One of your 2012 New Years resolutions should be to get more media for your nonprofit. No matter how big your marketing budget is, chances are great that you could use more exposure. More postitive exposure! I know for nonprofits, it’s much easier to fundraise when the organization is getting positive press. And it’s great [...]

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I am honored to be part of the 501 Mission Place team. 501 Mission Place provides nonprofit leaders a place to “let their hair down.” That might be asking for help with their board, or figuring out HR, or strategizing fundraising. We also hold interviews with authors and practitioners doing amazing work and hold monthly [...]

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This week, I’m honored to introduce you to Debra Askanase. Debra Askanase is the founder and engagement strategist at Community Organizer 2.0, which works with nonprofits and businesses to create engagement strategies that move people to action. She has impressed me with her ability to help nonprofits do competitive analyses of their social media usage. [...]

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This is the third and final post in the series “Atta boys & High Fives” – ideas on bringing closure to a fiscal year and building your team at the same time. The first two ideas were pile some rocks and holding a staff retreat. The third is: 3. Commit to ongoing education in the [...]

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Ever have one of those to-do lists that keeps getting added to but never seems to have things getting crossed off? They can become garbage barges loaded with the guilt of undone tasks. Here’s a quick tip to help you get more done: schedule your to-do’s. Tools like Google Calendar can let you do all [...]

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After my post about mobile giving apps, I learned about a new free app called TexTango. The idea isn’t specifically for nonprofits. This app pays you to text. You download it for free and there is no monthly fee. By using this app instead of your phone’s native SMS service, you see an ad when [...]

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If you use Gmail, have you noticed the new “also include” feature? I was writing an email to Rob Hatch. Since Google saw that, it suggested I might want to cc Estrella Rosenberg and John Haydon as well. The cool thing is, I often do email all three of them at the same time because [...]

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It’s no secret that I love Twitter. Here are five tips to help you make better use of Twitter. Be human and interesting One of the worst things you can do as a fundraiser on Twitter is broadcast about your cause all day long. This will bore people. Social media is social. So be a [...]

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We had a fabulous call with Go For No! author Andrea Waltz. You can here the entire 30-minute call at the Go For No for Fundraising Success webinar page. I loved how Andrea talked about our living in a “go for yes” world but transitioning to a “go for no” world. So much of what [...]

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When you ask people about making a donation through their phone, they usually think of texting donations like they do for the Red Cross. That is about to change. A growing number of services are allowing people to give donations from their phone. And services allowing you, as a nonprofit, to receive donations right at [...]

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