Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Communicating with the crowd and the community are very different but can both be really valuable for the success of your campaign or call to action. The core elements in both crowd and community engagement are time, action, and people. But a passive action can be attractive to the crowd if it is simple and consistent.

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Community Difference Case Study Slides 276

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2024

Examples of jargon include words like empower, enable, community-driven action, food insecure, change agent, stakeholder, alignment, integrated, leverage, and holistic. This is important to younger generations and probably everyone else your org interacts with. The same goes for donations.

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People Strategy Nonprofit Volunteer 263

Whole Whale

APRIL 1, 2025

Quick donation wins feel greatbut if you want to meet your fundraising goals year after year, you need more than a viral moment. A smart full-funnel fundraising strategy doesnt just ask for money and stop once a donation is unlockedit guides supporters through a journey that builds ongoing connection and trust.”

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Strategy Fundraising Guide Nonprofit 52

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Instead, it’s a tool for informing actions that advance funders’ institutional goals around diversity, equity, and inclusion—and thereby reducing funding disparities. As such, many community-based groups lack the tax-exempt status necessary to be eligible for charitable donations, including foundation funding.

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Demographics Lesson Action Data 116

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The four best videos will each receive: $3,500 in prize donations. An additional gift of up $3,500 (US) worth of Cisco products to help each winning org harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve. The medium educates, inspires, and moves people to action.

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Video Contest Nonprofit Org 156

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go.

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Org Fundraising Tools Help 105

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

By Judi Sohn, Outgoing VP of Operations, Fight Colorectal Cancer Fight Colorectal Cancer: > 6 year-old Org > 6 Full-time Staff > $1.1 For example, the more time it takes my staff to process a donation and see that the donor is acknowledged, the less time they have to work on mission-critical tasks. You know your constituents.

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Org Leadership Technology Organization 77

CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Begin With Action-Oriented Verbs Using action verbs at the beginning of your fundraiser email subject lines sets the expectation upfront for the recipient of what to expect from the body of your email and lets them know what action you want them to take. Subscribe to orgs with a similar focus to your cause.

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email Fundraising Spam Donor 81

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways. With a new impact page, a way to send photo updates to donors, and the marketing muscle of Karma Store , GETSET-GO will continue to put technology in action.

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Lesotho Action Technology Cambodia 63

Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibbon , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Org Green Skype New York City 54

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. Million in donations for charities this past winter. org campaign. "A The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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Web Bookmarking Org San Francisco 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Even then, those who donated were definitely contacts with whom I had more in-depth conversations. Use and application of digital tools is a tactical concern– important, but not the endpoint. And so Gladwell creates a false distinction when he claims it is the nature of the tool that creates strong or weak ties. That was the point.

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Social Media Offline Network Org 119

NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I'd sell it and donate the money to DoSomething.org. More organizations will depend on mobile donations. And, at an event, it is a means of taking action immediately. More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs. The hottest org in 2020? If I had a crystal ball.

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Technology Org Profit Nonprofit 98

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Long-time supporters of both Komen and Planned Parenthood jumped into action. Jumping into action, Allison Fine , Beth Kanter , Stephanie Rudat , Lisa Colton , and Lucy Bernholz starting moving beyond the updates and long conversation threads and towards a collective call to action.

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Reflection Doc Lesson Campaign 150

The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Here’s an example from a recent fundraising email I wrote: Fall is always an extremely busy time for (org) because we are not only receiving lots of new grant applications, we are also renewing grants for special needs children who continue to need our help. This coupling establishing a clear need that readers can help solve by donating.

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email Fundraising Org Grant 90

The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

org , Greenpeace, and more. Today there’s a global day of action with strikes, protests, and stunts across five continents,” James Schneider, the communications director for Progressive International, tells The Verge. We aim to build the strike fund to enable further strikes and protests following this day of action.”.

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International Amazon Bangladesh United Kingdom 125

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Somewhere in your reply device that invites the donor to select their gift amount, add the phrase to your call to action “and other places,” “and other projects,” or “and other work.” “I’ve heard we should first ask people to give, if not give, advocate for org, and lastly to volunteer for org. Include it.

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Question Fundraising Mail Org 123

Whole Whale

APRIL 25, 2022

The first big tip: don’t make your fiat (regular USD money) donation page the same as your crypto donation page. On the crypto donation page, avoid the temptation to put huge explainers ahead of the DONATE NOW widget – it must be clear and easy how to give. Make the motivation clear: emphasize tax incentives.

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Donation Tips Widget Philanthropy 59

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The ultimate goal is to uncover trends, understand performance, and discover useful next actions to help nonprofits achieve their fundraising and donor stewardship goals. With Google Analytics, you can set up a variety of goals that correspond to different user actions, such as: Making an online donation. Advocacy actions.

