Posted in Uncategorized, donor, donor engagement, fundraising, non profit, nonprofit on Mar 1st, 2011
Grants will support nonprofits, charities and voluntary organizations of all types in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
How often does your organization step back and remember your mission? Sure, you know what your mission is, but how often do you refine the sense of mission that exists in the hearts of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, community, donor, follower, fundraising, investment, non profit, nonprofit, social network on Oct 15th, 2010
Today is Blog Action Day. It’s an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This year the issue being discussed is something very near and dear to [...]
Posted in community, donor, donor engagement, economic recession, front porch, fundraising, network, non profit, nonprofit, social network, transformation on Oct 4th, 2010
Today is World Habitat Day. Last week I wrote a post about Habitat’s international efforts here. Habitat for Humanity is also raising awareness of the need for improved shelter and highlighting Habitat’s priority in the United States, neighborhood revitalization. This theme echos the United Nations’ chosen theme for 2010 for events in the host city [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, community, donor, donor engagement, front porch, fundraising, investment on Sep 30th, 2010
Monday, October 4th is of World Habitat Day sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat’s international World Habitat Day efforts will focus on the link between housing and health. One way that you can learn more about this is through the 2011 Shelter Report, which focuses on the need for more research on the connections between healthy [...]
Posted in donor, donor engagement, economic recession, fundraising, investment, lifecycle, marketing, marketing budget, non profit, nonprofit on Aug 3rd, 2010
While meeting with a client the other day the conversation turned to their growth plans. The client softly explained that their growth plans were pretty conservative considering the economy and how much their board of directors enjoyed their dividend checks. We both chuckled knowing that growth needs to be funded by profit and would cut [...]
Posted in donor, donor engagement, fundraising, individualized marketing, network, non profit, nonprofit, personalized marketing, social branding, social marketing, social media, social network on Jul 28th, 2010
I get asked this question a lot. When I talk with a community benefit organization about their marketing for fundraising, probably 4 out of 10 times I’m asked whether everything they send out should include a fundraising ask. In my opinion, the answer is quite simple — no.
Your donors and prospects are valuable but different [...]
Posted in banking, community, consumer behavior, donor, economic recession, financial services, investment, kansas city, marketing, network, social network, transformation on May 12th, 2010
To say that the recession has had a negative impact on retirement savings is a serious understatement. Rather than debate the legality, morality or responsibility to shareholders and other arguments related to the cause of the problem, I would like to open a conversation about how to fix the destruction. A lot of people are [...]
Posted in donor, donor engagement, economic recession, fundraising, marketing, marketing budget, network, non profit, nonprofit on Apr 27th, 2010
Over the last several years the economy has taken an alarming toll on the community benefit sector. For many organizations and foundations income is down 20% to 40% and sometimes more. No business can contract that much without suffering tremendous pain. While the markets have shown signs of rebounding over the last several weeks, other [...]
Posted in CRM, SPURspectives, branding, community, consumer behavior, consumer perception, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer relationship management, donor, donor engagement, economic recession, investment, marketing, marketing budget, marketing innovation, network, spur communications on Mar 29th, 2010
Shell shocked by the current recession, some businesses are resorting to extremes. Several large businesses recently told me that they are simply doing no marketing at all this year. They’d like to be called in November so that we can plan for 2011. Seriously, call me next year? Other businesses are seeing the downturn as [...]
Posted in CRM, SPURspectives, banking, branding, community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, consumer perception, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer relationship management, donor, donor engagement, financial services, follower, marketing, marketing innovation, network, non profit, nonprofit, social branding, social marketing, social media, social network, spur communications, twitter, web on Mar 3rd, 2010
Part 3 of 3 — This week SPURspectives is examining the new opportunity opening up in the securities sector as a result of changes in the FINRA guidance regarding social media use. Social media is taking off and FINRA has said you are now free to move about the cabin. In this three part series [...]
