Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While important, this factor wasn’t universal but was vital for campaigns focused on crisis relief or specific fund-raising event promotion. 1) The ALS Association – The Ice Bucket Challenge (Launched in 2014, renewed in 2021) Campaign: This viral social media challenge involves dumping ice water on oneself and donating to ALS research.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 11, 2024

When donors give, they want a meaningful connectionto clearly see where their gift is going and understand the difference it will make. Many organizations attempt to provide this through a dropdown menu on the donation form, offering donors a list of programs, funds, or departments to choose from.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 24, 2014

Kirsten Williams , Associate Director, Gift Services. University of Oregon Foundation. The credit card scam/fraud attempt that many nonprofits have experiences starts with a very large online gift from an unknown donor. A large bump in volume of online donations. Those gifts are typically for less than $5. ·

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

You just landed a ten million dollar mega gift for your organization. It’s the donation that you’ve always dreamed about! For those of us who have accomplished this, exhilaration hardly describes all the emotion that comes with raising a multimillion dollar gift from one donor. Kick-start your endowment.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on best practices around acknowledging and recognizing major gifts. . We’ve received the largest ever single gift to our organization, over $800,000. As in, Mr. Smith’s gift of $800,000 will create an endowment to provide X every year. The amount?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

Their average individual gifts are the highest among all generations, so securing even one donation from a member of these generations is a huge win. 1) The Silent Generation (1925-1945) 88% give to charity, donating an annual average of $1,367 across 6.2 organizations** 11.8% organizations** 23.6%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. For example, what messages most effectively drive donations in your email campaigns? In the “Website URL” field, enter the link to your website donation page. (If

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. This guide will review these tips for bringing in more donations: Prioritize building strong supporter relationships. Explain the impact of donations.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Even though December is a universally-accepted annual benchmark that signifies conclusion, certain sectors have their own benchmarks that they count on for donation surges. During those months, healthcare’s online earnings increased from around seven percent to roughly 11 percent of their total online gifts. Non-December Surges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

According to DonorBox nearly one-third of all annual gifts come in December, and nearly half of all online donations come in the last week of the year. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

They tend to give 2x more over their lifetimes than those who repeatedly give one-time gifts. As fundraising becomes more and more digital, creating sustainable and predictable donations takes on new importance. Optimize Your Donation Form For Recurring Donations. Boom: beautiful donation tiers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2021

Dear Double the Recognition, Recognition is all these things: Almost universally appreciated. If you list donations by amount/level of gift, be sure to cumulate all the gifts received from the DAF administrator to assure they are listed in the correct level. The focus should be on the giver more than the form of the gift.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with several nonprofit organizations that weren’t part of a national charity, university system, or hospital, which have attracted multimillion dollar donations. These nonprofits didn’t have major gift officers or even planned giving staff. When was your logo last updated?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With Salesforce and Cloud for Good, Indiana University Advancement is: Enabling donors and alumni to complete giving transactions in under 30 seconds. Sharing the impact of donations through rich media directly on giving pages. Removing barriers to giving by providing multiple payment and single sign-on options.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your organization must have the tools to efficiently collect donations, manage transactions, and ensure the security of donor information. Its payment platform processed donations from millions of generous supporters in 44 countries who flooded the foundation with critically needed gifts.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

But did you know that writing content for donor intent can be used to target people ready to donate online content can also be used to target donor intent? In this post, I’m going to show you how to get online donations with content marketing. Some gifts are for a very specific purpose and others are more general.

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CauseVox

MARCH 16, 2022

We want to see you succeed and to give your donors the best giving experience, so we added some serious upgrades to our donation form! Our new, all-in-one donation form has everything you need to run robust fundraising in the easiest way possible on your website and on your CauseVox fundraising sites. New Donation Form Enhancements.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, this is not a universal benchmark. Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

The type of thank you did not appear to depend on the size of my gift. to my alma mater in honor of my graduation year, and have received a thank you email, letter, alumni car decal, and a second thank you letter personally written from a current student at the university. For example, I gave $20.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Older people are still doubtful about making a donation via credit card online, but donors below 40 years old are predominately giving online. For their first individual donations strategy, they chose Donadora. Charities need to adopt mobile-first solutions to collect online donations. are quickly replacing TV.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to accept a real estate gift for the first time: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a board member who wants to donate a gift of real estate. Whether or not this is a gift you can “make happen” depends on a number of variables.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

