Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. They depend on the quality of the data collected in their donor management system. Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Here are the key pieces of information we suggest gathering: Contact details: Gather donors’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, and postal addresses. The provider enhances your data.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But in today’s fast-paced digital world, you’re facing a unique set of challenges—managing membership, increasing giving, streamlining stewardship and engagement, and shepherding volunteers. Our old software required me to print out past contact reports and contact information for when I went on donor and alumni visits.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 3, 2023

Listen to the full audio recording VolunteerHub has helped West Houston Assistance Ministries (WHAM) reduce administrative time, grow active volunteers, increase donations, and better engage corporate partners. My role as a volunteer manager is to oversee all three programs, in terms of volunteers. What is your role with WHAM?

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 9, 2022

This is a time when you want your systems to fade into the background – they should serve your needs and provide all the relevant information, but you should not have to think about them at all. . In order to make that possible, your systems – especially your Salesforce org – have to “be ready” for the big push.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Sign up to volunteer. Using DonorPerfect’s partnership with Constant Contact can make drip campaigns easy and effective. Examples: Make a second gift. Become a monthly donor.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Organization Perhaps the most obvious, and really the most important, use for an event software system is that if used correctly, it can keep all financial aspects of the event organized and easily accessible. Improved Guest Experience When running my own event without a software system, the checkout lines were so long!

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Dollar for dollar, VOIP phone services are the cheapest options available for nonprofit organizations seeking a versatile communication platform. They offer robust packages of features, system versatility, and also allow nonprofits the opportunity to save some money in the process. Image courtesy of Alabama A&M University.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Work with your staff and volunteers who work directly with the people you serve to capture stories like this one for sharing in thank-you notes. You can automate this with your online donor management system. Just make it part of your system for thanking donors. I feel like a good mother for the first time in a long time.”

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Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

You can’t begin to engage your supporters on mobile without their phone numbers and permission to text them. Your donors will most likely provide their phone numbers on your donation form. All that’s left is to ask for permission to contact them via that phone number. How to opt supporters in to text messages.

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TechImpact

JULY 29, 2014

You’ve invested in your constituent relationship management system (CRM), implemented the software, trained your IT team, and planned continuous training for the next few months. Fundraising General Tech CRM data donors email marketing fundraising nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology VolunteerConnect volunteers'

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. All you need is a dedicated and effective way to recruit those volunteers. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If they don’t, use your donor management system to look up the name of the deceased and see if you have any contact information for a family member of theirs. Once you’ve made contact with a family member or close friend, ask who the main point of contact or representative from the family will be.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

In a text-to-give campaign, donors will text a keyword to a phone number assigned to your nonprofit. Your online giving platform should be backed by a reliable, secure payment processing system. The system should have anti-fraud measures in place and be PCI-compliant. Donor profiles. Customized donor reports.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs. Add to that volunteer management and event management. There’s a lot.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

In-person volunteers are disappearing for key activities (e.g., Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations. Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An effective navigation system also follows web accessibility guidelines so people of all abilities can engage with your content. With more people using their phones to interact with their favorite causes, it’s critical that your navigation menu and website as a whole are mobile-optimized. Let’s begin.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Forms will also probably come in handy in the beginning for volunteer sign-up, client enrollment in programs, and many other tasks. Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. Telephone: You probably need a phone number that is separate from your personal phone.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

Salesforce.com can be: A centralized contact list of all the people and organizations you work with. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering. There are also functionalities that Salesforce lacks: Salesforce isn’t an accounting system.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Text-to-give (also known as text-to-donate, text-to-pledge, or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising that asks donors to send a keyword to a text fundraising phone number. You choose a unique keyword and are assigned a phone number for supporters to text. Supporters text the keyword to your phone number.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When I joined the organization, as a director of resource development, I inherited the organization’s most kept treasure: an Excel spreadsheet with all the donors and foundations we contacted in the past six or seven years, their social interests, who contacted them, when, how much money we asked, how much we received etc… This was (by far!)

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The factors determining how engaged a donor is will vary from organization to organization, but engaged donors are typically the ones most responsive to your messages, most likely to attend events, the first to volunteer, and proud to share your mission within their networks. Connect with your donors over the phone!

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

Salesforce.com can be: A centralized contact list of all the people and organizations you work with. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering. There are also functionalities that Salesforce lacks: Salesforce isn’t an accounting system.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

For both text-to-donate and text-to-give, nonprofit organizations need a short code (shortened phone number) and campaign keyword. Once the supporter texts the organization signifying that they want to give, they are charged a predetermined amount to their phone bill. Clean up your text message contact lists. Ready to dive in?

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago. Regularly emailing unengaged contacts might lead to a “no harm, no foul” scenario of them tuning out appeals.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While not every organization has a specific project manager labeled role on their team, every project should have a main point of contact or dedicated member in charge of seeing the project to completion. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.)

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Fundraising platforms can consolidate all fundraising data in one system, allowing you to get an at-a-glance view of your strategies. Essentially, online fundraising platforms are robust systems that consolidate fundraising data, reports, and donor information in one place, helping increase fundraising efficiency.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 22, 2020

They try to get people to share information, click links, open attachments, and visit false COVID-19 information websites and malicious online artifacts in order to gain access to systems, information and sensitive data. Phone calls claiming to be a CDC, WHO, state, or government representative or an emergency responder.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 14, 2022

Engagement Levels With Engagement Levels in NPSP, you can assign different tags (let’s call them Levels from here on) to contact records in the system. Levels indicate how these contacts are engaged with your nonprofit. In other words, Levels can be thought of as Ranks you assign to your constituents. Congratulations!

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fusionSpan

JUNE 14, 2022

With Engagement Levels in NPSP, you can assign different tags (let’s call them Levels from here on) to contact records in the system. Levels indicate how these contacts are engaged with your nonprofit. Wouldn’t it be great if all your volunteers grew to be your major donors? Engagement Levels. Congratulations!

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Forms are a great way for volunteers to express interest in being part of your organization and to RSVP to an event. Forms can be used to survey volunteers and program participants about their experiences with your organization, gather opinions from donors about an upcoming strategic plan, and about 100 other things.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. social change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

However, many small NGOs have websites that haven’t been updated in years and are often not created using a Content Management System (CMS) which makes it very difficult for them to update and edit their own websites. To effectively raise money online, NGOs need a website that makes a good first impression. 2) Launch an e-newsletter.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

We willingly provide retail systems with loads of personal information. Phone numbers, zip codes, email addresses … our stores now have the ability to tailor their marketing to appeal directly to our interests. With this contact information, you can begin targeted, personalized communications. You know what they support.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. In the modern age, mobile phones are most people’s constant companions. Text fundraising. How does a CRM help nonprofits? What are popular nonprofit CRMs?

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