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#HappyChats: How Our Team Celebrated Success with Superhero Day
Learn all about how the quarantine, superheroes, and trivia games brought our team closer together in today's virtual world.
Corporate Training BlogThree Things You Need to Know About Storytelling
Storytelling is a great way to connect with others. It can help your organization identify its mission and values, hear directly from employees, and give your customers a personal connection to your company. With storytelling, we’re getting away from the idea of relying on transaction-centered relationships with customers and, instead, focusing on building human relationships through human stories.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogHow to Use Stories from Your Nonprofit to Enhance Your Writing
Grammar and syntax are all important parts of writing, but overall, the most important part of writing is to hone in on the stories that are most important to tell.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogWhy a Call to Action is Important to Helping Your Donors Out (and How to Use One Properly)
One of the most critical things to know about marketing and writing is that you want processes to be easy for your audience to follow.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogHow to Make Your Writing Sound Natural and Appeal to Donors
Writing for your nonprofit can be tricky, simply because writing lasts forever in today’s digital age.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogGetting to Know Your Audience in Nonprofit Writing
Writing can be challenging, but it’s an important part of our jobs that can’t be avoided. Between emails, donor letters, thank you notes, and presentations, writing is critical to any successful fundraising campaign. But how are you supposed to handle writing projects if you don’t feel comfortable with your writing?
Corporate Training Blog7 Time Management Techniques to Get You Through Your Day
With all the distractions available to us nowadays, it’s no wonder so many teams suffer from poor time management skills.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogWhy Your Nonprofit Needs a Monthly Giving Program (And How to Get Started)
Do you have a small monthly giving program that you’re looking to enhance? Or perhaps your organization doesn’t have one, yet? If so, here are some tips to help you get started!
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogHow to Steward and Upgrade Your Monthly Donors
In this blog, we will discuss ways to steward your monthly donors, which will increase their retention rate but it can also help grow their monthly gift.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy BlogHow to Identify Donors For Your Monthly Giving Program
When looking for donors who would best suited to engage with your monthly giving program, start by taking a look at your current and recently lapsed donors giving at a smaller level, particularly if they have donated more than once a year.
Corporate Training Blog3 Tips to Get Millennials Excited About Employee Training (And Why You Should Care)
Studies suggest that the younger generation will make up 50 percent of the global workforce by 2025. So how do we get them excited about corporate training?
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy Blog8 Steps to Tracking Your Follow Up and Retaining Your Donors
Follow-up is arguably one of the most important steps of the cause selling cycle.- Maricopa Community Colleges Blog
Maricopa Community College Student Finds Career at State Farm
Brian Perez’s parents do not speak English. The 20-year-old grew up translating for them, a skill he uses in his new job with State Farm’s Customer Care Center (CCC) In Language Team at Marina Heights. 
Corporate Training BlogTips to Launch Your Career at USAA
As part of a partnership with the Maricopa Community Colleges and USAA, we hosted a webinar featuring Gay Meyer, USAA Vice President of HR. Gay shared a little bit about herself and her path to the company as well as some insightful information about work and life at USAA—so much great information that we knew we had to share it beyond those who were able to watch the webinar live.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy Blog5 Ways Nonprofit Boards Support Fundraising
It’s the job of every nonprofit board of directors to support the financial sustainability and health of the organization, so it’s important that they know what they can do.
Sanford Institute of Philanthropy Blog5 Things Good Nonprofit Boards DON’T Do
In my previous post, I discussed what your board should do to support your nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. Now, here are five things that a good board doesn’t do when it comes to fundraising: