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April 2012

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Beyond Multichannel

Compassion & Choices relies on ‘omnichannel’ marketing — a steady flow of consistent messaging — to fuel its fight for end-of-life rights....

Current Features

Know Your Donor. Know Your Donor. Know Your Donor.

As I've looked at this whole area of proposal writing for major donors I find that a great deal of emphasis, by many authors, is placed on the actual writing of the case, proposal or whatever you want to call

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Columns

I Am Awesome. You Are Awesome.

Yes, we need to keep developing networks of peers and supporting each other. We need to keep patting ourselves on the back and giving out awards for excellence and "badges of awesomeness." However, I think the time has come for...

4 Steps to a Productive Partnership

Fairleigh Dickinson University broke out of this pattern via a deliberate, well-articulated restructuring. Here's FDU's strategy and results, and my recommendation of a four-step process to bring marketing and fundraising into a productive partnership....

7 Tips for a Great Volunteer Experience

Done right, recruiting and using volunteers can be a huge blessing. Done poorly, they're headaches. So how do you manage volunteers right? Here are seven tips to make sure that both your volunteers and you have a mutually beneficial experience....

Departments

Membership Has Its Privileges

Over the course of about six weeks, I received member/partner/supporter cards from 18 different organizations....

Book: ‘Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits’

FundRaising Success e-chats with Blackbaud's Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman about their book, "101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits," and social media....

Holistic Fundraising

As fundraising continues to evolve, I think we've moved even beyond the notion of multichannel integration. We've gone holistic. Or should....