Bloomerang

DECEMBER 7, 2021

My point of entry into the nonprofit sector started as a volunteer. There’s a certain freedom about being a volunteer, and it taught me valuable career defining lessons. Especially when a few short years later, it was my day job to manage volunteers at a different charity which cared for the terminally ill.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While the total funding for nonprofits continues to rise, data shows that fewer Americans are engaging in giving and volunteering. To address this pressing issue, The Generosity Commission recently released its capstone report, “Everyday Actions, Extraordinary Potential: The Power of Giving and Volunteering.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 16, 2024

Brand Fix #2: Show Supporters “What’s In It For Them” Nonprofits often assume that their cause’s intrinsic value is enough to attract donors and volunteers. They highlight the personal impact of donations and volunteer efforts, sharing stories of families whose lives have been transformed by receiving a new home.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Now the platform, which is owned by Meta , is rolling out a program that allows educators to directly report safety issues like bullying directly to Instagram. Per Meta's policy, official school accounts should be run by school officials, not by a parent-teacher organization volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2021

2) Seek out volunteers. Ask previous fundraising campaign volunteers if they can lend their creative talents and help out with the technology powering your event. Tell them about the ways they can assist your team and provide a link to your volunteer signup. For example: Hey Lend-a-Paw Volunteer!

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

One simple method to ensure you avoid common DEI mistakes at your association is to create a volunteer group for DEI initiatives. Empowering your volunteers to take the lead will provide an authentic connection to the DEI initiatives, ensuring all are focused and sustainable. Create your DEI initiatives volunteer group.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If your organization was the recipient of rage gifts in the months leading up to the election, you might notice a change in giving levels in the aftermath, depending on your mission and how closely it’s associated with the winning or losing candidates or issues. Outrage can be an opportunity to nurture advocates, members, and volunteers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 23, 2025

Supporting Volunteer Recruitment: Nonprofits can run campaigns to attract new volunteers for events, programs, or ongoing support roles. Educating the Public: Campaigns can raise awareness around key issues, helping nonprofits fulfill their missions by informing and engaging communities.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By Paul Clolery Making a donation to charity or volunteering time would seem to be relatively simple acts. The Commission today released its three years in the making report “Everyday Actions, Extraordinary Potential: The Power of Giving and Volunteering.” The report is targeted at a wide swath of America. “

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

If so, you may be interested in starting a volunteer program. Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. Define your volunteer roles.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Every interaction your volunteer has with your organization matters. From the moment they land on your website to sign up for an opportunity to when they check out of their shift, your volunteer’s experience can directly impact your organization’s ability to meet its goals. What is volunteer engagement?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 19, 2023

Bloomerang recently acquired InitLive to make it easy for you to create a volunteer experience that inspires and maximizes the impact of your programs. This is a new series from Bloomerang called Why I Volunteered. The Volunteer: She is a woman in her thirties who completed her local CASA’s 36-hour volunteer training program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

Your organization’s brand story holds immense power, especially for nonprofits striving to engage donors, volunteers, and partners. By sharing real stories of the real people or communities you serve, you can appeal to the hearts of potential donors, volunteers, and partners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2024

Most nonprofits would love to have more young people join their cause as volunteers or donors. While that’s true—it’s hard to fully understand a younger generation’s perspective if you’re not part of it—the underlying issue may be looking at the puzzle as something unknowable. Gen Z has immense potential to make a difference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Most nonprofit board members volunteer because they want to support a worthy cause. While a board’s priority is always governance, its members may also be the organization’s best spokespeople, fundraisers, volunteers, and technical experts. Each of these roles has one thing in common – documents. 5) Display Tech Savvy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 26, 2017

As future volunteers and donors, more than any generation previous they will want proof that their time and money is well spent. Also, coming of age during political dysfunction, the rise of global terrorism, climate change, and increasing school violence/shootings, Gen Z is getting exposed to big issues at an early age.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

Great volunteers can be a huge asset to your nonprofit, donating hundreds or thousands of hours of work each year to your cause. When your nonprofit is new, young, or small, finding volunteers and plugging them in to a role they enjoy can be tricky. After all, it takes work to find new volunteers and you want them to stick around.

