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 for donors to see people from your organization included among the experts quoted in an article. It reassures them that they made a great investment when they gave a gift to you.

• HARO

  HARO stands for “Help a Reporter Out.” Every day, three times a day, HARO sounds out an email with dozens of information requests from journalists, TV show producers, radio shows, bloggers, book authors and others. Their site claims to send out 200 requests a day. Because of HARO, I’ve been included in a couple books, some online articles, and even interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. (Alas, I didn’t make it into the WSJ article.)

  When I started, I read each query title line by line. But I already have a fulltime job, I didn’t need to make HARO one too! A hundred queries a day is a bit overwhelming. So I usually just skim the queries relying on my eyes to pick up interesting keywords the might fit me “nonprofit,” “social media,” “charity,” etc. This cuts my HARO time down considerably and still allows for some good exposure. From time to time, friends email me HARO requests that seem appropriate.

  You can also use HARO to gather information for articles you’re writing. Just sign up as a reporter and post your question to the list.

  If you’re not signed up for HARO, I strongly encourage you to do it for 2012. I use the free HARO and couldn’t be more pleased.

• Reporter Connection

  Reporter Connection seems to be a HARO wannabe. Rather than three times a day and hundreds of queries, this is a daily email with only a dozen or so queries. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever responded to a query from the Reporter Connection. But this is one of the few emails I make time to read every day.

  Why? Each email has a PR tip from Bill or Steve. It could be about a TV show looking for stories; or how an author got lots of notice for a book; or even a simple tweak to your website for generating more traffic from media outlets. Today’s was a quick suggestion for writing Facebook headlines that get attention.

  These tips are quick and helpful. A couple weeks back, Steve told of speaking with a TV producer about how she finds guest for her show. She said she googles on the name of the topic and the word “expert.” Steve’s tip? Put the word expert in your the meta fields on your website! You can increase the SEO by narrowing it down with adding the field of your speciality.

  These tips make signing up for Reporter Connection a must in 2012 too!

Free PR can help your nonprofit get in front of more

Those are my favorite free PR tools! What do you use?

Let us know in the comments!

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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 “office hour” type calls to help with whatever members need help with. This article was orginally published in the 501 Mission Place forum and is an example of what’s going on in there.

The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development

by Marc A. Pitman, FundraisingCoach.com

The first three to four years of a nonprofit is a startup phase. Things are gloriously crazing. People are living on a dream. The possibilities are endless. The adrenaline is flowing. The nonprofit is the team’s life. They live, eat, and breath the cause.

Startups are fun, chaotic, and exciting times.

About 3-4 years in, people start getting tired. While they often don’t say it, you notice people stop showing up to things. They talk about being committed to the cause but also “having a life.” Board members start resigning.

How you respond at this point determines whether your nonprofit will survive.

I see two very common reactions at this stage: anger and fear. Symptoms of either can show up in both nonprofit staff and in their boards.

Anger is usually expressed by the remaining players describing those dropping off as “lacking commitment” or “not being serious.” They are hurt that people would leave. Sometimes deeply hurt. So they start building protective walls around themselves. They question everyone’s loyalty and make people live up to an exceedingly burdensome list of requirements. As a result, more people leave and the requirements get even tighter.

Fear is often exhibited by worry that the nonprofit is doomed. People start muttering things like, “At this rate, we’ll be lucky to last another two years” and “Maybe we should start talks with XYZ nonprofit to see if we can merge with them.”

Both fear and anger are natural reactions. But if left unchecked, both will kill an organization.

Fortunately, there is a third way. I like to think of this stage as a folk dance.

In formal ballroom dancing, you basically stay with the same dance partner all night. Most beginning nonprofits seem to expect this for their organizational development: the team that launches the organization will be the same team in 10 years.

But that doesn’t happen. I find it easier to think of organizational development as a folk dance. I’m not a dance expert, but when I think of a typical folk dance, I think of constant changing and motion. People swirl around each other, dancing with everyone in the room. There’s grace and beauty, levity and joy.

That’s all that is really going on at 3-4 years. The dance partners are changing.

When I was studying the process of church planting–starting faith communities from scratch–my mentor told me there were three types of people needed to establish reproducing faith communities:

1. Pioneers
2. Administrators
3. Maintainers

I believe these categories fit most nonprofits.

