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From Membership Professional to Community Officer
Imagine the scene. Two nonprofit association membership pros talking in a crowded restaurant at lunchtime, commiserating with each other and sharing their professional anxieties that they fell into...
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VIDEO: Building Your Brand Ambassador Program
Is your organization thinking about how to implement a brand ambassador program? The video here is a slightly modified version of a presentation I gave earlier this week to nonprofit leaders in...
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Three Actionable Ideas for Welcoming New Volunteers
[Note: I originally wrote this post for the BaileyHill Media blog. Even though it is aimed at a political audience, I think there is a great deal of relevance for nonprofits or other organizations that...
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Five Myths Perpetuated By Big Brand Employers
I wish I didn’t have to write this post. I wish it wasn’t required to point out something that seems so damn obvious. But it has become tragically necessary based on far too many things said and...
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The Art of Volunteer Engagement
Say you’re a nonprofit executive or someone responsible for working with volunteers…do you know the value of the volunteer work being done on your organization’s behalf? Consider all that time spent,...
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4 Ways To Show Your New Volunteers The Love
Do your volunteers know how to most effectively support your organization? Sure, maybe those key individuals who have been with your nonprofit for a while know how to contribute to your cause. But...
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Hit A Speed Bump But Regaining Speed
Ack. It’s happened again. I find myself with about four or five half-written posts in Draft stage but nothing published in over a month. This is not to say I haven’t been busy, but just needed to slow...
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Building Strong Donor Relationships
I recently got a card from my 85 year old grandmother. It was a cute card with a dog hanging in a rather precarious position and looking troubled. The message inside was: “Hang in there.” While things...
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The Easy Way To Drive Away Online Supporters: Email Flooding
This is a short post, but one that I believe is important. I receive emails from other nonprofits – many of which I support and want to hear from. I also want to see if I can “borrow” good ideas for...
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How to Motivate Donors: The Donor Persuasion Model
As I speak with nonprofit leaders, one key question continues to emerge: Why do our donors give? On the surface, the answer may seem obvious, but the question persists because it’s truly difficult to...
View ArticleScrew the Golden Rule: It Doesn’t Work in Digital Philanthropy
We’re taught that in order to be a good person, we should “do unto others as we would have them do unto us.” Don’t get me wrong – being a good person is a worthy goal. However, following the Golden...
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Got A Little Too Much JQA In Your Organization?
I’m always a little late to the game when it comes to finding good podcasts. However, I have a wife who has a longer commute than me (sorry, honey) and has found podcasts to be a balm to soothe her...
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Fifty Shades of Fundraising
It all started innocently enough. I was having a running series of craptastic days where I was constantly fending off internal threats to my integrity, capability, and autonomy as a digital fundraiser....
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Take That Donor Survey All The Way Home
In my home, I’ve adopted a phrase that reminds my family to not just leave their empty cracker wrappers, finished Starbucks cups, and used paper towels laying about the house. That phrase is: Take it...
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My Vacation To The Lake And Learning To Care Intentionally
There I floated on my bright yellow raft, not too far away from the dock. It was the first morning of our summer lake vacation and was starting to warm up into one of those typical late July hot...
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4 Steps To Keep From Walking Into Another Bad Workplace
Eventually it happens to all of us when we enter a new organization. Sometimes it takes a few years. Sometimes a few months. For the least fortunate among us, only a few weeks. I’m talking about the...
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