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Hobbies of Nonprofit Communicators: Music

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

I am back with another peek into the new activities nonprofit communicators have picked up during the pandemic. Last week we saw some new pets , and this week we look at a few people who took up a new musical instrument. From Sally Hartman: My new pandemic hobby is playing the piano. I took lessons for six years as a child but hated to practice and quit as a teenager.

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Some Lessons for Nonprofits After Doing my Taxes

Ann Green

I just finished tallying our 2020 donations for our taxes. Always a fun task. Going through all the donation letters and emails triggered a few insights I’d like to share. Sending a yearly donation summary is very helpful. Most of the gifts I make are monthly donations, and organizations that sent a summary of all those gifts made it so much easier for me.

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Newsletter: Study Shows Purpose Drives Impulse Purchases ; Keebler QR Code Raises Dough for Make-A-Wish ; 12 Tips to Write Like You Talk ??

Selfish Giving

Did you know that I literally have hundreds of posts on my Selfish Giving web site??? It really shouldn't surprise ME since I've been posting on my site since 2004/5. Honestly, I'm so focused on creating this week's post that I often forget all the wicked awesome stuff I've published before! Let's correct that this week with a few gems that you should definitely revisit this month!

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How can Nonprofits benefit from Blogging

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Can Nonprofits Benefit from Blogging. A special guest post from Ryan Biddulph to help nonprofits assess the value of running an active blog and interact with influencers. Learn how nonprofits can benefit from blogging. Bringing attention to your nonprofit may feel like a daunting task. Whether you have a limited marketing budget or small staff you probably feel overwhelmed by the amount of time and energy required to keep the organization afloat.

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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 – March 5, 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Acre. Auburn, AL. Welcome to March! Let’s kick it off with the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have insights into Facebook, Instagram and Clubhouse as well as myths to leave behind, tips on writing better, Alanis Morissette, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Learn How the Facebook Algorithm Works in 2021 and How to Make it Work for You.

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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. It’s no secret that corporate donors are invaluable partners for nonprofits. They can make a huge impact as they provide significant support across areas including grantmaking, employee engagement and cause marketing.

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Free Stock Photos for your Nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Get thousands of free stock photos for your nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise. Win the hearts of your audience with breathtaking stock images. Great images say more than one thousand words. We’ve compiled a list of free breathtaking stock photos for nonprofit organizations, NGO’s and Social Enterprises which you can use right away for your website, mailing list, social media or other online and offline activities.

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Get the New Edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide [and Get a Bunch of Bonuses Too!]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We are super excited that pre-ordering for the newly revised second edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide is now open! The first edition came out 11 years ago, and this new edition is fully updated with all that we’ve learned in the last decade. This new edition will ship on March 23 and if you pre-order your copy , we have some great bonuses for you, including a ton of new worksheets and templates we are creating this month.

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Announcing the 2021 Open Data Project!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use a nd republish as they wish. The Open Data Project seeks to gain a better understanding of how NGOs, NPOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. Based on the survey responses from the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey , the 2021 Open Data Project provides benchmarks for how NGOs use website and email communications, online fundraising tools, social media, and productivity an

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Cause Camp 2021 Speaker Line-Up

NonProfit Hub

It’s that time of year again, Cause Camp 2021 is just around the corner! On May 11th, 2021 join us for a virtual conference unlike any other. Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. We are excited to announce the Cause Camp 2021 speaker line-up! Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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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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Non-Profit Marketing: How to Win Supporters and Donors Online

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Non-Profit Marketing: How to Win Supporters and Donors Online. A special guest post by Michael Akinlaby to help nonprofits, NGOs and Social Enterprises utilize the power of content marketing to win supporters and donors online. Many organizations are not using the web enough to promote their nonprofits. The web has created lots of opportunities in various industries in the last decades.

