Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. citizens to register to vote, vote by mail, and receive election reminders via text message. Wufoo :: wufoo.com. nonprofitorgs.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 14, 2025

Whether youre a small nonprofit or a large organization with a national or even global reach, SMS messaging can elevate your fundraising strategy, help build deeper donor relationships , and increase the ROI of your online and offline campaigns. Send your supporters updates on ongoing projects and campaigns (including direct mail).

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Fundraising Tips Donor Broadcast 52

Candid

JULY 16, 2024

Explore a diverse mix of online and offline channels to reach potential donors. Consider online events, connected TV (CTV), synchronized mail, and digital, as well as influencer collaborations to cut through the noise and connect on a more personal level. Embrace data-driven decisions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising. Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Direct mail donors give more if they are hearing from you via email and social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Giving USA Foundation , which estimates national charitable giving over a 50-year span, reports that campaign fundraising has historically had no apparent impact on overall individual giving. These nonprofits are primarily focused on direct mail and online giving. Are people giving less because of the economy? billion in revenue.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to. It didn’t come from your email database or your direct mail piece; it came from personal relationships – people motivated by a cause and those personal relationships. It’s a nice complement to, and maybe a full-on replacement, for those direct mail and email campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Audio books for the National Association of Blind : This project started off because of another blog post (on the Helen Keller Talking Library project) that got automatically updated to our Twitter account. So, our Twitter friend went offline and recorded a book in their Delhi studio! Channels used: Blog, Twitter.

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Care2

AUGUST 23, 2011

She has led internet strategies for many organizations, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The Nation, Ocean Conservancy, Amnesty International USA, Earthjustice, Human Rights Campaign, the Humane Society of the United States, ACORN, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and CARE.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

The seventh annual donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit brought together, via webinar, 31 of the nation’s largest national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that multichannel fundraising, i.e. enabling your donors to give via postal mail, your website, telemarketing, social media, etc. This report analyzes data from some of the biggest national nonprofits in the U.S. is the answer to all of your fundraising woes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The discussion featured guest speakers Jen Burton , community director at Causes ; Tom Dawkins , co-founder of StartSomeGood ; and Miles Orkin , national director for mobile and web at the American Cancer Society. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline. Data drives ACS' fundraising tactics and success.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

If they give online, and again, obviously, a lot of direct mail is going to get people online, but it’s still about 12% of donors that are going online, so a lot of money still comes in offline. They can do it on their, you know, desktop, on their phone, mail, tablet, wherever you are. It was all mail and phone.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Research into both the "Wired Wealthy" and other consumers shows they visit organizations' websites before donating regardless of whether the gift is given online or offline. In 2009, Convio's clients alone used the online channel to raise more than $921 million (up from $777M in '08), send more than 3.8

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2017

Direct mail and other traditional fundraising channels are. For a children’s charity, HMA found that 73% of online donations were received from donors who already existed in the direct mail program. Direct mail donors are old and certainly not keen to give online. Yes, you should be sending regular e-mails.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2011

While donors may be inspired to give because of a direct mail piece or phone conversation, more and more want to be able to take the final step in making a gift via the web. Historically, it was fairly easy to track donations via a single channel like direct mail. Do you do a lot of mailings?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

For all organizations who may have just dropped their direct mail campaigns (and many of your likely have Thanksgiving campaigns that recently went out the door): expect diminished/delayed results. Mail will likely be delayed on the east coast for days, if not weeks. The impact is not only going to be offline.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results. In 2009 Volunteers of America looked to get more out of their online fundraising program by tapping into the power of integrated online and offline fundraising. How’d they do it?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Changing Media What really got my attention, was that during February, the same campaign that spent over $6 million on digital and direct mail, spent only a few hundred thousand dollars on TV advertising, typically a lofty line item for political campaigns, especially national campaigns.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 14, 2025

Whether youre a small nonprofit or a large organization with a national or even global reach, SMS messaging can elevate your fundraising strategy, help build deeper donor relationships , and increase the ROI of your online and offline campaigns. Send your supporters updates on ongoing projects and campaigns (including direct mail).

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Tips Donor Broadcast 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Fun Resource Nonprofit Social Media 101

Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

According to the latest Target Analytics Index of National Fundraising Performance , the number of new donors dropped by almost 13%, as compared to 2008. The study analyzed 79 nonprofit organizations and their fundraising campaigns via direct mail, online fundraising, telemarketing and canvassing. Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

All of this is tied to a direct mail appeal, that can go out as early as mid-November or the beginning of December. Finally, we also configure the option for recipients to opt-out of receiving campaign emails all together, which is why a December e-news is important. When is the best time to send a direct mail newsletter?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2008

Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation. I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists.

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Care2

MAY 9, 2008

Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation. I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists.

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Advocacy Social Media Online email 28

Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. In the end, it will take a blending of each to establish energy (fundraising) equilibrium, and the recipe could be quite different from one nation (organization) to the next. Starting to sound pretty familiar?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

The Future Of Social Networks When : Saturday, March 14th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room A Description: Social networks will be like air, in that they will permeate everything that we do online AND offline. Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In order to do this, we knew that we had to increase civic engagement both on and offline, so we recruited local street artists to help. Our mailing list of 800+ subscribers had a 36% Average Open Rate (compared to 20% Industry Average.). Involve Artists from the Very Beginning.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

If you’re not going to use the data but there’s potentially some value in it, archive it and move it to an offline storage system. Most of our mailings are targeted to “recent” constituents: those who have visited in the past three years or specifically asked to be contacted. Keep it in the attic.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

I have to get offline,” you have to wonder, “do they really have something to do?” Your vision statement is what you want to eradicate, how you see the future for your clients, and your region, or, if you’re a national nonprofit, that’s your vision statement. So tips for introverts. ” Perfect.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Just When You Thought Direct Mail Was Dead Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 10th, 2010 It’s baaack! You thought direct mail was dead but it has returned. 53% said they still respond to mail by using the mail.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. Key Findings: The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online continues to be a significant source of giving and new donors. This is in line with the 2010 Online Giving Report.

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