Newsletter: Round-up, Fixed Request, Open-Ended Request: Which is Best in POS? 🤔 ; 4 Questions Prospects Want You to Answer 🙋♂️ ; What is Fair Use in Content Curation? ⚖️
This is the last newsletter before Labor Day (aka "the unofficial last day of summer") and I just want to say thank you!
🙏 Thank you to everyone who has emailed me this summer thanking me for publishing this newsletter every week. Folks - as Mark Twain once said - I can live for two months on a good compliment!
I'm currently feasting on this one...
"I just want to say THANK YOU for these e-mails - they are always packed with helpful, relevant content and information. I look forward to seeing these on Wednesday mornings - the timing is perfect as it often helps recenter me for the rest of the week! I'm constantly sharing these e-mails with my colleagues and advocating for them to follow and subscribe! So appreciative of the work you're doing, and I look forward to engaging in the future."
🙏 Thank you to everyone who has asked about my mom (She's doing as well as can be expected and will be 90 this month! But, yeah, as many of you know, taking care of an older parent is hard) or how the kids are doing in college.
🙏 Thank you to everyone that's checked out pictures of my garden or sent me their own pictures! I love to see them!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend and I'll see you next Wednesday.
✍️ Partnership Notes
1. Spread the word. Lots of misinformation out there. It's also a good time to review the legal considerations of POS fundraising.
2. Speaking of POS, which is best: round-up, a fixed request or an open-ended request?
3. What four questions does your potential partner want you to answer? #2 is critical because one-dimensional partnerships are a waste of time and opportunity.
🤑 Marketing Your Cause
1. For me, email marketing is a triple win. A win for your nonprofit. A win for your partner. A win for your SEO.
2. If you write a curated newsletter - like I do! - you need to understand fair use in content creation.
3. Do you have trouble coming up with subject lines for your emails? Let this website write them for you.
😎 Cool Jobs in Cause
1. Corporate Relations Sponsorship Manager, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
2. Director, Sponsorship Sales, Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, Pittsburgh
3. Development Associate, Major Giving & Corporate Partnerships, Legal Aid Society, NYC ($49k - $67k)
4. Manager, New Business, Girls Who Code, NYC ($75k - $90k)
5. Senior Manager, Corporate Partnership, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Do you have a partnership position you are trying to fill? Hit reply and share the job posting with me! I'm happy to post it here for FREE.
🧠🍌 Brain Food
1. The case for creating collegiate charity-athletic leagues.
2. I believe you'll see this more in nonprofit world too. Hyper-specific nonprofits that do one thing extremely well allowing them to quickly build a passionate, generous audience of supporters.
3. Creepy but cool. Consider this animated picture of my grandfather circa 1917.
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