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. The strongest fundraising strategy will meet those donors where they are.

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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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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2024

Ask if they’d be willing to answer some questions about what inspired their donation to your organization. Some ideas for questions you may want to ask include: What inspired you to give? Do you have any questions about our work or how you’ve helped? These questions are beneficial for a few reasons.

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

Of course, as you already know if you’re actively working to keep your organization compliant, this can be more complex than it sounds. In the end, asking the right questions with a firm understanding of the fundamentals will help guide your organization’s path forward, with you at the reigns.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Kevin Ordonez,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and I are going to explain why that’s a question everyone should be asking.

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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. The post 4 Ideas for Activating Your Donors Over Email appeared first on Networkforgood.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

There are lots of details to think through and lots of questions to answer. A good plan has enough detail in it to adequately explain each strategy and activity. To get started, answer these six questions. Find a tracking tool that works for you and use it. Be prepared to spend some time on this if it’s your first plan.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

To meet those requirements, you’ll need to be able to successfully track and manage your grants and effectively report on how you allocated these funds. Tracking: Cut Out the Spreadsheets! With a fund accounting software system designed for nonprofits, you can fully track all your grants, especially restricted grants, in one place.

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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. Unbiased questions and open-ended prompts can offer valuable insights into event success and areas for improvement.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Because engagement is critical to retaining members, many associations are using a member engagement score to track and build loyalty. For example, most associations find members don’t volunteer or donate before they have seen value from other activities like courses or publications. Influencers. Experts/Thought Leaders.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

AI tools can automate many of the SEO activities that were once outside the realm of more casual users. These are a few of its talents and tricks for putting your words at the top of the queue: AI tools can automate many SEO activities. Keyword research—Find relevant keywords and track their performance over time.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

That's where time tracking comes into play. Rather than simply tracking time for compliance or "because someone told you to," successful nonprofits take advantage of the incredible data created by tracking employee time. Time tracking makes fund and grant reporting easy. Need a Time Tracking Solution?

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts. At this point, your board may have nuts-and-bolts questions about how you’ll run this technology-implementation project. Let’s dive in.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

When choosing a virtual platform, though, it is important to ask the right questions so you can be sure that it will provide the right features and benefits for your event. To help you to discern between platforms, and to prepare you for choosing the right one, we’ve prepared a list of questions to have on hand. This question is huge!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Nonprofits have assets but instead of owners having equity in the balance sheet, net assets are tracked for a nonprofit. At a nonprofit, a donation must be tracked throughout the accounting process, and if the funds are restricted, supporting documentation is required to prove that the funds were only used for the stated purpose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

There are a few important tips that you should follow when having a conversation with a prospective member; Answer questions as directly and succulently as possible. This will allow you to set-up pre-programmed responses for the most commonly asked questions. For example, you’ll be able to respond directly to any questions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

Depending on how your application is set up, you can add an open-ended question or discuss it during a follow-up conversation. Here are some questions you can ask potential grantees, either as part of the application or as a follow-up conversation: Who at your organization can approve grant spending? How do you track time and effort?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Can you track what you need to reach your goals? Here are some questions that can help you measure volunteer impact: Did you have enough qualified and engaged volunteers? Run a report on how many volunteers are involved in your day-to-day activities. Consider seasonal volunteer activities. Is it the type of activity?

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Where will we need to add, reduce, or diversify talent?

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Businesses and other associations are always looking for team-building activities that give back to their local communities as part of their corporate social responsibility programs. Here are six questions to ask your organization before embracing episodic volunteer opportunities. Many groups are happy to work around your schedule.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

There’s no question about it: Data collection can feel overwhelming and scary, and it can often feel like a challenge you’ll never be able to overcome. Be deliberate – If you can’t tell members what you’re going to do with the answer they’re giving you, don’t ask those questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition, “Even though the book is written directly to the leader, going through the Survive, Reset, Thrive loop is a team activity, not an individual one,” adds Homkes. Rebecca Homkes Today, Homkes shares these insights with us: Question: You describe SRT as a loop, not a line. Homkes: The entire loop! What is success?

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Latvia Companies North America San Francisco 91

Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

Donor signals that create direct feedback from your donors are typically communications that you actively solicit. Examples of indirect donor signals include: Social Media influence of your supporters Geo-Targeting Social and Wealth scoring data Website activity How do you track Donor Signals? Learn more at virtuous.org.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes. Information is everything that is coming at us.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

When choosing a virtual platform, though, it is important to ask the right questions so you can be sure that it will provide the right features and benefits for your event. To help you to discern between platforms, and to prepare you for choosing the right one, we’ve prepared a list of questions to have on hand. This question is huge!

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Virtual Platform Question Broadcast 52

sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Work closely with administrators to identify reports that need to be run and the metrics to track during the campaign, which will inform your fund setup and gift entry process. PRO TIP: Comb your active funds and assign them with a category and type, conforming to CASE reporting standards as closely as possible. Review reporting.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 19, 2014

For answers to these financial management questions, we turned to guest blogger Andrew Schwalm of FMA, a leading provider of fiscal consulting, outsourcing and professional development training to nonprofits and their staff nationwide. Turning to Strategy after the Audit: A Calendar of Activities. Great advice Andrew!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2015

Yesterday, I participated in two seemingly unrelated events that generated that question. Fitbit and fitness/health apps offer many benefits — they help us become more aware of our healthy habits by measuring and producing data. Not commercially available #atlantichealth pic.twitter.com/5vE4aEvk4i.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

This is not a fast activity, so commit to taking the time to do it and do it right. Decide on program activities for this year. It’s time to ask yourself some questions about the programs and services your new nonprofit will provide this year. Estimate expenses for all program activities. Good question.

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Create Track Program Money 98

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

You see, I am a female in my late 20’s-early 30’s, living in an urban area, vegetarian, eco-conscious, middle class, and have been actively seeking plant based alternatives to milk that taste good and are kinder to animals and the planet. Website analytics: help us track donation page interactions and web traffic.

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sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

These were the top three things we implemented based on our findings: Simplified our application: We cut down on the number of questions we asked by eliminating redundant ones and stuck to only what was needed for funding decisions. We wanted to ensure active involvement and communication with all stakeholders involved in the grant process.

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sgEngage

MARCH 13, 2024

So, we were curious: What would the data tell us about three key questions? We encourage you to read the full report where we dive into these questions and more. As peer-to-peer fundraisers are all too aware, those were particularly disruptive years for the industry given the impact of COVID-19 on in-person events.

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Blackbaud Report Fundraising Benchmark 81

M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Apple Mail Privacy Protection works by pre-loading email content — including open tracking pixels. Reminder, email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in email content. Some of these opens are people, some are Apple, and added together you get the sum total of every time your open tracking pixel has been downloaded.

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Mail Spam Rate email 108

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. This information can provide the answer to some interesting questions such as: Who is my most popular or successful instructor? Organizations that solely offer courses will want to deploy the Learning Management package.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It’s worth noting that in the survey the questions about online fundraising are only presented to those that have working knowledge in online fundraising. 7) 38% of nonprofits actively implement a year-round retention strategy for online donors. 1) 94% of nonprofits accept online donations through their website. 53%: PayPal.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

An active field of research in the 1960s, machine learning is now deeply embedded in our daily lives—from receiving recommended products while we’re online shopping to Google helping us autocomplete our emails. This is just one of the many questions we aim to answer to better serve the needs of the social sector.

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