9 Ways to Use Nonprofit Watchdogs’ Standards to Up Your Game

The nonprofit sector is huge. Did you know the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University reports that more than 70 million people work and volunteer in the industry? Nonprofits produce more than 1.9 trillion dollars annually and employ the third-largest workforce of ...

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Seven Criteria to Consider when Selecting Fundraising Software

If your nonprofit or community organization is hosting a fundraising event, one of your first decisions will be deciding how to manage your fundraising campaign. With the many online fundraising software options available today, there is no reason for your organization to struggle with the ...

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Consider This Before Searching for an International Fundraising Job

Devon has lived and worked in Paraguay for more than three years, helping nearly 20 community groups, schools, and government agencies design and fund sustainable programs for economic and social development. Are you having trouble finding a job in the U.S and willing (or wanting) ...

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Sample Letter: Adapting Your Proposal Cover Letter for Email

More and more, funders – including government agencies, corporations, foundations, and individuals – are asking non profits to save the paper and email their proposals or submit them online. They can then take highlights out of your pitch, if they review it, to present to ...

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Sample Proposal Letter: How to Write an Environmental Proposal Pitch that Appeals to Funders

“Green” is in, and more and more funders are giving to environmental causes, but donations to environmental nonprofits and projects still only constitute around 7% of US philanthropy (Giving USA).  While funders see environment as a worthy giving sector, it is hard to compete with ...

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5 Ways to Use Earth Day to Put Your Nonprofit in the Green

If it seems like every other advertisement is adopting a “green” strategy to show product alignment with environmental friendliness, you are not seeing things. Corporations, nonprofits, and even government agencies are hopping on the green bandwagon because it pays off. Studies show that a majority ...

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4 Steps to Use Reputation Marketing to Boost Fundraising

Reputation marketing has become a buzz phrase in the small business world, as 95% of people now check ratings for small businesses online before choosing a restaurant, dentist, hotel, or other service-based product – more than 50% with regularity. (More on local search and reviews ...

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Chasing Donors Away? Annoying Tactics Nonprofits Use

With well over a million non-profit organizations registered in America, each competing for their share of the revenue pie, every donor becomes a valuable asset. Yet a surprising number of nonprofits are inadvertently chasing donors away. You would never knowingly risk the allegiance of your ...

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Tips for Tweaking Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Presence

Many nonprofit organizations have already signed up for Twitter, Google+ and Facebook accounts, and others are looking at Pinterest and Instagram. Social media is great – if the given platform is actually used and used to its full potential. Perhaps it’s time to scrutinize the ...

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3 Places to Integrate Marketing in Your Fundraising Plan

You are sold on marketing as necessary to your nonprofit development program, and you are intrigued by the new trends in marketing. You now are perplexed at how to actually integrate marketing into your board-approved fundraising plan! Here are some tips to integrate marketing strategies ...

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5 Marketing Trends Nonprofits Should Not Ignore

It can be challenging to wrap your head around all of the buzz words, trends, and jargon attached to the idea of “marketing”. Once you have identified what your marketing budget for your nonprofit will be and what your core audience and service area are, ...

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Marketing Your Non-profit: Why it is Crucial and How to Do It

There is no excuse for ignoring business marketing principles when it comes to your non-profit. Marketing is critical to sales and is included in every good business plan. While non profits are not trying to make money for products in a capitalist sense, they need ...

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Why Donate to Environmental and Animal Charities?

Our world is an ever changing environment, morphing through economic crises, recession, climate change, natural disasters, wars and other human catastrophes and there are countless non-profits that help humans in need. But us humans share this planet with other species who we depend on for ...

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3 Steps to Help your Organization Better Serve Community Need

Today more and more nonprofits and organizations are competing for less and less dollars of foundation and government grant support. While nonprofits need to stay true to their mission and vision, they also, to win those precious dollars, need to frame themselves within the context ...

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5 No-Cost Fundraising Tips from Working with the World’s Poorest

Devon has lived and worked in Paraguay for more than three years, helping nearly 20 community groups, schools, and government agencies design and fund sustainable programs for economic and social development. Does your nonprofit operate with half the staff and budget you really need to ...

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