Tell me if you recognize this scenario: your nonprofit’s finally got legs, the membership is growing, your community visibility is up, the media’s paying attention, you have a steady revenue stream–your effort is finally bearing fruit! But for all the influx of people and volunteer hours, you’re not yet at the point where your financials […]
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Now is a good time for you to start the search for corporate partners. A recent article for The Nonprofit Times suggests that increasingly, Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies are looking for ways to support the communities in which they do business. Although the article primarily focuses on corporations involved in international giving (the
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Recently, Philanthropy.com published a survey of millennials who were asked to respond to different nonprofit websites. The headline of the results, published on July 18, 2013, caught my eye. It reads, “75% of Young Donors Turned Off By Out-of-Date Web Sites.” The survey involved 2,600 people born between the years 1979-1994. More than simply reporting
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I read an interesting article from Harvard Business Review last week. The article was titled, “Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are.” The article makes a few interesting points. It suggests that saying, “I’m busy” has become the new cry of the braggart. If you say you are busy, you are saying that business
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Going paperless is a dream of mine. I have this vision of a clear desk, where everything remains on neat, brick-sized hard drives, accessible with a click of a mouse, in sortable and searchable folders. And real estate on my desk uncluttered but for the room to dream . . . I’m not alone. Every
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Congratulations to the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William on the birth of their first son! New babies are big news – especially new, royal babies. Here are five takeaways for nonprofits that want to give birth to their own superstar. A little suspense is a good thing Reporters and well-wishers surrounded Kate’s hospital in anticipation
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The digital afterlife no longer takes most of us by surprise. We know that what we put up on the Internet is forever. And we know that unless we do some digital “estate planning,” give a loved and/or trusted one access to our accounts, or keep an updated list of passwords accessible to the executors
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And now a post about money. Because as we all know, it’s what makes the world go around. Okay, that’s a mild understatement. But it’s very mild in the nonprofit world. And unless you’re independently wealthy, you’re always fundraising, and looking at ways to stretch your dollars and cultivate donors. Here’s the thing, though. Quite
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If there is one thing companies should never forget, it is this: make it easy. Make that call-to-action, the white paper download, the listserv subscription, join, or “donate” button an efficient one-click that respects your customer’s time. What’s the Most Information You Need Is it just an email address so you can reach the customer?
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Quick! What do you think when you see the words “nonprofit?” Idealism? Humanitarianism? Visionaries who make the world a better place? Yes! Also, lack of business savvy (that whole “not for profit” thing), lack of budget, and lower pay . . . not so “yay.” And I’d respectfully submit, that those last two things tend
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