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Analytics Org Nonprofit Adwords 52

Care2

MARCH 31, 2013

For example, what action alerts or donation appeals do they respond to? Any decent CRM system will help you get a good snapshot of your constituents interests and history of actions with your organization. One of the best ways to provide stellar constituent experiences is to understand their interests.

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Chart Org Mail History 68

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Double the Donation and SimplyFundraisingCRM are proud to unveil their new integration partnership, opening the door for nonprofit organizations to identify more matching gift opportunities for their donors with every donation. Boost the impact of every donation by utilizing some key features: .

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Gift Integration Donation Donor 52

Double the Donation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Double the Donation and DonorDock teams are excited to announce a new integration between DonorDock online donation forms and 360MatchPro by Double the Donation. Our new integration with DonorDock is designed to close that awareness gap directly from the point of initial donation onward.”.

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Gift Integration Donation Donor 52

Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. This will give you a way to give an early action that will then show up on their calendar, phones, and even e-watches, increasing the chances people will act! TEST YOUR DONATE PAGE. Don’t forget matching gifts.

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Ideas Giving Donation Facebook 111

Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibben , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Org Green Skype New York City 36

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Johnson , CEO, Founder Allies in Action Membership Network; CEO & Founder, Women of Color in Fundraising; Founder & President, YFJ Consulting, LLC. With Experience Cloud for Nonprofits organizations can build donor communities and then encourage them to donate and share opportunities with their communities with an Elevate giving page.

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Strategy Fundraising Donor Reflection 111

CauseVox

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Almost three out of four young adults are willing to raise money on behalf of an org that matters to them. It also means having a mobile-friendly, branded donation form. With CauseVox’s mobile-optimized donation forms, supporters can donate quickly and effortlessly. Leverage Peer-to-Peer.

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Donor Social Media Mobile Campaign 110

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2023

Or put another way, it’s a way for an individual to make ongoing donations to their favorite charities without the need to start a foundation of their own. Bob wants to donate to charity—specifically, nonprofits that help animals in his hometown.  Quite simply, DAF stands for donor-advised fund. appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Donor Fund Charity Philanthropy 105

Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

If you know you have a supporter base that are planning to give up drinks, treats, or Starbucks, challenge them to donate what they would spend on those weekly cocktails or daily croissants to your cause. Donate on Her Behalf (March 8). Spring Into Action on the Equinox (March 20). Cereal-for-Dinner Dinner Party (March 7).

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Ideas Fundraising Nonprofit Fun 98

Double the Donation

APRIL 29, 2021

All-in-one fundraising solution Community Funded has teamed up with Double the Donation to offer a new integration to their clients: matching gifts automation. We know funding is needed more than ever, and this partnership with Double the Donation will help us better position our partners for success.”.

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Gift Education Donation Community 52

Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data. Use your organization’s software to: Create segments based on participation in past campaigns, locality, and donation history, and visualize the distribution of your projected campaign stakeholders. This is your call to action.

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Advocacy Campaign Tips Volunteer 130

NTEN

JULY 6, 2009

In this case, smaller orgs had a much better showing than anticipated: "Indeed, larger organizations with slower-moving hierarchies and professional development staffs were less successful in this fast-paced effort." ection-revision-action" model (page 15). ection-revision-action" model (page 15).

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Social Media Lesson Media Fundraising 68

Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

One thing I think C3 (my org) does well is that we take a lot of short, successful hops. We have to figure out who is likely to engage online and who isn’t (and not just for donations). Social Actions Blog. Yes, we’re making a difference against colorectal cancer, and that’s ultimately our big-picture goal. Beth Kanter.

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Cancer Convio Kentucky Plugin 100

sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2011

They don’t care about your org chart or who gets credit for the donation. Ultimately, you want to use the right number of channels to drive the right people to take the right action using the most effective and satisfying giving mechanism as possible. If that means a phone call and an online donation, then fantastic.

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Offline Channel Donor Org 70

The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From a great story to a compelling ask, each of these elements work together to build the case for support that results in donations. donate to the campaign). It is never okay or ethical to embellish the urgency to manipulate people to donate. There are a lot of elements that make a fundraising appeal work.

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Fundraising Create Audience Campaign 103

NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The four best videos will each receive: $3,500 in prize donations. An additional gift of up $3,500 (US) worth of Cisco products to help each winning org harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve. The medium educates, inspires, and moves people to action.

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YouTube Video Contest Cisco 62

CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Despite annual donations decreasing the 2023 CauseVox Giving Study found that individuals, especially the younger demographic, remain steadfast in their commitment to philanthropic endeavors. Shows your progress so your donors visually see how their donation moves the needle. Donors: How many donors are you looking to get overall?

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Ideas Practice Nonprofit Social Media 100

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. You see, many donor prospects will check out your nonprofit online before they donate to see who you are, what you do, and how you make a difference.

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Websites Giving Nonprofit Donation 89