Quick Tips and How-Tos

Quick Tips: How to Optimize Your Nonprofit Donation Page

To ensure that your nonprofit donation page is appealing, compelling, and optimized for conversion, here are six best practices that our Classy team recommends to elevate your donation form and engage more donors.

Quick Tip: Soft Launch Email Templates

Learn how to introduce and motivate your biggest advocates to get involved, and how to follow up with the donors that didn’t engage with your appeal the first time around.

Video Conferencing Tips: How to Look and Sound Your Best

Read the blog post here: https://www.classy.org/blog/video-conferencing-tips-look-sound-best
Video conferencing is becoming an increasingly significant part of our day to day, especially in today’s virtual and remote landscape. From participating in daily Zoom meetings to hosting virtual fundraising events with engaging media, professionals and teams are using video to both get their work done and present themselves and their organizations in the best way possible. Below, we walk through video conferencing tips to improve your audio, camera, lighting, and framing so you can put your best foot forward. We also share recommendations for tools at different price levels.
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Quick Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

We know it can be tough to come up with creative fundraising ideas, so we gathered five of our favorites and made a fun video to share them with you. Whether your team is brainstorming a seasonal campaign or just looking to reenergize your community, these quick fundraising ideas will be sure to engage current donors and attract new supporters. Read the full blog post for the full list of ideas here: https://www.classy.org/blog/25-quick-fundraising-ideas-for-nonprofits-and-charity/

9 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Nonprofit’s Elevator Pitch

When people begin working on an elevator pitch for nonprofits, they often start by measuring how much time they may have with a listener. A frequently cited measure of time is 118 seconds—this is the length of an average elevator ride in New York City.
While your elevator pitch may very well never take place in an actual elevator, you can use this timeframe as a foundation from which to create a narrative that:
Conveys your nonprofit’s mission
Helps increase your fundraising success
Encourages listeners to take action
Whether it’s a pre-planned pitch to someone you expect to meet, or an out-of-the-blue conversation, you must be prepared to strike while the iron is hot. And you’ve only got a small window of time to get your point across.
To learn more head over to my blog post:
https://www.classy.org/blog/elevator-pitch-for-nonprofits/

How to Buy Yourself 10 Extra Minutes to Build a Crowdfunding Campaign

You can build a crowdfunding campaign on Classy in about 10 minutes. Check out a few common office distractions you can minimize to buy yourself that time and create your next great campaign.
Read the full blog post here: https://www.classy.org/blog/launch-crowdfunding-campaign-10-minutes/
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