Pioneers love the chaos and excitement of the start up. They get energy from it and are highly functional in that environment. They’re also the smallest percent of the population. Chaos confuses most people (at best) and burns them out or turns them off.

At the 3-4 year point, the nonprofit needs to start attracting administrators: people who are uniquely gifted to make order out of chaos. These are the people that set up HR policies and regular office hours. They establish regular communication patterns with the board and the donors.

They are also the people that irritate pioneers. Highly developed pioneers can see their benefit. But less mature pioneers feel administrators are “limiting creativity” and “killing the spirit” and more or less ruining whatever good the nonprofit was doing.

Of course, they’re not. They are creating a structure that will help the nonprofit survive for the long haul. Long after the pioneers are on to their next startup. The structures administrators set up are easily run by maintainers.

There are more maintainers than there are pioneers or administrators. Nonprofit certificate programs and graduate degree programs are mostly set up to turn out maintainers.

So the folk dance looks like this:

• Pioneers see a need and create activity and impact
• Administrators make order out of that activity, increasing the nonprofit’s ability to have long-term impact
• And maintainers ensure the impact keeps getting made in new and better ways

Do you see the dance? This dance is happening both at the board level and the staff leadership level. Each transition is unsettling. Each new dance partner takes getting used to. But each one is as committed to creating the long-term impact as the previous one.

So if you’re in a start-up and are nearing the 3-4 year mark, don’t freak out if people start moving on. Instead, try to get them to bring administrators on before they leave!

How about you? Does this folk dance analogy resonate with your experience?

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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. This article on using LinkedIn caught my attention so she let me post it here. Debra can also be found chatting away on twitter at http://twitter.com/askdebra

Think of Linkedin as your virtual professional conference. How do you get the most out of conferences?

• Find the people you want to meet,
• make sure they can find you,
• attend the sessions you’re most interested in, and
• make time to shmooze in the hallway and allow informal conversations to start.

Linkedin isn’t a whole lot different. The online equivalents in Linkedin are: invite people you want to know to connect with you personally, optimize your profile, join and participate in groups that offer value, follow a Linkedin Answers topic areas, and continue some of those interesting group conversations privately.

Start with Your Goals

The key to using any social media platform effectively is to use it to meet your goals. Decide first why you (or your organization) would want to use Linkedin. Reasons might include things like finding collaborators, funders, or colleagues. Once you know why you want to use Linkedin, how you will use Linkedin follows. For example, if you want to use Linkedin to connect with foundations then you might:

• Search for people who work at those foundations
• Join groups that they have joined and participate
• Ask for introductions through mutual Linkedin connections
• Use Linkedin Answers to ask a question about contacting foundations

Identifying your goals will dictate your Linkedin strategy.

Keywords are King

Potential funders, volunteers, members, and organizational entities will search for whom they want to know on Linkedin by keyword. Identify a combination of 10 keywords and keyword phrases that best describe you. Identify 10 others that best describe the organization. Integrate these keywords and keyword phrases into your personal and company profiles so that you can be found.

Optimize Your Personal Profile

One aspect of optimizing your profile is completing it fully. Be sure to include your photo, a summary of who you are, keywords and interests, and a summary of what you’ve accomplished in every position. It’s also important to have at least five recommendations, since people can search Linkedin by number of recommendations.

Optimize the Company Profile

If your organization doesn’t have a company profile, create one on Linkedin. Identify the 10-15 keywords that best describe your organization, and integrate them into the company profile for the profile to be search-ready. If your organization has a blog or Twitter presence, be sure to add those to the company profile to personalize the company.

Utilize the Power of Groups

Real connecting happens within groups. Search for groups related to your profession and industry. I also recommend joining groups your professional colleagues belong to as well. If a group is inactive or not valuable, leave. If it is, spend time within the group answering questions and offering help. When you find yourself in an interesting discussion, invite your colleagues to connect with you personally on Linkedin after the discussion has concluded.

Utilize Linkedin Answers

Linkedin Answers is both a wonderful research tool and means to find new connections. By subscribing to the RSS feed of a certain category of questions (such as Social Entrepreneurship) you can stay up to date on the latest industry discussions, and also answer questions yourself. If your answer is selected as the “best answer,” you win the “best answer” designation, which enhances your professional credibility. Also, questions reach the entire Linkedin community, expanding your reach.

