Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tip: Include gift vouchers for local shops and cafes, food hampers, small sets of bath and beauty products. Reach out via email, or on social media, and ask if anyone has specialized skills (such as personal training) or runs a business (such as a bakery) and could donate their goods or services as a prize.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A money-focused thank-you letter might say, “Thanks to your generous gift of $200, we’ll be able to equip two students with all the school supplies they need for their senior year of high school.” The second message thanks the donor for their generosity first and then mentions the gift amount later. Make the most of these receipts!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 12, 2023

It makes it easy and convenient for your donors to manage their recurring donations, download summaries, support your causes, and more The portal is directly connected to your Bloomerang donor management, so you and your donors always have the most up-to-date information.

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Personal Donor Summary PDF 90

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Donor management software enables you to organize your donor information, track gifts, and strengthen your donor engagement. Matching gift software automates the process of your donors using corporate gift matching programs to double their gift’s impact. In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

For the last three years, I’ve devoted virtually every day to the challenge of training professionals and especially volunteer fundraisers to overcome the fear of asking for gifts for their favorite nonprofits. My specialty is addressing the solicitation of major gifts, particularly from individuals. Blunder No. Blunder No.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

However, one volunteers regularly, never misses opening an email and brought other supporters to your organization. Donor engagement is a measure of all of the things that make up a complete donor profile, beyond just gift size and superficial demographic information. Subscribes to emails. Opens emails. Clicks emails.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2021

Mid-year or quarterly Donor Reports are a great way to share the impact of a donor’s gift and to show donors how their gift is making an impact. If done correctly, these reports can also be used to pull in new donors if set up behind an email lead capture to get access to them ( more tips on growing your email list ).

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Social media, digital advertisements, websites, and email have improved nonprofit audience outreach and fundraising. In this guide, we’re going to focus on one of those outlets in particular: email. We know that simply sending an email isn’t enough, especially if you want to see the full value that technology can provide.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Donor Giving Summaries. Consider archiving gifts older than five years to your data warehouse and generating summaries of prior giving via the warehouse. This also can support the computation of more advanced or selective summaries that are easily supported in the NPSP Customizable Rollups tool. Cross Channel Analytics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our new innovation, Recurring Gift Management in Experience Cloud for Nonprofits , enables donors with self-service. Donors are able to easily manage their recurring gifts, freeing up fundraisers to spend more time on donor stewardship and retention (US Only). Recurring giving programs are an effective tool for keeping donors engaged.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Recurring donors getting too many emails? You now have the option to turn off email notifications for a recurring donation series. Remember, best practice is still to make sure your donors get a year-end donation summary for their tax records. Want to read more about writing emailed donation receipts? Check out our blog!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sure, you may get some gifts making appeals based on a donor’s persona, but these gifts might not be made thoughtfully or passionately. If you want to secure your donor’s most passionate or impactful gift, stop making up a story about why they give to you. In summary. You need to ask them why they gave.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This includes automating communications such as email, tracking responses or lack thereof, and discovering which marketing strategies best serve your audience to optimize your efforts accordingly. Fundraising features such as tools to plan and launch campaigns, manage a variety of gift types (e.g., Marketing campaign management.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

Out of all of the constituents in your database, how many of them have given a gift? Note that we’re interested in how many people have given a gift, not how many gifts have been given, so we’re going to choose the Constituent report type (instead of the Transaction type). That’s great! Or even 70%?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

On average, gifts from major donors make up the bulk of a nonprofit’s fundraising revenue each year. Smaller organizations may consider $500 a major gift, while larger nonprofits may start at a $1,000 mark. Donors want to know the impact of their gifts. People give to people – not to email machines.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2012

One note on the Amazon spams -- they include payments for gift certificates in odd amounts, like $5.99, $2.99, $4.99. I'm pretty sure you can't buy a gift certificate for $5.99. (I Who adds punctuation to email subjects? Order Summary: Details: Order #: C32-6356600-4941029. Gift Certificates: $ 5.99. Learn More.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 14, 2021

