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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Proposing governance changes – what the CIPR did

Optimist Consulting

They are always out in front when it comes to online and social media initiatives. They then opened a two-month consultation with members which outlined the proposed changes and rationale and asked for feedback. I liked the fact that they used different media: They invited comments on a Wiki page. A good project overall.

Proposal 100
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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

While the way you align your proposed member community with your executives’ goals will vary by association, five of the most common priorities you might find in the strategic plan include new member acquisition, member engagement and retention, non-dues revenue growth, advocacy and legislation, and maintaining relevance. Objection 1: Price.

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Rethink, reuse, and repurpose: How to create more social media content with less work

Candid

Creating a consistent supply of social media content for a nonprofit is hard. At the Nonprofit Marketing Summit earlier this month, I shared how we do this—from how we rethought why we are on social media and our process for repurposing content (without getting too repetitive). Here are some of the highlights: 1.

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Rough Draft of a Nonprofit Social Media Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download).

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Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project

Association Subculture

Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project. I would like to announce the Association Executives: Provocative Proposals for Change project (that link will take you to my website for a complete description). social media. (3). Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Rese. Were now in orbit.

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Frank Kenny: Selling Memberships with Social Media

GrowthZone

sell memberships) maximizing your organization’s social media and digital marketing efforts. Social media is no different. The social media activities you have completed so far are similar to a single person going to a church social, nightclub, or community festival. So, you want to make money (a.k.a,