Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Getting more girls to attend secondary school should be a priority for societies around the world, he explained, yet participation rates are extremely low, especially for the economically marginalized. As a grant-seeker, I am always excited to see a group of donors gathering together around a common objective—and a common application!

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

Never fear, this lesson will walk you through setting up (or retooling) your own monthly giving program. In this lesson, we’ll cover: Setting a goal for recurring giving. It also makes it difficult for your donors to understand how they fit into the big picture. But how do you do it, exactly? Let’s do this! What’s the hook?

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

Never fear, this lesson will walk you through setting up (or retooling) your own monthly giving program. In this lesson, we’ll cover: Setting a goal for recurring giving. It also makes it difficult for your donors to understand how they fit into the big picture. But how do you do it, exactly? Let’s do this! What’s the hook?

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Program Giving Gift Goal 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2018

Do you know why your donors give? Unless you ask your donors directly, your gut instincts are merely opinions. A well-crafted donor survey delivered in a savvy way can provide the facts you need to make smarter fundraising and marketing decisions going forward. You know all those small and mid-level donors on your list?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

She was more than happy to share what her and her team learned about the planning and execution of a large virtual conference, and how you can apply these lessons to your nonprofit’s next event. Test any slides your remote speakers plan to present, as sometimes the computer or browser will require updates to security permissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. One donor was a friend of a friend.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

Nonprofit software helps organizations manage their day-to-day functions like administration, fundraising, donor relations, accounting, marketing, and more. It also keeps you organized by reducing data redundancy, tracking donor activity, and providing automatic reports. Salesforce.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

My favorite lesson from the report is “to use pictures effectively, be diligent about taking them… and storing them.” The next major lesson I took from the Resource Media report is about stock pictures. Take the opportunity to actually SHOW readers (and potential donors and activists!) Pictures: take them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Online fundraising platforms are making it easier than ever for donors to contribute when and how they want to, and they eliminate some of the costs of direct mail solicitations and in-person events. The lesson? In other words: they assume they have persuaded a potential donor, and they abandon their messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are appealing to individual donors both large and small and institutional donors such as companies and foundations. The awareness objective is to make prospective donors and world leaders aware of the plight and needs of children. We even have a T-shirt coming out later this month.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The first step to improving registration rates is understanding the roadblocks. Yet “road tests” of the user experience for events not using a mobile responsive registration form, showed that it was impossible to select a Registration Type for an event – a key first step in the registration process. Next Steps.

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See3

DECEMBER 8, 2008

M+R Strategic Services has done some important research with their client testing language about the economy. One M+R client recently tested two versions of a special appeal: One simply stated the need for funds for many reasons, but did not make mention of global financial crisis. The lesson learned?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

You’ve no doubt labored over the perfect end-of-year plan that falls in line with the continuing trend of covering all of your multi-touch, multichannel donor experiences. As always, the best way to ensure correct tracking is to test it. For emails, I recommend variant sends for each segment.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. Step 2: Suppress donors who had already given to year-end fundraising emails from the 12k mobile subscriber list.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Donor Data is a Top Priority When conducting any sort of fundraising campaign, you need to make sure you are working with data about your donors.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Boosted direct mail response rates by 117.1% (from 4.94% to 10.72%). Lessons Learned. So what are the lessons here? Rule #2 : Know your donors. I’d guess that average age of TPL donors is 55+, so they respond well to both email and direct mail. Reduced direct mail quantities by 24.5%

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

Converting Subscribers to Donors Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 09:00AM | by Karen Taggart [originally published DMAW AdVents , June 2007] It is no secret in direct mail (DM) that recency is key to successful fundraising. We all send appeals to donors who have just given and would never even consider prospecting to rented lists full of old names.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

Converting Subscribers to Donors Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 09:00AM | by Karen Taggart [originally published DMAW AdVents , June 2007] It is no secret in direct mail (DM) that recency is key to successful fundraising. We all send appeals to donors who have just given and would never even consider prospecting to rented lists full of old names.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at SylogistMission – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform built for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. Some leaders might want to give it some time and ensure that any new tools are properly vetted and tested.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Here are a some of lessons from day 1, thanks to some of #bbcon ‘s biggest fans: Embrace the Change. Donor’s customer service expectations. The rise of Donor Advised Funds. Donor Advised Funds is a great example of this dilemma. Donor Advised Funds is a great example of this dilemma. Mobile phones.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars we are first and foremost a provider of donor management software. And what they’re doing in that is they’re building donor confidence because if they plan it well, they execute it well. . I can completely understand how that would increase donor confidence.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Strong concepts stand the test of time, and SMART goal-setting is one of them! What was the click-through rate? Be objective when setting your goal and take your current donor base/audience into consideration. Is it realistic for you to shoot for a 20% increase this year? Second, make your goal SMART. What is a SMART goal?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

As nonprofits and donors alike make a mad dash towards the December 31 finish line, your nonprofit’s giving season campaign can stand apart by implementing these ten tips and strategies. The giving season is the period during the end of the year when donors are most likely to give. And don’t forget to segment your donor lists !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) We tested it a lot. Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned, and the things we’d have done differently. How it worked.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

How content marketing influences donor behavior. How to Increase Email Open Rates! ”. Who cares if your email open rate jumps 15% if you don’t have an integrated marketing plan to support the lead nurturing process? Call me crass, but this was a lesson learned the hard way. How to set up Google Search Console.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But, if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider, primarily a provider, of donor-management software. You could say, “We want to reach,” you know, “major donors and get them to make a gift of $5,000 or more.” We’re getting close to 1,000 sessions actually.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

After years of fundraising in the “trenches,” as well as coaching and training thousands of organizations to raise money from individual donors, Lori L. Lori has found that one thing creates a successful individual donor fundraising program. Why donors will pay more attention to nonprofits with great landing pages.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). More and more donors are giving online, especially towards the end of year.

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