New ideas coming from a volunteer is without a doubt one of your greatest gifts. An online gift card. A simple thank you award and email. In summary there are a multitude of factors motivating anyone to become your supporter, and a person’s time and expertise is an incredibly valuable resource and not to be squandered.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Hint: Build an email list and aggressively market to this list. At Care2, we encourage all of our clients to have a plan in place for building an email list year-round. Here are some key findings. Online fundraising is all about relationships.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Give donors the choice to make ongoing gifts. When you make your online donation form recurring gift-friendly, be sure to modify gift amounts to reflect that they’re for recurring gifts. Chances are, recurring gifts will be smaller in size, but they make up for that with the frequency with which they’re given.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Though each of your donors and supporters is unique and different, they all follow a similar journey as they get to know your nonprofit’s mission and make each gift. Understanding each stage of that journey will help you identify sticking points and obstacles your donors may encounter! Personalized emails.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He’s a master of what it takes to move folks toward the actions you’d like them to take, and I’m hoping this summary will help you talk with your boss and board and figure out how you can use the tools they want you to use to your advantage. Descriptive analytics: What happened? So, first you need to figure out what data you want to collect.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

This can all apply to your email receipts as well. A pro tip is to hide your progress metrics at first and do a soft launch where you share the campaign with a small pool of loyal supporters whom you feel will likely make gifts. Take advantage of matching gifts. You can even update the browser icon to match your website.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

These steps make up the path organizations usually follow as they’re trying to encourage one-time donors to get more involved with their organization—like volunteering, creating a recurring donation, or increasing their financial support—sometimes up to the point of making a major gift or bequest.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible. Even more important, is it meeting the needs of the email recipients that you hope will 1) open and read the message, 2) consider acting on it, and 3) take the action.

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CauseVox

MAY 7, 2021

When someone purchases a ticket, there are typically two types of email receipts that automatically get sent out: The ticket order receipt, which functions as the entire purchase confirmation. The ticket holder receipt, which is the email to individual, which contains the ticket or information on how to access the ticket.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You don’t need to be Santa to deliver your staff’s favorite gifts this year. Without code, you can identify process criteria and automatically update or create new records, emails, and tasks or submit approval requests in a few simple steps. Automatically send jobs to interested and relevant job seekers via email.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Collecting names, email addresses, and phone numbers, at a minimum, seems simple, but many organizations struggle with implementing an effective strategy. Directing supporters to online donation pages saves time, may actually increase gifts, and allows you to ask for additional information using custom fields. In Summary.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next comes a lead gift committee and a campaign cabinet or steering committee, followed by a range of additional ad-hoc groups assembled to tackle other needs as they arise in the quiet, kickoff, and public phases of the campaign. Sending a summary and/or list of the next steps after the meeting so that attendees have it all down on paper.

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Qgiv

MAY 24, 2023

Now, 48% of Generation Z, 47% of Millennials, and 41% of Generation X have reported making a gift via a smartphone or tablet in 2022. Donors expect a streamlined and efficient process or else they won’t complete their gifts. Matching gift grants motivate more donations across all generations. Conclusion There you have it!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

The role of these projects with all your programs and initiatives is to help you identify and strategize the right individuals and target audience for specific types of gifts , as well as how much to ask for and who to prioritize. They may have the ability to give larger gifts but look unlikely to donate major gifts at this time.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The Value of an Email. What’s an email worth? selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. Calculating the average one year value of an email. Average lifetime value per email. Average lifetime value per email.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Make sure that it’s visually appealing and provides a summary of your nonprofit’s mission. Additionally, it’s a good idea to provide suggestions for donation amounts along with impact labels, so visitors know what their gift does for your nonprofit. Events page. Traffic sources. Bounce rate.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Leverage at-a-glance giving summaries. Pick software that summarizes all-time giving totals, average gift amounts and other key donation data. Donor profiles are compilations of everything you know about individual constituents, giving your team a summary of who your donors are and important personal connections. Giving history.

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Retention Data Donor History 56

Qgiv

MAY 21, 2021

This is a great tactic to use when asking for sponsorships through email! Send your sponsorship appeal email (psst: we have handy templates over here) and include a link to the sponsorships section of your store. Instead, send follow-up emails to your donors who give this way. Thank them sincerely for their gift!

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. A ton more gifts – 93% saw an increase in the number of gifts made.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Email programs are one of the cheapest and most effective ways to reach alumni, but increasingly overflowing inboxes can mean that many emails go unread, or skimmed and deleted. Effective management of major gifts relationships. Digital communication that stands out. Clear and simple online donation forms.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Email programs are one of the cheapest and most effective ways to reach alumni, but increasingly overflowing inboxes can mean that many emails go unread, or skimmed and deleted. Effective management of major gifts relationships. Digital communication that stands out. Clear and simple online donation forms.

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