Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If Shopify isn’t your cup of tea, there are many alternatives. For example, Heal the Bay’s Gorgongosa Coffee : Don’t promote everything in your Shop all at once on your channels. Sprinkle posts here and there on your channels over time and be selective about the products you promote during which seasons.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Leverage Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How do you make the most of your new online fundraising platform? Once you’ve got the technology you need, it’s time to optimize your online fundraising for your nonprofit. That’s why it’s important to have an online fundraising platform that’s customizable and offers tools you need to get more of your supporters giving.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

“We have so much going on right now – how can we even find time to fundraise?” . Understandably, many nonprofit professionals are raising the question: “Should we be fundraising right now?” If you stop your fundraising efforts what will that mean for your organization in the long term? To which my answer is a resounding YES!

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Select communication channels and advertising platforms for the campaign. These should be channels and platforms that your audience regularly engages with. Create audience personas based on shared characteristics such as age, interests, and communication preferences.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 23, 2023

Use a multi-channel approach to re-engage lapsed donors Think beyond the appeal letter. Following up on any direct mail appeal with an email reinforces the need and offers an alternate way to give. Ask them to come and volunteer in your office or at one of your fundraising events. Or offer volunteer opportunities.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Armed with a fundraising page and email tools, peer-to-peer fundraisers turn their family and friends into donors. So, I thought I’d share five ways your organization can increase peer-to-peer fundraising revenue. So, I thought I’d share five ways your organization can increase peer-to-peer fundraising revenue.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

With the rise of online donor engagement , data collection is a natural part of modern fundraising. Gathering donor data requires a thoughtful approach that ensures the information you collect is helpful to your fundraising and marketing teams. Communication preferences: Know which channels donors prefer being contacted on.

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Achieve

JUNE 3, 2019

to your cause and your organization, donors in all age groups use this convenient platform. Today, we’re taking a look at a few crucial dos and don’ts for an effective mobile fundraising strategy. We’ll start by exploring one of the most important reasons to offer mobile fundraising methods: convenience for your donors.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When you prioritize donor retention when planning and executing your overall fundraising efforts, you gain opportunities to reactivate lapsed donors and build lasting relationships with new donors through direct mail and digital campaigns. Consider how often you thank supporters and remind them of their charitable impact across all channels.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rather than missing out entirely, transitioning in-person events to virtual fundraisers helps you to continue to raise crucial funds for your cause, while our supporters stay safe and support you from their own homes. Ready to take your virtual fundraising to the next level? Tip 3: Prioritize online giving and text fundraising.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. With card sorting, you’ll ask a group of volunteers to organize cards with content topics into groups that make the most sense to them. Include alternative text on images.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

After you’ve conducted research and feel confident about who is most likely to donate to your cause, you can segment those donors into groups based on their common characteristics. Channel preference (social media vs. email). Gather past content from a specified time period and channel. Identify your distribution channels.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Nonprofits Live provided a more robust and interactive alternative to the traditional webinar. TechSoup kicked off its Nonprofit Live series with a discussion on the Future of Fundraising. Once registered, nonprofits can create a custom, branded cause platform for their online fundraising complete with video and photo functionality.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. In this guide, we’ll cover the need-to-know information and steps of creating a major gift fundraising strategy, including: What is a major gift? Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recently, Brock Warner (Senior Manager, Fundraising at War Child) and I hosted a webinar regarding end of year fundraising for nonprofits —the things we need to stop doing and things we should be doing instead. In terms of fundraising, print newsletters don’t tend to directly raise much money (though I’m sure there are exceptions).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Groups do not need 501(c)(3) of fiscal sponsor status to apply. They seek to fund organizations working for fundamental social change and demonstrating practical alternatives to social justice for LGBTQ+ youth. The LGBTQ+ Donor Engagement Program exists to support annual fundraising events. Areas served: United States.

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DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2021

Post your volunteer opportunities on several different channels, from social media to your website to email newsletters. Segmenting supporters into groups so you can send relevant information to each segment. Alternatively, you might focus on helping volunteers develop soft skills such as public speaking or letter writing. .

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

have further validated the effectiveness of text-to-give fundraising. give fundraising for everyday use, versus only for emergency or disaster relief. Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. Channel of Influence. 89 percent said "$10 or more". 76 percent stated "$15 or more".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

Nonprofit software helps organizations manage their day-to-day functions like administration, fundraising, donor relations, accounting, marketing, and more. Fundraising. Kindful CRM Integration: No, Salesforce is an alternative to Kindful. Let’s dive in: Contact management. Form building. Productivity. Bloomerang. Google Sheets.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

When the earthquake hit Japan in March, nonprofits of all sizes, budgets, and national reputations put up Fundraising Projects on Causes. This is a trend we see frequently: small, unsexy, or unknown nonprofits are having significant fundraising success and larger, better-known nonprofits are wondering why. Facebook ads?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

A diverse and holistic fundraising strategy is crucial to a nonprofit’s success. Whether you are fully dependent on donations or utilize a variety of revenue sources like government grants, corporate partnerships, major contributions, or membership fees, successful fundraising is key to maximizing your impact on your mission.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2012

In recent weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more interest from event fundraisers on providing online tools to support their third-party or Independent Fundraising Events (IFE.) Traditionally, most orgs have only provided support to these types of events using offline channels alone. Author: Robyn Mendez.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

In general, the consensus seems to be that Facebook is not the place to pin all your fundraising hopes. To help us make the most of this channel, we're planning to run a social media append to determine which members of our eFile are also on Facebook, and reach out to invite them to "LIKE" our Facebook page. How's that for ROI?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. The alternatives “we achieve” or “we determine” are far more descriptive. Think about what would best speak to your audience. Keep all of your lists of answers to the questions above. Take, for example, “we do.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

What is the difference between pages, groups and profiles? Groups and pages are markedly different from the profiles individuals set up to connect with friends and family. Groups, on the other hand, can also be useful for more intimate and deeper conversations or to organize before the launch of a campaign or event.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The best way to accomplish this feat is through segmentation: the process of grouping your supporters based on their similarities and sending them targeted messages they’re more likely to respond to. The purpose of your campaign should drive your segmentation efforts, providing context to how you group your supporters. Demographics.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After many organizations received a fundraising boost during the pandemic, direct response professionals once again seem to be bracing for a decline. Even so, direct-response fundraising remains critically important—both as a source of sustainable annual revenue and as a funnel for the cultivation of higher-level donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Alternative Approaches. Digidave of Spot.Us

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Since then, we’ve been hard at work bringing together the wide range of tech, tools, and services we all offer, including case management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising and engagement, as well as some functionality from our friends at Mobilize. Optimize your fundraising. Activate supporters with Mobilize.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

I'll try to synthesize all the great discussion on the topics and themes we'll be looking to include in each of our 5 conference tracks: Leadership, Fundraising, Communications, IT Staff and Consultants and Program. Fundraising. Storytelling as it pertains to Fundraising. Nicci Noble on both fundraising / communications.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As we plan for 2023 fundraising and all that the year might bring, we know that diversified revenue streams mitigate the risk of losing any single source of funding. Healthy nonprofits diversify revenue by tapping a variety of resource streams and funding channels. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising. Major Gifts.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 21, 2013

economy…In the past decade, the number of nonprofit groups has grown by 25 percent to 1.6 This is a pretty new thing – seeking to study nonprofit management or philanthropy in order to run an organization or be a fundraiser. But this is a very positive change and a great way to channel youthful energy.

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