Category: Nonprofit
The no-stress holiday card primer
7 tips for pulling together that last-minute holiday message
Uh oh, it’s mid December, and your holiday message keeps getting bumped down the To Do List. Now what? Step One: don’t panic.
The idea that your organization must send a holiday message before December 25th is no longer a rule. Holiday messages that kick off the new year are more and more becoming the norm, so if you are just coming around to pulling together that holiday message, fear not.
For those of you who are in the scramble of putting together a holiday message, we’ve got a few tips to get you on your way: Continue reading
Pyramid Communications blog: Facebook Fundraisers: Fad or Forever?
Remember when fundraising for your favorite cause meant convincing your coworkers to buy tubs of cookie dough, going door-to-door with magazine subscriptions, or endless laps around a track for walk-a-thons?
When my youth theatre needed to raise money for a new van, I cajoled my extended family into buying more than 30 rolls of wrapping paper and won the see-through phone of my dreams.
18th & Union: an arts space
Social media strategy, content creation, implementation, and measurement.
Seattle Theatre Group digital annual report
Ploughshares Fund digital annual report
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts website
Giving Tuesday: Has It Worked?
So, did you accomplish all of your holiday shopping this weekend between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, as-yet-unnamed Sunday (Shopping Sunday? Spendy Sunday?), and Cyber Monday, and still leave a little in the coffers to donate on Giving Tuesday? If you answered yes, then I applaud both your conscientiousness and your budgeting (and your ability to finish your Christmas shopping before, well, Christmas Eve). But I’m guessing more of you replied, “What’s Giving Tuesday?” Continue reading
Want to attract millennials? Try throwing a big ol’ party.
It’s so nice to get up on my millennial soapbox once again and find a few more folks standing up here with me: Kristen Eddings of the Washington Global Health Alliance and UW School of Law student Jessica Smith. These two fellow impassioned millennials gave a great presentation at last week’s Northwest Development Officers Association winter conference entitled “The Anatomy of a Young Donor,” and it got me all fired up to report back on their findings (and add a few of my own). Continue reading
+Another social network?
“It’s like a reverse Fight Club, where the first rule of Google+ is that we only talk about Google+.”
I must admit: this quote definitely summed up my first week on Google’s newest contribution to the social networking field. No one was quite sure why they were on Google+, but by golly they were going to talk about how empty it felt, or how it was sort of like Facebook (but not really), or how they were packing up all their other online identities and becoming devoted Google+ disciples. I joined to satisfy my curiosity, finally have a social network I felt comfortable enough on to connect to everyone I know (instead of only friends or only family), and to see whether Google+ really is the end-all, be-all to social networking for both businesses and individuals. Continue reading
Blair Feehan 