COLLECTIVESUN AT OC INTERFAITH COALITION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT LUNCHEON CollectiveSun is pleased to be a part of the Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment (OCICE) Faith Leaders’ Luncheon. Chief Community Officer Lee Barken will be available to discuss how CollectiveSun can make it possible for your congregation or nonprofit organization to go solar. Join…
TERI INVESTORS BECOME DONORS! Getting and Giving CollectiveSun® and TERI, Inc. are celebrating a big milestone. In February, the investors in our first crowd-lending solar projects received payment checks for their solar investments. Many of those investors chose to give the money right back to TERI, Inc, a San Diego based nonprofit serving adults and children with…
THE TOP 5 WAYS TO CREATE A LOYAL VOLUNTEER CORPS Keeping the best and the brightest volunteers around can be a difficult proposition for many nonprofits. To be able to maximize the benefits volunteers bring, it is critical to keep them coming in over the long haul. By maintaining a loyal volunteer base, not only…
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ENGAGE YOUR MEMBERSHIPS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA? As any marketing manager will tell you, a robust social media presence is essential to nonprofit success. After all, it is much easier to reach people via Facebook or Twitter than it is to cold call your way through a phone book. And analytics…
ENGAGING YOUR MEMBERS WITH WEB CONTENT The concept of engagement is never far from the minds of those who run non-profits. But what does the term mean, and what practical steps can we take to achieve it? When one talks about an engaging person, style, manner, or sense of humor, it seems one is talking…
COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NON-PROFITS Social networking continues to be a big part of communication for non-profits. And it should. It’s an informal, disarming way to interact with your membership on its terms. When looking at ways to effectively use social media, I’ll focus today on creating community-based social media campaigns, though campaign is too…