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Communication to Connect With Your School’s Donors: 3 Tips
The average person sees around 10,000 advertisements each day. These include Google Ads they see every time they enter a search query, marketing emails that populate their inboxes, and ads that appear on their social media feeds. To stand out amongst all these ads, your school needs to create a communication strategy that meets supporters where they are and forms an emotional connection with them. In this guide, we’ll lay [...]
Member Management Software: Frequently Asked Questions
Association professionals face a challenging paradox: members demand personalized digital experiences, yet many organizations are still operating on fragmented systems that treat members like static data points. Choosing the right technology goes beyond maintaining a clean database. It's about finding a platform that can drive growth, personalization, and engagement. Enter member management software. This type of platform makes every touchpoint in the member journey—from initial sign-ups to renewals—seamless and professional. [...]
4 Financial Management Strategies for Medical Practices
Picture this: You’re working as the back office manager in a medical practice. Every month, you review your financial statements and see that your inflows exceed your outflows, though not by much. You’re satisfied that your medical practice is the picture of financial health. One day, however, your X-ray equipment stops working. After paying a technician to look at it, you’re looking at thousands of dollars in repair costs, more [...]
How to Foster a Growth Mindset Across Your Nonprofit’s Team
Think about the difference between the sentences "I can't do it" and "I can't do it yet." The first version of this statement closes the door, while the second considers the possibility of improvement while still acknowledging any challenges. The distinction between the two is what differentiates a growth mindset from a fixed one. A growth mindset refers to the belief that you can improve your skills over time with [...]
Tech Matters: How to Choose a Campus Software Solution
If your institution is running on a combination of disconnected platforms, consolidating your operations into one system can feel daunting. But once you take the leap, you’re likely to find that a single solution makes campus life simpler for administrators and students alike. Today's students expect their campuses’ tools to work as smoothly as the apps they use for everything else. A unified digital experience helps students connect more easily [...]
Collaborating Across Missions: Joint Fundraisers That Work
Picture this scenario: your nonprofit has mapped out a series of upcoming fundraising activities. Perhaps you’re planning a mix of casual virtual fundraisers and commitment-heavy events, like galas or silent auctions. But no matter how good your fundraisers sound or how dedicated your supporters are, there’s one problem: your annual budget is already at its limit. This is a familiar hurdle for many nonprofits that want to scale their impact [...]
Common Healthcare Financial Issues (& How Automation Helps)
Designing financial processes likely wasn’t your main motivation for starting your healthcare practice. However, to provide the best care for your patients, your medical organization’s back office needs to run smoothly. Managing your practice’s finances well helps patient-facing staff in doing their jobs without unnecessary frustration and eliminates friction in the patient journey. While getting your finances in order might feel overwhelming, automation technology can relieve your team of repetitive [...]
4 Tips for Tracking the True Cost of Nonprofit Programs
When you develop your nonprofit’s budget, you do your best to project your revenue and expenses accurately. Usually, you’ll base your estimates on past performance, accounting for seasonal revenue variations and recurring expenses that impact your nonprofit year after year. While this best practice improves your budgeting accuracy, just looking at last year’s program expenses isn’t enough. To accurately track nonprofit program costs, implement specific strategies that allow you to [...]
What Is Your Donor Data Hiding? 4 Insights for Growth
Each touchpoint between your higher education institution and its community, whether on or offline, generates a critical strategic asset: donor data. Used properly, this data serves as more than just a list of alumni names and their contact information. Identifying key insights like donors’ career milestones, wealth indicators, and interests will help you take advantage of valuable opportunities. Whether you are meeting in person with potential major donors or planning [...]
5 Essential Emails Every Nonprofit Should Be Sending
Between work emails, retail promotions, and other nonprofits vying for attention, inboxes are crowded, so staying top of mind with your supporters takes more than good intentions. It takes strategy. Unlike your social media following, which is really a "rented" audience at the mercy of ever-changing algorithms, your email list is fully yours. It's a direct line to the people who already care about your mission. But owning the channel [...]
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