Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. I wholeheartedly agree. Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

For instance, I’m reading the book, Made to Stick , and this week’s post by Jeff at Donor Power talks about taglines that organizations use – how they make internal sense, but don’t make sense to people outside. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants. How many of your fans or group members are in your database, though?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

In the past, members of the analytics consulting team at Blackbaud have written on this subject matter in the 2009 publication Building Fundraising Momentum in a Recession and the 2011 article Raising Money During Challenging Times. Donors may choose to protect their income for the next round of economic uncertainty with gift annuities.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

He'll be talking about the variety of ways we can now make our donor databases, content management systems, and email tools talk to each other and share data, and what this means for us as a sector. Jon is leading a session at the NTC called An Open Civic Engagement Platform: A new generation of tools that play nice together.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 8:37 am Actually, I do – I have a client whose activities and donor base suggest that they have a lot of other work to do before they delve into social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 I think I can write something up.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. Execution: The major donor cocktail party was by invitation only to CC’s largest donors. In 2009, Red House 2009 generated $23,000 in donations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Be certain your donors understand both the more urgent need for your services during tough times and the many concrete steps you’re taking to increase your efficiency and effectiveness. . You can’t treat loyal and responsive donors like statistics. And you can’t stop building your donor database. Stick with what works.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Is it difficult to get your first time donors to give again? Let's take the scenario of first-time donors who aren't making second gifts. Let's say your development staff shows you something like this: 782 first time donors in 2009. Donor demographic information. 129 have donated again in 2010. 16% retention rate

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The one-day fundraiser is modeled after the very successful Give to the Max Day that was launched in Minnesota in 2009 and raised over $14 million in one day for local nonprofits, but also incorporates a contest that will give some extra motivation for nonprofits for getting the most donations or donors. as a first time donor.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2011

I went from binders, to excel, to access, to creating custom fields in database programs. Volunteers as Donors: I wish it was more widely known and accepted, but volunteers are current or future donors and should always be treated as such.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When nonprofit organizations pay their executives exorbitant salaries, or throw lavish expense-filled parties, it reflects badly on all nonprofits, and increases public and donor scrutiny of nonprofit financial stewardship. They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2009

Moves management and donor nurturing. Donor Database solutions. And to give you an idea of topics that people have spoken about or submitted in the past, here's a short list to get your creative presentation ideas flowing: Multi-channel marketing. New trends in fundraising. Web design and content management. User experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

How your key stakeholders, donors and activists talk about the issues surrounding your work is not only observable, it is measurable. This provides the context you need to understand how your most important advocates and future donors talk about your cause. Segment your data and use your social listening skills.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Historically, like many nonprofits, All Hands Volunteers had siloed data, with volunteer data and donor data housed in three different systems. Common Ground has played an important part in growing the organization’s operating budget from $500,000 in 2009 to $2.7 million in 2011. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

By multiplying the size of an individual gift, they inspire donors to donate more, or more often, to their favored causes. Matching gifts may represent “free money” for nonprofits, but nonprofits fail to seek out potential matching gift opportunities from individual donors. They demonstrate good corporate citizenship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

This month's Net2ThinkTank question on NetSquared is, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?” Mike Dillon of Dillon Media suggested someone create a, "location-based event finder for donors, non-profits and entrepreneurs.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. Imagine what your donors and constituents would say if they saw your name in that headline. "Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com).

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

May 7, 2009 | Kimberley Le Sueur I run the OpenTravel Allliance (www.opentravel.org),and as a not-for-profit trade association serving the travel industry, it doesnt make sense for us to be on Facebook. May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks for this post. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? Friday, May 29, 2009 at 09:41AM | by Allyson Kapin In the next five years, money spent annually on direct mail will decline by as much as 40%, from $49.7 With all donor age groups? 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Our organization, Fight Colorectal Cancer , started using Salesforce as our primary database in 2006, when we were barely a year old. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. It’s a donor database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

A section of the report is devoted to how AI and automation might impact communications with donors. One unique idea is in the area of donor advice, for example developing a personal assistant for donors to help them decide where to donate. This includes: skills, leadership, and risk appetite. This webinar on Sept.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. So in fundraising, that’s inferring that 80% of your dollars are going to come from 20% of your donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K., Restricted Giving is Important to Donors: More than half of respondents in Australia, Canada, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

And the concept is one that is increasingly prevalent: donors get to choose exactly where there money goes, and there is some competition between worthy projects. What happened to our school system that an organization is formed to provide a place for thousands (yes, thousands ) of projects for school kids? So they can learn.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. But don’t worry, you can still get fundraising from millennials even if Mark Zuckerberg is not in your database.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2011

As Roger Craver points out, new donor conversion rates continue to drop, while the USPS continues to increase postage rates. This is a double-edged sword for donor acquisition. 24-month) of the newly acquired donors by list source. Note: long-term value should consider subsequent communication costs after the donor is acquired.)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Foundations will radically change their grant application process by adopting Simplify , a new approach to information-sharing between funders and grantees that includes a common database of core organizational information and a common data standard for the sector. will require solid analytics to track & leverage donor engagement.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

At least two are decidedly tech-savvy, however, and have built national and international networks of donors. The One Percent Foundation (OPF) is engaging new donors in their 20s and 30s by giving them a platform and democratic process to pool 1% of their incomes for social change. Since 2009, chapters have started in over 20 cities.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Donor Database/CRM. Women Wired Tweet LiveStream for 2009-05-13 (via Women Wired In). This is critically important – the base “home base” of your online communication that everyone comes back to in order to find out more about you! Some website tools: 1. Content management system 2. Ask them to take action 4.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

Backed by the world’s largest philanthropic database of employer data, our platform enables you to pinpoint match-eligible donations in your database, so you can make the most of every gift. Donors can immediately submit matching gift requests to their employer using the instructions we provide.

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