A successful strategy for outreach with diverse communities will help your organization transform issues at local levels and achieve long-lasting benefits. Here are the top 6 outreach tips I've learned by working with local communities across Latin America. These tips will be useful if you plan to work with organizations [...]
In the weeks following the start of the pandemic, organizations had to react quickly with their response to COVID. As a consultant I saw clients and organizations react in three ways: Play it safe: There are a lot of unknowns. Letâs lay low and see how things play out. In [...]
How-To Keep Composure While Moving an Audience to Action Many nonprofit organizations are busting at the seams with emotional stories that tug on the heartstrings. Stories of hardship, poverty, abuse, and heartbreak may be difficult to share and difficult to hear but they are real and deserve to be told. [...]
Save more time and raise more money with a great selection of stories Storytelling is one of the most effective and important forms of communication for nonprofits. It helps connect the audience to the mission in a personal and tangible way. Creating a story bank for your organization will ensure [...]
Dos and Donâts for Sharing Stories On Stage and Online As fundraising professionals, mastering the art of becoming a nonprofit storyteller and presenting a good message will help move the giving needle at events -- in-person and online. Whether you are presenting the story yourself or have enlisted a guest [...]
In my prior life as Founder and Executive Director of Girlstart - a nonprofit empowering girls in math science, engineering and technology - we used inexpensive digital printing to send donors Valentineâs and Thanksgiving postcards. We also had pre-printed customized thank-you card stationery for girls to write donor thank you [...]
As the town crier for donor love, I like to suggest free and inexpensive ways to steward donors with a personal touch. When I suggest texting donors, a lot of people respond as if I just suggested something wildly inappropriate. I run into equal amounts of ageism and righteous indignation. [...]
Whither goest now? When coronavirus response fundraising began several months ago, you probably didnât envision youâd still be working from a home office. Or that your âbusiness as usualâ still wouldnât be. Or that you still wouldnât have the ability to plan for a date certain when everything would go [...]
Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach, also known as Charity Clairity. Today's question comes from a fundraiser who isn't sure whether they should keep sending a print newsletter through the mail or convert it into an email [...]
If you run a nonprofit, I donât need to tell you that 2020 has proved to be overwhelming. This is especially true for those of you who are leading your organizationâs fundraising initiatives. You know this better than anyone! Since the spring, many organizations have scrambled, adapted, and struggled. Perhaps, [...]
Being productive and saving time are two of my favorite things - right up there with delighting donors and helping make fundraiserâs jobs easier. One of my favorite things to collect, next to drool-worthy fundraising examples, are timesaving fundraising tools. I recently did a webinar with my fundraising friends Rachel [...]
One day while searching through a greeting card section at a local store, I glimpsed at a card that read, âBe the author of your own story.â At that moment, I had recently been asked to tell my own story, once again, to a nonprofit organization looking to share my [...]