Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Below are the notes from the “10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2022” webinar presented by Heather Mansfield on December 1. The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. Select a Crowdfunding Platform.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

As well as Feastables, Beast Industries is also a shareholder in the snack brand Lunchly and owns Viewstats , a software firm that sells digital tools to fellow content creators. As reported by Bloomberg , Beast Industries has secured more than $450 million in funding over the past four years to fuel its businesses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. 28% of nonprofits raise between 26-50% of their annual funds from the year-end ask. Here are 5 ways that you can use social media to raise even more money at year-end. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Behavioral Science is a powerful area of study, and can be a serious tool in the world of nonprofit fundraising.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

So in 2021, Thorleifsson launched Ramp Up Reykjavk to fund the installation of 100 ramps in places with the most foot traffic across Icelands capitalcafs, restaurants, and shops. We fund, design, build, and get all the permits; it’s all free for the shop owner or the person who owns the building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Digital wallet payments, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay – 1%. Mobile Money, such as Vodafone M-Pesa and Airtel Money – 1%. 15) 9% donate stock and/or mutual funds to NPOs, NGOs, and charities and 6% donate to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). Direct/Post mail (credit or debit card, cheque) – 12%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The new financing also comes two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and a $120 million Series B in November.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

Bonfire enables nonprofits to easily design and raise funds by selling t-shirts online. Ideal for virtual parties, Gifted is an event invitation platform that allows party organizers to donate up to 100% of funds raised to select nonprofits in the United States and Canada. Bonfire :: bonfire.com. Gifted :: gifted.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. It helps with everything from applying for money to showing how you spent it. These new tools brought a digital approach to grant management, making processes much easier for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

There are strict rules regarding what you can do to collect funds, and what you’re allowed to do with that money once you have it to retain your nonprofit status. Virtual reality does this by creating a digital environment that you can explore with a headset and headphones. 2) Donations via the Gaming Industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Tomorrow, NPRs CEO Katherine Maher goes before a DOGE congressional subcommittee to defend the public media outlets case for federal funding. Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. Donors can make an individual or team fundraising page and collect funds on your organization’s behalf by soliciting their networks.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. If we don’t follow through on our rhetoric, we will fail to sustain the trust critical to securing more funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

As the world becomes increasingly more digital, nonprofits around the globe are recognizing the importance of accepting online donations as a form of giving. Why It’s Important to Accept Online Donations Collecting online donations can be a powerful and budget-friendly way to raise funds for your cause or organization.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2022

We’ve come to realize that just like for-profit brands, nonprofits are businesses that need to spend money to make money online. I have been running digital ads for nonprofits for a decade. I have been running digital ads for nonprofits for a decade. in digital ads for every dollar raised in online revenue.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

Short, interactive courses cover three critical topics – how do nonprofits operate, how do nonprofits make money, and how can I build a thriving nonprofit career. 2) 10 Strategies for Success with Digital Fundraising. This video from Candid provides easy-to-follow best practices for raising more money online.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

For the public at-large, the most popular resolutions are exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, and saving more money, followed by more time with family and friends, and spending less time on social media. Establish funding priorities: What gifts do you need of time, talent, and treasure to robustly champion your mission?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

We’re seeing that sports betting is really impacting Gen Z at higher rates, which likely has a lot to do with just how digitally native that generation is, Alev says. Thats 14% more than the number of respondents across all age demographics claiming to be addicts. Not many guardrails exist to keep sports bettors from hitting bottom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Take a Balanced Approach With Your Revenue Streams and Include Digital Fundraising. The organizations we surveyed said they’re now focusing on a more balanced approach that includes a mix of in-person, virtual and digital fundraising components. Many nonprofits rely heavily on in-person fundraising. Everyone has agreed.”.

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Nonprofit Survey Donor Fundraising 340

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Web3 is already changing the way people think about giving out personal identifiable information (PII) online, how they invest and store their money, and what kinds of transparency they expect from companies and brands they interact with online, including nonprofits. Benefits of Web3 for Nonprofits: Security for donor PII and funds.

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TechSpot

JUNE 27, 2023

Despite the setback, digital money isn't going away anytime soon. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the major financial agency of the United Nations which is essentially acting as the world's lender of last resort, is seriously working to turn Bitcoin alternatives into a proper financial and monetary tool.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Offer digital wallets and other ways to pay to reach a broader base. Any friction during the giving process could leave money on the table. Dont only ask them for money again. Turn on a recurring giving option on your donation form. Provide a donation link in social media bios and peppered throughout posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

By Emily Friedrichs of Elevation – a digital agency that s pecializes in Google Ad Grant management and exclusively serves nonprofit’s digital marketing and design needs. If you’re a nonprofit, the Google Ad grant offers up to $10,000 of funding every month for Google advertising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

By Corey Blake , a Digital Fundraising Strategist at MobileCause , where she helps nonprofits accelerate their fundraising and engagement efforts through giving and marketing strategies. This summer, they’re running a raffle to raise funds and give fund prizes to their supporters. 2) Text-to-Donate on Twitter.

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Social Media Donation Campaign Media 328

Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

What if the key to resilience lies not just in raising funds but in building a stronger community of stakeholders? What better way to break through all the digital noise? The money and financial security will follow the community if nonprofits take the time to invest.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? Meaning, they want to know exactly how their money is spent, and why. So while creating a digital report allows you to engage with supporters, it’s also essential for internal strategizing. Mainly, a digital report. Now, let’s dig in!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

These events are an exciting new kind of fundraiser in which gamers raise money for charity by livestreaming themselves playing video games. The growing popularity of this method allows anyone with the right recording setup and a stack of video games to start collecting money for a charitable cause. Gamers Raise Money for Charity.

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Donation Fundraising Game Raise 298

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

Virtual fundraising events can raise a lot of money, some even surpass their in-person version. Whatever your fundraising plans are for 2021, the biggest takeaway from last year is that virtual event fundraising is here to stay and so are digital sponsorships. 2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!) as In-Person Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4 million seed round, and having partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry, plans to ship by the end of the year. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before. . Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If a funder likes your Letter of Inquiry, they’ll invite you to submit more details about what you would like them to fund. The Letter of Inquiry is part of the grantmaking process because it would be overwhelming and time-consuming for funders to review 15-page proposals from everyone seeking money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. In fact, when March and April hit, we figured we’d have to raise a smaller fund. How do you compete?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. On behalf of your organization, investigate ways to receive money that the organization may not have in place already. Spend two hours googling “creative fundraising ideas” to get inspired.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2021

By Sarah Baker , a Digital Fundraising Strategist at MobileCause , where she helps nonprofits accelerate their fundraising and engagement efforts through giving and marketing strategies. For a fully virtual event, you don’t need to rent a space, spend money on tables, chairs, A/V equipment and much more.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s the seed that blooms into funding and feeds every organization’s mission. By applying simple information-sharing strategies, you can appeal to donors who, in today’s dynamic world, are more sophisticated and demand data when deciding how to allocate funds for donation. How is their money helping someone living in poverty?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Together, digital communications inspire 74% of donors to give. If Facebook extended their fundraising tools to WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) and Facebook Messenger, messaging apps would likely become much more powerful in their ability to raise money for charitable organizations. In third place is an organization’s website at 18%.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured.

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