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5 Online Strategies to Encourage Recurring Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With MobileCause, donors receive expired credit card notifications via SMS (text) and/or email – on the date the credit card expires and 30 days prior – that link to a webpage where donors can update their new payment information. Launched in 2008, MobileCause pioneered the use of text-to-donate in the nonprofit sector.

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Ask if they’re capturing and maintaining data in places such as spreadsheets or email inboxes to make sure you migrate all necessary information into your new software system. About the author Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. Do a data clean-up.

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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That has reduced the opt outs because we’re often just providing information.”. Launched in 2008, Give by Cell pioneered the use of mobile fundraising and text messaging services to increase donor engagement. We don’t always use text messaging to ask for money. So Is Text Messaging the New Email?

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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Using the Wayback Machine – a website that allows you to view archived screenshots of your website all the way back to 1996, below is an exploration of how the World Wildlife Fund’s website and online fundraising campaigns have evolved since 2008. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

The way you set up your dashboards and reports will depend on multiple factors, including your data analysis goals and what data you need to inform your analysis. Then, you can use this information to decide which channels are worth keeping, which should have more resources, and which you should leave behind.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

NTEN

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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How To Use Information You Already Have To Personalize Constituent Experiences Online

NTEN

If your offline database tracking activities can communicate with your online system (whether through data syncing or old-school spreadsheet downloading and uploading) you have a great wealth of information at your fingertips. Ask folks what they are interested in and use that information to change what you report about.

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