Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. View: worldwildlifefund.org Archive 3/15/08.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

2014 will be an exciting year for nonprofit technology. Numerous communications and fundraising trends are on the verge of going mainstream and nonprofits committed to early adoption have a number of new tools and strategies to pioneer this year. 1) Mass Adoption of Responsive and Flat Design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2014

Spring is report season in the nonprofit sector. A slew of new data is released and this year the emerging theme is that online fundraising is rapidly rising, especially on mobile devices. Crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, monthly giving, and email fundraising is also proving to be effective, as you can read and see below.

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NetWits

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s 2013. As a nonprofit focused on fundraising, you’ve likely started making resolutions …

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. In truth, the Mobile Web is already here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Paybee’s Annual Bid Masters competition reveals the 54 best benefit auctioneers of 2024, these trailblazers are leading the way in the world of benefit auctioneering and transforming the fundraising landscape. She is one of the most sought after auctioneers in the country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2013

At least 15% of all traffic to nonprofit’s websites now occur on mobile devices and across all sectors mobile is set to surpass desktop browsing in 2014. Many nonprofits do not currently have the financial means to launch a new website, so a separate mobile website is a good interim solution. Sadly, it was not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

based nonprofits. billion in sales projected for the fourth quarter for 2013 alone, up to $13.25 Through a partnership with GuideStar USA , over one million nonprofits are already listed in the AmazonSmile database and all shoppers need to do is search for and then select their favorite nonprofit to have 0.5%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2012

On August 1, Google quietly launched Google Wallet for the Web – and the technology has the possibility of transforming online and mobile fundraising as we’ know it. Also, nonprofits that have been wise to mobilize their Web content and build their mobile lists could text links to Google Wallet donation pages. Not anymore.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Online fundraising is here to stay, if you haven’t noticed. Check out these cool stats in an infographic from Nonprofit Hub with stats from 2013 Nonprofit eBenchmarks Study. Monthly increased by 43% from 2012 to 2013. Image courtesy of Nonprofit Hub. 89% of donations come from 1x donors.

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NetWits

APRIL 5, 2013

The much-anticipated 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark study was released last week. It contains online fundraising, advocacy, email, social, and mobile results from 55 U.S.-based based national nonprofits in 2012. Nonprofits often use this study to benchmark their own online activities and fundraising ideas. percent to 4.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2013

Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In fact, in 2013 for every 1,000 fundraising messages delivered, nonprofits raised $17. That was a 21% decrease from the previous year, but the decrease is mostly likely due to poor online fundraising practices , such as not having a mobile-optimized donate page and e-newsletter design. Prioritize mobile design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2013

Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 10, 2014

There is no doubting digital giving’s importance to the future of nonprofit technology. This side of fundraising has experienced double digit growth and is expected to grow at a rapid pace for the next several years. What has your nonprofit experienced with online giving? Fundraising Industry News Tech'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2013

Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with an introduction to the Mobile Web and its rapidly increasing role in nonprofit communications and fundraising. Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special.

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TechImpact

MARCH 17, 2014

These ten statistics about nonprofit technology, fundraising, and social media offers us insights into the effectiveness of our strategies, and can help us redesign strategies in the future. of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013. Source ) 6.4% Source ) 18.2% Source ) 6.4% Source ) 18.2%

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TechImpact

APRIL 4, 2014

This report offers the community a chance to compare numbers, and helps individual nonprofits stack the effectiveness of their fundraising campaigns up against national averages. 2013’s report showed not only signs of improvement, but, according to blackbaud , charitable giving grew more in 2013 than it has since the great depression.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 13, 2013

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar will demonstrate how nonprofits can implement a successful social media strategy in eleven steps. This webinar will also touch upon mobile communications and fundraising and how it affects nonprofit’s use of social media.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 11, 2012

End of year fundraising is in full swing, but with 2013 right around …

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2013

#FundraisingFriday is a campaign meant to inspire individuals to commit to donating $10 to one of their favorite nonprofits every Friday. If you are a donor, please post the name and website of the nonprofit that you donated to below. I’ll do my best to help get the word out about your generosity and your favorite nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2013

The reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. nonprofit research, but I would also like to add similar reports from other countries. 4) 2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report :: Download.

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TechImpact

JUNE 10, 2014

Social media, mobile technology, and fundraising are unequivocally attached at the hip in contemporary nonprofit marketing. Their combined capacity to connect donors to nonprofits worthy of help is shaping an all new way fundraising. For every 1,000 fundraising emails sent?a a nonprofit raises $17.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Many nonprofits need social media training - they just don’t know it. There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Google, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. They use their creative impulses to come up with innovative mobile and social media campaigns for their own nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. Enterprising nonprofit staff (usually GenXers) with a love for the Internet created communities on Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook in 2004/2005 and most often without executive buy-in. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Every month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 creates and tweets (three times only) a TwtPoll related to nonprofit tech. Hardly thorough as a research method, the TwtPolls do however present some basic information about what trends were popular in 2012 and clues as to which #NPTech trends should be prioritized in 2013. twtpoll.com/t7brsr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), This is most easily done through a Social and Mobile Media Fundraising Success Spreadsheet. Download Spreadsheet Template ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

My e-newsletter is by far the driving force behind Nonprofit Tech 2.0. And even though a recent report pointed out that email open and donor response are dropping in the nonprofit sector, I can’t help but wonder if current (yet old) e-newsletter design trends have a lot to do with the results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

When nonprofits consider launching a smartphone app, most often they automatically default to launching an iPhone app. Twelve nonprofits pioneering Android are listed below. For nonprofit pioneering Apple’s iOS, please see 12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading iPhone Apps Created by Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2012

With smartphones now outselling PCs and tablet sales surpassing even the most conservative of estimates, the majority of your nonprofit’s supporters will likely be browsing your website on mobile devices by 2013 – and unfortunately most nonprofits are not prepared for this dramatic shift in Web communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Stated simply, a nonprofit website that is responsively designed will alter and format itself depending upon whether the visitor is viewing the website on a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone. Nonprofits have been woefully slow at preparing for the Mobile Web. 11 Mobile Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

Nonprofits across the world are outfitting their nonprofit to bring their missions to the palm of everyone’s hand. If your nonprofit isn’t sure how to make the move to mobile, Tech Impact has you covered. Here are 14 statistics that will get your nonprofit thinking mobile now, instead of later. Equinux (June 2013).

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 17, 2014

With the giving season quickly descending upon us, it’s time to start turning our attention to our holiday fundraising efforts. With approximately 87 percent of milliennials giving to charitable causes in 2013 , milliennials are quickly becoming the most charitable generation to date. A tall order.

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