There’s a lot more information in the slide presentation below, Linkedin for Nonprofits.

What’s your best Linkedin tip? Share it here in the comments!

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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 new fiscal year

Creating trophies and holding staff retreats are internally focused. But to help make your next fiscal year the best it can be, you and your team will need to have get new ideas coming in too.

There are great free tools like:

• Movie Mondays [affiliate link]: These brief videos are sent to your inbox every week. You could call your staff in and watch them together. Or you could have each of them sign up and watch them. A standing item at staff meetings could be comparing notes from that week’s “Movie Monday” and seeing what could be implemented in your organization.
• Blogs: There are loads of great blogs on all aspects of fundraising and nonprofit marketing. You could subscribe to this blog and those in the “blogroll” in the column to the right. Many of these also have email newsletters (mine comes out every other week.) Both blogs and emails can bring the new outside ideas right to your desktop or phone.

There are some great low cost tools too:

• Fundraising Kick: Fundraising Kick is a weekly email for nonprofit leaders who know how to fundraise, they just need a little kick to get out and do it. These short messages give a specific idea for fundraising for that week, often with telephone script or wording for notes. To read more, and see samples, go to: http://fundraisingcoach.com/fundraisingkick.
• Books: Books are great ways to keep your mind fed with new ideas. Your local librarian can be your best friend in this regard. I of course offer fundraising books. And my publisher Tremendous Life Books has hundreds of books from great authors like Bob Burg that will help you with your sales skills, goal setting, and keeping a positive attitude. I also have dozens list in my bookstore on Amazon [affiliate link].
• CDs, MP3s, & DVDS: Many presenters and conferences offer videos and audios from their trainings, often at a fraction of the cost of the entire event. Mine are available in the Fundraising Coach store. 501 Videos regularly has a monthly special [affiliate link]. And for non-fundraising related topics, I’m a fan of The Teaching Company. They too regularly hold sales.

And here are ideas on investments in ongoing education:

• CFRE or Graduate Degree: You could plan on pursuing your CFRE or getting a graduate degree in some area that interests you. This type of simple act of investing in your ongoing education has lots of peripheral benefits. You could also check out stand alone classes offered by community colleges and other groups.
• Conferences: All sorts of national and regional organizations hold fundraising and marketing conferences. Chapters of the Association of Fundraising Professionals often have conferences and seminars many find helpful. But there are loads of high quality groups out there with conferences that might be a better fit for you. Or perhaps you’d be better served by going to a conference dedicated to social media like PodCamp or a social media breakfast.
• Executive Coaching: For about the same investment as a large conference, you can hire an executive coach. Coaching is like a highly personalized conference that comes directly to your desk. These sessions not only give you the great information you’d get from conferences, but you get to live them out and see how they “fit” in your day-to-day work. I am a coach, but I was a fan of coaching long before I became a Certified Franklin Covey Coach. I’ve found coaching to be the quickest way to help me accomplish my goals. And studies repeatedly show the ROI on coaching to be over 300%. I have links to those studies in my Coaching FAQ. Many of the folks in my blogroll and links also offer coaching, so check them out too.

That is a lot to digest. And it’s only scratching the surface of the training opportunities out there. I know many of them are linking to things I provide. That could seem incredibly self-serving but I’m willing to take that risk. I offered these because of my commitment to make it ridiculously easy for you to get fundraising training.

Best year yet

I’m convinced that if you do these three things:

1. pile some rocks,
2. hold a staff retreat, and
3. commit to continuing education
   you’ll find this year will be better than last. And you’ll find your team sticking around because they know you’re investing in them.

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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 sorts of things.

1. Schedule Q2 time

   I use a calendar I call “time blocking” to remind myself of things I want to attend, like this #ynpchat. This calendar shows up online but not on my phone. So if people want to sign up for coaching, I know Mondays and Tuesdays are great for that. (It gives them the majority of the work week to take action on our coaching.) And if people want me to speak or train, I know Thursdays and Fridays are good on my calendar.

