We’ve made it through more than half a year of uncertainty amidst the global pandemic. While it's impossible to predict the future, we can still prepare for what's to come with a solid strategy and plan. This month, we’ve announced the new membership report feature along with other resources to help your organization remain sustainable.
Also in this month's newsletter:
Product update
Membership Reports
Have you ever wished there was a simple way to review your membership numbers for the past year? Do you spend time manually tracking your monthly membership numbers in a spreadsheet?
With the new membership reports feature, you can see how your membership base changes over time and how this affects recurring revenue.
Learn more about the membership report
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Update from the Support Team
New Quick Customization panel
From the Colors and styles screen, you can change the colors and fonts of elements that appear throughout your site. To make website customization faster and easier, the most customized settings now appear in a quick customization panel.
From the quick customization panel, you can change site backgrounds, colors for selected text elements, and styles for selected gadgets. Any changes you make here will be reflected in the full colors and styles settings.
To return to the full colors and styles settings, click the All settings option.
For more information on the quick customization panel, click here.
You can now undo and redo changes to your colors and styles settings.
To undo your most recent change within the current editing session, click the Undo icon.
You can undo a change even after saving or canceling the changes to your current editing session. You can even undo the Save, Cancel, and Reset all to default functions themselves. After undoing a change, you can use the Undo icon to undo the previous change.
To redo a change after undoing it, click the Redo icon to the right of the Undo icon.
Please note that you cannot undo or redo changes after leaving the current editing session.
Limitations on clone sites
Setting up a clone site is a great way to test possible changes to your site without altering your actual site. However, remember that when we clone your site, we are not making an exact copy and any changes you make cannot be copied over to your live site. The differences between your clone site and your live site include the following:
- Only one full administrator is copied.
- Events are not copied.
- Financial data, email logs etc. will not be copied.
- The SiteAlbums folder is not copied
- The cloned site is set up as a free Trial account for 30 days so you may encounter different restrictions from your existing site.
Learn more
37 Free Nonprofit Webinars for August 2020
Here are 37 free webinars that the internet has to offer to help you:
- Raise funds for your organization online
- Make the most of your nonprofit website
- Recruit and engage volunteers using social media
- Improve your organization’s budgeting process
- And much more
See what's coming up
Blog of the Month
Nonprofit Financial Planning: How to Create a Blueprint for Sustainability
Proper financial planning and establishing sound accounting practices for your nonprofit are key to remaining sustainable. In this blog, we offer the steps you’ll need to secure the financial resources needed to execute your organization’s vision and mission.
Read the full blog
Also, on the blog this month:
Weekly Q+As
Targeted Impact: Helping Membership Organizations Thrive
Introducing Targeted Impact: Helping Membership Organizations Thrive. This bi-weekly Q+A session will see the best nonprofit experts answer your most pressing questions. We want to bring our community together during these unprecedented times and provide as much information and expertise as possible. Sign up now for the next Targeted Impact to connect and learn how to not only survive, but thrive, together.
Date: Thursday, July 30
Time: 3:00 PM (ET) / 2:00 PM (CT)
Sign up now
Expert Webinar
Sean Kosofsky, Facebook Fundraising: 8 Expert Tips for Raising $10K+ On Facebook
Facebook Fundraisers are easy to learn and use peer-to-peer technology to unlock fast unrestricted cash for your nonprofit. Nonprofits need new, ongoing, and sustainable revenue streams and this may be a solution. But there are secrets to unlocking lots of more revenue than casual users understand. Come learn the tips the experts use to unlock tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Date: Tuesday, August 11
Time: 2:00 PM (ET) / 1:00 PM (CT)
Sign up now
Podcast
Strategy for Small Nonprofits, with Sarah Olivieri
Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 International Best-Selling Author, and former Executive Director. In Planet Leadership podcast, Sarah inspires smaller organizations to take risks, providing tips and best practices on creating membership programs, streamlining processes and more.
Listen to the podcast
Meet the Team
Ellen Craig, Manager- Demand Generation
Hi all, I’m Ellen. I’ve been on the marketing team at Wild Apricot for just over two years now. My role is to manage all our advertising efforts and look after the Wild Apricot website. I attended and spoke at Personifest in Savannah, GA in 2019. I enjoyed the experience of meeting some of you face-to-face and hearing all about your organizations. The work each of you are doing is wonderful, and I’m honored to be part of a company that is dedicated to helping you.
I grew up on a farm north of Toronto in Craighurst, Ontario. I moved to Toronto in 2017 after graduating from university. Living in a downtown condo is very different from life on a farm. In my free time, I like to sing in a choir and spend time outside. I have two cats and recently got a puppy. They are keeping me busy during these difficult times.
My time at Wild Apricot has been such a blast, and I’ve made many lifelong friends and mentors along the way. I can honestly say working at Wild Apricot is as fun as it looks!
Organization Spotlight
This month, our featured organization is:
ArtWalla
ArtWalla is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and strengthening the Arts as an integral part of daily life, education, and economic development in the Walla Walla Valley. ArtWalla is dedicated to collaborative participation, Arts advocacy, and dynamic membership services.
The organization does a great job of incentivizing people to support its COVID-19 recovery program by having a pop-up on its home page asking visitors to either donate, sign up for an online class, or attend a virtual art tour.
Visit the website