Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By Simon Yost , Founder of Glued Network — an AI fundraising leader who uses software to automatically identify your top donors and AI to find similar new ones. In the evolving fundraising landscape, nonprofits have more tools than ever to engage donors, grow their base, and achieve their missions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2025

Launching a peer-to-peer campaign begins with recruiting some of your most fervent supporters to organize personal campaigns on your organizations behalf. To plan an in-person event, list whats required, such as a venue, entertainment, and food. Whats your plan for thanking fundraisers and donors?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A recent Abila study shows donors feel 71% more engaged with nonprofits when they receive personalized communications from the nonprofits they support. This is one of the key reasons that more than 60% of nonprofits already use personalization in their email marketing. Yes, personalization requires data. A one and done.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When candidates are actively raising money, it’s easy to question whether that pulls money away from other causes that donors typically support. You don’t have to compete with political campaigns for donors’ attention because GivingTuesday offers a major opportunity for nonprofits to capture their support.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Gaining new donors and maintaining those relationships long term is essential to the success of your nonprofit and its projects. It’s important to recognize that the next generation of donors has arrived with their own set of expectations, values, and perspectives. Millennials and Gen Z are both nuanced demographics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

A digital community consists of active supporters such as staff, volunteers, partners, donors, and advocates connected through various social media platforms. Advocates may not always be able to give in-person time or money, but they help spread awareness and strengthen the cause through their online engagements. Welcome new followers.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

Now is the time to make sure that your organization has donor retention strategies in place to bring those year-end supporters with you into 2025. You might be asking why you need to put a ton of time and energy into bringing your donors back for a second donation. Youre saving money by improving your donor retention.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These donors, who contribute without prior planning, can be the unsung heroes of your end-of-year fundraising. According to a recent report from the Blackbaud Institute , 72% of spontaneous gifts went to organizations with whom the donors were already familiar. This is even more important as you seek to expand your donor rolls.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 22, 2023

Personalization results in emails that are 26% more likely to be opened and donors that feel 71% more engaged. The opportunity to personalize a donor’s experience across your nonprofit’s entire digital ecosystem is huge. Here are some low-cost, risk-averse ways to help your organization ease into personalization.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Thanking creates loyalty Did you know that 53% of donors stop giving because they feel unappreciated, and 41% cite lack of acknowledgment or thanks as their reason? Conversely, loyal donors give 42% more over their lifetime and are 70% more likely to leave a planned gift.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

It takes more than thank-you letters to retain donors for your nonprofit long-term. To effectively steward donor relationships and inspire higher levels of giving, you must strategically engage donors in various ways that deepen their connections to your nonprofit. The answer is a donor stewardship matrix.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 31, 2023

Donors at all levels should have as personal an experience as possible with the organizations they support. If donors do not feel positive about their giving experience, how can they have confidence that your programs are run with effectiveness?

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Donors are an important part of any nonprofit’s mission. Yet, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , donor retention rates have been falling since 2020. Rethinking donor relationships When I started Imani Collective, it was a small nonprofit training program in Mombasa, Kenya.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

Nothing should be more personal and passionate than thanking donors. Here are 10 lessons that are essential to retaining and upgrading donors.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Data from recent elections shows rage donors take their candidate’s loss in a presidential bid as inspiration to donate more to causes associated with the candidate’s party, while the winning team’s incoming gifts drop off. Regardless of whether they donated before the election or in response to it, don’t treat rage donors as one-and-done.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 28, 2025

Connecting with your donors on a personal level can help strengthen your fundraising efforts. Here's how segmentation plays a role.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The following is an excerpt from our class How to Find New Major Donors and Get Them to Give to Your Non-Profit. Who qualifies as a major donor prospect for your organization? As you are looking for donors to make contact with and insert into your fundraising funnel, you don’t want to waste time. Good major donor prospects…. #1

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 31, 2025

What is a donor journey? Put simply, its the way the relationship between a donor and a nonprofit shifts and evolves over time. Join Cherian Koshy, CFRE, and Kelly Ramage, DonorPerfect Learning and Development Manager, for two free webinars that will help you map out personalized and scalable donor journeys.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 8, 2025