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Candid

DECEMBER 3, 2024

They’re often giving by donating items, volunteering their time, and supporting fundraising (e.g., Offer NextGen donors volunteering opportunities as a gateway to donations Gen Z and Millennials’ charitable giving extends beyond financial donations, with 54% of survey respondents volunteering their time in the past year.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I often catch myself wondering what my organization's donors or volunteers might be confused by and what ideas they would bring to the table if they were in charge for a day. Here are some ways you can think about changing your organization's processes to improve donor experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

6) Share commentary and CTAs about current issues in the news. If an issue relevant to your mission and programs (local, national, or international) is in the news, write up a summary of the issue, add your commentary with a call-to-action (CTA), and then share your post to your online communities and in your e-newsletter. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Be My Eyes, which lets blind and low vision folks ask sighted people to describe what their phone sees, is getting a “virtual volunteer” that offers AI-powered help at any time. “We hope to make the Virtual Volunteer broadly available in the coming months,” the team writes. You can watch the video below.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Put yourself in the mindset of a potential donor or volunteer and think of how they would search online for a nonprofit with a mission like yours. For example: “Habitat for Humanity volunteers building an a-frame in Mobile, Alabama” or “Infographic describing 2019 Habitat for Humanity of Alabama’s budget expenditures.”.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Encourage donor connections and engagement Did you know that three out of four volunteers donate to the organization they volunteer at ? Ask reactive donors to join your advocacy network, share across their network, or volunteer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

For many nonprofits, though, the large event was a significant expense, and the planning and execution was a massive burden for staff and volunteers. . If your organization is well established and well-staffed, with a committee of volunteers who are willing to help plan and run a large gala, it may well be that this is the year to do it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

Chamber of Commerce ,“Social entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals, startups and entrepreneurs develop and fund solutions that directly address social issues. Sponsored groups can always file for a 501(c)(3) status after you’ve proven your concept can gain support from donors and volunteers. According to the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2023

million nonprofits in the United States and has issued ratings for nearly 200,000 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organizations. To begin, sign up to claim and set up your nonprofit’s profile and then invite your supporters, donors, and volunteers to write a review.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It demands an unstinting commitment to get donor prospects to know, like, and trust our nonprofits, especially the professionals and volunteers who lead them. The issue of money is set aside entirely. Nothing is as personal as fundraising. million nonprofits. Take the example of writing thank-you letters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A public service announcement (PSA) is a way to communicate to the public about an important topic or issue that affects most of, if not all of the general public. A PSA is communicated via radio, television, online, and via other media formats without charge so that the public is aware of the issue/topic and can take action. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

Turning one-time givers into recurring donors remains one of the largest issues for nonprofits. Facebook may take this even further with their latest efforts to create a $50-million matching fund to address issues like disaster relief. From here, they can set up donor-advised funds to rival organizations like Volunteer Match.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

By Ryan Polk , a Policy Advisor at the Internet Society , where he is primarily focused on issues related to Internet trust. Make data security a priority for everyone in your nonprofit, from staff to volunteers. According to NTEN’s State of Cybersecurity Report, only one third of nonprofit respondents use a secure password manager.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Philanthropy invests billions of dollars annually to address pressing social issues. Training staff and volunteers, developing policies, and establishing incident reporting systems all require significant investment, which is often not prioritized in funding allocations.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Or, did a brave soul volunteer to work on data governance only to find themselves restricted by those in higher positions? If you answered yes to any of these scenarios, your association likely has an issue with data governance. There are all sorts of issues that can arise from lack of integration and siloed data.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Less than stellar board performance might not have been an issue. Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. Don’t muddle trivialities, like how to fill out a reimbursement form, with significant issues like these. Requirements for meeting attendance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. Lead in annual volunteer hours served.++ They value transparency and are more inclined to research organizations before donating.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

This Nonprofit Pro study found that “just over 74 percent of participants said that peer-to-peer fundraising software has made keeping track of information on participants, volunteers and fundraisers easier.”. Golf fundraisers are a great way to raise money, especially when you add p2p into the mix.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year. To share your mission with a wide audience. To generate new donations, retain donors and grow partnerships.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For example, cultural relevancea nonprofits ability to align with timely social issues and reflect the values of its audienceplayed a much bigger role in motivating younger people to give. Your colleagues and volunteers are also great resources, as they will be most likely to advocate for your cause within their own networks.

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