Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ask: Send a personalized request for support that acknowledges the donor’s past gifts and shares the impact their donation will make. Your donor engagement strategy may outline different recognition tiers by gift amount ($50 donations receive a shout-out in your newsletter, and $250 donations receive a plaque, for example).

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. These nonprofits have gotten really good at making it easy for people to understand how their donation will make a difference. If someone gives you a donation of $100, that’s great.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

If you are going to cancel or postpone the event, tell the registrants that you have converted their ticket into a donation, and that you will refund it if they wish. You don’t want to refund the ticket and then ask for a donation. Instead, assume that they will be supportive of the donation conversion. .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

If you are going to cancel or postpone the event, tell the registrants that you have converted their ticket into a donation, and that you will refund it if they wish. You don’t want to refund the ticket and then ask for a donation. Instead, assume that they will be supportive of the donation conversion. .

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Major donors make a major impact on your nonprofit, but it can be a bit scary to ask major donors for a donation. But how do you get to know someone when all you know is that they gave your organization a bigger-than-average donation in the last year? Contact them and thank them again for their donation. Start With Gratitude.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

In short, a strong message for fundraising gets you donations. . Choose each word carefully to get the result you want: donations. When people are bored, they tune out and stop donating, leaving your nonprofit in the dust. The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce. Easy to understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nonprofits receive 50% of their annual donations between October and December. billion was donated to US based nonprofits, a 25% increase from 2019. SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. Sign up here. Why am I doing this? It's a route out of poverty.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Every nonprofit fundraiser loves unrestricted donations. But how do you handle restricted gifts on your online donation forms? The key to building a good online donation form is making it easy to use. Remember, donors who land on your donation form are there because they’ve had an emotional response to an appeal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

"Thursday was wonderful," says William Rames, an account management specialist at TechSoup, who spent four hours sorting donated art supplies at SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts), a nonprofit that diverts waste from landfills while making creative supplies available to teachers, parents, and community organizers.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

These changes will increase attendance rates, deepen audience engagement , and encourage more individuals to donate to their efforts. Such barriers include language, cost, transportation, and perception. With these efforts, children will make arts and cultural participation a habit, and continue this habit into their adult lives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries. To submit a book to Bookshare, Carrie has to choose it, scan it, correct OCR (optical character recognition) errors, upload it to the Web site, and complete the donation process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

When your child is diagnosed with leprosy, other moms think that you and your children are cursed. . And they can simply ask supporters, “If you make a donation today, you can help end leprosy. Yes, it is vital to me that children with the effects of leprosy feel God’s love.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

In fact, she was so busy that when it came time to put together her year-end donation letter she was stumped. But halfway through, they realize they don’t know enough about the story to write an effective donation letter. Great storytelling can boost the results of your year-end donation letter. What should she write?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause. In a dance-a-thon, participants gather donations from friends and family based on their hours spent dancing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali. It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project? Sigida has existed on the ground for only seven months.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Crafting a good nonprofit mission statement forces you to examine your organization’s purpose at its core and then mine the English language for just the right words to convey that purpose in as few words as possible. We distribute donated furniture to families and individuals, turning their houses into homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Organization(s) : Save the Children and Verizon Wireless.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Think of these as the essential elements of web design: Clear, prominent donation buttons. Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Save the Children. Project Open Hand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

When I was growing up, I was very aware of the class differences, and the different ways that people would treat children who were from lower class families. We need all kinds of help, anything from donations to getting involved with helping to fundraise for this observatory, to going overseas. A lot of people like that.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

There's no shame in season passes, and if that's truly what you offer, the change in language might help confused visitors for whom the term "member" has become somewhat meaningless. Or, more specifically at The Tech, you're paying for a student (all school kids visit The Tech free). Price membership according to usage. Which leads to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Paola Gianturco: My name is Paola Gianturco. And, their weapon is poetry.

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