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5 Online Strategies to Encourage Recurring Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Recurring donations are the most sustainable source of income for most nonprofit organizations. Doing so will make donors aware that they can support your organization weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc. New donors need to develop a deeper connection with your organization before donating larger amounts.

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

EveryAction

Implementing more modern tools—especially major software, such as customer relationship management (CRM) or fundraising software—can provide your organization with new efficiencies and new capabilities to improve fundraising , marketing, volunteer management, and ultimately do even more to power your purpose. Locate your data.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. In its infancy, texting was how people communicated with close friends and family members, not businesses and organizations. Maybe there’s an intimacy to text messaging that email lacks.

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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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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

As organizations serving public interests, nonprofits answer to the voices of multiple stakeholders. The complex accountability relationships facing nonprofit organizations include responsibilities to donors, clients, community partners, staff members and volunteers.

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Research Friday: ASU is an Important Central Hub for Nonprofit Organizations

ASU Lodestar Center

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. These entities, also called "nodes," can be individuals, groups, and/or organizations.

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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

ASU Lodestar Center

The year is 2008. Responsibilities fell to the board of directors and executive directors to do something to save their organizations. If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!: Defenders of Children. Get another!