundraising strategy can start with this simple kind of ask, but then you need to plan the next steps. Here are six things you can do to take fundraising on Facebook to the next level.

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Which Communications Plan Should You Create Now? [Decision Tree]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

When you talk about creating a “communications plan” or a “marketing plan,” you are actually talking about creating one of five different documents that have different purposes. Marketing Strategy. Quick and Dirty Marketing Plan. Big Picture Communications Timeline. Editorial Calendar. Creative Brief. Here’s one post where we compare them all.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Facebook fundraising makes it easy for supporters to show their support of your mission with a quick donation. It is easy to post a link to a crowdfunding platform or to your website’s donation page, but letting supporters give directly through Facebook makes it even easier to capture impulse donors. And they’re scrolling through Facebook every day anyway.

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The New Best Practices To Connect With Today’s Charitable Donors

NonProfit PRO

Did you know that 51% of donors did not adjust the amount they donate during the pandemic? After a year of economic and social disruption, Data Axle’s latest survey of more than 1,200 donors delves into the shifting behaviors and preferences of charitable donors across generations and identifies strategies that will help nonprofits stay connected with their audience.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – June 4, 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Homecoming. Disney Springs, FL. I know it’s not “officially” summer yet, but as soon as the kids are out of school, it’s summer at our house. Let’s kick things off with the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have tips on fostering your creativity, enthusiastic writing, inclusive communications, social media fundraising, and more.

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Nonprofit Communications Plan: How-To Package Your Message

Bloomerang

This is part 3 in a 4-part series. Read part 1 and part 2. Communications plans help offer structure and strategy that can save you time and energy in the long run, while getting your desired objectives accomplished. Having a coherent communications plan where you package your message will help ensure each piece of content you share is part of a greater story you are telling.

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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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How eCommerce Businesses And Marketplaces Are Ditching Plastic Packaging In 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

4 Inspiring Ways How eCommerce Businesses And Marketplaces Are Ditching Plastic Packaging In 2021. Plastics have helped humanity in many ways. Still, we can and must do better to reduce the plastic pollution. Here’s how eCommerce Businesses and Marketplaces step up. Plastic packaging, landfills, biodegradable, non-biodegradable, waste segregation are complex concepts to understand which come with more complex problems like negative impact on the earth’s ecosystem, ocean and land pollution,

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5 Thoughts On Your Pivot To Digital

NonProfit PRO

As a professional publisher of a traditionally printed brand, you will need to quickly adjust to a new landscape if you have suddenly found yourself focused on or even fully pivoting to a digital distribution strategy. It’s not the same as print. It also shouldn’t be anything like what you were previously doing when your digital strategy was simply an afterthought.

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This June, Get the Tools You Need to Avoid Burnout (and a Free Raising Awareness Webinar)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: The 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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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to be Appropriately Kind to In-Kind Donors?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on best practices around recording and recognizing in-kind donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, We often receive gifts in kind which are worth a lot of money.

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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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Building the Boards We Need

Boardsource

For almost 30 years, I’ve been part of a sector-wide conversation about the lack of diversity on nonprofit boards and the need to do better. In retrospect, I realize that our initial arguments were grounded primarily in a belief in the importance of representation. We also frequently cited research that demonstrated that diverse groups made better decisions, and argued that as the population was becoming more diverse boards needed to follow suit or risk missing out on large groups of potential b

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How to Get Program Impact Information for Your Donor

NonProfit PRO

One of the most difficult aspects of fundraising is getting enough program impact information to give to the donor. And the amazing thing is that most managers and leaders find more value in investing on the front end of fundraising than they do in putting resources into the back end (servicing donors after they give).

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How to Create Engaging Short Videos for Social Media

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Create Engaging Short Videos for Social Media. Do you want to shine on Social Media? Creating Short Engaging Videos is a must. Check out the following tips to get started. Video content is becoming more and more popular with the social media platform and more particularly over smartphones these days. Recent data showed over the past year, the time that everyone spent watching videos over social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube has increased by almost 85 percent.

