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💲🕊️ Put your website dollars where your values are
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💲🕊️ Put your website dollars where your values are

💲🕊️ Put your website dollars where your values are

Right now, many of us are reexamining where our dollars go—and that should include website spending. Nonprofits put real thought into whether their messaging reflects their values. But what about the platforms and processes behind the website itself? While there's surprisingly few platforms with significant ties to the far-right (other than the Big Tech tools mentioned in below), there are…
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❤️📈 Stories + stats are better together
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❤️📈 Stories + stats are better togetherCompelling contentFeaturedFundraising & ConversionTip

❤️📈 Stories + stats are better together

Many nonprofits are working on annual reports right now. That makes this a good moment to think about how you show your work year-round. Because your annual report content shouldn’t live in a PDF and disappear—you can (and should!) reuse…
Best of the web 2025 🎆✨
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Best of the web 2025 🎆✨

It’s that joyous time of year when my inbox is flooded with the “10 best of the year” lists from all the (many) eNewsletters I’m subscribed to. I actually love these because they’re a great way to spot trends and…
Building your nonprofit brand: A place to begin
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Building your nonprofit brand: A place to begin

Nonprofits today are thinking about their brands more and more, and that's a good thing. They're looking closely at the stories they’re telling, the experiences they’re creating, and the way people feel about them. Those perceptions, feelings, stories, and experiences…
🎯👥 Define your audiences and brand
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🎯👥 Define your audiences and brand

 The very first conference presentation I ever gave in the nonprofit world—at a very early NTEN gathering nearly 25 years ago—was called “Branding Through Websites.” The idea wasn’t new then, and it still holds up: everything on your site shapes…
A thank you, on a special newsletter issue
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A thank you, on a special newsletter issue

I just sent out a special issue of the Nonprofit Website Insider. It’s our 50th issue! That’s fifty newsletters filled with practical, usable advice to help you build a website that pushes your mission forward.  In all honesty, this newsletter…
💰🌟 Website fundraising tips: Get set for year-end giving
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💰🌟 Website fundraising tips: Get set for year-end giving

As the year-end giving season approaches, your website becomes one of your most important fundraising tools. Many donors will check your site before giving–so ensuring it’s donation-ready can make or break your campaign. Here are six steps that can help. …
🤖🦾 Help AI trust and reference your website
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🤖🦾 Help AI trust and reference your website

People don’t rely only on search engines to find expertise anymore. AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews now pull in answers directly from trusted sources. This means your site needs to be clear, authoritative, and easy for…
Turn your website content into a social media pipeline
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Turn your website content into a social media pipeline

Your website probably has more great content than you realize: articles, guides, and stories that explain what you do. Meanwhile, your social content calendar is looking a little empty. Sound familiar? Social media strategist Julia Campbell has seen this challenge…
🌱🌼 What’s your next mini-project? Think progress over perfection
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🌱🌼 What’s your next mini-project? Think progress over perfection

If you’re waiting for your website to be “finished,” you’ll be waiting forever. It should be a living tool that changes as your organization and your audience do. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s progress. Still, many nonprofits treat their websites like…
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