Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Every nonprofit needs the keen eye of a board of directors—but what are the nonprofit board positions you should fill? In order to create a board that can uplift your organization’s mission and long term goals, you need all the right players.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 12, 2022

First impressions are important. While a prospective member may have visited your membership website or attended an event before deciding to join, filling out a membership application is when they make it official. Think of membership application forms.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“I wish there were a way for kids to play sports with no equipment,” Arielle half-joked to her office mate Mike as she placed yet another order for jump ropes and mitts for their nonprofit, Kids Sports. “I think that’s just.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The BEST Online Payment Processing for Nonprofits: Our Top 18 Picks If you want to collect donations online (and you do!), you’re going to need an online payment processor. Payment processors are a key piece of setting up your online payment.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 17, 2022

If you’re in the midst of planning your membership program, you’re likely thinking about what benefits you can offer to your members and how much to charge for them. Hopefully, you already know that offering more than one membership level.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 14, 2022

Silent auctions are quite popular among nonprofits, and for good reason. They’re a fun and engaging way for people to support your organization. More importantly, they tend to generate a lot of revenue. If you’ve decided to organize a.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a nonprofit, it’s a good idea to have a variety of revenue sources to fund your missions. One source can be grants. And if you’re looking for support for a specific project or position within your organization, you may have grant writing.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Managing a membership organization takes a lot of work. There are many moving parts: reporting, outreach, marketing, database management, event planning, and payment processing, just to name a few! If you’ve found this article, you probably have.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One of the biggest reasons why people join professional associations is to take advantage of mentorship opportunities. What better way to advance in your career than to sit one-on-one with someone who works in the same field and has been in your shoes?

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fundraising is one of the best sources of revenue for nonprofits. However, it’s not enough to simply set up a donation page on your website and wait for people to stumble upon it with their credit cards in hand.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 29, 2021

Setting up, promoting, and executing a silent auction can be a daunting task. There are so many moving pieces! Planning and coordination are key, to ensure your association, nonprofit, or charity sees the funds—and fun!—you want out of.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 29, 2021

Do you have a WordPress site? Do you need more flexibility when it comes to customizing it? With Wild Apricot’s WordPress plugin, you can combine Wild Apricot’s membership management platform with WordPress to: create a beautiful WordPress.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 3, 2021

Are your fundraisers centered around results? While it may seem obvious, many organizations don’t approach their fundraisers with concrete goals in mind. And without clear goals, it’s nearly impossible to tell if you’re succeeding.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 25, 2021

Individual giving makes up a large portion of funding for many nonprofits. While these donors are vital to your organization, many of these supporters may need to pause or shift their donations when difficult economic times hit. This is one reason.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 6, 2021

So your nonprofit has been taking off, and you realize you’ve gotten big enough that it’s time to build a donation website. Exciting, right? Objectively, yes. But the idea of building a website can seem daunting depending on your experience.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 5, 2021

If you’re planning on building a membership website, there are many membership website builders that are easy to use and have lots of features to suit your organization. To help you choose the right one, I spoke to a number of organizations who.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, we’ve finished redesigning our online learning videos to reflect the many changes we have seen in Wild Apricot in recent years, and now we're happy to announce that Boot Camp 2.0 is now live! We've also added several new resources.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you run a club or a membership, you’ll agree that there’s nothing more frustrating than chasing members down for payments. Everyone has a different renewal date, a different amount and a different method of payment. Not to mention, there’s.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 25, 2021

Do you manage a community? Do you need a place where your members can come together to discuss shared interests, problems and solutions, exchange resources and advance a common mission? You need a community website. Wild Apricot’s website builder.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recruiting and retaining members during challenging social and economic times is hard work — as you well know! However, that doesn’t mean it’s time to throw in the towel just yet. There are many membership growth options that your.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As people are taking most of their shopping online because of COVID-19, it’s time to stock up your virtual store with meaningful gifts to support your cause. Even better, starting in December, you can offer your members and customers a variety.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If you’re a nonprofit professional looking to improve your organization’s fundraising strategy and bring in new streams of revenue, the first step to ensuring success is to prepare a fundraising plan. This will create a solid foundation.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every month, I compile the internet's biggest list of free nonprofit webinars. As we get closer to the new year, it's time for nonprofits to take all we learned in 2020 and start planning for a successful 2021. This month, nonprofit experts are offering.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The holiday season is fast approaching with lots of goodies in store. For one, digital products for your Wild Apricot store will be available in the next release, allowing you to sell products with instant delivery. There’s also a new CEO in town we’d.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This is a guest post from Andrew Goldsworthy, Director of Client Success & Growth at Rootid. If nothing else, 2020 has been a test of our resilience and adaptability both at a personal level and for nonprofit organizations. The challenges are.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Advocacy organizations do important work — they prompt the most difficult conversations and pave the road to change. If your nonprofit does some or is entirely dedicated to advocacy work, thank you! The world is a better place because you exist.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Many organizations have been struggling to grow and engage their membership throughout COVID-19. However, that wasn’t the case for the Senior Dining Association. As the first professional association focused entirely on dining for the senior.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Is your nonprofit organization looking to start accepting charitable donations? With the state of the world right now, many organizations are relying on donor support to continue delivering on their mission. If that’s you, getting started isn’t.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is a guest post from Jeb Banner, founder and CEO of Boardable. New board members often bring a contagious enthusiasm with them to board meetings, and these passionate individuals can breathe life into any nonprofit board. However, newcomers don’t.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If 2020 felt more like surviving than thriving for your club, well. you're in good company. The pandemic has greatly affected organizations like clubs that primarily offer in-person activities and on-site interaction. And unfortunately, the reality.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If you work in fundraising, you know that in order to successfully bring in revenue, your nonprofit has to consistently do two things: find new donors, and engage your existing donors so they keep giving. If you’ve been focusing all your efforts.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Last month we released the 2020 Membership Growth Report: Benchmarks and Insights for Growing Revenue and Constituents to find out how membership organizations grew (or didn’t grow) their membership and revenue throughout 2019. We learned what.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

To navigate the challenges of COVID-19, nonprofits must adapt their fundraising messaging and communications approach. In this post, we cover the 5 critical elements to delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Treat your organization this month with new resources and coming events, including 8 new blogs and an opportunity to speak at the Virtual PersoniFest 2021. Everyone that submits a speaking proposal gets a free “Life of the Virtual Party” t-shirt in celebration of the 2021 virtual experience.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Here are all the free nonprofit webinars happening in November 2020 that the Internet has to offer.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Get ready for year-end giving season and craft the perfect communications using these tips, letter template, and examples.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GivingTuesday is coming up on December 1, 2020. Get ready to make this your most successful year yet by following best practices from these GivingTuesday email campaigns.

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