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Relevant Messaging Ideas: Be Rewarding

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

A couple of weeks ago I shared our 6 R’s of Relevant Messaging checklist in So What? Making Your Messaging More Relevant. Over the next few weeks, I will share some ideas for each one of the 6 Rs. Let’s review those first: Rewarding. The benefits of following through on the call to action in the message are clear. Realistic. Following through on the message is doable, because any obvious barriers are addressed.

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8 Top Tools for Time Management & Expense Reporting for Nonprofits

Elevation

What scares funders most? Mismanagement and fraud, and for valid reasons: more than 13 percent of all fraud cases reported happened in nonprofit institutions.

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After the Ask: Understanding Nonprofit Payment Processing

Fundraising Coach

Your organization has just made a compelling fundraising ask to your potential donors. Now that one of the hardest parts is over, what are the next steps you should take? There are a few practices your team should put into use to make sure your donors’ journey is as simple and straightforward as possible. Providing the path of least resistance for supporters to donate to your cause is crucial to meeting financial goals and pushing your mission forward.

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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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Tools To Help Write Quality Articles Faster

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Tools To Help Write Quality Articles Faster. Writing articles isn’t easy, but these tools will help you make the process faster and easier Here’s a list of the most essential tools that you absolutely need to try out at least once. Perhaps every company nowadays uses some kinds of tools to enhance the productivity of its team and improve the workflow.

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Take Charge of Your Work and Jump Start Your Email Welcome Series This Month

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: SAVE $200 March 29th – 31st on 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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A Nonprofit’s Guide to Problem-Solving: Be More Painkiller, Less Vitamin

NonProfit Hub

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was important for nonprofit leaders to be good stewards of dollars and resources. Now it’s essential. More than ever, nonprofits need to find ways to be more efficient and impactful. Nonprofits can spend less while getting more. One of the ways to do this is to spend fewer resources on messaging that doesn’t resonate with your audience.

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Don’t Under (or Over) Register for Charitable Solicitations

Foundation Group

The post Don’t Under (or Over) Register for Charitable Solicitations appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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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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Is the Google Ad Grant Right for Your Nonprofit?

Get Fully Funded

The world of nonprofits is diverse. Organizations all over the country do their best to make the world a better place. While some nonprofits have secure resources, most are keenly aware of the perpetual cycle of securing the materials they need for success. Whether it’s volunteers, donors, or grants , nonprofits require these necessary resources and must use them efficiently.

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5 Grammar Rules That Were Made to Be Broken by Fundraisers

Lets Talk Nonprofit

Word nerds, rejoice! March 4 is National Grammar Day. When you think about grammar, you probably think about subject-verb agreement, correct comma usage, and such. The problem with good grammar is it doesn't make for very good fundraising writing. In his book. The Fundraiser's Guide to Irresistible Communications , Jeff Brooks taught us that. "It's far more important to sound natural than it is to obey the grammar, usage, and structure rules your English teachers taught you.".

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How To Engage Brand Ambassadors for Your Nonprofit

Mission Minded

Engage your key supporters as brand ambassadors to introduce and elevate your brand to new networks and audiences. The post How To Engage Brand Ambassadors for Your Nonprofit appeared first on Mission Minded.

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After the Ask: Understanding Nonprofit Payment Processing

Fundraising Coach

Your organization has just made a compelling fundraising ask to your potential donors. Now that one of the hardest parts is over, what are the next steps you should take? There are a few practices your team should put into use to make sure your donors’ journey is as simple and straightforward as possible. Providing the path of least resistance for supporters to donate to your cause is crucial to meeting financial goals and pushing your mission forward.

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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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Harnessing Momentum: 5 Tips to Engage New Supporters

Care2

When a new supporter makes that first move to help your cause, they’re often at their most passionate.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

The Kindful Blog

This Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. Their missions are varied—from gender equity in the music industry to helping those affected by incarceration and addiction—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support. On this page, you’ll find their missions, the areas of impact they serve, and ways to support their important work.

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