Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

They can help you raise money, gather volunteers, inspire your donors, better understand your supporters, and connect with people who may not have heard of your organization. Include them in table tents, banners, and event badges to provide instant access to live event schedules, donation portals, or interactive activities.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To produce meaningful reports to help you do this, you must track all financial activity and ideally compare it to your budget, or your financial representation of what you think you’ll pursue during the year. There are four core reports, known as financial statements, that nonprofits should create to review financial data and activities.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When candidates are actively raising money, it’s easy to question whether that pulls money away from other causes that donors typically support. As younger generations with strong social and political motivations begin voting, you might be thinking, “ Will the November election impact donations to my nonprofit ?”

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Everyone at this nonprofit was constantly wringing their hands about raising money. They never had the money they needed, and they were never quite sure where it would come from. They lay out (systematize) the steps your nonprofit will take for each of the most important activities you engage in.

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Achieve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Statement of Activities. Also known as an income statement, the Statement of Activities reflects the overall financial performance of your organization during a specific period, usually your fiscal year. Ultimately, it allows you to determine your net assets, which indicates whether your nonprofit has a resource surplus or deficit.

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your goal as a fundraiser is to make sure that you are maximizing your events to raise as much money as possible, without wasting valuable time and resources. Then, they expect the money to come flowing in. The fundamental rules of fundraising don’t disappear just because you are raising money through an event. #2:

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

If you have donated money to a quirky aid event focused on snorkeling or a unique chess fundraiser, you know that fundraising events have evolved far beyond the typical 5K runs, cycling events, and charity walks. What Activity Will Appeal to Your Donors? That means more donors and more dollars.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 5, 2022

Work towards fewer software systems and streamline your tech stack with a solution that provides seamless connectivity across modules that power your core activities. NonprofitCore helps utilize your staff, time, money, and other resources more effectively with streamlined and automatic workflows.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Nonprofit organizations may be feeling the need to take a stance on the metaverse and make decisions on meta-related activities, like accepting crypto donations. While the metaverse is still being built — and is so new that it’s hard to define exactly what it means — there’s a lot of marketing hype (and money) being wrapped up into it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

3%: Mobile Money, such as Vodafone M-Pesa and Airtel Money. When asked about their fundraising experience with recurring/monthly giving programs, survey participants responded: 35%: Our organization has raised the amount of money we expected. 22%: Our organization has raised slightly more money than we expected.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But big goals cost big money. Some founders are able to contribute a chunk of money in the early days to set up the infrastructure (and that’s ok), but to bring in the consistent money needed to fund big dreams, you have to get comfortable asking others to pitch in financially. Where do you start? Then, draft a plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising changed drastically in 2020 with a shift toward virtual galas and a need to raise money online. We’ll also look at how popular fundraising activities can be adapted to these different galas and what online platforms you can use to help build a better fundraising strategy. Live and Silent Auctions.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Other events are smaller, more intimate gatherings where guests are directly asked for money. You can raise money with all kinds of fundraising events like parties, galas, sporting events, concerts… and the list goes on and on. That means that spending money on an event can be a little scary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2022

Why did you spend your time and money the way you did? Don’t assume that readers will automatically understand how your activities help you achieve your mission. We want to know what you did, but more importantly, we want to know why you did it. What were the results? What difference did it make? Connect the dots for them.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Trust is the cornerstone herean active, vocal community builds credibility for your nonprofits mission. Heres how you can get started on building community: Start with a clear vision Your purpose has to be crystal clear if you want people to invest their time, energy, and/or money in your community.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Rather than a sole focus on the bottom line, in the nonprofit sector, you recognize so many more facets of your financial activity than simply whether the entity as a whole turns a profit. To get a true picture of an organization financially, you must review both balances and activity.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The issue of money is set aside entirely. Instead, the focus is on active listening and learning everything possible about the donor prospects values, priorities, and needs. I might be old fashioned, but give me high-touch over high-tech any day of the week, and I am confident that more money will result.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.).

