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Nonprofit Hub
4d ago
Collaboration Isn’t a Dirty Word!
Sometimes in the nonprofit space it can tend to feel like a competition where your organization is fighting against all the others for those donation dollars and grant money or to provide the services better than the organization down the street. But it doesn’t have to be like that! This week, Meghan sits down with Maggie Johnson Richardson to talk about how organizations can collaborate and work together to move their respective causes forward.
Maggie Richardson founded Jazzspace Consulting in 2012. She is an arts management professional with 20 years of exp ..read more
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1w ago
Outsourcing for Nonprofits: What It Is and Why It Matters
It’s no secret that nonprofit professionals often wear many hats. From fundraising to marketing to financial management, there are so many essential responsibilities for running a nonprofit that it quickly becomes expensive and time-consuming to hire a different person to fill each role. The smaller your organization is, the more likely it is that one staff member will have to take on a variety of activities that could benefit from specialized expertise.
However, there is another solution: outsourcing. When your nonprofit outsour ..read more
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1w ago
What is a Salesforce Implementation (SI) partner?
Implementation partners are experienced professionals who know the ins and outs of Salesforce products. A Salesforce implementation partner, also referred to as a Salesforce consulting partner or Salesforce implementation consultant is a company or organization that specializes in helping businesses and organizations adopt and effectively use Salesforce, a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform. These partners should be certified and registered with Salesforce’s partner program, and have a deep understanding of the platform’s c ..read more
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2w ago
The Key to Simple Nonprofit Messaging
In this episode, Meghan Speer, host of the Nonprofit Hub Radio podcast, interviews another Megan! Our guest, Megan Donahue shares her wisdom about tweaks and simple things that nonprofits can do to improve messaging.
Megan talks about her ideas on improving letters and email acknowledgments, how to sound personable in communication, and how to move away from organization-centric messaging and toward donor and audience-focused messaging.
Megan Donahue is a writer and nonprofit communications consultant, focused on helping organi ..read more
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2w ago
It Takes More Than a “Thankceipt”
There is no shortage of ways to attract new donors to your organization. Keeping up with social media campaigns, retargeting campaigns, peer-to-peer campaigns, awareness events, and new-name acquisition programs can be dizzying. But when so much focus, time, and energy are spent on acquiring new ones, it can be easy to lose sight of the critical task of retaining the donors you already have or getting those new donors to give a second time.
The key element in retention is remembering that, above all else, your donors are humans and that humans are hardwi ..read more
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3w ago
Nonprofit Leadership Under the Microscope
What traits do you associate with strong nonprofit leadership? Confidence? Persistence? Assertiveness?
In speaking with our latest guest, Trent Dunham, the president and CEO of Dunham+Company, we learned that essential nonprofit leadership traits are often much more humbling.
Trent upens up about how his leadership grew as a result of accepting tough feedback, questioning himself, and pausing for reflection. His prevailing mantras “humble aggressiveness, patience, and honor” have helped orient him through the hurdles of being at the helm.
Trent ..read more
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3w ago
Unlock Seamless Event Planning with Our Comprehensive Checklist!
Are you ready to elevate your event planning game to new heights? Look no further! Introducing our meticulously crafted Event Planning Checklist, your ultimate companion for orchestrating unforgettable gatherings with ease and finesse.
In this checklist you will find:
Streamline Your Planning Process: Bid farewell to chaos and confusion! Our checklist is meticulously organized to guide you through every stage of event planning, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed.
Comprehensive and Customizable: From initial brainstormin ..read more
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1M ago
Creating Email Marketing Campaigns That Get Results
How well do Plato’s models of persuasion hold up with respect to direct email marketing over 2,400 years later? According to our guest Derek Scott, pretty reliably!
Fundraisers who see poor results with their direct email marketing campaigns usually make at least one of the following mistakes.
1) They fail to segment their donors. You should always reward the most consistent donors and recalibrate for the MIA ones.
2) They excessively manufacture a sense of urgency to the point that recipients become numb to campaigns.
3) They over-re ..read more
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1M ago
5 Self-Learning Tips to Help You Thrive in the Nonprofit Sector
The continuous rollout of industry-disrupting technology and new workflows pressures nonprofit employees to keep skilling up.
Some estimates suggest that half of all skills in today’s workforce will be eliminated within two years. So, immersing in one profession for five, let alone 15 years, without picking up new skills along the way is not only a missed opportunity, but it could jeopardize long-term career security.
As for organizations themselves — failure to provide growth opportunities or to train employees in new ..read more
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1M ago
Professional Self-Care and the Art of “Showing Up”
How can we be more engaged and authentic in our professional lives? In an episode full of great tips on professional self-care and authenticity, our guest Bethany Cranfield shares two key mantras that stand out.
The first is that we must keep “All bars on green” meaning we optimize our professional practices so that they don’t evaporate our energy by day’s end. We can do this by prioritizing self-care, but also by setting professional boundaries in ways that might make us uncomfortable at first. Especially if we are habitual overachiev ..read more