80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising
I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a [...]
Best Blogs of 2011
Well, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…our choice for the best Connection Cafe blog posts of 2011. I [...]
Mission Statements That Matter
Why is our industry plagued with so many terrible mission statements? You know the ones…they include meaningless words like “outreach” or [...]
The Effectiveness of Celebrity Spokespeople in Social Fundraisers
New platforms like Crowdrise, Razoo, HelpAttack and many others are springing up along side establish platforms like Friends Asking Friends [...]
The Secret to Going Viral: Harnessing the Kevin Bacon Effect
Guest post by Darian Rodriguez Heyman, creator of the nationwide Social Media for Nonprofits conference series and former Executive Director [...]
The Teacher Learns a Lesson
Last week, I spoke at the monthly meeting of the San Antonio chapter of Partners for Philanthropic Planning. The topic: [...]
Tips & Tricks from the Trenches
Based on the Summit session she’s leading right now, the following blog post is written by Judi Sohn. Judi is [...]
I heard it on the news
The vast majority of donor acquisition spend today is on direct mail. But just about every report you read shows [...]
Are you BEGS-ing?
The following post is by Sheetal Persaud at hjc New Media, a Convio partner in Canada. Hjc specializes in integrated [...]
Facebook is Great, but Does it Really Work for Fundraising?
Last weeks post highlighting a few statistics from the business world seems to have resonated with readers here. That got [...]