.orgSource

MARCH 2, 2021

What does a technology investment have in common with a woolly mammoth? You guessed it: They are both a big, hairy deal. Whether you’re looking for a small, mid-sized, or major system, a lot is riding on that purchase. The stakes are more about success than money. The goal of any technology platform is to […]. The post How To Eat an Elephant—Byte-Size Advice for Making Your Next Big Technology Purchase appeared first on.orgSource.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. At the core of the project is the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey. If you work at a charitable organization and have not yet taken the survey, then please do!

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Association TV

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’ve already decided to move your association from analog to digital, you need to start thinking about how you will implement those changes in your organization. Digital transformation is all about collaboration, and it’s important to make sure your association uses a holistic approach to digital solutions.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 16, 2021

Cloudflare is a service that provides a Content Delivery Network (CDN), a performance layer, and a firewall for your website. Aside from the services mentioned, Cloudflare also offers many more. At Byte Technology, we can help you create online tactics that encourages engagement —allowing you the ability to build solid relationships with the people that are very important to your business.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 4, 2021

I read the email from ASAE (the American Society of Association Executives) yesterday afternoon about the ASAE Annual Meeting. Citing concerns for the health and safety of all members, ASAE Annual, which was supposed to be in person in Dallas, will once again be virtual, coupled with smaller, regional hub gatherings. Ugh. After a year of no in person meetings, I was so looking forward to this conference.

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.orgSource

MARCH 31, 2021

The conference ROI slowly rose like a gator lifting its head from the swamp of negative numbers. But membership dues, product sales, and web analytics are sinking deeper into quicksand. Even facing a dismal scenario like this, the decision to call for outside expertise can be difficult. I understand why leaders hesitate to hire a […]. The post Don’t Wait Until You’re Swamped in Negative Numbers to Call a Consultant appeared first on.orgSource.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

By Laura Bucher , Storyteller at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. SEO (search engine optimization) refers to the process that makes it easier to help users find your website with a quick internet search. The better your SEO, the higher your website will appear in, say, Google’s search results, which means more visibility and more traffic to your website.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 15, 2021

This is a guest post from Candace Cody, Manager of Content + Education at CauseVox. Your nonprofit’s board is one of the most powerful fundraising assets you have. But often our board members go untapped: either because you don’t think.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 19, 2021

For associations, attracting, engaging, and retaining members is a continuous effort. Add to that members’ preferences for convenient digital communications and virtual networking, plus your need to engage with members virtually at a time when you can’t rely on face-to-face activities. It’s a challenge. Offering an online member community is a great solution.

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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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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 25, 2021

“How do we add fun to our virtual meeting? How do I get people chatting during our sessions? How do we get attendees interacting with each other? These are just some of the questions we get when we meet with BeSpeake clients each week to plan their virtual meetings. While there’s no magic formula, here are some ideas that have worked well recently: Jeopardy!

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes How to Get Millennials to Support Your Cause. Now is the time to ask: how can your nonprofit engage the millennial generation? Born between 1981 and 1996 , millennials are out of college and entering the workforce. Numbering roughly 80 million, they’re part of the largest generation in U.S. history. Although they might not be your biggest donors right away, they are poised to shape philanthropy for decades to come.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

People make judgments about others in a matter of seconds. When we meet new people, we tend to instantly place them into categories based on what we hear and see in those first seconds. While these assumptions usually aren’t accurate, they allow someone whose time is extremely valuable—such the president of a company or a wealthy philanthropist—to make quick decisions about what deserves their limited time and attention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

By Lindsay Johnson, Marketing Team Member at MobileCause , an industry leader in virtual fundraising events and online giving, plus fundraising solutions such as peer-to-peer, text-to-donate and mobile messaging. We can all agree, 2020 was a doozy of a year, bringing indelible changes to the landscape of fundraising. Yet, nonprofit organizations are resilient and have always risen to the occasion of helping those in need during difficult times.

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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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Wild Apricot

MARCH 3, 2021

This is a guest post by Ephraim Gopin, the founder of 1832 Communications. “The thank you is the single most important piece of communication that your donors get. They have a higher recall of it than the appeal that generated the gift.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors. For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. Clubs offered, for many, the only safe places in their communities.

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DonorPerfect

MARCH 25, 2021

This post was contributed by Givecloud. Are you planning a virtual charity event, like an online gala, generosity party, or concert? Turn these fundraising events into high-impact opportunities. Engage and excite your supporters like never before through virtual events. Imagine an all-in-one fundraising page where donors can watch, give, engage, celebrate, connect, and share.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 12, 2021

Lapsed members. Every association deals with the issue , but failure to renew doesn’t have to be the end of the story. There’s always an opportunity to re-engage lapsed members. Here’s how. How to re-engage lapsed association members. First, understand lapsed members. According to recent Community Brands research , most Members who fail to renew do so because of cost or a change in their lives, such as switching jobs, balancing family and professional priorities during the pandemic, or ret

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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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Greater Giving

MARCH 18, 2021

You have just 2 minutes with a prospective donor. It’s time to #NailYourPitch. One of the most common situations you’ll find yourself in working in the nonprofit field: Having a casual conversation with someone—someone who might even be a prospective sponsor or major donor!—and getting the question, “So what does your organization do?”. This is the perfect segue to a meaningful, productive dialogue about your nonprofit’s mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2021

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Presented by: Chuck Spidell , WordPress Security Expert at ILLUSIO. Cost: Free. If you’re part of a small nonprofit comms team, your WordPress website updates probably aren’t high on the priority list – but they should be. It’s hard to stay on top of the site maintenance but in the back of your mind, you know it needs to be done.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 19, 2021

Do you remember the first conference you attended? What about your first association networking event? Did you feel welcomed, or more like a wallflower waiting for a dance invitation? As a junior association staffer, I was excited to fly halfway across.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

By: Brandon Kaopuiki, Adviser, IJM Hub Against Online Sexual Exploitation of Children. In 2020, 65.4 million images, videos, and other files related to child sexual exploitation were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). . Most of the illegal content reported to NCMEC’s CyberTipline was found by technology designed to detect previously identified child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM) in the form of photos and videos.

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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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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are reaching an all-time high in public interest and dollars spent. New records for sales of the digital good seem to be reached each week with an upcoming sale of NFT artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ compilation went for $69 million in March, 2021 (source: The Verge ). Source: Beeple’s collage, Everydays: The First 5000 Days , sold at Christie’s.

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DonorPerfect

MARCH 8, 2021

This article is submitted by Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE. For the last decade, I’ve written, spoken, taught, and even preached about the benefits of in-person solicitation for raising major gifts. The success I’m seeing with virtual solicitations taking place these days has made me reconsider some of my own assumptions and question what the future of Read More ».

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Greater Giving

MARCH 4, 2021

As difficult as last year was for nonprofit event planners, they were able to gain a wealth of information and experience from the sudden and dramatic shift from in-person to virtual galas. They reinvented their yearly strategies, learned new technologies, and reached out to their donor community in new ways. In the end, they found that their instincts and action made sense in this new world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2021

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use a nd republish as they wish. The Open Data Project seeks to gain a better understanding of how NGOs, NPOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. Based on the survey responses from the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey , the 2021 Open Data Project provides benchmarks for how NGOs use website and email communications, online fundraising tools, social media, and productivity an

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