Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

Below are my 5 top tips to save you precious money and time when preparing your own appeal. Give yourself plenty of time to find the best deals — and to recover if the order is wrong or your package gets delayed. Uses USPS address placement standards and ensures your letter set complies with the tap test. from the bottom.

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Money Tips Time Mail 98

VisionLink

OCTOBER 20, 2020

See the list now: [link] Saving Time and Money Like No Other We license differently — once a user is licensed, they can use any module at any time. We can refine every solution in hours — not weeks, to match state or local regulations, mandates, and business processes. No custom engineering.

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Disaster Money Module Time 130

Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Getting in front of target buyers and communicating value happen to be two of the main principles of the common sales process. The key is being deliberate about the types of prospects you’re trying to reach and processes you’re using to try to convert them into new members.

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Create Strategy Associations Registration 169

Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2024

The process takes time, effort, and patience—but the prospect of n ew technology can be one of the most exciting opportunities for your association. Learn how to set the stage for a successful AMS implementation and software launch. Maybe you want to enhance the member experience or to advance staff processes?

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind. A talented, seasoned staff leading the project can greatly reduce your time to execute. Time to Value or Return on Investment. And we all know that time is money, right?)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Like everything else, though, pop-up technology has evolved considerably, allowing you to segment, test, and optimize. Think about proper timing for the popup. Here are the different types of popups: Entry pop: the pop-up appears when a user first lands on a page, after a time delay. Test out the options.

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Websites Work Test Nonprofit 299

sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

If a regular audit process isn’t already part of your operations, try adding a couple of audit queries to ensure key fields are correctly coded to catch anything that may fall through the cracks. If your school participates in the annual NAIS-DASL survey, you’ll have a much easier time with data entry. Review reporting.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. You saw the word SALE and bought the overpriced widget. Not necessarily so.

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Data Studies Music Analysis 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers. What has changed over time? Both MarCom and membership have a significant role to play in an integrated planning process,” Jane observed. Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event. What is changing in our industry?

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Your “low-coders” or “citizen developers” can use technology to optimize the unique business processes they already know intimately. Unlike low-code, it’s a complicated process. We follow the SDLC process to ensure we are creating software that is valuable, usable, and perhaps most important, secure.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their systems, staffing, and business processes. Their processes are streamlined, and the team has clear roles and responsibilities. We don’t set out to create divided teams and processes, and we often don’t even realize that we’ve got them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This article delves into the intricate process of crafting a nonprofit digital strategy, harnessing the capabilities of ChatGPT , while closely aligning with The International Social Impact Institute ® ‘s (The ISII) Digital Strategy Framework. Implement and Test : Develop and implement your ChatGPT-powered initiatives.

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Digital Strategy Guide Create 292

Forum One

MAY 16, 2024

It takes intention and planning to maintain a website’s level of accessibility as you make content and development updates over time. Survey your content creators and pressure-test your design system—do you have adequate styles for all your content needs? As your work changes, processes will have to change too.

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Accessibility Drupal Test Review 88

Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Once the team aggregated the data and they were able to form a hypothesis, test it and confirm a need. On the flip side of the Double Down strategy, IAEE was also able to identify activities and projects the team was spending time on that didn’t offer much return on investment.

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Data Strategy Associations Survey 210

Forum One

MAY 13, 2021

In this post, we focus on the processes and technology of migrating your government services to digital. Streamlining and improving your processes. One of the goals of modernization should be to streamline and improve processes. Improving your process will be critical to the perceived success of your modernization.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With Nimble AMS, each customer has access to a full Salesforce Sandbox to test and train your staff—at no additional cost. Your sandbox is updated before each release with a preview version and all local Apex tests are run for all customers. Version certification. Tens of thousands of automated regression tests. Change log.

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ROI Associations Software Test 135

sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

The goal was to become better grantmakers by completing a review of our practices, processes and forms. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 25, 2024

All apps go through a hardcore review and testing process before being added to the store. Nimble AMS customer service has been timely and helpful when we present them with questions or concerns. Or maybe you’re hoping to streamline processes to free up valuable staff time.

