Looking for volunteer opportunities but clueless about where to begin? Overwhelmed by the amount of options available? Want to make sure you find something that fits your interests, location, and schedule?
Your organization should be using a CRM, or Customer Relationship Manager, to simplify some of the administrative demands. With a large number of people in your network, you can’t get by without a way to keep track of all of them. Especially as a nonprofit, keeping an accurate and updated record of your donors, volunteers, fundraisers, event attendees, etc. is crucial.
Here’s where nonprofit CRMs can help! The following solutions offer all typical CRM tools, but with additional features specific to nonprofit management and member engagement. With many new programs surfacing, there are several options to choose from. We’re here to tell you about a few of them.
Your nonprofit just built three new houses outside of Lima and you send an update email to all 5,000 of your subscribers instantaneously.
Your fundraiser is one week away and you send a reminder email, first to your donors and then to your volunteers.
You’re searching for a new Volunteer Coordinator to join your team and you send an inquiry email to your subscribers and then post the position on social media.
According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), there are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S. alone. With so many organizations doing such great work in the world, how does one stand out in the crowd? How does a nonprofit become an internationally-recognized center of do-gooding? How do they get thousands or millions of likes/followers on social media?
This post was updated from a previous post from June 2016.
Today, people instinctively turn to the web to gather information about almost anything, whether they are getting the latest world news, seeking advice, or simply looking for an address. The web is where it’s at, making your nonprofit’s website a crucial element for your organization. It’s not only necessary to communicate information but also to establish credibility.
(more…)You’ve all been told that you should be more active on social media in order to increase awareness for your nonprofit. But at the end of the day, it can seem like a constant struggle to maintain a presence on all the different platforms out there.
So you’ve decided to get a new website for your nonprofit. How in the world do you get started? How do you decide what to do first, how to organize your content, what style to use, or whether you should change your logo?
(more…)Just like for-profit businesses, nonprofits need a strong brand identity in order to help create trust and increase visibility about their cause. In addition your brand is a part of any of the visual content produced by your organization like brochure creating for your awesome programs!
Let’s say you’re about to start your own nonprofit. You need a few essentials to get started – like an easy website builder, right? After all, it’s important that you have a professional online image to attract funding, apply for grants, get more volunteers, etc. In order to create that image – your website – you’re going to need a place for it to live: AKA your website’s host.
What’s the first thing you see when you are browsing online and enter into a nonprofit website? A powerful image? An inspiring slogan or tagline?
Mission statements are at the direct center of nonprofits. They are bare-bones proclamations of why your organization exists.
They are part of your branding, and just like your website, logo, and social media presence — they should be great. Similar to the other content on your website, your nonprofit’s mission statement involves strategic planning and brainstorming to truly define your core values and purpose.
In the below infographic, we compile a list of 30 super nonprofit mission statement examples, but first let’s talk a little bit about why your organization should have a mission statement in the first place.
(more…)Think about some of the big brands in the world. McDonald’s. Apple. Starbucks. Coca Cola.
How long does it take you to imagine these brands in your head? You can probably visualize their logos in an instant upon saying their names. That shows the power of a great logo.