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Resources and News for NonprofitsAssessing How You’re Allocating Your Time
The change in calendar year, is a great time to evaluate your nonprofit’s goals and how you spent your time. Many organizations allocate time in January to evaluate the prior year, cementing strategy for the new year, and outline goals. If you’re in the midst of this...
Cross-Channel Promotion and #GivingTuesday
In honor of the short holiday week, we bring you a short blog post! As your organization makes final preparations for #GivingTuesday and end of year fundraising, be sure to consider all of the channels you use when communicating with your constituents from now...
Four Questions to Help You Review Your Donor Thank You Autoresponder
As year-end giving quickly approaches, it is important to ensure that your online donation platform is being utilized most effectively. Below are four questions to consider when you’re evaluating content on your donor thank you autoresponder email. Are you actually...
Writing Fundraising Appeals Without Data from Your Prior Year
This week John Haydon wrote a piece that discussed how using certain types statistics in your fundraising appeal can be detrimental to your development efforts. Haydon’s article is an excellent read. For many small nonprofits creating compelling statistics can be a...
What Sets You Apart?
The end of the calendar year means one major thing for nonprofits - fundraising. With strategies and rollout already in place for many nonprofits (and being finalized for others), the deluge of asks and donation requests is about to hit inboxes around the country. As...
Fundraising Event T-shirts – Can We All Agree to Just Stop?
As we move into autumn, many nonprofit organizations are wrapping up their active/outside fundraising events. In many parts of the country, local parks are jammed with charities rallying their participants before winter weather hits. Many of these events will provide...
A First Hand Account of Fundraising on Social Media
Last year, I started a Fantasy Football league with several of my female friends in an effort to get them more involved in an interest I was passionate about. I sent weekly emails with tips and advice, as well as wrote brief manager spotlights that included fun...
Why People Visit Your Website
At this point, every nonprofit organization has a website. A donate button. A link to contact information. But honestly - why do people visit your website? It sounds like a simple question, but within it involves the need to analyze your audience, to assess your...
Developing a Code of Conduct for your Nonprofit Event
Many nonprofit leaders attended the NTEN’s Leading Change Summit this week. You can view highlights by following #14LCS. This tweet from NTEN, was a reminder of the importance of developing a published Code of Conduct for events like this. Conferences often work to...
Nonprofits and Fantasy Football
The Labor Day holiday means one thing to Social Change Consulting - football season is finally here. And as we prepare for our fantasy football drafts this weekend, we couldn’t help but notice the correlation between building a strong team and an effective nonprofit....