Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Online fundraising makes it simpler for your donors to give, and easier for them to make recurring donations to support your mission. As you take advantage of new opportunities to use online fundraising to grow and engage your donor community, make sure that you know what you need to know to be compliant. . 1) Online Donation Pages.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2024

What comes to mind when you hear “ lapsed donors ”? Maybe you’ve tried numerous ‘ win back’ campaigns that failed to convert them, and you’re wondering whether you should just delete them from your database. A massive generational shift in giving is happening right now with donors aged 60 and older. Don’t do it!

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

When evaluating your school’s readiness for a capital campaign, database readiness might not be at the top of the list for your campaign consultants or administration. Identify major donor giving potential and help build the gift pyramid, a crucial step in the first two phases of a campaign. Add wealth screening services.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

What is Donor Engagement? Not all donors are created equal. Imagine you have two donors who each give $100. Will you communicate to both donors the same way? If you aren’t measuring donor engagement, you might have to. Donor Engagement Factors. Cash/check donor. ACH/credit card on file.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. You can upgrade your nonprofit’s current strategy to reach and identify more qualified prospective major donors by using data.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a donor retention webinar with Caity Craver , CEO of DonorTrends. The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Listen now: Proven Strategies to Maximize DAF Impact for Nonprofits In recent years, donor-advised funds (DAFs) have emerged as one of the fastest-growing charitable giving vehicles. While donors can receive significant tax benefits when contributing to DAFs, the distribution of these funds can take time.

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TechImpact

JUNE 23, 2014

Their ability to centralize and organize information, files, and data imperative to your nonprofit is to the success of your mission. However, because many nonprofits have yet to adopt cloud based solutions, they’re still struggling with the organization of their data and files. Instead of having files with names like donorlist.v2.final.doc

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

.” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. First and foremost, Salesforce is not a donor database.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Cabral, MA, CFRE will lead you through the why and how of creating your own database standards manual and processes to ensure that you are not leading your organization down the path of “Garbage In=Garbage Out.” We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Now, let’s talk about your donor database. Year after year you gather information about donors. Donors lapse. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Data hoarding extends far beyond just your donor data and CRM software.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In fundraising, digital acquisition is the process of acquiring email addresses and converting them into donors. To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve probably heard some variation of the phrase, “treat every donor like a major donor.” If you treat every donor like a major donor, you’d probably run out of team member time. Plus, not all of your supporters want to be wined and dined like a major donor. Who are your major donors?

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The ability to grant access to certain apps, software, and files in the cloud keeps confidential and highly sensitive information on a “need to know basis.” Backing up your nonprofits databases, critical operations information, and other critical data is crucial to any business or foundation. Disaster recovery.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized. What is an award management system?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 11, 2022

If this sounds like you, maybe it’s time you implement a donor management system, or DMS. I know what you’re thinking – what is a donor management system? A donor management system is like a really big filing cabinet that lives in the cloud and tracks everything about your organization. Host an awesome event.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 4, 2014

So we are going to talk about several important tips to help you stay focused on your donor data future. Because the number one challenge that we deal with at Third Sector Labs in a CRM or donor data migration project is customers who won’t let go of the past. Need to merge multiple databases?

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Donor Data Management How To Supercharge Relationships You’ve spent weeks, months, or even years collecting every bit of data your donors produce. Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Here’s what you can expect in this guide: Gather relevant donor data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Unlike a business’s revenue, these assets either have donor restrictions or are considered unrestricted funds. Donors and grantors both expect detailed reporting and deep financial transparency from nonprofit organizations. by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. What is Fund Accounting?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While it’s impossible to track these donations unless you poll your online donors, the more your nonprofit utilizes social media to build your online brand and your e-newsletter list, the more likely potential online donors are to discover your nonprofit—and your nonprofit’s “Donate Now” landing page.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The top nonprofit websites capture audience interest at all stages of the donor funnel or journey. Lets take a closer look at ways to captivate your audience, encourage involvement, and grow your organizations current and prospective donor pool! These efforts allow you to collect email addresses from leads to add to your database.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 8, 2013

But did you know that you can use Conga to generate a fully formatted Word file of your monthly donors, let’s say for your newsletter or annual report? I maintain the Salesforce database for my synagogue. Every month in our Shofar newsletter, we publish a list of our donors, separated by the Fund they donated to.

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on best practices around recording and recognizing in-kind donors. . How do we record, recognize, and be sure not to forget about these donors as we list our donors from the year in their circles or their donor lists by amount? The impact is the same.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The cloud automates the flow of information, streamlines work processes, and centralizes your organization’s files. Want to create a presentation for a donor meeting? File storage. Database software. Here are 6 tools that your nonprofit is already using that can be optimized through the cloud. >. Fire up Microsoft Word.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

In our 2012 Global Cloud Survey we found that only 12 percent of respondents, mostly from larger organizations, are using cloud-based client relationship management (CRM) database services like Salesforce for Nonprofits , or Microsoft Dynamics CRM. We asked nonprofit cloud database expert, Tal Frankfurt of Cloud4Good. Very handy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

If you have a smaller Facebook audience, you may want to boost them to all of your followers; if your following is large or your budget is limited, consider boosting to a higher affinity group such as a Custom Audience of past donors, or followers who have recently engaged with your Facebook Page. Bonus Tip: Identify Major Gift Prospects .

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s get started: How can I find the names of individual donors that support an organization? How much you can find out about individual donors depends on how much information a nonprofit or donor is willing to make public. Check your nearest location to see if it provides access to these databases. Have a question?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. You can upgrade your nonprofit’s current strategy to reach and identify more qualified prospective major donors by using data.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To apply for tax-exempt status under this section, a private foundation must file Form 1023 — Application for Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Alternatively, your organization may be eligible to file Form 1023-EZ , provided it meets certain requirements. Operating on a fiscal tax year?

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2014

Are you playing traffic cop with different versions of donor lists until your file names look like a misunderstood version of the Dewey Decimal system? Not so long ago, sending email attachments with files names like Donor list_V2, Donor list_KK_NM, Donor list_FINAL_REALLY was not at all uncommon.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

But how does your audience of potential donors and partners verify your organization’s legitimacy? Your organization’s public disclosure of financial and tax documents can help instill confidence in donors, yes, but also grant making foundations, future hires, journalists, charity rating organizations, and the general public more broadly.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Wealth screening tools may also look at past charitable and political giving available in public databases. Wealth appending: Wealth appending enables you to secure deep dive research on a selected portfolio of already-identified major donor prospects and import this information into your donor database. See here.].

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

When you get more than 200 donors, you may be eligible to mail at nonprofit postage rates as low as 19 cents per piece (as of July 2023). That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. This letter puts all donor information on one sheet of paper. The donor can handle one lick!

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Donors are your nonprofit’s greatest resource. From January to June 2022, the number of donors declined by 7%, and overall donor retention decreased by 4.2% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% year over year.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 18, 2025

Your nonprofits donor database has been compromised. Source: IBM Security Report ) Ransomware attacks on nonprofits have doubled in the past year, locking organizations out of critical donor and beneficiary data. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on email and donor platforms.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Retaining donors is equally challengingthe average nonprofit donor retention rate is consistently around 45%. To combat these challenges, we recommend optimizing your online donation process from beginning to end, starting with your donation page and finishing with your donor stewardship process.

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Candid

MAY 19, 2022

All tax-exempt organizations, including foundations, must file some version of Form 990 with the IRS each year to comply with federal regulations. Do foundations file the same Form 990 as nonprofit organizations? . You can read more about how to research individual donors here. . In short, yes, but it’s pretty simple to do.

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