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Three New Year’s Resolutions Your United Way Should Keep
Three New Year’s Resolutions Your United Way Should Keep

Tis the season! It’s that time of year again when, with ample confidence and overwhelming exuberance, we prepare our New Year’s resolutions. As you contemplate your personal New Year’s resolutions for 2019, there is no reason not to prepare a New Year’s resolution or three for your United Way as well.

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Communicating, Designations, Donors, Fundraising, Issues, ResultsGaryjargon, donors, designations, issue, board of directors, resultsComment
Back to Basics?
Back to Basics?

In less than two weeks, we will be holding our next webinar: “When the Basics No Longer Work, What’s Next?” If you are struggling with workplace campaigns, how to explain what United Way does, and/or are tired of partner agencies feeling entitled to funding, then this webinar is for you.

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Campaign, Communicating, Donors, Partner agencies, Webinars, Younger GenerationGary2018-2019 Signature Series Webinars, workplace campaign, Communication, partner agencies, board, Social Media, affinity groups, younger generation, campaign, donorsComment
The Communication Challenge Facing United Ways
The Communication Challenge Facing United Ways

As I noted in my previous blog post, many United Ways communicate information like their campaign goal, number of investment panels, number of funded partner agencies, and how many volunteer hours it took to determine the allocations – but, this information does not motivate donors to give.  

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Communicating, Campaign, Community Impact, Donors, Fundraising, Issue Focus, Issues, Marketing, Partner agencies, Results, Stories, Volunteers, Market & CommunicateGaryCommunication, donors, community, issue, actions, results, issue focus, fundraising-focused, stories, messageComment