Americans donate nearly $300 billion annually to more than 1.2 Most donors believe that they are giving to worthwhile causes, but few conduct the necessary research to determine how effectively an organization uses donations to accomplish its mission. This is why due diligence is so important before making a donation.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 13, 2021

AlumnnIQ, a powerful and innovative fundraising platform, has partnered with Double the Donation to bring automated matching gift technology to its clients. This partnership will allow universities using AlumnIQ to access 360MatchPro, the industry leading matching gift solution.

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Double the Donation

JULY 27, 2022

Corporate matching gifts can significantly benefit any institution’s fundraising efforts. For colleges, universities, and other schools, matching gift videos may be just the answer you were looking for. In this guide, we’ll walk through the basics of matching gift videos (and […].

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Double the Donation

MARCH 23, 2021

Double the Donation and Ellucian are proud to debut expanded matching gifts functionality with 2-way data sync between 360MatchPro and Ellucian’s CRM Advance, allowing university clients to access valuable matching gift and employer information directly from their CRM Advance account. .

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Double the Donation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Double the Donation is proud to unveil a new partnership with the fundraising AI ecosystem Fundmetric to provide integrated matching gifts functionality to schools, universities, and nonprofits.

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sgEngage

MAY 24, 2021

Many people may think of successful fundraising as simply getting donations, but that definition leaves out another important element: engaging smaller or future donors. Some may not be able to give large gifts, but they can still become an important source of support for an organization. How to think about retention.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 31, 2021

When giving season comes around, nonprofits are in overdrive, working to increase donations with fundraising emails so meaningful work can be done in the new year. You wouldn’t send your mom the same gift you’d send your nephew. You tailor your gifts and your appeals based on the person and on your relationship. It’s exciting!

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Some scholars are beginning to suspect that this is in part a measurement error : More gifts today are not reported in IRS data, studies are not considering other forms of giving, from GoFundMe to the dollar you might tack onto your bill at CVS. But an obvious cause, if not the only one, is that more wealth is concentrated in fewer hands.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 24, 2013

And they can start by giving their nonprofit these five priceless gifts: Permission to talk about real costs. Instead of asking that your annual donation go to your favorite. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Board members need to put their weight behind organization building. Get another!

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Destination: Collaboration When Natasha was at the Mary’s Pence Annual Board Meeting in October 2023, she had an idea after a meeting about donor groups and a brainstorming session about non-monetary donations. Get to know your board members beyond their work at the organization they govern and understand who they are.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

“ UniversalGiving ™ is an award-winning marketplace which allows people to volunteer and donate to top performing projects in more than 70 countries around the world.&#. It’s a marketplace, really, of opportunities to take actions for social benefit in various topics you may be after—want to donate money and leave it at that?

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One thing that phonathons have historically struggled with has been identifying donors who may be eligible for a matching gift from their employer?—and So how do you optimize matching gifts in your phonathons? Train callers on matching gifts. Include matching gifts in call scripts. Implement screening and segmentation.

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Qgiv

JULY 26, 2021

If so, you probably have fond memories of that university. For universities, successful fundraising is dependent upon fostering these fond memories and making a lasting relationship with students. Bonus #2: Matching gifts tools. To make college fundraising more of a success, they start donations before graduation.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Looking to make some extra cash in college, I joined a small but relentless army of student workers calling alumni and asking them to donate to the university. If you’ve graduated from a four-year university in the past century, chances are you’ve received a call like this. So you’d think I’d be compelled to donate, right?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2019

The shop receives community donations that are sold in the thrift shop, creating a regular stream of income for the charity. Nonprofit organizations must create a gift acceptance policy. This policy should include a disclaimer that all gifts will be considered unrestricted unless the donor designates a restriction.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You know better than anyone that planning a university fundraising campaign can feel a bit overwhelming. 360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. Custom Donations. Community Funded.

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