Some sites are like mean girls.

There are some sites that totally stink, but many of them are quite lovely on the outside and a bit like mean girls on the inside. Basically they’re shallow. They lack the things they need to be compliant and well-rounded. 

I'm going to tell you how to take that mean girl website and turn it into the girl the audience is rooting for... 

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/8-hidden-things-every-website-needs-copy 

A thermometer in the shape of CAL, social post templates for volunteers, pre-written & prescheduled newsletters, redefining success, and never losing sight of what matters most… These are some of the ways Kelsey Hammond organizes giving campaigns for Columbia Art League and grows them a little more each year. And she wants you to know; regardless of your organization’s cause, size or experience level, you can grow your giving campaign a little more every year just like she does - and it doesn’t have to be difficult!

Here this and other podcasts geared towards nonprofit marketing and fundraising on our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/podcast/artfully-organized-and-growing/

How many emails do I send? How should I send them? How do I segment my recipient lists? For that matter, what does segmenting even mean??  

If any of these are questions you've pondered when preparing for your year-end giving campaign, you're not alone! These are the email centric questions I hear most often.

So, I did a live Q&A session to answer these questions and any other questions the audience might have about those all-important year-end giving emails!

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/podcast/year-end-giving-email-q-a/

MayeCreate Design experts Monica Pitts (Owner, Chief Creative Officer) and Elizabeth Alexander (Social Media expert, copywriter) throw down the gauntlet and dare a live Facebook audience to try and stump them with their deepest, darkest Facebook questions!* 

*As it pertains to Year-End Giving...or just normal business stuff...not like dancing parrots or weird viral makeup videos...Monica and Elizabeth know nothing about that!

For a fully-formatted, article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/year-end-giving-social-media-q-a/

I interviewed two special guests recently: Jan Meese with the Columbia Audubon Society and Jacky Gingrich - treasurer of The Wardrobe. Both ladies did an amazing job of running year-end giving campaigns for their nonprofit organizations and reaching their goals through ComoGives. So I invited these two to share their stories about how they ran their campaigns. They don’t have huge organizations with armies of volunteers to raise money, but they still manage to do great things with the people they do have. So if your nonprofit organization is considering a year-end giving campaign, or you ran one last year and want some ideas, hopefully you’ll find some inspiration to make your year-end giving campaign even better.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/all-volunteer-and-all-awesome-celebrating-the-wardrobe-audubon-society-with-guest-jacky-gingrich-guests-jan-mees/

When we completed the 2020 donor survey for CoMoGives, we found that 35% of our respondants had NO IDEA what a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign is!  So I've asked RagTag staffer and successful peer-to-peer fundraiser Stacie Pottinger to explain what it means and share what makes her peer-to-peer campaigns so successful: https://mayecreate.com/blog/multi-color-hair--personalizing-peer-to-peer-fundraising/

Those of you who have been hanging out with me for a while have probably met Jamie Freidrichs before. Because Jamie is a great resource of mine. She tells it how it is and I love that about her. She and I sometimes have slightly differing opinions because I'm a marketer, and she's a fundraiser… but at our core, we feel the same way about a lot of things. And so we felt like we would have a semi therapy / semi rant session today about busting a myth; the myth that you have to give something away  (a.k.a. “premium”) to get a donation. 

For a fully-formatted article version of this episode, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/podcast/myth-buster-embracing-no-premium-fundraising-with-expert-guest-jaime-freidrichs/

I started this business at 25 in a teeny-tiny apartment with no air conditioning with not much more than peanut butter and a computer to my name, so I know a thing or two about achieving big goals with limited resources!  Today, I am going to give a part pep talk and some advice, all from the heart, about how you can do the same.

To view this podcast on our website, head on over here: https://mayecreate.com/blog/year-end-giving-achieving-big-results-with-limited-resources/

I interviewed two special guests recently: Jan Meese with the Columbia Audubon Society and Jacky Gingrich - treasurer of The Wardrobe. Both ladies did an amazing job of running year-end giving campaigns for their nonprofit organizations and reaching their goals through ComoGives. So I invited these two to share their stories about how they ran their campaigns. They don’t have huge organizations with armies of volunteers to raise money, but they still manage to do great things with the people they do have. So if your nonprofit organization is considering a year-end giving campaign, or you ran one last year and want some ideas, hopefully you’ll find some inspiration to make your year-end giving campaign even better.

For a fully-formatted article version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/podcast/all-volunteer-and-all-awesome-celebrating-the-wardrobe-audubon-society-with-guest-jacky-gingrich-guests-jan-mees/

The wise and knowledgeable John Baker, Executive director of the Community Foundation of Central Missouri, joins me as we review the data collected from our 900+ participant yearly CoMoGives donor survey. We share what we learned from the survey and what keeps donors returning to support our community's annual year end giving campaign, CoMoGives.

For a fully-formatted version of this podcast, head over to our website: https://mayecreate.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-our-900response-donor-survey---with-expert-guest-john-baker/