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We're thrilled to have been chosen for the Big Give's Arts for Impact campaign. This fundraising opportunity is doubly special as all donations are match-funded by New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture. The campaign is open from midday Tuesday 19th March - midday Tuesday 26th March 2024 so that's one week to help us reach our target. Why do we need your support? Good question. As an arts charity with over 40 years' experience, our work seeks to engage with people living with dementias, and their formal and/or informal carers. Through our creative programme, we focus on reaching people who experience multiple and overlapping forms of health and culture inequalities. Such groups tend to be time poor, have limited disposable income, and experience low confidence in accessing public space and cultural activities. Our creative programme, such as the On the Beach experience, is provided free or on a Pay What You Can basis to those who need it. It's not a stretch to say that the funding landscape for arts organisations has become increasingly difficult in the last few years. A mixture of fewer grants available for creative health wellbeing projects and increased competition for those few that are, means that sometimes we have to rely on our friends and allies to support our work. What will we do with the money? Our target for this campaign is to reach £5000 - that's £2500 in donations from you, which would be doubled by NPAC to make a total of £5000. This money would be used for: £890 towards the creation, printing and postage of easy read 'social stories' for participants £2,350 towards a lead workshop facilitator (cost for 10 workshops plus planning and prep) £1,760 towards an assistant workshop facilitator (for 10 workshops) Match funding creates a fantastic opportunity for every donation to become even more of a contribution, so now is your chance to really make a difference. Donate today, and share our campaign to help us reach our target. https://lnkd.in/eg_Et5Sk

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This is Part Two of the Blog Series: “The House Your Donor Lives In."

Your industry needs you 🫵 The The Affiliate & Partner Marketing Association, of which Acceleration Partners is a founding member, runs a short survey every year gathering evidence from publishers and advertisers in order to produce insights on the market which are available to all its members, and to the wider industry. The survey takes around five minutes to complete, with questions about your business and its practices, and then concentrates on the topics of Cookies, AI and Tracking ✍️ If you opt in at the end of the survey, The APMA will share the final report with you and also make a charity donation for every completed survey. Head to https://ow.ly/yHx950Syxhe to take part 🔗 #affiliatemarketing #partnermarketing #partnershipmarketing

Being completely honest with yourself, are you finding social media works for you in terms of furthering your business development? Is social media where your customers and clients are engaging with you? Do your customers and clients fully trust social media? And do they trust social media enough to be looking for your business when they need you? Is social media where your customers are consuming their local news? Or... are your customers and clients enjoying finding out about their local news and businesses through more traditional news streams? Will you walk past your future customer or client as they read their local community newspaper in a local café enjoying a leisurely coffee, completely disconnected from social media and all the online noise? We are supporting local businesses in your industry and helping them to reach their new customers by providing a relaxed, reliable and informative positive news platform in print for them to consume local news and updates at their own pace, in their own space and on their own time scale. No more doom-scrolling. No more struggling to find the post about that thing that they really wanted to read but it disappeared from their feed too quickly! If you use our community newspapers to shout about your company and all the amazing things happening in your business then it is in print for ever... stuck to your customer's fridge, or passed to a neighbour, or even cut out and mailed to a relative (yep, my Dad used to get a weekly envelope stuffed with cuttings from his Mum!) In print is seen. In print is trusted. In print has an impact. Get in touch with us at news@communitynewsgm.co.uk to chat about how we can get your business news in print every month for only £25 a month. www.communitynewsgm.co.uk

The latest on the Brookline and Newton real estate markets in the Holiday Update December 2023. What is the current median price of a single-family home? What does inventory levels look like? In addition, how to winterize your home, featured charities, Holiday events. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/efhBtySN #realestate #realestateexpert

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📧 Don't Forget to Email 📧 Our bi-monthly emails are a huge part of our business! They help us showcase our clients' listings, update families on the state of the SATX Housing Market, give people insights & advice on real estate, spotlight charities, highlight other local businesses... and our database loves getting them (so it seems) 🤩 Our latest email went out on Sunday morning. So far, it has a 42.3% open rate and only one person unsubscribed. Also, a past client texted us after receiving our email yesterday to let us know they are interested in selling their home 👍 Now, like with so many things we do to grow our business and stay in front of people, we don't cast a wide marketing net: our database has less than 500 people in it. However, we think the individuals who receive our emails are highly engaged with us, love us for who we are and how we do business, and would probably feel very comfortable hiring us to help them or referring us to others! What more could we ask for from some amazing people 🤗 So, don't sleep on emails! They could be a great way to stay connected to your database and help you grow 👍 If you have specific questions about our emails, the software we use to send them, templates we use, or anything you may be interested in as a small business owner/entrepreneur, send me a message! I'm always happy to answer questions and see what I can do for ya to help you grow 😎

Can your board members passionately articulate your organization's mission in the community? Do they readily embrace their fundraising role? Are they present and actively participating in board and committee meetings? Whether you answered yes or no to these questions, chances are improvement can be made in your board's engagement. See how below. #Leadership #Nonprofit #BoardofDirectors

📌 Are you tired of boosting your local visibility? Problem: Invisibility in local search results Solution: High-quality backlinks from local sources! The Why: Google wants to see that your business is relevant and trustworthy to the local community. The How: Partner with local organizations and ask for a link in return Get featured in local publications and online news sites Optimize your Google My Business listing and encourage customers to leave reviews Pro Tip: Reach out to your local chamber of commerce charities or events you've sponsored and ask if they can link back to your website! Let's Chat! What's your favorite way to build local links? Could you share in the comments or DM me? DM ✉︎ if you need any help. ➕ Follow Ayesha Muzammil for more inspiring posts. #LocalSEO #LinkBuilding #SmallBusiness #GoogleMyBusiness #LocalSearch