Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By Nathan Hill , Optimization Evangelist at NextAfter , works every day to share how testing and optimization can lead to fundraising growth that can transform organizations and causes. At the start of 2018, we (the NextAfter team) set out to understand exactly what recurring giving looks like from the donor’s perspective. After selecting 115 nonprofits spanning 9 verticals, we made recurring donations to each one (or at least we tried).

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you’re concerned about your board’s diversity, you’re not alone. In this post, I cover the five steps your organization can follow in order to increase board diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As part of the workshops that I deliver based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , one of my most popular is how to avoid collaborative overload in the nonprofit workplace. Collaborative overload results from too many pointless meetings, a tsunami of emails, and a drumbeat of constant interruptions. These three things not only cause a lot of stress and can lead to burnout, but also end up costing a lot of money in wasted time and lost productivity.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

By focusing a little extra energy on your mid-level donors, you can raise more money and create a quality pipeline for your major gifts officers. Successful mid-level donor programs are all about providing donors with a personal touch while maintaining the analytic discipline that allows you to scale your programming. When you’re managing an understaffed development team, you’re always rearranging your to-do list.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

This post is sponsored by Briteweb. Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and thought it might be time for a change ? Maybe your haircut is getting a little tired, or you haven’t updated your wardrobe in a few years. Your “look” has worked for you, more or less, but you’re afraid you’ve fallen a bit out of fashion. Or, worse, you feel like what you look like on the outside no longer reflects who you really are on the inside. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect and lead author of #GivingTuesday Ideas for 2018 , a new guide designed to equip and empower nonprofit professionals to achieve their #GivingTuesday goals. #GivingTuesday invites donors, along with their family, friends, and colleagues to share about the causes they care about most as they switch their sights from holiday shopping to give back in a social and celebratory way.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Sean Kosofsky, MPA, shares what he learnt throughout his time as an executive director and what he wishes he had known sooner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My Networked Nonprofit co-author Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about the Age of Automation with an eye towards our next book. This past year wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers as well as other articles, including Leveraging the Power of Bots for Civil Society on SSIR Blog and The Robots Have Arrived: How Nonprofits Can Put Them To Work on Guidestar Blog.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Hispanic Heritage Month, officially founded in 1968 , occurs each year from September 15 to October 15, a period which includes the anniversary of independence of eight Latin American countries. During National Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S., we recognize the contributions made by and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States, and celebrate their heritage and culture.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Hurricane Florence finally made landfall over the weekend, ravaging the Atlantic coast with devastating winds and torrential rain. Mandatory evacuation orders were enforced in several coastal cities. And as coverage of people fleeing their homes comes on our televisions and computer screens, those of us not affected by the storm may be feeling helpless and eager.

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Google Analytics has a section called Affinity Categories. Based on the websites that people visit before and after they visit your website, along with other information Google collects, Google Analytics categorizes the kinds of content that interest your website visitors. Here is an example from one of my nonprofit client’s websites. What does the data show?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Currently in beta, YouTube has released a new suite of giving tools for a small number of nonprofits in the U.S., however, in the coming coming weeks the company will roll out the tools to all 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. If your organization would like to get access to the tools as they roll out, make sure you have signed up for the Google for Nonprofits Program.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Looking for fundraising software? Check out this up-to-date guide to see which one best suits your organization.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Overview. Technology has the power to unlock new possibilities for people and for the planet. But not everyone is benefiting equally. Nonprofits on average spend less than 6% of their total operating budget on technology, with a mere 28% of organizations often or regularly using technology volunteers, according to an NTEN study. Pro bono service from the corporate sector can help enable nonprofits with technology, processes and people, giving them what they need to thrive.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. If you're not already an EveryAction user, here's 50 reasons to make the switch today. #1. Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. EveryAction stores over 89 million "Action Profiles" of donors and supporters, which means that a significant number of EveryAction forms come pre-filled.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Making an online ask may seem difficult if you’re not used to digitally interacting with donors, but you’d be surprised by how easy it can be. Check out these five tips for bolstering your online fundraising. 1. Develop your social media strategy. Social media has quickly become the most popular way to engage with your community. Your first step is to determine where to focus your energy.

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Want to improve the results you get from the effort you put into your online presence? Your nonprofit’s best online strategies are the ones informed by your data. Data not just on activity but also on what content is most popular across your website, emails and social media channels. You don’t have to be a data expert to have great data-informed online strategies!

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

By Richard Chiriboga , a web project manager and front-end developer and founder of CorrienteLatina.com. To first understand how GitHub for Good works, let’s take a step back and understand what GitHub actually is. At its simplest form, Github is a place that houses code into groups called repositories and allows one or more people to update and keep version controlled copies of their files.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This guide contains everything you need to know about starting a new chapter of an organization: what a chapter organization is, why you might want to start a new chapter, rather than a new nonprofit, a few organizations you can work with, and more.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Everyone wants new donors, right? So how do you get them? Bottom line: gifts are the result of effective engagement. The fantasy of finding rich strangers we can lure into giving generously to our cause is seductive and tempting. In reality, paying to interrupt complete strangers with an uninvited ask and thinking they’ll go from stranger to a donor can amount to magical thinking.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Getting development teams and their nonprofit boards to work in alignment can be challenging. Tensions often arise when both sides start to feel that they aren’t getting the support they need. Fundraisers often lament that board members are shirking their commitment to helping fundraise. Board members feel like they’re being asked to make uncomfortable “asks” of their social networks, without the support they need to do it well.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Richmond, VA · September 24, 2018. Gyrus Systems , a leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) vendor, announced today it has been selected as a 2018 Top 20 Learning Portal Company by Training Industry.com. “The 2018 Top 20 Learning Portal/LMS companies are the leaders in the learning technologies market,” said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc.

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Every year we face natural disasters from fires to hurricanes to earthquakes to tornadoes and flooding. We never know when disaster may strike. Technology can help a nonprofit recover faster when it is thoughtfully used. A nonprofit without a disaster recovery plan may suffer permanent data losses and can struggle for weeks to reconstruct the systems, data, and networks that keep an organization running smoothly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is based on the survey results of 6,057 donors worldwide and available for download in four languages – English , español , français , and português. Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and produced by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online technology effects giving.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You could be maximizing your time by using the Wild Apricot for Admins App to manage your events and contacts on mobile. Here's how to use it.

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