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EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

Be sure this person is allowed enough time to manage the software implementation project and regular work tasks, which might require pausing some of the person’s tasks or temporarily shifting tasks to other staff members in the organization until the software implementation project is completed. Revisit your staff onboarding checklist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

In other words, use trial and error to test out fundraising strategies to find out what works for your nonprofit organization. Or, if you’ve got time but a limited budget, fundraising ideas with low up-front costs are a good place to start. 4) Think of each fundraiser as a test. Franklin D. If it works, do more of it.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Ideas Virtual 341

Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. And that strategic teamwork translates to efficiency on the other end, building products that audiences want to engage with because they’ve been thoroughly tested and designed.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Who on your team or board has the time and experience to reach out to leaders from a vast array of organizations to help identify potential qualified leaders? Approach potential candidates and test their interest in this new opportunity and persuade strong candidates to consider the new opportunity.

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Whole Whale

JULY 18, 2022

If you keep track of your supporters’ key information in a central database (you should), you can use the donor data to make the ask personal whether it’s their name, length of time they’ve supported you, or where they’re located. You can use A/B testing to test which types of images your audience engages with more.

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email Time Fundraising Images 64

Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These tools help you see how your campaigns are doing in real-time, so you can optimize your marketing budget by spending your money on what’s working best. By defining your members’ preferences and interests, you’ll be able to target them more personally and at just the right time in their member journey. How are you tracking success?

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Analytics Marketing Taxonomy Module 169

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I want you to have the confidence (and your leadership team to have the confidence in you) that with data and time, you can make annual giving work for your organization. Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.) Using a CRM that has dynamic constituent lists will save you time and effort. Plan for your year.

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Data Giving Work Test 98

Candid

MAY 1, 2024

They learn from fundraisers about the complex process of finding a foundation to fund their project, and from program officers and grant managers about vetting a grant applicant. So, we conducted interviews to understand the most important use cases for fiscal sponsorship data and about the process of fiscal sponsorship.

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Build Tools Problem Test 62

EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The growing interest from donors and nonprofits alike in sustainer programs is an opportunity to test and do something different. With testing, nonprofits can experiment and improve on what communications work best for their sustainer audience. Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Communication Practice Program Instruction 130

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

The past couple of years have represented a challenging time for nonprofit fundraising. As you incorporate these tips, work at fostering genuine supporter relationships, and strategize ways to improve the donor experience, you can generate more reliable revenue streams over time. Prioritize building strong supporter relationships.

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Donation Strategy Nonprofit Gift 110

Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Chatbots developed by nonprofits for programs and services have faced challenges at times as well. At the same time, finding human counselors has been a struggle. Second, chatbots and other AI technologies need to be carefully designed and tested for human interaction and bias to mitigate risks.

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Literacy Advice Test Training 138

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analytics: BWF defines predictive analytics as the process of assessing your nonprofit’s data to make predictions and model future donor behavior. Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Your auction participants should be able to bid in real-time and see on-going bid activity right up until the auction closes. Ask platform providers to set up a test auction so you can see how easy it is for your supporters to access and use. Make the process as straightforward and as clear as possible.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

Last week, I had a lot of fun test-driving Qriously , a new application that replaces advertisements on smart phones with questions, creating real-time feedback about the topics you are interested in. If you missed it, here’s last week’s post about Qriously.) The question you’d like to ask.

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Free Organization Time Data 233

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Writing RFPs and managing technology migrations detract from grants managers’ ability to process grants. A system or technology migration is the process of upgrading and updating technology systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness. What Is a System Migration? Grants managers are adept problem solvers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

The end of the year is a critical time for nonprofit fundraising. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors. However, this is not a universal rule.

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Practice Fundraising Guide Channel 235

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

When time and resources are scarce, it’s easier to send out the same fundraising message to everyone in your community. This person fears offending donors by asking at the “wrong” time. Begin testing your messaging to learn which message has the highest engagement in terms of engagement and donations?

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Donor Giving Method Nonprofit 280

Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

While we have several channels for gathering customer feedback, UX research is unique since it is about partnering with our current and prospective users to help us understand and adjust to their needs and motivations during the product development process. Sometimes we encounter unexpected insights or novel ways that people use our products.

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Profile Product Research Exercise 98

Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

This process involves a thorough analysis of learners’ needs, development of clear learning objectives, and the design of instructional materials tailored to meet those objectives. Ask staff and external stakeholders to test drive your content. What is Instructional Design? Evaluate and iterate on learning experiences.

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