Changes in Philanthropy Click-It: On Nonprofit Fundraising, Physics and Utopia. Heidi Hancock of Mosaic muses on the nature of nonprofit growth, and why it’s probably not realistic to think you can raise an endowment that will set your nonprofit up for life. Giving Tuesday Click-It: Expert Advice on Taking Advantage of #GivingTuesday comes from the…
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Here’s this week’s Clairity Click-it, leading off with a provocative piece about the state of the charitable sector and roaming through a mix of interesting and useful nonprofit marketing and fundraising tips — all designed to help you be the best you can be. Enjoy!
Changes in Philanthropy
Click-It: Philanthropy Reconsidered: The Paradigm Shift is a fascinating, thought-provoking article
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Here are some important links for you as we head into prime fundraising season. Some will make you think. Others are hands-on and practical. Enjoy!
Leadership
Click-It: To Be a True Leader, Start by Listening. Check out this podcast where Allison Fine interviews Annie Murphy Paul, author of the upcoming Brilliant: The New Science of Smart, about the concept of “cognitive humility”—recognizing what you don’t know and having an eagerness to learn. Do you fear to let others know when you don’t know something? Learn how to embrace admitting this as a strength.
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Here”s your ‘Back to School’ Clairity Click-it. It’s a good time to learn a few new tricks — and there are plenty of them here for you to noodle on and sink your teeth into. Let’s take a lo! Best Fundraising Asks Click-It: Your Favorite Fundraising Asks or Offers in Your Appeals? Kivi LeRoux Miller…
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Invest in Fundraising
This end of July (can you believe it?) Clairity Click-it brings a lot of great tips about how to plan ahead to take your fundraising to new heights next year. We start with resources, move on to thinking about measuring success, and then end with three core programs every development program should have in place: Donor Retention, Annual Fund and Major Gifts. You’ve got just about a month to get your ducks in order before prime fundraising season begins. To your success!
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This is your 4th of July Clairity Click-it (Independence Day for all my U.S.-based friends) – an array of hand picked articles to help you set off some fireworks for your organization and your donors. Seriously… are you putting on a captivating show for folks, or does your marketing send folks off to slumber land? Here are some tips to help you wake folks up.
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This is my first post-broken arm Clairity Click-it – especially hand picked (and I mean that quite literally!) for you. I’m still in a sling for at least four more weeks; maybe more. I leave you to enjoy the fruits of my perusing and one-armed pecking.
The Future of Nonprofit Marketing
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This is a special social media edition of the Clairity Click-it, since so many folks tell me they’re not doing as effective a job as they wish they were. Help is at hand! Take a look at these practical, and sometimes thought provoking, tips from some of my favorite nonprofit and for profit marketing gurus.
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An eclectic mix this week – mostly designed to make you think. We don’t take enough time to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, do we? In the end, thinking saves us a lot of time, preventing us from doing the wrong things (even if we do them the right way). So… gives yourself some thought space.
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A mixed bag of great links from around the web. I leave them to you to enjoy! Fundraising is Fun Click-it: Why Fundraising is Fun. This opinion piece by Arthur C. Bros in the New York Times echoes something I’ve taught for years. Fundraising is a way you facilitate philanthropy. It’s a way you help…
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