   I’m not a prisoner to those times. But they remind me of the important things that I want to do. Stephen Covey calls this “Quadrant 2″ time– things that are important but aren’t urgent. The things we need to do but don’t have deadlines attached to them. For many fundraisers, writing thank you notes falls into this category, doesn’t it?

2. Schedule weekly tasks

   Each of us has things we need to do to maintain our job or business. It was far too easy for me to ignore those tasks when on a to-do list. But when I started putting them on the calendar, they started getting done.

   I like scheduling these on the calendar that does sync up with my phone. And I try to schedule these earlier in the week so that if I have to move it, there is still plenty of week to move it too.

3. Schedule your 100

   All of us have personal things we want to do that reach your list of 100 dreams and goals for the year. Putting them on your calendar helps ensure they get done.

   One of my 100 things is to make a meat pie each month. So that got put on my calendar for Saturday. The bonus? Since my wife can see my calendar, she was able to plan on my making dinner. It’s always good having someone help you accomplish your goals!

Do you see how scheduling your to-do’s can help you actually do them?

What other time management tips have you found work for you?

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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 you text and the person you text sees an ad.

You get 0.5¢ for each text. You receive a Visa debit card from TexTango that gets reloaded each month based on your texting.

The nonprofit fundraising option

Member can choose to have all or a portion of their earnings go to the charity of their choice. Like so many of these services, you’d need a large volume to make it amount to anything you could use.

But the TexTango people told me that Neilsen estimates:

• 12-17 year olds average 3300 texts/month
• 18-25 year olds average 1800 texts/month
• 25-55 year olds average 600 texts/month
• people over 55 average 200 texts/month

With three kids under 12, and one already doing some texting, those numbers start making this payment alternative seem plausible to me. If my son is average, the debit card would be getting around $16 each month. Not a huge amount, but since he’s under 18, that debit card is mine.

Nonprofit income

If you’re a small nonprofit with mostly 55+ donors, 20 people doing the average texts would add about $20 to you each month.

Larger nonprofits with 1000 texters doing the 55+ average of 200 messages a month would add about $1,000 to your nonprofit. Each month.

Imagine if your cause could harness the texting of their kids? 100 teens could result in $1650 each month for your charity.

The TexTango CEO told me that at one group advertised an event through TexTango and had 6000 people show up. The implication was what if a nonprofit hosted the event and had people giving a portion of the texting income to them? That could add up.

The TexTango folks also said that they donate a certain number of the ad banners to nonprofits. So charities might get a little marketing bump too.

Is this for your nonprofit?

What do you think? Would this be helpful for your nonprofit?

The big challenge for the company is changing the behaviors of lots of people. And a promise of money is often enough to change behaviors.

I tend to not focus on this type of fundraising. Things like this and search bars and calling cards require nonprofits to become a volunteer sale staff. It takes just as much effort to ask people to download an app as it does to ask them to make a gift. And I find it odd to go to a nonprofit site and see logos from these businesses all over the home page. I think it draws away from the nonprofit’s own story.

But would board members and volunteers feel better about asking people to do this on top of their giving? I think they might. I’m not a fan of selling chocolates and wrapping paper either, but many people prefer feeling their giving something when they ask for a donation. So this might work.

What do you think?

Extra money from people’s normal behaviors is tempting. Do you think something like this might help fund your cause? Let me know in the comments!

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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 we’re also the team behind 501 Mission Place.

But Google already knows that…

While it is sort of creepy to see this level of knowledge about my behavior, it’s also pretty darned convenient!

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It’s no secret that I love Twitter.

Here are five tips to help you make better use of Twitter.

1. 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 human. And be interesting. Tasteful. But interesting. Feel free to tweet about things you’re reading. And retweet things you see that strike you as interesting.

2. Upload your picture and fill out your bio

   One of the easiest ways to be “human” on Twitter is to upload a picture of yourself in your Twitter settings. The image is small so headshots work best. And use all 160 characters of the bio line. Make sure to have strong keywords, both professional and personal. See mine at http://twitter.com/marcapitman. While you’re updating your profile, be sure to mention your location.

3. Try participating in twitter chats

   Twitter chats can be a fun way to meet people with similar interests. There’s a Google Doc that’s trying to be a Twitter Chat Schedule. Look to see if there are any interesting topics. With over 350 chats, there’s bound to be one or two!

