Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts

At the Center magazine Spring 2012 edition

Latest from IdeaEncore

Surfing the Crowd Funding Wave: Is it Right for Your Effort?

IdeaEncore: This document introduces what crowd funding is, shares examples, and suggests tips to choose and leverage the right outlets. Such efforts provide inexpensive opportunities for new ventures and good causes to gain capital.

10 Tips to Improve Your Website Easily and Inexpensively

10 Tips to Improve Your Website Easily and Inexpensively Nonprofit | Marketing / Branding - Internet Marketing | How to / Guide | IdeaEncore Network: When you’re asked to improve your organization’s website the task can be daunting – especially when the challenge to make it better doesn’t come with sufficient resources to do the job well. Here's a list of 10 simple improvements you can make and free tools you can use right away.

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Engaging the Next Generation of Donors

Engaging the Next Generation of Donors « CCS Philanthropy 360: If you are one of those charities successful in attracting younger donors, they can be quite profitable, especially so when you consider their lifetime potential and responsiveness towards lower cost online communications. So, the question is: “How do non-profit organizations attract and engage Millennials?”

Related:
Pinterest For Nonprofits?
The 5 Elements of Great Nonprofit Web Design
Facebook Fundamentals & Your Fresh-Faced Website

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Facebook, Tweets and Blogs: Using Social Media in Nonprofits

Online social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs, are part of all of our lives and can be used by nonprofits as tools for volunteer recruitment, fundraising, marketing, advocacy and more. These resources shared on IdeaEncore will help you effectively use social media.

Facebook: 
How Does Idealware Use Facebook? (Free)
Yes! You Can Raise $$ on Facebook and Other Social Networks (Free)

Twitter:
Tip Sheet: Twitter 101 (Free)
Tweeting for a Cause: A Nonprofit's Guide to Getting Started with Twitter (Free)

Blogs:
Nonprofit Blog Post Template ($5)
Blog for a Cause! The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy (Free)

These resources offer tips, guides and information on social media in general:
Using Social Media for Fundraising ($20)
Social Media Plan Outline ($20)
The New Media Toolkit (Free)
We Are Media - Social Media Policies (Free)

How to Turn Your Volunteers into Marketing Ambassadors

IdeaEncore: Volunteers affect your public image every time they interact with the your customers, your constituents, or the media. The question is: what impression are they giving these audiences about your organization? This article offers tangible, practical steps to assess the impact your volunteers are having on public perception, and how to turn them into ambassadors for your brand.

A Passion to Serve, 2011

A Passion to Serve: The new report includes updated data from 2010 to quantify the positive impact that PRCs are making upon the local and national community. With statistics and real-life anecdotes, this report records the development of the three major pregnancy resource networks: Care Net, Heartbeat International, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA). It also shows how this vital pregnancy help movement continues to flourish and offer a vast array of pregnancy and sexuality-related services, education, support, and outreach .

PRCs fill a dire need by offering abortion alternatives to women (and men) facing an unexpected pregnancy. In 2010, PRCs served over 2.3 million people with pregnancy assistance, abstinence counseling and education, community outreach programs and referrals, and public health linkages. A conservative estimate of community cost savings for these services during 2010 is over $100 million.

Planned Parenthood’s “cheeky” new ad campaign

Planned Parenthood’s “cheeky” new ad campaign - Jill Stanek: According to PP of Northern New England’s Fall/Winter 2011 newsletter it hired “design powerhouse” Jager Di Paola Kemp in 2010 to “revolutionize” its architecture, equipment, and signage “to convey the nervy, confident, and intrepid nature of PPNNE and its next generation of patients.”

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Customized brochures

Promotional brochures from the PRC Print Shop (associated with Heritage House) are designed to be edited easily to fit your center's needs. "Just give us your address, phone number, and hours and we will send you a proof! But, you can do more! If you see something in the brochure that doesn't match what you want to portray, just let us know how to fix it and the brochure will be perfectly tailored to your center."

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4 Rules and a Template for the Perfect, Donor-Friendly Website

4 Rules and a Template for the Perfect, Donor-Friendly Website - Sumac: Research shows that you have about three to seven seconds to grab a website visitor’s attention. When it comes to donors, however, it’s not just about grabbing their attention... it’s about giving them the information they need, and making it easy for them to donate. Does your organization’s website do this well, or could it be a little more donor-friendly?

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It’s here!


We’re pleased to announce . . . the newly revised and updated Standards for Excellence manual is now available for purchase.

This manual can be used to guide your leadership team through an evaluation of your ministry, help you chart an upgrade process, continue to maintain the highest standards, and build a solid future.

Peruse the Table of Contents
  • Expanded content
  • Many new features
  • Over 130 pages of sample forms and documents
Download the Assessment Tool and start evaluating your center today! The assessment consists of nearly 400 questions that you simply answer ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ This is a FREE download!

Purchase through our Online Store, ‘PCC Help’ category.

FREE copy for associates of Partners in Ministry! During 2012, any center joining Partners in Ministry as an associate will receive a free manual — a $95 value. Click here to learn more!

Download powerful, free ads from Feminists for Life


Online Ads - Feminists for Life of America - Pro Woman Pro Life: Post our ads in your community and around campus. Use them as flyers at your table or FFL Rally for Resources. Have them printed in local and campus newspapers, and magazines to which you subscribe. Offer them to your local religious congregation for an insert in their bulletin.

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