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The 10-Step Guide to Mastering Facebook for Your Nonprofit (In Just a Few Hours a Week)

Wild Apricot

Whether your nonprofit is aiming to raise awareness locally or nationally, engage volunteers, or boost donations in your city or region, focusing your efforts on Facebook makes strategic sense. Include your website, email and donation link. stories, event updates, volunteer spotlights, donation appeals etc.) Consistency is key.

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4 Common Event Planning Challenges + How to Solve Them

The Fundraising Coach

Often, nonprofits are forced to cut corners or rely heavily on donations, which can add uncertainty to the planning process. In-kind donations, such as catering or printing services, can significantly reduce costs while building community relationships. Crowdfunding platforms can also help you raise funds in advance.

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Cupcakes Won’t Pay the Bills

Center for Major Gifts

And lets not forget the almighty thermometer chart, filling with donations like a Las Vegas slot machine on a good day. Staff burnout. If your fundraising plan looks more like a social calendar than a business strategy, youve got a problem. Fundraising: Strategic Investment or Sideshow? Nonprofits love events. Its thrilling.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. Is my donation tax-deductible?” “Are These online conversational bots are best at answering the same questions over and again. “Is Where are you located?”

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Why Development and Marketing Teams Need Each Other at Nonprofits

GiveSmart

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. For example, you might hold two fundraising events during the year.

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Why development and marketing teams need each other at nonprofits

GiveSmart

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. For example, you might hold two fundraising events during the year.

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6 Things to Consider When Hiring a Grant Writer…Maybe a Grant Consultant is a Better Fit

Millionaire Grant Lady

This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Gone are the days when organizations could rely on private donations for consistent, sufficient funding. Hiring a grant writer is one of the most important decisions a nonprofit can make.