The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When they need to get in touch with a donor or prospect, they don’t send an e-mail first… they pick up the phone and make a call. Then they follow up with an e-mail. Related Articles from The Fundraising Authority: The Four Key Fundraising Roles of Your Board of Directors. They Focus on Metrics. They Ask for Referrals.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A huge thank you to Audrey Kidwell, Grants Manager for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, for providing many of the resources and tips included in this article. Climate events are no longer a once-in-a-generation occurrence. Hurricanes. Prolonged droughts. This collaboration can make a significant—and immediate—impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

The strongest recommendation in this article is that you invest in building skills in using Facebook Ads inside your organisation. . Lead generation campaigns are great for growing your list. It’s also worth testing out a campaign to generate cash donations on your website. 3) Understand Facebook Ad objectives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. clipping articles and links extremely easy. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Meta tags have been abused by so many shifty search engine optimization (SEO) specialists over the past 10 years that search engines are increasingly giving higher priority to page titles to generate their search results. Articles and information pages that are text-only tend to overwhelm visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

These include direct mail, phone calls and messages, and in-person solicitations. In this article, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping fundraising. They generate data-driven donation asks. They do so through donors’ preferred methods, like email, social media, text messages , or direct mail. Segment your donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Using Wordle, nonprofits could generate word clouds that add some color and creativity to their online fundraising and outreach campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

What has been missing is information that how different generations learn about, engage with and donate to charitable organizations -- until now. Chart 1 below shows that the next generation of donors, Gen X and Boomers are truly multi-channel. " Duh," Tad Druart's daughter. Is it all consistent?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. clipping articles and links extremely easy. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2025

copywriting, design, edits, FAQs, data collection, segmentation , report generation, donor identification, research, sorting and data syncing), AI can likely get the lions share of the work done more quickly and cost-effectively. Simply search on major donor predictive AI and major donor generative AI to find a host of options].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A user-generated charity review site that’s ideal for nonprofits that are too small to get officially reviewed by Charity Navigator or the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, your supporters can write reviews for your nonprofit that you can then link to on your “Donate Now” landing page. It is a must download! Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A user-generated charity review site that’s ideal for nonprofits that are too small to get officially reviewed by Charity Navigator or the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, your supporters can write reviews for your nonprofit that you can then link to on your “Donate Now” landing page. It is a must download! Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 26, 2022

, but before it officially wraps, let’s take a look at the top articles of the year. These fundraising articles are popular ones that our readers have loved and I wanted to gather them together for you in case you missed any of them earlier this year. Did that annual appeal you send through the mail perform well?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Direct mail is too often associated with the past. Some assume direct mail is ineffective today and that younger audiences don’t want to receive it. But direct mail isn’t dead —the personal touch, visibility, and open rate that comes with direct mail have made it significant in the digital age. Here’s why!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

clipping articles and links extremely easy. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. Clipix :: clipix.com. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. It is a must download!

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

My last article of this two-part series, “ Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy ,” began a discussion of smart fundraising strategies to take advantage of best practices and current trends. Ask them if they’ll write a brief handwritten note on the next appeal you mail (give them a few sample notes).

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

But first, let’s compare how the major communication channels of direct mail versus digital communications play a role in donor retention. Direct Mail versus Digital Communications . A prevailing myth in the nonprofit sector is that traditional mail has been phased out by the internet.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

60) Search « Social Media Webinar on June 10th | Main | Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? 60) Search « Social Media Webinar on June 10th | Main | Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? » Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. With multiple generations in the workforce and fundraisers trying to reach all segments of the population, it's necessary to tailor your fundraising and volunteer need requests to fit your audience. Christina Smith, YourMembership.com Inc. [Ed. Jossey-Bass).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2021

Digital marketing can reach new heights when it’s supported by a direct mail marketing campaign that works in tandem with your online strategy. To explain how this works, this article will discuss how direct mail can: Build Momentum. Direct mail can help give your fundraising campaigns a sense of progression.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Those include Writing Tools, which can help you summarize, rewrite and proofread text, as well as generate text with ChatGPT; Image Playground for creating AI imagery; and Genmoji for building custom AI generated emojis and stickers. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2011

Perhaps you saw the July 4th issue Fortune magazine article about how digital companies are so big and growing so fast, that they are obliterating old brick-and-mortar businesses. Are you engaging with your tech-savvy Generation Y employees who life and breath the digital landscape? Fortune reported that: The U.S Bottom line?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A simple direct mail piece is no longer enough to reach your audience. To keep up with current donors and recruit next-generation supporters, you must have a digital presence. If someone visits your blog to read an article about Type 1 diabetes, you wouldn’t send them an ad to support you with a gift.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? The younger generation seems to prefer to donate online, rather than through the mail. junk mail,” Ball said.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). It’s projected that there will be more than $602 billion generated this holiday season.

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

ecoATM If you don't want to have to worry about packaging up your old device and mailing it off, or would like to receive your payout right away, there's always ecoATM. Target Target used to do in-store trade-ins only, but now its entirely a mail-in operation. As usual, youll answer a few questions about its condition to get a quote.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Guys Like Good Causes Too Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 22nd, 2010 eMarketer recently had an article called “Men Care About Causes Too&# that highlights some new research.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Their mailing address and credit card are already saved in Amazon’s system for the most part, so payment is fast and easy. Whereas with Gumroad and Sellfy I can see who bought what, and both services save those email addresses into a mailing list or export as a CVS file that I can import into any other mailing list program.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 4, 2012

If you’ve read any of my previous marketing focused articles, you might notice a common, underlying theme : If you’re not measuring, you’re not marketing. Aiming to get users to join your mailing list? As A/B testing stems from direct mail, it should go without saying that A/B testing in your email marketing campaigns is essential.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Step 3: Generate Drafts with AI. to write about, you can go ahead and click Generate! You have five AI-generated drafts ready for your review. It feels like magic when I use Fundwriter. was the nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I mentioned in my last article The Difference Between a Principal Gift and a Mega Gift mega gifts are not always given just to capital campaigns. These mega gifts generated renewed interest from other major donors who are now giving these organizations a second chance at getting their funding. . Nothing in life is easy or simple.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

A handful of donation appeals per year might work for Direct Mail, but if you''re going to develop any significant revenue from a primarily email-based fundraising program, then quarterly email appeals aren''t enough. Stay tuned for another article outlining how to do the math on "organic" vs. “paid” recruitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

While it’s not a new term, a few months ago, “slacktivism” became the topic of a firestorm debate among nonprofit advocates, online marketing professionals and social change proponents after a series of media stories including an article by Warren Clements of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, “A slacktivist and his crackberry are seldom parted.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Do you wait for the mail to arrive? Where does the mail go first? Once a computer-generated letter is produced, what happens next? Here are questions you can ask yourself and your team to go through a similar exercise. Where do checks go first? Where do credit card payments go first? At least that’s what today’s donors believe.

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