What is a donor journey? Put simply, its the way the relationship between a donor and a nonprofit shifts and evolves over time. Join Cherian Koshy, CFRE, and Kelly Ramage, DonorPerfect Learning and Development Manager, for two free webinars that will help you map out personalized and scalable donor journeys.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Reactive donors respond based on emotion, giving less than donors who give regularly, and historically have been fleeting supporters. For nearly all nonprofits, converting one-time donors into long-term partners is a struggle. With memorable messaging, you can inspire new donors and cultivate long-term engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

When you think of why your nonprofit’s donors support your organizations, do you expect each of their motivations to be the same? This person fears offending donors by asking at the “wrong” time. What has Research Shown About Why Donors Give? In summary, the researchers found that donors give for different reasons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

29% of online donors say that social media is the communication tool that most inspires them to give [email 27%, website, 18%, print, 12%, TV ad 6%] (According to the Global Trends in Giving Report ). One question that I see nonprofits constantly asking, and with good reason: “Can social media really bring in new donors for our nonprofit?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Imagine a potential donor who happens to pass by a poster for your organization’s annual festival. They can help you raise money, gather volunteers, inspire your donors, better understand your supporters, and connect with people who may not have heard of your organization. How do you turn good intentions into action?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

According to the Fidelity Charitable Overcoming Barriers to Giving Report, 65% of donors would give more if they knew the impact of their donations. It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. 2) Give social media shoutouts.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Register Now and join us on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, for, "Innovate to Elevate: Breakthroughs in Donor Acquisition with Matching Gifts, Personalized Touchpoints, and Advanced Fundraising Strategies." Discover how matching gifts can be a key tool for acquiring new donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In other words, you create donor journeys. . If you’ve never done so, developing donor journeys (also known as donor journey mapping) can feel like quite an undertaking. What are my donor personas? Below, I’ll break down the basics and share my four top donor personas that will help get you started. .

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 27, 2025

Donor livers are hard to come by, however. It could temporarily keep patients alive until a human donor organ becomes available or the patients own liver recovers. In 2021, a team performed the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead person. Our liver has admirable regenerative properties.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Register Now and join us on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, for, "Innovate to Elevate: Breakthroughs in Donor Acquisition with Matching Gifts, Personalized Touchpoints, and Advanced Fundraising Strategies." Discover how matching gifts can be a key tool for acquiring new donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Donor retention is important. All that is true, but the fact remains that donor retention is a struggle. Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication. But how can a single fundraiser communicate effectively with an entire donor base?

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

Free eBook to Social Donor Habits by Generation Understand and Strategize to Reach Each Generation

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 22, 2023

Birthdays are very powerful opportunities to recognize your recurring donors, yet not that many nonprofits do this. Here are some ways you can take advantage of this opportunity and make your donors feel extra special.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Many nonprofits struggle with low donor retention rates, yet the reasons supporters lapse arent always obvious. While financial constraints are often blamed, our research found that many donors stop giving for reasons nonprofits can fix. Why donors quietly disengage 1. Frame impact updates around the donors role.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

If youre like most nonprofits, attracting new donors is a costly endeavor. Many nonprofits prioritize donor acquisition over stewardship, treating stewardship strategies as a frivolous or just a nice to have endeavor. The image below is a stellar example of how to properly thank, nurture, and thenafter 90 dayssolicit a new donor.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

In an environment of fast-moving change where minute-by-minute updates can evoke strong emotional responses, every person who plays a role in fundraising from the marketing team to gift officers can play a role in keeping your supporters engaged. Bring stakeholders along with you as your organization navigates changes.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Here are practices that can help you connect with these donors. It’s common for people, including your supporters, to take digital detoxes.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Creative design and personalized messaging can help donors visualize their impact, see themselves as part of your community, and feel inspired to make their next gift. It’s not too late to engage donors in 2023 with a custom-designed, creative holiday stewardship campaign, calendar year end or winter appeal.

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