Category: community building & outreach

brand strategy, capacity building, community building & outreach, facilitation, fundraising, leadership, logic model, nonprofit teams, professional development, strategic partnership, theory of change, visual design, workshops & trainings
2019 Capacity Building Workshop Series – Rootid & Full Circle Fund Expand Partnership
Rootid is thrilled to announce our renewed partnership with Full Circle Fund in 2019! Since 2016, the partnership between Full Circle Fund and Rootid has focused on accelerating nonprofit impact to make the Bay Area a more diverse, equitable and economically robust place for all to live and work.
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brand strategy, community building & outreach, guides & tools, leadership, nonprofit teams, professional development, theory of change, workshops & trainings
Announcing the 2019 brandUP Participants
We are excited to announce our 2019 brandUP participating organizations.
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campaign planning, collateral materials, communication strategy, community building & outreach, data, email, fundraising, guides & tools, measurement, messaging, visual design
5 Elements of Great #GivingTuesday Campaigns
Now in its eighth year, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season each November by encouraging global giving via social media. It’s a collaborative effort between nonprofits and civic organizations, small businesses and large corporations—not to mention the driving generosity of families and individuals. (Over $380 million was raised online, this year alone!) Want to be…
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brand strategy, campaign planning, communication strategy, community building & outreach
Avoid Implementation Paralysis: 8 Steps to Turning Nonprofit Strategy Into Campaign Success
If you’ve done any strategic communications work, the implementation phase that follows can be challenging. You’ve spent weeks, sometimes months, creating a comprehensive communications plan only to freeze during the campaign execution. So often, we see nonprofits create amazing marketing strategies that die in the execution phase. The team sticks to old habits. Reacting to…
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brand strategy, capacity building, community building & outreach, email, fundraising, graphic design, guides & tools, information architecture & ux design, marketing strategy, professional development, workshops & trainings
BrandUP Award Winner Root & Rebound – 1 Year Later
Nominations and applications are now open for the 2018 brandUP, a free 2-day intensive marketing and communication workshop co-presented with Full Circle Fund. Last year’s Awardee Root & Rebound has now had some time to reflect on the experience, so we sat down to chat with them to provide helpful tips to this year’s participants.
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annual reports, campaign planning, collateral materials, community building & outreach, content strategy, graphic design, marketing strategy, storytelling, visual design, website design, website development
Online Annual Report Website Examples – 2018
If you’re still putting out annual reports the old fashioned way—pulling stacks of statistics, rounding up designers, blowing your budget on print copies, etc.—this post might be an eye-opener for you. Not only are annual report websites generally less expensive, they’re also easy to fill with impactful media, easy to deliver, and easy to track.…
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campaign planning, collateral materials, community building & outreach, content strategy, email, marketing strategy, social media
Using Drip Email for a Nonprofit Welcome Series
Donor retention is a critical part of growing your nonprofit’s mission. Using a drip email welcome series is a great way to start a relationship with new constituents that hopefully lead to a long-term relationship. According to research, donor retention is declining across the nonprofit sector. So, starting off on the right foot with new…
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community building & outreach, event
Best of New Orleans: NTEN 2018 Edition
We don’t talk much about food and drink on Rootid’s blog, but when you’re getting ready for a 3 day trip to New Orleans for the NTEN conference, you have to plan accordingly. If you’ve been to New Orleans, you know that the Crescent City has some of the best music, cuisine and bars in…
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capacity building, community building & outreach, leadership, nonprofit teams, strategic partnership
brandUP Interview: Jessica van Tuyl, Oasis for Girls
Jessica Van Tuyl is the Executive Director of the Oasis For Girls organization, located in San Francisco. The Oasis For Girls program partners with girls and young women from under resourced communities to help them cultivate the skills, knowledge and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures.
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community building & outreach, Drupal, event, professional development, workshops & trainings
DrupalCon 2016 New Orleans: A Retrospective
DrupalCon 2016 in New Orleans exceeded expectations. NOLA played an incredible host to Drupalers from around the world. Just as importantly the Drupal community banded together with energy and creativity to establish a vision for how the open source software could change the world. Here are a few of our favorites from the 5…
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