Current events have made abundantly clear what some nonprofits have learned the hard way in the past; events can sometimes be cancelled because of circumstances beyond your control. What used to be an isolated incident due to a venue closing, a vendor going out of business or other reasons is rapidly becoming the new normal …
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I can feel like new ideas are hard to come by in fundraising. Galas, auctions, appeals, raffles – lather, rinse, repeat. You can get so caught up in the everyday “grind” of getting to the next milestone, or through the next crisis, that it’s easy to just assume what you’ve been doing is all you …
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Tell the Whole Story by Only Telling Part of It Its that time of the (new) year again. Time to let your donors, employees, supporters and the public in general know how the last year went. All too often this becomes a report as dry and uninteresting as any Fortune 500 company’s annual report, stuffed …
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Big River Makes Giving Tree Grow Bellefaire JCB makes Holiday Wishes Come True for Over 1200 Children Using Giving Catalog In 1868, the Jewish Community of Cleveland came together to form the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, a residence for 80 children from 15 states left parent-less by the Civil War. Today, that organization, now known …
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Make the Ask, and Follow-Up Your donors understand that there is a cost to doing business in today’s digital world, even if that business is a philanthropic mission. So when you’re making an online appeal, selling tickets to an event, or any other activity that can be paid for with a credit card, make sure …
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It can be hard to believe that Giving Tuesday is only 7 years old. But rapid growth has made this a social (media) event that stands on the verge of cultural relevance and acceptance, and your organization should embrace it. But as with anything online these days, some people disagree. And their points can seem …
Memes For GOOD!! Social Media has fundamentally changed our world, for better and worse. And we can wring our hands about it, but as the old saying (wrongly attributed to Mark Twain) goes; “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it” Charles Dudley Warner So we can sit on the sidelines, talking …
I’m not the biggest fan in the world of roller coasters. I like them just fine, just not going out of my way to find them. And by far the worst part of the ride is that slow ascent. The “click clack, click clack…” of slow, steady process, with the future completely unknown and the …
Scottish Snowplows (Really) So first an English lesson, since we are, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “Two peoples separated by a common language” A Gritter is a Snowplow/Salt Spreader Not long ago, Traffic Scotland decided that as long as they were tracking their gritters in order to ensure coverage and efficient use, they …
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This year’s Giving Tuesday is planned for December 3rd, but you should be planning now to capitalize on this rapidly growing national movement. Having grow exponentially since its founding, Giving Tuesday seeks to be an altruistic “palate cleanser” from the consumerism of Black Friday (and increasingly, Cyber Monday). It also helps focus attention on the …