As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But if that picture is stretched, pixelated, distorted or blown up, what are those thousand words saying about you? Image sizing is as critical to effective online storytelling as spell check (and sometimes just as faulty). But unlike spell check, the solution is not …
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Shanerock, like many nonprofits, is an organization born of passion and need. In 2010, Eric and Amy Haddad got the news no parent wants to hear – their three year-old son Shane had brain & spinal cancer. Through the next decade of fighting, the Haddad family saw firsthand how difficult it is to try to …
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The Ryan Banks Academy is Chicago’s first tuition-free, co-educational independent school which opened in 2018. The United Way of Greater Cleveland has been in existence for over 100 years and serves people in need over a three-county area. On paper, they couldn’t be more different but online, their needs were remarkably similar. And so were …
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The rug has been pulled out from almost everyone. People feel like they’re overwhelmed with info and not receiving enough all at the same time. And so the question becomes; how do you as a nonprofit offer clear communication, and encourage people to continue their support? While there isn’t one pat answer, there are …
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In a continuing effort to help the nonprofit community, Big River is making a variety of tools available for reduced or no cost. Last month, we announced that we were making our simple donation software available for free to any 501(3)c organization through July 1st. The only fees associated are the transaction fee of 3.7% …
These are truly extraordinary times, and in response to the efforts and obstacles so many nonprofit organizations are facing, Big River has decided to make our simple donation software available for free through July 1st. The only fee charged wll be the credit card transaction fee of 3.7% +.20, and a button is available to …
Time, Treasure & Talent. It’s the phrase every fundraiser knows, and possibly the oldest saying in nonprofit history. But what if you changed it to – Talent + Time = Treasure That’s the concept Kilter Rewards is bringing to nonprofit fundraising, and it’s been taking off like wildfire. Simply put Kilter is an app …
Current events have made abundantly clear what some nonprofits have learned the hard way in the past; events can sometimes be cancelled because of circumstances beyond your control. What used to be an isolated incident due to a venue closing, a vendor going out of business or other reasons is rapidly becoming the new normal …
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I can feel like new ideas are hard to come by in fundraising. Galas, auctions, appeals, raffles – lather, rinse, repeat. You can get so caught up in the everyday “grind” of getting to the next milestone, or through the next crisis, that it’s easy to just assume what you’ve been doing is all you …
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Tell the Whole Story by Only Telling Part of It Its that time of the (new) year again. Time to let your donors, employees, supporters and the public in general know how the last year went. All too often this becomes a report as dry and uninteresting as any Fortune 500 company’s annual report, stuffed …
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