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Facebook Challenge Groups Build Long-Term Revenue Pipeline
Ian Joyce showed up at Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation after a robust and distinguished career in corporate marketing and communications. He brought that mindset to his new work in social good. But he found there was a missing piece—a pipeline.
Republican Party Shows Us How to Fundraise
History is unfolding before us; it’s on C-SPAN and most cable news outlets. How can we use what we’re witnessing to help us in social good? Repeat to yourself... people respond to situations. Great marketing and program design create situations that trigger the types of attitudes and behaviors that we’re seeing as a result of the January 6th hearings.
Helicopter Event Leadership Creates Participants, Not Constituents
We recently wrote about the unfortunate results of “siloing” events and event participants. By doing so we prevent the participant from connecting to the mission, to make the mission a part of their identity.
Let Us Talk For a Minute About What a Community Is
We have defined “our community” as “the people on our email list” for a long time, but that’s not what community is all about. To our credit, we knew that they (people on our email list) cared about one thing—our mission.
Students Raise Funds For Kids With Cancer
It was addictive. I wanted to continue that feeling. It was such an incredible feeling. I wanted more and more. It became something that I loved.
6 Lessons We Learned From the Pandemic
In the past months, we’ve read a lot of “takeaways from the pandemic” articles. So many, in fact, that we thought adding one more to the conversation might be redundant. At the same time, we are still reading them, and it looks like you are too. So here is our take on what we learned.
In the Weeds of Facebook Fundraising
Every day, Facebook throws new challenges and opportunities in the nonprofit sector. From creating an environment in which we don’t get to know our fundraisers and donors, to changing the rules of engagement inside their environment on a sporadic and unexpected basis, Facebook delivers frustration along with new opportunities.