September 2011

Galvanize Your Core Before Beginning

Image by givikat Many people simply want to turn the lights on with their online fundraising campaign. But in a competitive giving environment, this represents a mistake and also leads to lesser results. Building an initiative requires advance work for maximum impact. Specifically, you want to galvanize and prepare your core team and most ardent […]

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VIDEO: Experiment and Be Different

Here’s something different for our Tuesday post. In the spirit of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington, one of the things many nonprofits struggle with is how “crazy” or “out of the box” their fundraising campaigns should be. They emulate other successful campaigns without realizing that those campaigns were tailored to their specific audiences.

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7 Habits of Effective Personal Fundraisers (An awesome free eBook)

If you’ve built up a strong following on Facebook and Twitter, but don’t know how to start fundraising, check out the eBook from CauseVox titled “7 Habits of Effective Personal Fundraisers”. I know what you’re thinking. Yet another eBook that I have to read… I already have The Networked Nonprofit, Welcome to the Fifth Estate

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Analyzing the State of Social Media Fundraising: An Interview with Debra Askanase

Debra Askanase is one of the top thought leaders in online community building, and my #1 pick for bloggers in social fundraising. In reference to her recent blog post Has Social Media Fundraising Finally Arrived?, we talked about the state of the social fundraising sphere, and what nonprofits should be doing to take advantage of

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