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7 Email Marketing Myths That Are Hurting Your Fundraising Efforts

Bloomerang

Does hitting the Send button on an email blast to your list make your pits sweat? That’s totally normal. It makes my pits sweat too, and I have a healthy obsession with writing emails. . But let’s face it—there’s a lot to worry about! You could make a few typos, offend someone, send too many emails, or land in the Spam folder. Maybe you’re worried your email is packed with meaningless garbage that your CEO or Board Chair made you add (I hope 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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Google Analytics Strategy for Nonprofits - Blog

Elevation

Tracking how users behave on your website can be hugely helpful to nonprofits in their marketing efforts. The tool of choice for web analytics for many nonprofits is Google Analytics.

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Encourage Donors to Give More Through Layering

NonProfit PRO

If you can build trust, plus expand a personal relationship with a donor while also having the knowledge of their gift capacity and areas of interest, a possible layering can occur. In my context of layering, it is securing a major gift or pledge in one area while asking them for a second gift or pledge in another or same area.

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6 Summer Fundraiser Ideas for 2021

NonProfit Hub

Is your organization in the process of planning a summer fundraiser? While fundraising during COVID times seems challenging, having an engaging and accessible event is still possible. Plenty of options are available—from outdoor events to virtual fun. Many traditional fundraisers can also be tailored and still work with social distancing. Here are six pandemic-friendly fundraiser ideas for summer 2021.

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Client Spotlight: HB Ranch Donkey Rescue, Inc.

Foundation Group

The post Client Spotlight: HB Ranch Donkey Rescue, Inc. appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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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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Gutenberg content editor: Build flawless pages using blocks

Elevation

As part of the different changes and improvements that WordPress has incorporated since it launched its 5.0 version in December of 2018, the Content Management System (CMS) has replaced the Classic content editor with a brand new Block Editor, also known as Gutenberg.

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Take a Flight to Help You Refocus

NonProfit PRO

Take a break. Go for a walk or run. Look at your program with a fresh look. Think of your goals. Imagine you’re in a plane, hovering above your organization. You can much clearer see the roads and paths that lead to those mountains you’re trying to get to.

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3 Ways Businesses Can Maximize Their Nonprofit Sponsorship Agreements

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofits still need support to carry out their mission, perhaps more than ever. Your business values the work of nonprofits and the ability to align with their mission. Sponsorship, at its best, is a win-win-win scenario. It’s one where benefiting organizations, sponsoring business, and—ideally greatest of all—the community being served all win.

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Rockefeller calls for boosting global access to COVID-19 vaccines

Candid

As more than ten thousand people a day continue to die from COVID-19 around the world, a report from the Rockefeller Foundation calls for urgent action and proposes financing models for ensuring equitable global access to vaccines. According to the report, One for All: An Updated Action Plan for Global Covid-19 Vaccination (27 pages, PDF), more than 80 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries, leaving the pandemic to spread unchecked

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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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How to Write a Rockstar RFP (Request for Proposal) for Your Nonprofit Website

Elevation

If you’re a nonprofit needing professional services, you’ll often be required to create a Request for Proposal (RFP) before hiring a vendor. For a complex project like a website, taking the time to go through the RFP process can be an exercise in fully defining your expectations that prepares your staff for success. It can also help to speed up your project timeline.

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6 Easy Steps to Fuel Donations with Data

NonProfit PRO

Technology and data don’t have to be intimidating and you don’t need to be a tech-savvy guru to make them work for your nonprofit. This eGuide gives you six easy steps to harness your own data and fuel more donations.

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Telling the Intermediary’s Story

Mission Minded

Follow the 4 essential steps to telling the intermediary story in a way that's compelling, meaningful, and easy to understand. The post Telling the Intermediary’s Story appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World

Candid

Last month, over 1,300 grants professionals gathered virtually for PEAK2021. For eight days, this group of philanthropy professionals dedicated to advancing equitable, effective grantmaking practices came together to connect, learn, and share in critical discussions about the practice of grantmaking. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, underscored a major theme during the opening keynote that carried through the rest of the conference: together.

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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!