   Twitter chats use “hashtags” to make them easier to follow. Hashtags are labels using the # sign. When you search on them, you find the related tweets. A common twitter chat happens every Sunday evening. It’s hashtag is #blogchat.

   Twitter chats move very quickly and can be hard to follow. I like using Tweetgrid.com. This simple format allows you to follow up to 9 conversations, although I find 1X3 to be the most I can handle. Other people rave about TweetChat.com.

4. Using a tool like HootSuite

   It can be pretty overwhelming to be following your Twitter stream, following Twitter chats, keeping track of pending tweets, oy! I find it very helpful to use HootSuite [affiliate link]. You can use it free but if you have multiple Twitter accounts, it’s worth investing in the paid version. I like that I can use it from the web, my iPad, and even my Android phone.

   Other similar tools are TweetDeck and Pluggio [affiliate link]. Find the one you like, but make sure it can work with your team.

5. Ask for the gift…but not often

   To use Twitter as a fundraiser, you will want to ask for donations. So far, the best way to do that is sending people to your website. Studies show that people make bigger donations on your organization’s website than they do on other platforms. They may give $5 or $10 on other platforms but $125 on your site.

   Don’t ask often. And if you have guts, retweet asks from other organizations similar to your cause. When you ask, try to keep it to 120 characters or less. This will allow your tweet to be “retweeted,” or passed on, by others. To do that, you can use link shorteners like Bit.ly or HootSuite’s built in shortener “Ow.ly.” An added benefit of using these is that you can measure how many clicks you get and track who retweets your tweet.

Use these tips, and you’ll be on your way to effectively using Twitter for your nonprofit fundraising!

While you’re at it, feel free to follow me at @marcapitman.

What would you add to this list?

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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 she said is helpful in reframing how we handle “no’s” in our fundraising.

I am convinced that “going for no” can help you raise more money. The best part is, going for no even takes the sting out of the no’s you do get!

During the call, I asked Andrea if she had tools to help that transition. Andrea talked about all the tools that make up what they call the Go For No! Breakthrough Pak. I was surprised by the generous discount she offered to us! If you get the Pak, use the coupon: MP1 – this brings the $167 package down to $97.

Finally, remember that April is “Go For No!” month here at FundraisingCoach.com. Fundraising Kick members that get 100 no’s this month win a free coaching session with me. You can use this handy (and free) 100 no’s card to help you keep score.

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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 the visit or event. In this post I’ll highlight one of each: Givatron and Square.

Givatron

Givatron is perfect for donors wanting to make a gift from their phone. I learned about the Givatron app for Android phones during a recent 501 Mission Place webinar on mobile giving. What I love about this app is its simplicity. Anyone can get the app for free at the Android App Market. When you open the app, you choose either USA or Canada and then search for your charity. That’s it. You use are able to make a donation of any amount using PayPal. Easy. Charities don’t have to set anything up and donors get to use the tools they already know: the app market and PayPal. You even get a donation receipt emailed to you after you make your gift!

Square

Givatron is fine for donors wanting to make a gift. But what if you work for a nonprofit and want to process a gift while you’re with a donor? Maybe a donor not comfortable with PayPal or even with smartphones? Services like Square can help.

Square claims to let you process credit cards from your phone…without the need of an expensive merchant account! According to the Square website www.squareup.com, there are no set up fees or other charges. The app is free for both iPhones/iPads and Android phones. And the square card reader you plug into your phone is free too. They simply charge you a flat 2.75% for swiping the card. That’s competitive with any merchant account. But there are no pricey monthly fees or other charges associated with traditional merchant accounts.

You can register your account as a nonprofit and start receiving donations pretty quickly. And the donor can even get a receipt for their gift sent right to their email.

Replacing Direct Mail Giving?

These aren’t going to replace direct mail giving. But it’s exciting to see how these types of tools can transform your next fundraising event or donor solicitations.

There are now more cell phones than there are landlines. And a growing number of your donors are used to living much of their life with and through these phones. So why wouldn’t they want to give too?

From my perspective, the best part of these two tools is that they’re free to try!

What about you? What mobile giving tools are you hearing about?

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