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Curiosity Didn’t Kill These Fundraisers—It Made Them Unstoppable

Clairification

One study published in Harvard Business Review ,found curiosity builds trust and improves relationships in the workplace. Remember, behind all your work there are people. Its your job to learn more about them. One of your best tools is curiosity. It also builds trust between you and donors. Jon Simons, Executive V.P. Also use your two eyes.

IT 157
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Facilitate Means to Make Easy

Clairification

You’re mailing appeals, sending emails, publishing newsletters, posting on social media, and more. And when you don’t make it easy for donors to choose to support your charity, you inevitably make it easy for them to choose not to. This is where I ask you how you view your role. Are you a philanthropy facilitator or a fundraiser? Lots of it.

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Getting Ready Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Clairification

I publish the Clairity Click-it to offer all kinds of resources for all kinds of nonprofit consumers. As you’re planning ahead, and readying your year-end fundraising initiatives, take a little time to think about your communication delivery mediums. Not to mention your message content. And they work better when they “sound like you.”

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Be Human Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Clairification

I published an article on this topic earlier this week, and I love what Seth Godin has to say here. The solar-powered LED calculator we used in school did no such thing. 6 x 7 is 42, no ifs, ands or buts. Part of the magic of Google search was that it was not only cocky, it was often correct. Of course, Google was never completely correct.

IT 212
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That Time We Got the Big Ask

The Fundraiser Coach

It was about students learning how 18 th - and 19 th -century books were published and distributed. Every major gift fundraiser has imagined it: the moment you’re sitting across from a donor, and a carefully orchestrated conversation builds toward the Ask. I’ve been on the asking side countless times. So what happened next?

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How to Use Your Website to Promote Your Nonprofit Online

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Whether youre setting up your website or improving an existing one, explore best practices for promoting your nonprofit online effectively in this guide. By Carl Diesing Your website is an essential tool in your online marketing kit. As a small nonprofit, you may have created a website but not had the bandwidth to flesh it out and optimize it fully.

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Sales Operations Demystified: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How To Do It Right

Wild Apricot

But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. What are the key functions of a sales operations group? Technical functions. Strategic responsibilities.

IT 161