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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Seek out volunteers. Ask previous fundraising campaign volunteers if they can lend their creative talents and help out with the technology powering your event. Tell them about the ways they can assist your team and provide a link to your volunteer signup. For example: Hey Lend-a-Paw Volunteer! 6) Encourage pledges.

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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

Participants who volunteered in the U.S. Pledges are tracked for a week at the Combined Federal Campaign, where the total online pledge result was $3.1 million was pledged on GivingTuesday through the CFC. A few significant pledges recorded came across the platform, some more than $500,000. In the U.S.,

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. COVID-19 obviously changed this dynamic. To keep employees, volunteers, and donors safe, in-person events have been canceled for the foreseeable future.

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Is Your Nonprofit Half Way to Your 2020 Fundraising Goal$?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These types of changes can help you nail down an excellent fundraising strategy moving forward. 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. 1) Pledges. Remote volunteer listings. 2) Automatic Monthly Giving.

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5 Mobile Fundraising Apps for Do-Gooders and Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An app that encourages users to pledge to make lifestyle changes (such as giving up a cup a coffee each week) and then enables users to donate the money not spent to nonprofits. An app that enables users to donate via text, send messages to emergency contacts, and browse volunteer opportunities during crisis situations.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. A volunteer handbook gives volunteers the information they need about the organization and its mission, and answers any common questions they may have.

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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. Vaccination Volunteering in Phoenix.

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