AFP Blog

MARCH 1, 2012

Nonprofits Challenged with Integrating Email, Growing, and Retaining Email Marketing Contact Lists, According to Sage Survey : Quarterly Survey Looked at North American Nonprofits’ Email Marketing Goals and Objectives AUSTIN, TX (March 1, 2012)—Sage North America today announced the results of its Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q4 2011, survey of U.S.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

Here’s a snapshot of some of the top giving days from 2011: Let’s take a closer look at the impact and strategies behind Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. To learn more you can read the full report on the Case Foundation website - How Giving Days Can Strengthen Nonprofit Communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 15, 2011

For this week's post, we welcome Angela Francis, Senior Associate, from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF's recently released State of the Sector survey findings. One source of data informing this work is our annual State of the Sector Survey. Welcome to Research Friday ! We welcome your comments, feedback, and suggestions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. In the report, Geoff also shares these results: The training program achieved its overarching goals.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2012

This past fall GrantStation and PhilanTech conducted the third semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits, The State of Grantseeking Fall 2011. Between mid-August and early October 2011, 928 nonprofits of various sizes, in different geographies, representing diverse issue areas completed the survey online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 5, 2020

Raymond Flandez writes that “ of the 61 [major] institutions they surveyed, 17 percent of fundraisers were members of minority groups. Yuha Jung writes of this saying, “According to the most recent United States Census (2011), at least one-third of the American population is comprised of racial minorities.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 12, 2023

You can use texting for a giving campaign as we have laid out in this article, but you can also use text messages as a marketing strategy to promote your other fundraising campaigns, send surveys, and even receive feedback or answer questions from your constituents. There is much possibility!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, May 20, 2011 Research Friday: The Board Chair and the CEO: When is a Team Relationship a Team. So, are we accomplishing this goal? However, there are times when simple surveys produce very meaningful information — and can provide the basis for deeper research projects. June 1, 2011 12:03 PM Kayla L.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Then, consider the following marketing channels and choose a handful that you think will work best for your unique audience and marketing goals: TV and radio spots. Gather this information by sending pre-event surveys and conducting social media polls. Handbid accomplished all of those goals, effectively doubling revenue in its debut.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Attendees were impressed with the last-minute change, and surveys indicated the panel was valuable. Coming off that success, Cause Camp moved to a larger venue in Lincoln in 2011. The goal was to increase the number of attendees and help grow the conference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

According to a study conducted in 2011, 86 percent of nonprofit board members are Caucasian (Schwartz, Weinberg, Hagenbuch, & Scott, 2011). The recruitment process must be steered toward the goals of the organization by adopting the practice of looking for diverse perspectives in qualified candidates. Schwartz, R.,

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

In the spirit of "walking the talk" and being transparent, I wanted to share with you what some of our goals were and what we've accomplished this year. If you're already a journal subscriber, I'd love to hear your feedback about the resource: please take our survey!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

We gathered input from other current and past users via online surveys and phone interviews, and we’re still gathering feedback. The meeting wasn’t only about technical improvements, though attendees were incredibly enthusiastic and detailed in discussing changes that would have greatest impact in their day-to-day and long-term project goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. According to this recent nonprofits and mobile survey summarized on the NTEN Blog , only 16% of the surveyed nonprofits plan on having mobile websites in 2011 compared to 90% of surveyed nonprofits use email marketing and social media in their engagement strategies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Companies are starting to use gamification to help train employees, generate surveys, and introduce a friendlier work environment just by simply creating some competition, or using badges, scorecards, and leaderboards. Player Goals. He received his BFA from the Herberger Institute for the Design & Arts in 2011.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. MarketingSherpa’s gigantic 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Survey found that, in the corporate world, the most effective email elements to test are: Target audience. Landing page. Subject line. Call-to-action link.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. They sent out surveys. Why did we do this? Big Duck looked at everything.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

do lots of surveying of your donors, supporters, partners and volunteers. It is important to celebrate meeting your event’s fundraising goal with the people who made it happen – the attendees. Since 2011 we have been taking auctions and event fundraisers to new heights, raising more money for your cause!

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Several years ago, I had one friend reach his goal of finding a donor in all 50 states, and this got me thinking about what makes a campaign successful. Tell them your initial plans for 2011 and listen to their feedback. Ask what can be improved, invite them to planning meetings and send team captain-specific surveys.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Attendees were impressed with the last-minute change, and surveys indicated the panel was valuable. Coming off that success, Cause Camp moved to a larger venue in Lincoln in 2011. The goal was to increase the number of attendees and help grow the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Work completion is clearly a goal as is accuracy. If speed is a goal, crowdsourcing may not be your best option, however, saving money and freeing up staff time can be reasonable outcomes. You’ve missed your goal, but you’ve still raised some money. You’ve surpassed your goal. Does it help you solve a problem?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social entrepreneurs argue that they can be change agents in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors (Praszkier & Nowak, 2011). Goodwill is able to achieve its core goal because of its diverse revenue portfolio. In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks 2011 , is in stock at TechSoup. Available in one- and three-user versions for Windows, QuickBooks 2011 Premier assists in paying bills and tracking expenses. We even have a helpful webinar to explain Acrobat’s many uses. Build and Manage Databases. Growing Your Organization.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

Maybe it’s a little late to start thinking about resolutions since we’re already 18 days into 2011 but better to make them late than not at all, right? Resolve to… Listen to your users by conducting periodic reviews of your analytics data and/or surveying them about what works and what doesn’t work on your website.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities. As Twestival founder Amanda Rose told us, $264,000 wasn't raised in one day by them on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2014

You talk about the goals you had, whether you hit them or not, and how you’re going to improve going forward. People’s friends are online : 50% of donors give because a friend asked them to, while only 22% give because the organization asked them to give, according to Blackbaud’s 2011 Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Have Your Metrics In Hand: Says Marnie, “We found the meeting format to work well so that we were better managing the main messages of the content, differentiating across properties but, most important, kept a team bought into the goals and able to make quick changes based on what we learned from metrics. My answer: Yes!

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Unquantifiable goals—When the goal is something like “making a positive difference in the life of a youth,” the judgment often comes down to the supervisor’s anecdotal, incomplete information. and benefits survey, where we will ask nonprofits about the kind of jobs they have, the compensations for those jobs, and the benefits they.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. They sent out surveys. Why did we do this? Big Duck looked at everything.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Your fundraisers will likely be really excited when they reach their goal. Tools like everydayhero will even send automated messages when 50% or 100% of the goal is reached. Allow them to change their goal at any time. Once they reach their goal, it’s less compelling for friends to support them. OK, there’s my 44.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC today to kick off a training event for Give to the Max Day , a one-day fundraising event on November 9, 2011 that will unite local Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC communities to support nonprofits serving the area. The fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day is to get 35,000 people to support their favorite regional (..)

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

2 Again, the study surveyed nonprofit financial managers such as CEOs and CFOs. In the fifth and closing area , it is noted that one of the goals of the study was to help provide tools to assist in the ability to forecast financial strategies, including understanding external factors. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. The survey was distributed online only. Talk to Millennials about your goals, for example if you are trying to do something big and raise a large amount of money, break the goal and gifts down into smaller buckets so it isn’t overwhelming.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Gartner “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company” issued a press release around the results of a worldwide survey of CIO’s in the commercial sector. The survey identified cloud computing as the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. That will increase their motivation.

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