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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you need to get the word out about a scheduling change or technical issue, there’s no better way to share the information than with an instant text message. For example: UPDATE: We’re having some tech issues but will be back online ASAP. 6) Encourage pledges. Last minute changes and glitches can happen!

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Are corporations making good on their racial equity pledges?

Candid

Last summer , the murder of George Floyd and the global racial justice movement brought issues of racial inequity and injustice to the forefront. A s of July 2020, we’d identified racial e quity grants and pledges worth $4.2 A s of July 2020, we’d identified racial e quity grants and pledges worth $4.2 billion dollars.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

It’s clear this issue struck a nerve in the corporate world. The money they’ve pledged, in context, looks an awful lot like pocket change. Apple theoretically could have made its $100 million pledge back in less than a day. Take Apple, which announced a $100 million “Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.”

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Kickstarter is rolling out new tools for backers, including a way to split pledges into four payments

Engadget

The most notable of the bunch is called Pledge Over Time and, well, its exactly what it sounds like. The tool allows backers to split a pledge into four payments that get pulled from a bank account every two weeks. Pledge Over Time is coming to everyone by spring. Its sort of like Affirm or Klarna.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

Non Profit Quarterly

The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. It’s a call to action for philanthropy to step up.” It’s a call to action for philanthropy to step up in this moment….We We’re ready to continue to fundraise to elevate that number and elevate this issue.” We have a crisis in our country,” Im adds.

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Super Useful Nonprofit Fiscal Year-End Action Strategies

Bloomerang

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. It’s your job to remind folks who’ve not yet renewed or fulfilled on their pledges that it’s time to do so. You can also create lists of SYBNTs (gave some year but not this), pledge reminders, and downgrades. Call donors who’ve not yet paid their pledges. .

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