Today it’s a “clean out the refrigerator” kind of post. Several things to put in front of you. Join in…you make us better by letting us know what you’re thinking. On generational stuff. The Pew Foundation has some fascinating information and a quiz. Click here to get the info. And click here to find out […]
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I’ll confess, I’m a worrier. I’m better than I used to be, but I still worry. I had a conversation recently with a really great leader who was talking about something they were worried about and I was amazed to find out: 1. They were a worrier. To me, they seemed far too cool, collected
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Depending on who you listen to, Facebook (FB) will either completely revolutionize your fundraising or it is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Most of us are in the “somewhere in between” camp. It makes sense that Facebook would help fundraising, but at this point there aren’t a lot of clear and clean examples of
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Many charities host annual event fundraisers — dinners, auctions, desserts, breakfasts, even a few murder mystery events (don’t even get me started about the murder mystery dinner I attended to benefit a domestic violence shelter). Before you go very far ask yourself a few questions: 1. What’s the goal? No fair having some vague goal
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Interestingly the last post I ran with contained a series of thoughts, okay rants, called “think this, not that” that didn’t provoke much in the way of discussion on the blog. But it did generate some back-channel discussions via email and phone. “Think bonding, not branding” started more than a few, “nice line, but what
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In no particular order, here’s my incomplete list of what we all need to be thinking about if we want to make things happen for nonprofits and ministries in this new decade of ours. Think bonding not branding. Think engagement not fundraising. Think experiences not events. Think reporters pursuing not public relations. Think connections not
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We spent some time last week with one of our favorite people. She’s brilliant, wise and a terrific nonprofit marketing strategist. The discussion turned to fundraising for Haiti. We’re all in the business, so the discussion went deep and to the details very quickly. One of the topics that we batted around was the phenomenon
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The buzz about the Haiti-effect on fundraising in 2010 is growing nearly as fast the number of dollars that are being raised for relief. We’ve been drawn into several questions and discussions about how the massive relief and fundraising efforts will impact income for 2010. Interestingly, I’ve heard and read several in our business who
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If you had any doubts that the whole Internet thing is completely out of control, allow me to blow your mind. Pingdom.com recently released some stats that still have my head spinning. I mean, you know there’s lots of “web-stuff” out there, but consider: There were 90 trillion emails sent in 2009. 247 billion per
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2009 is in your rearview mirror now and you’re stepping out boldly into 2010. I suspect that you’re beginning to have some feel for how the 4th Quarter 09 performed. For most, it is too early to know for what some of the most critical metrics are: net income, ROI, etc. I’m curious about your
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We use the phrase “integrated income solutions” in talking about our work for nonprofits and ministries. It isn’t unusual for a prospective client to ask, “exactly what does an ‘integrated income solution’ look like?” Sean Corcoran with Forrester Research had a terrific post that helps illustrate our point. Sean explained “earned, owned and paid media”
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If you want to increase your online donations, take advantage of these 5 easy steps culled from our intensive survey. OK, it wasn’t an intensive survey. It was an intense hour and half of real-life giving. But my opening sentence holds. If you’ll follow my suggestions, your income online will improve. Here’s what happened. December
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