CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2021, they used CauseVox to create their Duradash peer-to-peer campaign and came away with over $30,000 through their virtual activity challenge ! For 2021 they decided to shake things up and make it an activity challenge through the CauseVox platform instead. What Made it Work. She said, “Don’t be afraid to ask.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 29, 2024

How does membership predictive analytics work? With a range from “Very Likely to Renew” to “Very Unlikely to Renew”, you can see which members can be fast tracked for quick renewal and which members need a more personalized approach. Leave the mathing to the machine so you can focus on more important, strategic work!

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Analytics Free Amazon Associations 315

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this article, we’ll delve into the essence of giving days, exploring what they are and how your nonprofit can actively participate. How Does a Giving Day Work? Amplify your organization’s story and impact, drawing attention to the critical work you do. What is a Giving Day? Consider making a peer-to-peer campaign.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Strategy 2: Double Down With the Double Down strategy, you’re looking for products, services, and member segments that are really working well for your association. Once you’ve identified what’s working, you can reinvest, and promote those projects. This helped to nurture and engage these members until they were eligible.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Are you taking advantage of this important information, or are you still creating events, products, and activities based on what’s always been done? Every score has a treasure trove of insights you can work with to improve your members’ experience. Finally, you’ll want to consider the time decay of your offered activities.

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Analytics Associations Model Metrics 169

Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

Then, track those different groups. And when it comes to structure, you might think that things like questions, statements, ellipses, “you’ll never believe…” or some surprising statistic might not work because they sound like spam. But the reason spam bots use structures like this is because they do work and people do open them!

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Note: See all the Best Nonprofits To Work For stories in the 4/1 digital edition … [link] ** There are some surprises in the data from 2023 for this year’s The NonProfit Times ’ “Best Nonprofits To Work For.” Offices were shuttered and work from home setups proliferated. Stress soared.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

After 10 years of experimentation, nonprofits are learning that there are correct (and incorrect) ways to post on Facebook, format a tweet, upload a photo, and send a text alert, but if your nonprofit doesn’t know the science, then math isn’t going to work. Track the number of monthly donations and the total given.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When you’re working with limited resources it can be a struggle to both get new people in the door and then keep them there once you do. Step 1: Build the top of your funnel SImply put, building the top of the funnel means participating in activities designed to create awareness about your association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of Artificial Intelligence to better understand what nonprofits need to know about artificial intelligence to future proof their programs, marketing, and fundraising strategies? Source: AI for Lawyers (Click image for larger version).

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Fund accounting allows you to produce reports that ensure your activities match the grant conditions.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Here are a few tips from The Fast Track to help you the next time you’re having trouble getting your volunteers motivated. Keep track of what people are signing up for with your CRM or volunteer management system to help you send more targeted emails about opportunities at your nonprofit. Engage a volunteer individually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

After 10 years of experimentation, nonprofits are learning that there are correct (and incorrect) ways to post on Facebook, format a tweet, upload a photo, and send a text alert, but if your nonprofit doesn’t know the science, then math isn’t going to work. Track the number of monthly donations and the total given.

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Track Mobile Media Fundraising 184

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Maybe you're working toward helping the environment; reducing poverty; improving education; or advocating on behalf of a religious, political, or spiritual movement. That's where time tracking comes into play. By tracking employee time, nonprofits are able to understand the true costs of any project or program.

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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2024

After you’ve decided who will make the calls, the next thing to work out is which donors you’ll call. Do you have any questions about our work or how you’ve helped? In Neon CRM , you can track call outreach using the “Activities” feature. Many nonprofits default to calling older donors or those who have made major gifts.

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

You worked your way up through the normal accounting roles. As a nonprofit organization, you aren’t working to improve a stock price or the bottom line. Tracking Your Income While it’s true the goal of your income is different at a nonprofit organization, you still want revenue. But you are tired of the for-profit world.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

11 Digital Marketing KPIs That Every Nonprofit Should Be Tracking. Without tracking how your digital marketing strategy is performing, you can’t know how to improve or where to invest next to see results. Analytics tracking takes the guesswork out of important decisions around fund allocation, investment and marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. Here are five categories that every nonprofit must address to be effective in 2021.

