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The most fundamental of nonprofit marketing and fundraising goals: grow our audience, diversify our audience, or persuade our audience to do more of something. In order to achieve those goals, you need to know who your audience is, what are their needs, barriers, perceptions and motivations. Audience research should be a critical activity of any team, but structuring a project to yield actionable insights can be a challenge. This session will share learnings from several audience research projects with diverse nonprofits, including real examples of research plans, interview and survey questions, focus group activities, and audience personas. We’ll talk about major challenges and decision points during the research phase and how we overcame them. This is a session for those considering how to engage new audiences, a change to their marketing or fundraising strategy, or new approaches to their website or other digital channels.

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