Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

By Katy Teson , a content strategist at Wired Impact , an organization seeking to make powerful websites something all nonprofits can afford. She also writes about digital marketing with helpful and actionable advice on Wired Impact’s nonprofit marketing blog and for their online guides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

In response to the simultaneous global pandemic and racial equity movement, philanthropy committed to act with urgency to better support nonprofit partners, as well as the people and communities hit hardest by the impacts of these dual events. Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study.

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sgEngage

JUNE 30, 2023

Nonprofit marketing is the use of strategic methods by organizations to promote their missions and secure donations and funding. This article covers the nuances of nonprofit marketing, exploring the different types, channels, and challenges. Put simply, the more exposure a nonprofit receives, the larger impact they can make.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fundraising IQ is a collection of AI, machine learning, and data science tools designed to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to maximize their impact by simplifying day-to-day tasks. Learn More Nonprofit organizations looking to embrace AI technology can learn more about the current features available within Fundraising IQ here.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Nonprofit founder and consultant, Rachel Muir, led the conference’s opening keynote, providing thought-provoking commentary on the future of fundraising. Over the past few years, the nonprofit sector has been challenged by an ever-changing fundraising landscape, rocked by the pandemic, the Great Resignation, and now rising costs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Our partnership model is simple and innovative: in exchange for promoting the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Survey to donors and supporters of nonprofit organizations in your country from March 1 through May 31, 2020 , our partners receive the anonymized survey data for their country or cause. The deadline to apply is December 20, 2019.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. Here’s a list of 6 things you can do to get your nonprofit website ready for the holidays. Update your blog. That’s a problem.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Upgrading your nonprofits technology is always a must-do, however not proving the proper post-implementation measures can lead to a lack of adoption or low use of new features, rendering the investment worthless. Benchmarking. Provide demos and tips to users to encourage new tools and exploration of the new technology service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I launched a Facebook Fan Page for my blog over the summer shortly after Facebook announced vanity urls. To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Exhibitions team. Learning team. Conservators. Photographer.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders managing both types of fundraisers need to equip and motivate everybody throughout the campaign. Use the Most Effective Online Fundraising Tools If you haven’t explored the apps, online tools, and upgrades now available to help your organization raise more money, more effectively, now is the time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As personal computers, smartphones, and the Internet of Things evolve, so must your nonprofit. This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s never too early to start planning for your nonprofit’s GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising efforts. In this six-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall. Why should nonprofits use mobile messaging? Volunteering.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

Together, we are reducing the reporting burden on nonprofits and supporting the sector to better track funding disparities discernible in relation to race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and ability status. The largest environmental nonprofits are slower to diversify their leadership demographics compared to large nonprofits in general.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. We decided to develop a shared definition is for benchmarking only.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Research Benchmark Tool : NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Benchmarking Tool is based on our annual research on technology staffing and spending, and it provides you with dynamic reports, customized to your organizational staffing and budget levels. How does your org measure up to others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Note from Beth: We are seeing more and more nonprofits use LinkedIn for organizational goals – from its powerful board recruitment tool to setting up company pages (see Ten Must Follow Nonprofits on LinkedIn ). How Your Nonprofit Can Make the Most of Its LinkedIn Profile – Guest Post by Victoria Michelson.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be.

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M+R

JANUARY 11, 2022

December is for two things: cooking great big extravagant feasts, and using every tool at our disposal to raise money. So here it is: a first pass at the trends and top-line findings from about 30 of the nonprofits we work with. Related Links: Come join Benchmarks 2022! Read all about it: The 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is here.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

If your nonprofit is looking for insight to increase its fundraising, Blackbaud's Benchmark Report provides some great data. Even with yearly email list growth slowing down by 10% and strict laws in some countries like the Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL), email continues to be one of the most important tools for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. They are very much first generation and pretty basic, but affordable for nonprofits. Related Links: 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. We had also blogged earlier on the topic. As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data management plan, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

The world needs nonprofits now more than ever. Giving Tuesday — now a primarily digital-first giving movement — is a great opportunity for nonprofits to engage with current and new supporters using a multi-channel digital marketing mix. Last year , in the U.K. Set Achievable Goals. Set Achievable Goals. Get Planning Now.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce. Further, when report complexity eclipses what the native reporting tool in Blackbaud is capable of (which is frequent), even the DB Administrators will need to go to a more advanced tool: Crystal Reports.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

Apple recently made an announcement about upcoming privacy changes to their products that could have a major effect on how nonprofits do email work. . In SparkPost’s 2021 Benchmark report, almost 40% of all opens and clicks came from an Apple Mail app client (25.7% Read time: 3 minutes. What’s happening? on iPhone, 9.6%

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2010

You may have heard that back in April, Convio released our 2010 report on nonprofit fundraising. We publish these reports annually and they are powerful tools to help you evaluate how your nonprofit stacks up against other, similar organizations. See a high-level overview of the report in Quinn’s blog post here.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Comparing your nonprofit to a Presidential campaign is ridiculous. Second, the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on social media. Second, the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on social media. 63% of nonprofits say social media is not Executive Management''s priority. 17% raised money via Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. What about your nonprofit? Want to better understand the use cases for AI and nonprofits in fundraising, programs, and other areas? AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "      Laura goes on to share how she, as social media strategist for a nonprofit, thinks about it.   Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). Should also note, re.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

As virtual fundraisers have grown in importance and popularity over the past couple years, peer to peer fundraisers have emerged as a necessary tool for nonprofits looking to raise more with less effort. Consider using a tiered approach, by encouraging donors to meet certain fundraising benchmarks to qualify for incentives and prizes.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

After all, organizations can raise up to 31% of online revenue in December , as reported by M+R Benchmarks. Even though many nonprofits use the season as an acquisition tool, it’s an even bigger opportunity to retain the long-term support of year-end donors.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# What do you think? Time will tell. {

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