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Product Software Effective Calendar 317

Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

When hosting a fundraising event, such as a Math-A-Thon , silent auction , or charity gala, closely tracking data and adapting your event based on that data can drive higher engagement, participation, and donations. The average nonprofit email open rate is around 25%.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Two parallel tracks are operating: the work track and the personal track. Bosses who only focus on getting the work done generally have teams with poor morale, limited engagement, higher absenteeism, and the like. Conduct team-building activities, both off-site and on-site. Ekelman, JD and Julie P.

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Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you know the impact of successful fundraising events on your organization’s work. Activity data As a tax-exempt organization, you technically won’t have to file a tax return. You’ll need to provide details about the work that your auction is raising money to support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

There’s a lot going on in the world (we’re looking at you, recession worries and existential dread), and fundraising efforts that have worked in the past may not be delivering the same results. If it works, do more of it. It’s a strategy that works well in business, and it can do the same for nonprofits. Franklin D.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. Your plan will: Keep you focused on what works and stop you from chasing every shiny new idea. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. From big victories to little wins, focusing on the positive angle of your work is beneficial to your social media content strategy overall.

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Twitter Practice Social Media Nonprofit 340

sgEngage

MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to streamline even some processes can free up a tremendous amount of time, so you spend less time on manual reporting and tracking and more time analyzing and elevating actionable information that drives bottom-line financial impact. Let the system do the work so you can make more impact.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You may be balancing your final push to reach your fundraising goal with event planning, donor meetings, board meetings, and planning for the new year—and that list doesn’t include all the things you do outside of work, either. You work hard, and it’s important that you get the most out of your efforts. Let’s take a look.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

We work hard to transform basic input into high-quality data. Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Improve proposal tracking. Review reporting.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As we close out 2023, you probably have some view into the impact your volunteers made, including how much time they worked and other basic information to share with others in your organization. Can you track what you need to reach your goals? Run a report on how many volunteers are involved in your day-to-day activities.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Even though unrestricted funds don’t have mandates on how they should be spent, tracking and reporting on them is still important for both your donors and for your organization’s financial decision-making. Creating a culture of transparency starts with clear tracking by individual program, fund, or project.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Your nonprofit’s purpose and mission cannot be fueled by passion alone; your organization needs funds to do the good work you’ve set out to do. Banking and financial features that are targeted to the ways nonprofits collect, track, and spend funds help organizations better manage their finances.

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Effective Donation Management Guide 103

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Working in the nonprofit sector is hard. Update Assigned Tasks One major pitfall to avoid during periods of staff turnover at your grantmaking organization is leaving ongoing activities or requests assigned to people who no longer work there. And salaries in many nonprofit organizations can’t compete with the for-profit sector.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

There are millions of wonderful nonprofit organizations working to make this world a better place. Here are some of the internal controls your grantees should have: Formal Written Policies and Procedures You want to make sure your grantees have documented and defined ways of managing and tracking the funds they receive.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

The key to effectively using feedback as a retention tool is to actively do something with the information you collect. Whether things are going well or need improvement, both you and the employee should know well in advance so that you can work together to either drive even greater impact or find solutions.

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Retention Management Tips Nonprofit 91

Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Grants can be a wonderful vehicle to fund a new program or expand an existing one; however, if your organization is new to the “grant world,” you may be unfamiliar with the work involved with both applying and managing grants. Do you have a strong track record? Do you have strong leadership and an active and supportive board?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 12, 2023

As nonprofits work on strengthening donor relationships to improve retention, there has been an increased focus on the donor experience. If a donor makes an update in the portal, it is communicated back to your donor management system, and online gifts and donation activity entered in Bloomerang is reflected in the portal.

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