By BC Gov Photos on Flickr Gathering at MIT seeks to inspire & enable community action It’s been a crazy month of travel, with my giving talks at the Women’s funding Network Summit and the California State PTA convention in LA, a Google conference on Internet freedom in D.C., and now I’m in Boston for […]
Archives for May 2012
7 tips to attract more donors for your cause
Do you want to know how to attract more donors? Want to learn the secrets used by professional fundraisers?
Of course you do! Fundraising is your nonprofit’s lifeblood. It funds fuel the impact you make.
Metrics: Go beyond counting likes and followers
Archers don’t aim at the point halfway between the arrow tip and the target. If they did, they would never hit the bullseye.
In the same way, many nonprofits still focus too much on counting Facebook likes and Twitter followers as if these metrics are the end goal, and then feel frustrated when they’re not getting the results they expected.
7 ways to create a fiercely loyal nonprofit community
Photo by laubarnes on Flickr Guest post by Sarah Robinson Fierce Loyalty The strategies and approaches for community building are changing. And gaining fierce loyalty from your community is becoming increasingly difficult. There is just so much out there competing for the attention and heart of your members that doing things the same way you’ve […]
10 top tools for cause campaigns
A visualization from Bigthink.com. Target audience: Cause organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, foundations, social enterprises, political reformers, educators, journalists, general public. Over the past three years, as regular readers know, Socialbrite has put together dozens of guides and compilations of resources and tools for social change advocates. See the bottom of this article for a few, and […]