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Today, I want to present three quick and easy tactics you can immediately implement in your online activities that could easily double your online fundraising revenue over the coming year: 1. If you are active on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ ( your non-profit is active in social media , right?)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

One of the biggest misconceptions of social fundraising is that it just means to be active on social media using your nonprofit account. It creates a more holistic approach to raising more awareness, increasing your reach, and raising more money for your cause. Move offline activities online. However, this isn’t entirely true.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A Statement of Cash Flows is a detailed financial view used by nonprofit organizations to track inflows and outflows of money related to their activities during a specific time period, typically the fiscal year. Investing Activities Inflow Examples: Sale of investments (e.g.,

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

To remain effective, we need to challenge ourselves to shed activities or structures that dont advance our clearly defined mission. Secure multiple funding streams No money, no mission, the saying goes in the nonprofit sector. Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Less frequent engagement in each activity scores fewer points; no engagement scores no points. Among those with Full spiritual engagement, 92% gave money during the 12 months ending in February 2024, including 91% who supported a church, and 71% who supported at least one organization outside of church, according to the authors.

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Engadget

APRIL 9, 2025

OpenAI announced plans to transition to a public-benefit corporation in 2024, and reportedly has two years to pull it off or risk a large portion of the money its raised become debt. OpenAI's primary justification for going for-profit is to raise more money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. When a person feels self-efficacious, they are more likely to be proactive in signing up for other volunteer activities and feel more confident in their abilities to be an advocate for the nonprofit.

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

However, the company is also adept at building budget models, blending features and tech to give users a solid value for a lot less money. That was the proposition when the WF-C700N arrived in 2023 , offering active noise cancellation (ANC), solid battery life and other features for $120.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

According to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , “The median amount raised by events in which attendees raise money on behalf of an organization through peer-to-peer fundraising pages, typically is 4.5 Compared with traditional fundraisers, it requires less money and resources. times greater than ticketed events.”.

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Candid

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to Foundation Source’s survey on how Gen Z and Millennials view charitable giving, the next generation started giving at a young age—just 14 years old for the average Gen Zer—and they show continued interest in charitable activities. Volunteering can bridge that gap as an approachable way for them to begin charitable activities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2020

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe Charity – an easy-to-use platform that helps nonprofits raise money by offering robust fundraising features , such as custom branding, registration and ticketing, advanced data reporting, and customizable donate buttons.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

If your fundraiser is doing everything within their control, and actively reaching out to build meaningful relationships with supporters, then you should reward them. And not for how much money they raise, but for meeting and, hopefully, exceeding their objectives. Which is merely transactional? They should.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Maybe you’ve saved money from the prior year by utilizing more volunteer power, or perhaps you’ve cut expenses associated with a fundraising event. When measuring your progress it’s important to know how much money you’ve raised, but it’s also critical to pay attention to how much money was dedicated to the fundraising effort.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. These are the kinds of revenue strategies that keep nonprofits just surviving instead of scaling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

That includes their Partner Program, which allows podcasters to earn money directly from the streams of premium subscribers, so long as theyre using a video aspect. These creators are barred from that premium revenue stream on Spotify, though they still can earn money from ads. And some podcasters have other priorities.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

That’s 20% off — and a rare discount on one of the most elegant pairs of headphones money can buy. These luxe over-ear headphones normally go for a cool $999, but right now, they’re just $799 at Amazon as part of the Big Spring Sale.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2024

When asked about how participants feel they can make the biggest difference on issues and causes important to them, donationswhether money, goods, or servicestakes the number one spot across regions and generations. In the UK and Ireland, Gen Zers are the most active volunteers (23%), followed by Millennials (16%) and Baby Boomers (16%).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

With Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company aims to identify companies where employees can do the best work of their careers and improve the lives of hundreds, thousands, even millions of people around the world.

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